Surface water not always the answer to Bangladesh arsenic pollution problem
...ed drained irrigation return water that originally came from pumped groundwater. "We wanted to get a first snapshot analysis of where exposure is thegreatest, whether surface waters are a significant source, and whether we canidentify the mechanism behind high arsenic levels in ground water," said......" said Dr. Arditi. "Thefirst real evidence of this came in 1997 from Charles Janeway at YaleUniversity, who identified the first human homologue of the Toll receptors,now called human Toll-like receptor-4 (TLR4). Janeway has also shown thathuman Toll receptor activates NF-kappa B. Since then, five human T...... NIEHS' review and analysis of the existing data came in a report toCongress, released today. The report applies to the extremely low frequencyelectric and magnetic fields surrounding both the big power lines thatdistribute power and the smaller but closer electric lines in homes andappliances. ...USGS assesses nation's biological resources at century end
...vor amongscientists from throughout the nation who came together to synthesizeexisting and new information so that we can all know the state of ournatural resource legacy." Volume One covers seven factors affecting biological resources nationwide:natural processes, land use, water use, climate change, no...Team discovers new species of hominid
...cies went into thatperiod and what kind of species came out, so scientists created links, mentally,between what you started with and what you ended up with. This one caught us offguard. It has a combination of traits we did not expect to find," Simpson said. A striking characteristic of "A. gar...Home owners may sleep better because student overcame her fear of insects
... them. It didn't work," Trower says."Finally, Rick came with these ampoules with guck in them. We put them on theant trails and in the locust trees, not in the house." Fell explains that the ants may live in the trees and in the house, with themain nest often in a tree. "The ants take the food home to the...New targets for nerve diseases, nerve regrowth: It's all in the handshake
...eknock-out mice showed a deterioration whose onset came as the mice approachedearly middle-age. "We could immediately see something amiss in these nervecells," says Kazim Sheikh, who did the neuropathology studies, "and the damageis quite similar in chronic human neuropathies." Mouse behavior also refl...Dinosaur fossils reveal evolution's big picture, says Paul Sereno
...ge mammals that followed the dinosaurs' extinction came to dominate their world essentially by accident-not as the inevitable outcome of natural selection. Of course, dinosaurs didn't disappear completely. Some evolved into birds, andthe stages of this transformation are recorded in the fossil record. ...Economic model to aid alligator farmers
...ar hunting effort. In 1995 in Florida, $3.9million came from farming and $5.3 million came from hunting. Heykoop and Dr. Darren Frechette, assistant professor of agriculturaleconomic...Researchers take major step in identifying gene differences
...edical Center. Research funds supporting the study came from CWRU, UHC, the National Human Genome Research Institute, and theNational Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute....New drug with unusual promise enters ALS pipeline
... Ph.D., and Mohamed Lehar, M.D. Funding came from an NIH grant, from the Muscular Dystrophy Association,the Cal Ripken/Lou Gehrig Fund for Neuromuscular Research, and the Jay SlotkinFund for Neuromuscular Research....Threatened marbled murrelet first to be hatched in captivity
...t protection." It was during this research that he came across an abandoned egg. "Rather thanleave it we brought it to an incubator at Simon Fraser and Dov Lank, who wasincubating other birds, looked after the bird and after 28 days it hatched.We've been catching fish at Theodosia Inlet, where we do our w...CWRU physicists invent "supershielding" for MRI devices
...pecific problem. In response, the CWRU researchers came up with a surprising theoretical solution. Brown explains that a shielding coil is used again, but the secondary and primary currents have to "dance" together toachieve supershielding, where the opposing coil currents cancel out the magnetic forces e...Researchers develop novel mouse model of Alzheimer's disease
...rapeutics," Lamb said. Funding supporting the work came from the National Institutes of Health, the American Health Assistance Foundation, and theBristol-Meyers Squibb Pharmaceutical Research Institute....Study: calcium channels regulate cell movement
...s of three to five seconds, Lee said. Some calcium came from outsidethe cell, while the rest was released from internal storage sites. "We also found that if we prevented cells from exhibiting these pulsesof calcium, the cells became stuck so they could no longer pull their back edgesin, which is ...Digital plant doctor diagnoses plant problems
...is one wasinitiated by county extension agents who came to us with what they needed,"said Xin. In fact, the development of the DDIS started with a strange plant in aMonticello homeowner's backyard. When Pat Murphy had an allergic reaction to some vines he was trimming, hecalled Jefferson County Extension ...Plakin proteins brace nerve axons and allow for the transport of neurotransmitter vesicles
...r hints that plakins don't bind exclusively to IFs came from mouseknockout studies. In mice lacking the gene coding for BPAG1 plakins, neuronsexhibit severe perturbations in their neuronal intermediate filaments(neurofilaments) and microtubules. The mutant axons also contain swellings thatappear to be fil...New aspen could revolutionize pulp and paper industry
...en saplings have other advantages to industry that came as acomplete surprise to the researchers: They produce up to 15 percent morecellulose. And they are remarkably fast-growing, even for a fast-growing treelike aspen. Cellulose is the main component of pulp, and in regular aspen, as well asother tree s...Team of 200 scientists presents new research that reveals full 'tree of life' for plants
... living green plants,according to Mishler. "Plants came out onto land probably many times, but only one li...igimplications for where the traits of angiosperms came from. The primitive modeof moving pollen is thought to be wind, and then the standard story is that ......nts are aware of the origin of the "gift", that it came from anotherhuman being and that somewhere a family is grieving over his or her death. "Donor families on the other hand never speak of the organ in this way as adetached object, machine part or otherwise. It is always linked with the nameof the don...