Even in the Amazon jungles, treatment for heat exhaustion is the same as it is right here at home
... We moistened a bandana with water, added a little bit of lavender/peppermintoil to make it even a little bit more cooling, and put that on the back of herneck, along with one on her face. Then we fanned her. I......uices. Jim Krumhansl's offering to the world is a bit different. Krumhansl has createdsynthetic sludge. Unappetizing, perhaps? You thought there was enough of the real thing? But theunusual product, which harmlessly mimics the deadly sludge found in undergroundnuclear waste storage tanks, could save U...Disconnecting molecular handbrakes has drastic consequences
...ple withmutations that make their SOCS1 a little bit less efficient? Given thisgene's critical role in controlling immune system development and response, evena ten percent change genetically might predispose a person to dramaticallyaltered immune reactions."...Study indicates Indian Ocean monsoon similar to El Niño phenomenon in Pacific
...ity," said Webster. "I think people have become a bit 'El Niñocentric,'" he said. "Certainly ElNiño plays a major role in climate variation on Earth, but there also is a lotof independent climate variability. If we can better understand the enginedriving the Indian Ocean monsoon, we will...UCSC researchers obtain first detailed images of a complete ribosome
...ch has focused on bacterial ribosomes, which are a bit smaller thanthose in higher organisms. Even bacterial ribosomes are extraordinarily complex.They are composed of three different RNA molecules and more than 50 differentproteins arranged in two major subunits, which join together to form thecomplete ......t's Human Genome Project to find andsequence every bit of DNA in the human body. The U-M protein-gene project will look at tumor genes and their proteinssimultaneously, starting with advanced-stage colon tumors, a type of ovariancancer and two kinds of lung cancer. The researchers expect to analyze mor...Peering at a machine that pries DNA apart
...peptidelobes arrange themselves in space to look a bit like a ring of bread buns. Itaffords researchers the first detailed glance at a family of proteins thatremain enigmatic in spite of their recognized status as a fundamental molecularmachine of the cell. "We know next to nothing about how these helica...Wake Forest researcher finds high diabetes rate among Lumbee Indians
...mon diabetes isamong the Lumbee. There is quite a bit of information about the epidemic ofdiabetes among Native Americans, but most of that work has been in thesouthwestern United States," Bell said. Bell conducted a telephone survey of approximately 1,200 Lumbee Indians inRobeson County to determine...Harvard Medical School researchers discover first in a new class of mitosis inhibitors
...acharacteristically malformed spindle that looks a bit like an exploding star. Moreover, the scientists, led by Tim Mitchison and Stuart Schrieber,pinpointed the protein through which this chemical exerts its peculiar effect:it is a member of the kinesin family of motor proteins. That makes monas...Cerebral cortex cells may pulse electrical rhythm through the brain
... through chemical connections that fire off a tiny bit of chemical that either inhibits or excites the next neuron. These connections between neurons are called synapses. While studying the chemical synaptic connections in the cerebral cortex of rats, Brown University researchers found that ......umans. They sequenced and thoroughly analyzed this bit of DNA from blood taken from the three geographical subspecies of chimpanzees (eastern, central, and western African) and the bonobo, a chimpanzee cousin. Their efforts yielded an interesting crop of results. First of all, the study revealed that the...Human genome bears a virus related to HIV-1
...iversity. "We're all walking around with a little bit of an HIV-like sequence in our genes," said Bryan Cullen, an HHMI investigator at Duke University. According to Cullen and his colleagues, an ancient family of viruses, known as HERV-K (for human endogenous retrovirus K), took up permanent residence ...Crack open an egg and cure a disease
...vered them. "It's a shame we can't blow our horn a bit more," he says....Science and Amersham Pharmacia Biotech award Young Scientist Prize
...prize money are still up in the air. "It's quite a bit of money, and I'm still not used to thinking in those terms," Velculescu said. "I'll probably give some to charity. Oh, and maybe pay off some honeymoon debts." "Victor epitomizes the young scientist that we know will be at the cutting edge of scienc...Sexual fantasies increase pain tolerance
...nterparts in the other groups (three minutes vs. a bit more than oneminute). They handled pain better and experienced less pain. They also were less anxious anddepressed, and less angry. Results were presented Oct. 23 at the 18th annual scientific meeting of the American Pain Societyin Ft. Lauderdale,...Researchers show that proteins can transmit heritable traits
...hrough proteins. Thus, these proteins can be every bit as much a genetic element as DNA. After all, they are heritable entities that span generations and influence a cell's phenotype in a predictable way." In both studies, Lindquist's research team worked with yeast proteins known as "prions," which th...Lung ailments come with the paycheck for wide swath of workers
...d to in her job at a manufacturing plant. A little bit of detective work located the real source of the problem: fiberglass insulation in her basement that had become home to a large colony of mold. "What's important to realize is that most work sites are very safe and very healthy. But if a patient is ...It's not such 'a wonderful life' living next door to a liquor store
...e norms. They all think it's OK to drink a little bit more than people in other neighborhoods. This is what we call a group- or neighborhood-level effect, and it's explained by the alcohol-outlet density in that neighborhood. It's almost a cultural effect." Both Scribner and Hacker believe these findi...Acid-loving microbe may be a key to mine pollution
...ct that it has no cell wall. "It turns out to be a bit of an irony that the most abundant organisms in the mine might be considered to be rather fragile since they lack cell walls," say Edwards. "It's cytoplasm is surrounded only by a single, peripheral membrane." How the microbe endures the heat, acid a...Scientists clarify much-sought enzyme, pave road to cancer therapy
...he basic or secondary structure of a molecule is a bit likeknowing the bellows of an accordion is corrugated. You see the generalpossibilities of how it can work. The next step is learning how that shapecan vary how the bellows could expand, contract or twist. This isGreider's next goal: to find telo...