On the floor of the sea: USGS biologists search for rare, white abalone
...systems, said McCormick, are also equipped with an alarm should any of thelife-support systems fail. Determining breeding will be just the start, however. To find and collect just200 white abalone to launch a captive breeding program would cost $1.2 millionor more, Davis estimates. Abalone have been a fav...NIEHS urges safety workers to prepare for Y2K false alarms and malfunctions
...beginningof the Year 2000 -- or the possibility of alarm failures in truly hazardoussituations. But the program said that safety workers should also prepare for somemalfunctions to occur anyway -- from alarms that fail to elevators anddecontamination equipment that won't work. NIEHS Direc...Communications towers killing birds
...e suddenly loomed in the dark. "I could hear their alarm calls, the collisions," Evans said, "the sounds ofducks falling to the ground." Hitchcock, who was said to prefer birds over people, would have beenappalled....Satellite fire alarms keep watch on raging California fires
... within minutes of the time it starts, even in The alarm system, developed by Hawai'i Institute of Geophysics andPlanetology remote sensing scientists Luke Flynn, Andrew Harris, EricPilger, and colleagues, works by using satellite sensors that pick up heatcoming from fires on the ground- 22 thousand miles ...Study Suggests New Approach To Asthma
... may be atfault. These cells contain an anti-virus alarm system which, if not turned off,triggers persistent inflammation. "I think this will change the way people think about asthma," says Michael J.Holtzman, M.D., head of the research team. "And it suggests therapeuticstrategies that have not previously...Plants Use 'Snorkels' To Survive Floods
... its doing so. Various hormones evidently give the alarm to various parts of the plant so that the cells can react by accelerating their longitudinal growth and producing the life-saving shoots. Differences in the capacity to adapt to flooding have a major impact on the natural distribution of plants in...NYU And Rockefeller Scientists Design Molecules That Stymie A Notorious Bug
...s of Staph and other bacteria hascaused widespread alarm that one day there may be many so-called superbugsresistant to all known antibiotics. Several years ago, Dr. Novick's laboratory discovered that a master gene,or global regulator, regulates a signaling pathway in the bacterium thatultimatel......90s, and public health officials are watching with alarm asthe outbreak trudges westward toward Europe. Ringe was joined in the work by Andre White and Xiaochun Ding at Brandeis andJohanna C. vanderSpek and John R. Murphy at Boston University. The research wassponsored by the National Institute of Allergy...Tourists And Scientists Could Be Bringing Deadly Diseases To Antarctica's Wildlife
...rctic Division in Hobart, whose work helpedset the alarm bells ringing. In May 1997, Kerry and his colleagues reported finding antibodies to avirus commonly found in chickens in the blood of Emperor penguin chicks andadult Ad'lie penguins near the Australian base of Mawson (Nature, vol 387, p245). ...Ecological Consequences Of Jasmonate-Induced Responses For Plants In Native Populations
...ncert with other responses, such as the induced alarm calls of plants that increase the vulnerability of the herbivore to its own predators. Without the use of the third trophic level, an plant may lose more leaf area and have a lower fitness as a result of slowing the growth rates of their ...The Distinctive Sound Of Cholesterol
...ize highly specialized sounds, including a burglar alarm that reacts to the sound of breaking glass and a detection system that warns if gas is leaking from pipelines or storage tanks. He suggested that a similar device could distinguish differences in sounds produced by blood in patients with cholesterol ...'Mean Gene' Found In Africanized Honey Bees
.... "We have also mapped genes that affect levels of alarm pheromone," Hunt says. "All but one of these genes are completely independent of stinging behavior." The research is published in the March issue of the scientific journal Genetics. The research was funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the N......f a certain compound the chemical that sounded the alarm can becarefully investigated for its clinical suitability. The Kirschner group hasfiled a patent for the biochemical method that they devised for analyzing APCactivity. The assay is amenable to automation, making it an attractive way toquickly screen...New Sensor Adds Precision To Search For Dangerous Gases
...and there are other gases around, the alarm will go off because they are sensitive to other gases as well - but you still don't know if carbon monoxide is present." Miremadi has invented a system that can differentiate between gases: "My system is like ...MIT Biologists Identify Aging Mechanism
... yeast cell mortality. "Setthe clock early and the alarm rings early." An article to be published in the December 26 Cell culminates a year'spublished work on this topic (articles appeared in Cell, Science and now Cell,again). The piece, co-authored by David A. Sinclair, a postdoctoral fellow inbio...One Chimp Can Perceive States Of Awareness In Others
... He turned to Kermit displaying fear grimaces and alarm vocalizations-- two common warning gestures for chimpanzees. Darrell's hair also stoodon end all over his body, which reflected his state of arousal. Kermit mirroredthe same fear responses, turned and left the cage area before getting closeto the hid...First Planned Release Of Captive Lemurs In Madagascar Wilds Expected In Fall
.... And they've beenobserved issuing the appropriate alarm calls when they spot local predators.In North Carolina, their enemies include hawks, foxes and owls. At Betampona,the main predator will be the fossa (pronounced "foosh"), a bobcat-sizedcousin of the mongoose. After a summer of observations, medical...Bee Sting Treatment Should Emphasize Speed, Not Method Of Removal
...scher said. Once a bee stings, it emits a chemical alarm pheromonethat signals other bees, making them more likely to sting. "Getting to safety is more important than removing stings immediately,but stings should be removed as soon as possible once a person is away fromthe colony." A person who is stung ...