Antarctic Science Season Gears Up With Searches for Meteorites, Neutrinos, and New Life Forms
...ved. This year, the French Antarctic program will assist the U.S. by mounting a traverse to recover the balloon payload, including the $10-million telescope....Cricket And Chemistry Combine To Provide New Understanding Of How Fats Work
...to take the research further to examine how it can assist with the quality control processes of Italian producers of extra virgin olive oil....At-Risk Women Want Breast Cancer Gene Test--If 'Pros' Outweigh 'Cons'
...s to prevent adversepsychological reactions and to assist them in evaluating treatment options. In the study, a majority of women reported that learning about theirgenetic risk would motivate them to practice breast self-examination morefrequently, and help them decide whether to go for more frequen...NIDR Supports Total Genome Studies Of Major Oral Pathogens
...r, and how genes vary from species to species will assist in developing newdrugs to counter antibiotic resistance, or to select candidate proteins forvaccine development. Aa sequencing data will be made available during the course of the study. Thedata will be accessible through the Internet at <A HREF...Pitt Researchers Construct Novel Delivery System For Gene Therapy Of Liver Disorders
...is will increase the stability ofthe structure and assist the up-take of the introduced DNA into the targetcells. For more information about the University of Pittsburgh School ofMedicine, please access http://www.omed.pitt.edu ....Early Career Development Grants Foster Faculty Research And Education
...ially causes disease should eventually allow it to assist rather than weaken its host - a relationship termed "symbiosis." The research, using fruit flies,may provide important insights into the reproductive success, behavior and genetic divergence of many organisms. Ballard will integrate his research wi...Research Aims At Nation's First 'Smart' Ground Water Regulations
...se maps for educational purposes, to see if we can assist those in the problem areas to avoid getting to the point where laws or regulations are necessary," Engel says. "If we get to the point where regulations are needed, on the other hand, it makes sense to not treat every situation the same. You may find...Good Ergonomics Is Good Economics
...its toll and assistance operators, whose job is to assist customers in completing their calls and to record the correct billing. The primary motivation behind developing the new workstation was to enable the operators to reduce their average time per customer by providing a more efficient workstation design...... to as diagnostickinetics to diagnose, monitor and assist in the treatment of serious diseases. Initial disease targets for this technology include AIDS, cancer, cardiovasculardisease and osteoporosis. The second program, developed in part from researchefforts conducted at the United States Department of En...USGS To Study Young Forests And Streamsides In Western Oregon
...eau ofLand Management will provide study sites and assist with field research. BLM isone of many federal land managers implementing the plan; the bureau overseesabout 2,300,000 acres of forested land that historically was managed to produceeven-aged Douglas-fir forests. "CFER," said Collopy, "is not only ab...UPMC Reports On New Liver Assist Device
...- Preliminary results of a new bio-artificialliver assist device were presented by University of Pittsburgh ...is safe. The Excorp bio-artificial liver assist device is intended to providetemporary support to patients with acute liver failure until their live...Weary Tibetan People Find Supporting Hand In ASU Graduate Student
...y working in Yushu, Foggin asked the government to assist Guolou. After three weeks of deliberation, officials agreed to let Foggin use the money in Guolou, where it continues to snow. The money will be used to provide food and medical supplies in two counties beginning about April 25. His efforts make Sm...Circulatory Device -- A Bridge To Recovery For Heart Failure?
... kept aliveonly with a mechanical left ventricular assist device (LVAD) which takes overmost of the pumping for the failing heart. The researchers found that LVAD support reduced the workload of the failing leftside of the heart (the ventricle) to such an extent that some heart muscle cellsrecovered their a...New Strategy Discerns Early Stages Of HIV Infection, Paving Way For Targeted Study And Therapy
...ify people recently infected with HIVwould greatly assist researchers in tracking the spread of the disease," saidChesney, "as knowledge of recent infection provides data on HIV incidence, andis critically needed for monitoring changing patterns of HIV transmission." The 12 co-authors of the study include f...First Reproducible Cloning Of Mammals From Adult Cells Reported In Nature
...onolulu-based biotechnology company whoseaim is to assist in the development and commercialization of reproductiveand DNA preservation research for pharmaceutical and agricultural purposes.ProBio has acquired licensing rights and research funding obligations fromthe University of Hawaii, and holds patents i...... A possible first application of the hybrid is to assist the development of factor Xa directed antitherapeutics. Since factor Xa exhibits a poor ability for crystallization, which considerably delays and hinders determination of co-crystal structures of factor Xa with specific inhibitors, this ...Frog Pond Picnic To Launch National 'Frog Force'
... to enlist thesupport of families and educators to assist in monitoring the health offrog and toad populations in their communities, and to use the Internet torecord and share their observations, leading to better understanding ofthe places and situations where frogs are in greatest trouble. The National Wi......sfrom the brain, treatments are being developed to assist this process." "The only conclusion," Cohen said, "counterintuitive as it is, can bethat the rate-limiting step in prion replication has little to do with PrPsc. Instead, Cohen and Prusiner suggested, it must have to do with anearl...Wisconsin Scientists Culture Elusive Embryonic Stem Cells
... laboratorydish for clinical purposes, prepared to assist couples having difficultyachieving pregnancy. They were left over after successful clinical procedures totreat infertility, and in cooperation with the UW-Madison Medical School'sdepartment of obstetrics and gynecology, were donated specifically for ...Cells Keep Bad Guys In A Cage Until They Are Fit To Socialize
...f the monomeric apical domain for their ability to assist therefolding of aggregation-sensitive chaperonin substrates. Although aninteraction of unfolded polypeptide with the isolated apical domain could beestablished, refolding of aggregation-sensitive polypeptides (rhodanese, malatedehydrogenase, citrate ...