Can Contaminated Aquifers Restore Themselves?
...l. Other USGSscientists will describe how natural biological and chemical processes cancause the concentration ...Carolina. As the nation's largest water, earth and biological science, and civilianmapping agency, the USGS works in cooperation with more than 2,000organizations...USGS Responds to Amphibian Declines With Program In Great Smokey Mountains National Park
...ntory will provide information on the condition of biological resources to Department of Interior land managers ... of their ranges in the southern Appalachians. The biological importance of the Park's 28 species of salamanders and its 12 species of toads and frogs has been in...First TableTop Source Of Concentrated X-Rays Built
...his technique to improvetheir view of chemical and biological processes. The Center for Ultrafast Optical Sciences is one of the world's premier researchfacilities for high-speed lasers. U-M engineers and physicists at CUOS areworking on some of the most advanced laser technologies available today,including fe...New Model Makes It Possible To Predict Emergence Of Antiviral Drug Resistance
...artners. The next step, however, she said, must be biological studies to determine thetransmissibility of drug resistant strains and the likelihood of acquiringpermanent drug resistance during episodic treatment. As far as evaluating drug resistance in other infectious diseases, says Blower,"we suggest that the...Research Uncovers A Key To Aging And Lifespan Determination
...ence against aging. Using the fruit fly as a model biological system, theresearchers discovered that a specific cell type the motor neuron is the majortarget for oxidative damage, known for several years to be a key factoraffecting aging and lifespan. The researchers were able to boost the flies'defences by i...Spinach Enzymes Neutralize Explosives
...ic,can cause injury and are a trigger to releasing biological and chemical agents storednearby,"said Dr. Manish M. Shah, the project's principal investigator. "The challenge is to have a process that is safe, easy to use, environmentally friendlyandpreferably mobile," Shah said. "EBDP destroys explosives in a v...Pollution, Food Stress Take Toll On Bald Eagles
... Island. Chris Gill, a master's student in biological sciences, has spent thelast two summers studying bald eagles near Duncan, B.C. in an effort to find outwhy an alarmingly high number of nests are failing to produce healthy chicks. The area of concern lies just south of the Crofton pulp and ......erve as a worldwide early-warning system forcovert biological weapons development. Sandia scientists have propo...C), whichforbids experimentation or acquisition of biological agents or toxins formilitary purposes. "We think investigating unusual outbreaks of disease may be t...Molecular "Fossils" Of Early Life
...., Breaker plansto create biosensors for detecting biological or chemical warfare agents withfunding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). "Test-Tube Evolution" Mimics Nature Breaker sets up a system of natural selection through test-tubeevolution to produce DNA sequences with ...Researchers Show Mechanism And Similarities Of Biological Clocks
Scientists picking apart the inner workings of the biological clocks that governthe daily cycles of life have now identified several key cogs of the machineryand have shown that these main parts are remarkably similar betweeninvertebrates and mammals. In the June 5 issue of Science, one team describes t...EPA And UC Researchers Find Bacteria That Can Destroy Giardia Cysts
...at the EPA and Brian Kinkle,associate professor of biological sciences at UC, presented theirfindings during the...ronment. We wereinterested in knowing what kind of biological factors contribute." Rodgers' hunch paid off, and he found a strain which coulddegrade Giardia in ...As A 'Carbon Sponge,' Iron-Poor Coastal Waters Can't Always Do The Job, NaturePaper Shows
...ill controversial and notyet fully understood, but biological uptake of carbon dioxide by the coastalocean is on...ers farworse by triggering unforeseen chemical and biological consequences. "We arenowhere near ready to start tinkering with the ocean's ecosystems on a globalsc...Master Molecule Forms Brains In Frogs And Elbows In Mice
...ielding valuable insights into basic developmental biological mechanisms, many of which appear to prevail throughout the animal kingdom. The latest of these is revealing the important role Noggin plays in patterning the mammalian skeleton. The potential health benefits Harland is referring to are the likely ap...The Shape Of Life: How Does The Computer "Know" When It Sees It?
...mputerdedicated to classifying images fortell-tale biological shapes. Before considering extraterrestrial sources of life, however, the technologymust be in place for an extensiveclassification of the only life forms we know--life on Earth. With A Little Help From My Friends Named after the original morph man...Drunken Fruit Flies Reveal Molecular Pathway Regulating Sensitivity To Alcohol
... But researchers have been unable to determinethe biological explanation for the relationship between a sensitivity to alcoholand a risk for alcoholism. In the fruit fly, or Drosophila (Dra-SOPH-i-la), study, led by Ulrike Heberlein,PhD, an assistant professor of neurology at UCSF and an investigator in theErn......eir disease appears as indicatedby levels of these biological markers," Dr. Tweardy. "We also have thepotential to use these markers to detect early disease, when it is most easilytreated." To measure tissue levels of TGF-" and EGFR, the UPCI research team tooka widelyavailable and highly sensitive tec...Chemical In Oyster Shells May Help Clean Oil Spills
...niversityscientists. A.P. "Hap" Wheeler, a biological sciences professor at ClemsonUniversity, said that amino acids in the shells form gels that can absorb 80-100times their weight in water. By analyzing the chemical structure, he anduniversity co-workers created new polymers that are attracting indust...Report Focuses On Managed Care Impact In Clinical Microbiology Labs
...hanges in technology, the economicenvironment, and biological research," says Dr. Noel R. Rose of Johns HopkinsUniversity Schools of Medicine and Public Health, one of the chairs of thecolloquium steering committee and primary author of the report. "But more importantly, we wanted to try and recommend solutio......rs", one can begin to appreciate the extent of the biological diversity within PHI's grasp. This stimulation, ...ey component of PHI'sproprietary technology. "It's biological mimicry at its finest," says IraPastor, PHI Director of Marketing. "For example, when we expose a s......location within and between crop plants and review biological validitybased on a broad spectrum of samples from ... will also strive to control relevant chemical and biological processes. Producing complex molecular systems with defined structures in the range between 5 and 50...