Water Recycling Project Tested in Turkey Plant
...is captured and runthrough a catalytic destruction unit and turned back into oxygen. Waldroup said the UA finished microbiology tests in late March after preparingits third set of data and that all necessary federal approvalî processhave been granted. Implementation of the process enables Cargill t......age-turning device for the disabled;and a scanning unit that inspects cracks inside elbow-shapedutility pipes. Four of this year's projects cannot be unveiledpublicly because of the need to protect a sponsor's patentrights. The Engineering Design Project course is taught by Andrew F.Conn, a Hopkins gradu...Oral Vaccine Protects Infants From Severe Rotavirus Diarrhea
...actured byWyeth-Lederle Vaccines and Pediatrics, a unit of Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories. ***Background*** NIAID's Laboratory of Infectious Diseases has been involved in studies ofgastroenteritis since the late 1960s. "It's very exciting to see something fromthe beginning," says Dr. Kapikian. "When we first...Wake Forest University Study Takes Students In Flight With The Albatross
...ool teacher who produces KidScience, said that the unit on albatrosses follows a study of reefs. "I did a program right before the birds were released and started transmitting," she said. "I think The Albatross Project is cool. What teachers say is that it gives them a reason to get in and use the Int...New Sensor Adds Precision To Search For Dangerous Gases
... Bijan Miremadi has developed a unique gas sensing unit that could prevent disasters caused b...y a sensor that can detect one particular gas. Our unit can detect as many gases as possible." Miremadi has developed two version...At Life's Most Sensitive Stage, Embryos Cope With Stress
...sen,research director of the reproductive genetics unit at the University ofCalifornia-San Francisco reported on the role of one type of DNA repair - baseexcision repair - in protecting mouse embryos. "In our research we are finding that base excision repair is essential for lifeeven at the earliest stag...Dog Blindness Gene May Help Humans
...atory of Gustavo Aguirre at the Baker Institute, a unit of Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine. "This is an important finding for the field of canine genetics as well, since it represents the first use of the map foridentifying a disease locus," says Elaine Ostrander, a molecular biologist in Hutchi..."A Thousand (And More) Points Of Light" Yield New View Into Cells
...nscribed from aparticular gene during a particular unit of time. (Messenger RNA is themolecularintermediary from which information encoded in genes is translated intoproteins.) The Einstein researchers have already quantitated the kinetics of mRNAtranscription from the beta-actin gene, and have found th...New Airway's 'Smarts' Ensure That Patients Get Plenty Of Oxygen
...een lighton the system's hand-held battery-powered unit indicates that theendotracheal tube is correctly inserted in the trachea, and analarm sounds if the tube shifts too much within the trachea atany time during treatment or transport to the hospital. "Some patients are intubated by anesthetists in...Just One Prenatal Visit Decreases Risk Of Preterm Delivery
...onger length of stay in the neonatalintensive care unit (15.6 days vs. 3.1 days), and their babies had a loweraverage birth weight (2,172 grams vs. 2,786 grams). The study's other authors were Cary Cox; Karin J. Blakemore, M.D.; EvaK. Pressman, M.D.; and Jessica L. Bienstock, M.D. Johns Hopkins Me...DFG To Fund Six New Research Units
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... admittedconsecutively to the inpatient psychiatry unit at Hershey Medical Center. Theone-year study asked families whether or not they wanted the patient to betreated with the drug donepezil or vitamin E. Both treatments do not stop thedisease but significantly slow the progress of the disease. Donepezil...Georgia Scientists Study Salt Marsh To Understand Global Warming
... theSkidaway Institute of Oceanography, a research unit of the UniversitySystem of Georgia. One reason for the higher than expected results mayhave been the length of time the study was conducted; very few studieshave looked at decomposition rates by microorganisms over a two-yearperiod, as this ongoing s......38.5- hectare research area. (A hectare is ametric unit of area equal to 2.471 acres.) The scientists knew the geneticcomposition of all the adults, 42 individuals, in the study area. The results of the genetic analysis were startling. Out of nearly 250seedlings studied from a single forest fragmen...News Backgrounder: Duke Primate Center Successfully Fosters Mysterious Aye-Ayes
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...ps regulate development of the somite, the primary unit ofsegmentation in mammals. Somites are present only transiently in embryos and arearranged as clusters of cells on either side of the neural tube. They formsequentially, starting at the head, and give rise to muscle, vertebrae, andskin. In adults, t...Researchers Develop Fast Screening Method For Water Testing
...ed up by the molecules. An electrodein a detection unit monitors the current produced by the electrons. The largerthe change in current as electrons are grabbed, the higher the number of toxicmolecules in the sample. For their studies, the researchers screened water samples from theHocking River i...The Best Molecular Snapshot Yet Of Cells Affected By Alzheimer's Disease
...nks inpart to a new laser-capture micro-dissection unit purchasedrecently with several other research groups and with funds fromthe University Medical Center. Scientists hope that by studyingthousands of genes, they might develop ways to distinguishbetween healthy and sick cells or to track the disease as......ded the Celos Management System, where one harvest unit ofapproximately 2,000 ha is cut each year with a rotation cycle of 25 years. Atany one time, 91 percent of the rainforest is in permanent or temporary reserve. Species distributions of 40 tree species are mapped with a GeographicalInformation System......rmined the first structure of a functional protein unit that is involved in the development of ‘von Recklinghausen neurofibromatosis’. This unit is a regulator of another protein involved in the pathogenesis of numerous tumors, linking neu...