Duke Ecologist Says Logging Is Creating 'Mahogany Deserts'
...crowns and stout branches that resist wind damage, plus thick barkto protect against flames, she said. Those older trees can then provide sources of seed to grow new mahoganiesin the clearings opened up by wind and fire. The regeneration process may be even more complicated. In a recent revisitto Quinta......human years. If they receivea normal diet of sugar plus protein, females generally outlive males byabout 1.5 days. But in this new study, the researchers report that, whenfed a protein-deprived diet, males lived shorter lives overall, but outlivedfemales by a little more than two days. Carey and colleagu...Hot 'Lanta: NASA, School Kids Team To Study How Trees Help Cities Keep Their Cool
...ate it as heat. The NASA Lear 23 will carry ATLAS plus a standard 9x9-inch aerial mapping camera taking pictures on false colorinfrared film (blue is filtered out; green shows a blue; red as green; and near infrared as red) to help in matching the Atlasimages with what is on the ground. ATLAS will be fl...Long-Term Vitamin C Use Cuts Cataract Risk In Older Women
... vitamin C intake, using totalconsumption (dietary plus supplements) from five prior NHS reports. "Between 1990 and 1992, we invited about 300 eligible women with the highest and lowestvitamin C intakes to participate in a detailed eye examination," said Dr. Jacques. "In order todetect a relationship in ...Hultgren Receives Prestigious Eli Lilly Award
...s." Hultgren will receive the award plus a $5,000 cash prize during thesociety's annual meeting in May in Atlanta, Ga. He also will deliver the 1998Eli Lilly Award lecture. The award is sponsored by Eli Lilly and Company, aglobal research-based pharmaceutical company headquartered in Indian......bese, thecombined intervention of sodium reduction plus weight loss was more effectivethan either alone. About 50,000,000 Americans age 6 and older have high blood pressure. Surveysconducted in the early 1990s showed an estimated 2.2 million Americans age 15and older had disabilities resulting from high...EPA Should Redirect Some Research on Toxic Airborne Particles
...6242. The cost of the report is$35.00 (estimated) plus shipping charges of $4.00 for the first copy and $.50for each additional copy. Reporters may obtain pre-publication copies from theOffice of News and Public Information (contacts listed above)....Learning About Evolution Critical For Understanding Science
...on98 . The cost of the report is $19.95 (prepaid) plus shipping charges of $4.00 for a single copy; discounts are available for bulk orders. Reporters may obtain a copy from the Office of News and Public Information (contacts listed above)....New Sunspot Cycle To Be Bigger Than Average
...st half of 2000, and that it will measureabout 170 plus or minus 20 units (yearly sunspot number). Theyexpect Cycle 23 to continue until sometime in 2006 when the nextcycle, Cycle 24, should begin. For more information on our active sun, checkNASA/Marshall's sunspotpredictions or the solarphysics rese...Smokings Effects On Pregnancy Not Mitigated By Prenatal Vitamins, UB Study Finds
...for the risk of small-for-gestational-age infants, plus self-reported information on smoking and prenatal vitamin intake. Results showed no significant decrease in risk of pre-term births, lowered birth weights or children who were small for their gestational age among women who smoked during pregnan...... oftwo types. One contained pups that made no apoE plus pups that made only humanapoE3. The other contained pups that made no apoE plus pups that made only humanapoE4. The researchers collected astrocytes from the newborn mice ...Researchers Identify A Gene That Causes Juvenile Polyposis
...have a 50 percent chance of also having thedisease plus an increased risk of cancer. While identification of a gene responsible for FJP will help to identifycarriers of the abnormal gene and facilitate the screening of family members,the implications of this finding may reach beyond FJP. "FJP is a relat...Engineered Neo-Organs For Bladder Replacement
...ered autologous cells from the bladder epithelium, plus smooth muscle cells. The cells had been expanded separately from a previously harvested autologous bladder biopsy. The researchers performed preoperative and postoperative urinary flow and X-ray studies. After their initial operation and recovery,...Interleukin-12 Helps Control Mycobacterium Avium Infection
...und that treating mice with interleukin-12 (IL-12) plus conventionalantibiotic therapy can help control infection with Mycobacterium avium, anopportunistic infection common in people with late-stage AIDS. IL-12, a cytokine or chemical messenger produced by immune cells, helps regulatecell-mediated immuni...New Tests Demonstrate MuchLarger, More Specific Immune Responses To Viruses
...o those CD8+ T cells that are specific for the MHC plus viralpeptide combination. "The beauty of the tetramer technology is that it can be applied tostudy T cell responses to any pathogen, from influenza to HIV to malaria. Andtetramers give you both a more accurat...Study Shows Athletes Get No Kick From Nasal Strips
... better conditioning and warming of inhaled air, a plus for asthma sufferers, he said. Peter T. Schneider, a graduate student in the UB Department of Physical Therapy, Exercise and Nutrition Sciences, helped conduct the study. Athletes who wear a nasal strip thinking it will increase their air inta...Genetic Defect Protects Against Smoking
...cotine metabolism, while thosecarrying a wild type plus one of the null alleles have the defect. Less thanone per cent of the population has two CYP2A6 null alleles. The researchers studied two groups of people to determine if they hadone or two copies of the defective gene: 184 people who had ne...Minuscule Ocean Plants Help Stabilize Earth's Atmosphere, Climate
...o oxygen and plant sugars with the aid ofsunlight, plus nutrients like nitrate, phosphate, silicon and iron. Living in the sea's sunlit "euphotic zone," they release oxygen into theatmosphere and take in carbon during their very short lives. Some are consumedby small grazing animals while others d......we put the two elements together, the Hsp40 and 70 plus Hsp104, there wasa synergistic effect and we saw incredible amounts of refolding," says Glover. Lindquist and Glover think that Hsp40 and Hsp70 help to partially stabilizeproteins as they begin to aggregate. Then, Hsp104 helps the glob come ......dy, the researchers found that the CTLA4-Igprotein plus a monoclonal antibody, anti-CD40 ligand, effectively inhibits organrejection in animal transplant recipients with immune systems that have beenpre-sensitized to reject a new organ. This pre-sensitization can occur after aprevious transplant or after...