UW Smogmobile Offers Cleaner, Safer Alternative To Gas Or Electric Cars
...nywhere," Hertzberg explains "The ones that can go anywhere are incredibly expensive and quite dangerous. As the amount of stored energy increases in these batteries, they become like bombs and could do a lot of damage in a traffic accident. You'd have to work really hard to hurt yourself with a liquid nitrog...DT104 Advice:How To Slow Salmonella Spread
...pearin their herds. "This disease can occur almost anywhere -- in wild animals, domestic and exoticanimals, in pets, in humans and in our food supply -- and it's not clear whatthe initial source or the present reservoir is for DT104 in the United States,"McDonough said. "But we are increasing numbers of farm...Biotech Approach To Feral Cat Problem Devised
...mal overpopulation problem. Experts estimate that anywhere from 30- to 60-million stray cats roam the United States, according to second-year student Michelle Meister-Weisbarth. These feral cats are wreaking havoc on the nation's songbird population and raising public health concerns as they spread infectio...Novel Method Of Gene Replacement Reported By University Of Washington Researchers
... you'dwant to fix in the right place, not randomly anywhere in the statement," heexplains. "Or if you were correcting an instruction booklet with an error in it,you'd want to insert the corrected instruction in the right place on the rightpage." The UW researchers' method guarantees that the new gene...Microchip Sensor Detects Bacteria
...porated into a simple, hand-held device to be used anywhere that bacteria are a contamination threat. Similarly, the silicon chips could be placed at strategic points on a food production line or other sensitive area and tied to a central computer to monitor bacterial contamination. The use of nanote...USGS Responds to Amphibian Declines With Program In Great Smokey Mountains National Park
...oky Mountains National Park is more important than anywhere else in North America," said Dr. Ken Dodd, a USGS zoologist at the Florida Caribbean Science Center in Gainesville, Fla., which is leading the inventory in cooperation with the National Park Service. "By their sheer numbers in the park, amphibians...Mr. Ples Throws Scientists Into A Tizzy
...ce that any australopithecine had a brain capacity anywhere near 600 cc,"Conroy says. "Second, some estimates of brain size in early hominids may be toohigh. And third, 3-D digital models provide a very accurate way of determininghow much brain there was inside a fossilized skull." Tobias, who has bee...Destructive Algae Overtaking Mediterranean Waters
...y dont want it in Florida, the Gulf of Mexico, or anywhere else." Scientists suspect the algae are a hybrid or even a new species, unintentionally created in a marine aquarium environment. Unlike its tropical cousins, the new form is able to endure waters where winter temperatures would be expected to k...First Reproducible Cloning Of Mammals From Adult Cells Reported In Nature
...n step, and the scientists delayed this maturation anywhere fromone to six hours. This delay increased the likelihood that when the oocytecontinued its maturation, a process called activation, it would divide anddevelop normally. After activation, the cells divided repeatedly to reach the multi-cellstage at ...DNA Vaccine 100 Percent Effective Against Rabies In Monkeys
.... Lodmell, that the DNA vaccine could be effective anywhere in the world. Each year, more than 40,000 people worldwide die from rabies. It is one of theoldest and most feared human diseases, first described in 2300 B.C. Symptomsinclude agitation, convulsions, paralysis and delirium. Without prompttreatmen...Vaccine Technology Takes Center Stage In Rochester
...research participants forthe size of the city than anywhere else in the world. The unit iscurrently evaluating seven vaccines. Numerous basic-research projects, much like the work firstcarried out by Smith, Anderson and Insel. Scientists have no wayof knowing beforehand which research avenues will lead to a...New Hypothesis Proposed For Cause Of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
...ol and Prevention estimate that CFS may affect anywhere from four to 10 of every 100,000 people in the United States. Other researchers have reported higher-than-normal titers of antibodies to various latent viruses -- Epstein-Barr virus, cytomegalovirus, human herpes virus 6, for example --...Arsenic Shown To Induce Cancer Remission
...xide. Eleven of the 12 patients achievedremission anywhere from 12 to 39 days after treatment started, experiencing onlymild side effects. The single patient who failed to reach remission died from a complicationrelated to the disease five days after arsenic treatment began and could not beevaluated in the s...Sick Kids Improves Access To Global Genome Database
...ticinformation that can be accessed by researchers anywhere in the world," explainsinformation scientist Dr. Jamie Cuticchia, head of Bioinformatics at HSC. "Byhosting a mirror site for the GDB, The Hospital for Sick Children will not onlyprovide better access to the data for Canadian scientists, but also wor...Radioactive Beads Latest Weapon In Fighting Cancer In Dogs, Cats
...e radiation therapy; this requires dailyanesthesia anywhere from 10 to 15, or 20 times -- depending on what type of tumorit is," Chun said. "And the costs really add up when you have to anesthetize theanimal each time and allow time for recovery. It's much harder on the animalthan doing the implant therapy." ...Engineered Bacteria Scavenge Heavy Metals
...hemicalenvironments, including solutions with a pH anywhere between 3 and 11 (mostother processes need a pH between 6 and 8) and in the presence of remediationchemicals, such as chelation agents, and other metallic contaminants. -- No additional energy source, such as glucose, is needed to power the process;e...Marine Life In South Pacific Region Found To Be Impervious To Oceans' Highest Arsenic Levels
... concentration ofnaturally occurring arsenic found anywhere in the world, fish, clams and coralin waters near Papua New Guinea apparently are suffering no ill effects,according to a research report appearing this month in the journal EnvironmentalScience & Technology. Iron minerals in the sediment appear to ...USGS Study Confirms An Urban Air-Pollution Problem At Mount Rainier National Park
...erage weekly levels of tropospheric ozone measured anywhere in the state.Ozone concentrations tend to increase at higher altitudes, partly because ofpassive dispersion from the stratosphere, but largely due to the transport ofpollutants by prevailing winds inland from urban sources, such as the Seattlemetropo......sto survive the rigors of use. Mutations can occur anywhere in the gene, however,and not all mutations are equal. In about 15 percent of Duchenne patients, agenetic error called a premature stop codon signals cellular protein-productionmachinery to cease work in midstream, before the job is done. The result i...New technique builds microscopic medical devices for transplants
...beinserted under the skin anywhere in the body. Molecules ofglucose would enter the capsule, and the transplanted cellswould release insulin, which would flow back out. Determining the right hole diameter was ...