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... shaving cut, are always in high demand from blood banks but have a short shelf life. Using a new process d...ture before being reconstituted with water. Blood banks store whole platelets at room temperature because they are damaged by cold. Under federal regulation...Clotting cells switched on by cold
...d clot, are in high demand from blood banks. Blood banks store them at room temperature and throw them out after five days. They would last longer refrigerated, but if you chill platelets, they activate and form a useless clot in the bag. Researchers have now shown that a key step for that activation is th...Natural antifreeze yields secrets
...r up to 21 days in refrigeration. Currently, blood banks can only store platelets at room temperature and must discard them after five days. Understanding how the antifreeze proteins interact with ice is also helping Yeh and colleagues from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory understand biominerali...Fighting the spread of sudden oak death
... a rainforest -- very lush growth, hilly, with fog banks and rain a good part of the winter." While the fungus has already had a devastating effect on the oak forests of California, there is an even greater concern that it could find its way across the country and wipe out the eastern forests. Scientists......urity in the event of global warming: if the cloud banks which currently contribute water to the forest via cloud stripping rise in altitude - as they are forecast to do - there could be a major loss in water gathering by the forest and its catchment, with consequences for communities downstream that rely ...Sea Grant study finds Chinese mitten crabs appear free of human parasite lung flukes
... fish salvage tanks, mitten crab burrows undermine banks and levees, accelerating erosion and unwanted slumping. To date, there are no strategies in place for controlling the crab's numbers. Fishers are suggesting that the crab population be culled by opening the mitten crab to commercial fishing, but this...Bacteria test may make blood safer
...is why this method holds so much promise. If blood banks have the technology to detect bacteria before platelets are used for transfusion, it follows that fewer patients will receive contaminated blood and develop an illness. Transfused platelets can be contaminated from a variety of sources including the ...New technology treats dairy wastes, odors
...DeRuyter, owner of the dairy. Odors on the lagoon banks now are barely detectable. Equipped with 10, 48-inch aeration discs powered by the five horsepower motor, the floating InStreem unit displaces water in adjustable horizontal and vertical planes around a barrier dividing the lagoon. "In dairy applic...Exploding eggs and rare human disorder help explain water regulation
...nologist Landon King turned to international blood banks and identified six families with a deficiency in aquaporin-1(AQP1). After tracking down two of the individuals a 37-year-old woman from North Carolina and a 57-year old woman from France and depriving them of water for 24 hours under close monitori...UC Santa Cruz Public Forum on the Human Genome
... a key role in the integration of the massive data banks into a coherent whole," Sinsheimer said. "The campus can be proud of its role in this historic endeavor." The first serious push toward sequencing the human genome actually began in 1984 when Sinsheimer proposed to UC President David Gardner that a...Lake Titicaca study sheds new light on global climate change
...he southern portion of the lake has overflowed its banks numerous times. Millennial time-scale What caused these thousand-year cycles of extreme wetness and aridity? For an answer, the authors turned to geological climate studies of the Atlantic Ocean. It turns out that, since the last Ice Age, t...Canada's social safety net missing the hungry
... and variety, or seeking help from relatives, food banks or friends. Few applied to social programs. In a related commentary, Dr. Laird Birmingham questions how Canadians, with a mean income higher than most other countries, can allow children to go hungry. As physicians, we must be more suspicious of hung...Collecting research data on computer wave of future, UT Southwestern researchers report in JAMA
...ut we studied the many security techniques used by banks and corporations currently doing secure business and credit card transactions over the Internet, added more security levels for medical applications and described a step-by-step recipe for building it." Setting up such a secure medical Web site cos...Grasslands, deserts, mountains and fire
... Experimental fires have immediate impact on seed banks in Mojave Desert The invasion of nonnative annua...antified the effects of experimental fires on seed banks in the Mojave Desert of northwestern Arizona. The experiment was part of a larger study designed to ...To combat poaching, Florida officials use wildlife forensics
...atch. The samples are available from gene sequence banks on the Internet and other sources. Much of the sea turtle gene sequences, for example, were collected by UF zoology researchers. All of the lab's 30 cases have been resolved in settlements in favor of the prosecution, with none going to trial, Clark...Transgenic fish could threaten wild populations
... of unmodified fish. The research was conducted in banks ofaquariums in a laboratory setting. The results warn that transgenic fish could present a significant threat to native wildlife."Transgenic fish are typically larger than the native stock, and that can confer an advantage inattracting mates" Muir sa...New Cosumnes River research partnership announced
...t the Cosumnes is still prone to spilling over its banks and flooding surrounding fields. Despite the well-known flood threat, there is growing pressure to build residential developments along the river and on the floodplain. Just east of Interstate 5, the Cosumnes joins the Mokelumne River and flows to th...Eastern U.S. benefits from emissions trading by power plants
...n bank them for use in future years. The allowance banks that many plants are compiling will slowly be depl...010." That's when the buildupof allowances in the banks is expected to be depleted. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency describes sulfur dioxide tradin...Clemson researchers link federal flood insurance program to accelerated coastal development
...building on the coast," he said. "Before 1972,few banks would lend money without a significant down payment to build a houseor a hotel that might get blown off the marsh. "The growth on South Carolina's coast over the past two decades has beendriven by a federal program." The Thurmond Inst......d ARS bioinformatics specialistsmaintain gene data banks known as GrainGenes, SolGenes (for solanaceous crops,like tomatoes) and RiceGenes. The new facility will be part of the implementation of the proposed CornellGenomics Initiative, an interdisciplinary effort by the university to useincreasingly sophi...