Children Become Gorillas In VR Zoo
...n hand to try out the virtual realitysystem, which puts them into a real gorilla habitat as a member of agorilla family. The demonstrations were in the Ford African RainForest's Gorillas of the Cameroon Interpretive Center, against thebackdrop of the home of Zoo Atlanta's most famous gorilla, Willie B. I...Newly Discovered Gene Halts Cell Division and May Have Cancer Link
...g chromosome pair can't separate normally and MAD2 puts the brakes on cell division. Dr. Benezra speculates that MAD2 is only one of several genes involved in triggering this cell division checkpoint. In yeast, for example, six genes are known to exert their control over the checkpoint. Dr. Benezra, whos...Prostate Cancer's Aggressiveness May Be Predicted Early By The Ratio Of Free To Total PSA
...rostate cancer when the disease is diagnosed early puts the physician and patient in a better position to make decisions about treatment," says Dr. E. Jeffrey Metter, Medical Officer for the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging (BLSA) of the NIA, one of the study's authors. "Physicians need a reliable w...Purdue Researchers Prod Plants To Clean Up Pollution
... per ton of soil, according to DOE officials. That puts cleanup costs for contaminated soil in the United States at hundreds of billions of dollars. If phytoremediation reduced those cleanup costs by even 10 percent, an estimate Goldsbrough considers plausible, it would save taxpayers billions. Goldsbroug...Altered Genes, Altered Metabolism--Longer Life?
... available, the daf-2 geneactivates a pathway that puts the organism into a hibernating state. A decreasein metabolism has been observed in calorically restricted rats which have anextended lifespan, suggesting that this mechanism in humans may have thepotential for slowing down aging. The National Insti...Pharmaceuticals Manufactured In Insect Larvae
...- pillars shaped like small popsicle sticks -- and puts the insects in the box. He also put food in the box. The insects are reared on the pillars in the box, making it easy to infect them with baculovirus and then harvest the proteins. In the past 18 months, researchers report that recombinant baculovi...Genetic Risk Factors For Anorexia Nervosa Sought
Modern society puts powerful pressure on women to control body weight,penalizing obesity and rewarding thinness in myriad ways. For this reason, someobservers say, women suffer from anorexia nervosa -- a disorder in which victimsstarve themselves, sometimes to death -- ...Garlic Prevents Hardening Of Aorta, New Study Shows
...ause it conducts blood smoothly from the heart and puts less stress onother organs. The study also r...tthrough the narrowed passage at high speed, which puts stress on the body. “Every time the heart contracts, it gives stress to the aorta,”s...Biologist Experiments With His Own Front Yard
...he neighbors, there's the driedcow patties that he puts out in his yard to attract termites. "The cow pies still generate a certain amount of disapproval, but I'll always keep at least one outthere," Alcock noted with no apology. They are part of the "natural" landscape in Arizona, he explains, an...Researchers Discover Existing Drugs May Prevent Enlarged Hearts
...t Dallas may have found a cure for acondition that puts 5 million Americans at risk for sudden death -- an enlarged heart, orcardiac hypertrophy. In groundbreaking research Dr. Eric Olson, chairman of molecularbiology and oncology, and his colleagues discovered a molecular pathwaythat leads to hea...New Retinal Surgery May Reverse Legal Blindness
...e eye, as if it were a hollow rubber ball. Then he puts sutures into theside wall of the eye to keep it pinched, shortening its length. This buckles theretina, which lines the inner wall of the eye. Then de Juan injects a saltysolution into the eye under the retina, causing the retina to "blister" upenoug...As A 'Carbon Sponge,' Iron-Poor Coastal Waters Can't Always Do The Job, NaturePaper Shows
...lations can't photosynthesizeefficiently, and that puts the crunch on the whole food chain, which depends onthem. There is simply less food and energy available to support largerpredators, including humans." The research also shows that the amount of iron in ocean water determines theamounts and ratios of...Gene Linked To Glaucoma, Hydrocephalus, And Other Birth Defects
...e iris (iridogoniodysgenesistype 1 or IRID1) that puts affected children at high risk of developingglaucoma. Glaucoma is characterized by damage to the optic nerve, believed toresult from the pressure of excessive fluid building up inside the eyeball. The Canadian group had identified a candidate human g...Third Annual Awards For Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Recognize Innovations
...iming to get as much out of areaction flask as one puts in) is not incompatible with high selectivity. Forexample, he can neatly construct a building block of a promising new HIVprotease inhibitor from inexpensive, readily available molecules like oxygenand butadiene. Traditional methods begin with comple...Forecasting The El Niño-Driven Ebb And Flow Of A Rogue Mosquito
... amosquito whose disease-transmitting ways already puts half the world'spopulation at risk might expand even more. And while that is a very real concern, predicting the ebb and flow ofpopulations of the mosquito that transmits dengue, a family of debilitating andsometimes fatal viral diseases, has been mo...Snake Venom Slows Tumor Growth
...rds, CN does not kill the tumor cells, but instead puts them in a "suspendedstate of animation," which, he says, can be maintained for a long period oftime. This also has the advantage of eliminating the potential side effects ofcytotoxic (cell killing) drugs. Like other antiangiogenic therapies, CN wo......atode, in theprocess of organic decomposition that puts carbon and nitrogen back in the soil. "Knowing that we couldn't look at everything, we decided what we coulddo most effectively" in experiments, Wall said. This was to look at soilbiodiversity to determine what organisms are involved in the p...Exercising Just Three Days May Provide Heart Attack Protection
...ar-old Joseph Sullivan is out walking.Every day he puts his headphones on and walks two or three miles aroundCape Cod's Kelley Park. "I love to go out and get some fresh air," Sullivan said "It also helpsmeto stay in relatively decent shape." But Sullivan is doing more than just staying ph...Gene Discovery Paves Way For Preventing Deadly Bacterial Shock
... highly susceptible to certainbacterial infections puts us in a position to identify comparable mutations inpeople to determine if they also are predisposed to these diseases," said Dr.Bruce Beutler, professor of internal medicine, Howard Hughes Medical Institute(HHMI) investigator and lead researcher on ......icmaterial -- soil." Breitenbeck's process puts the bagasse, along with ammonia and air, in areactor and pumps up the pressure to 1,000 pounds per square inch. The highpressure drives the ammonia into the fibers and produces nitrogen compounds themicrobes use to convert the hydrocarbons into humi...