UC Berkeley museum biologists to repeat 85-year-old Yosemite National Park wildlife survey
...ir surveying and collecting, the current team will capture and release most of the animals. Bird populations will be assessed by observation and point counts, while mammals will be sampled through live trapping and release. A few small mammals will be taken to ensure correct identification and to provide ref...Swimming can contribute to rebuilding bone strength
...seal portion. Each area was analyzed separately to capture the variation in cortical and cancellous bone density. Mechanical properties of bone tissues were measured in three-point bending in a materials testing system. The span of the two support points was 20 mm, and the deformation rate was 1 mm/min. Load...Diet researcher asks how now lemur chow?
...nted to replenish its collection, it would just go capture more animals and bring them back. But that doesn't happen anymore. So, successful captive breeding is very important, and it is dependent upon diet." The challenge at the Primate Center -- as with other animal facilities -- is that the animals don'...AGI launches Earth Science World ImageBank
...ally thousands of photos of excellent quality that capture the forces that created our dynamic Earth and our interaction with it," said Marcus E. Milling, AGI Executive Director. "The ImageBank is an extraordinary resource that will benefit teachers and others who want to convey these concepts." Images in t...Automated imaging of brain tissue, high-quality glimpses inside arteries
...ty will present an optical sensor that can rapidly capture and identify individual biological and non-biologi...er tweezers and Raman spectroscopy. Laser tweezers capture microscopic particles in a fluid by using a tightly focused light beam. Raman spectroscopy can obta...Cleaning up contaminated soil, groundwater
...groundwater extraction wells could be installed to capture the contaminants as they reach the water table," said Henry. Based on the work summarized in their article, Henry and Smith acknowledge that research over the last decade has generated advances in our knowledge of these complicated systems, but much ...Secrets of drug resistance in bacteria
...ted in the protein complex's remarkable ability to capture and pump out a spectrum of structurally diverse compounds. The research may inform the development of antibiotics that either evade or inhibit these pumps, allowing drugs to slip inside bacteria cells and kill them. The team focused their inquiry on...Energy department awards $9 million for energy-related genomic research
...munities and to develop new, biological methods to capture carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and to produce hydrogen. The department will fund IBEA, headed by J. Craig Venter, Ph.D., $3 million per year for the next three years. This is in addition to the current three-year Department of Energy (DOE) grant ...Proteomics drives new generation of medical treatment
...ous points before and after treatment. Using laser capture microdissection, malignant, pre-malignant or normal cell populations were isolated. Using reverse-phase protein arrays, key phosphorylation events were identified, as determined by specific antibodies. Noting that a signal protein may be key in det...New book entertainingly tells 'What Good Are Bugs'
...e, he vividly tells how North American dragonflies capture and chew their prey. Waldbauer also tells how insects limit production and plant growth. For example, the Asian long-horned beetle, a recent invader of many U.S. broad-leaf tree species, bores in the wood, feeds on the bark of twigs and mates on bran...Study provides new insights into the functional neuroanatomy of motor imagery
...le muscle contractions during motor imagery and to capture them during motor execution and responses, muscle activity was electronically monitored during actual MRI acquisition. Statistical parametric mapping revealed brain areas predominantly related to motor execution or motor imagery, and areas equally a...Carnegie Mellon, NASA to develop robot illustrating how to seek life on distant planets
...of its body for the upcoming experiments so it can capture the maximum amount of sunlight in the equatorial environment. In the Arctic, the panels were mounted vertically, like sails on a boat, because the sun was often low on the horizon. A next generation robot, developed from the findings of this year's w...Maine chemist wins national award for research and mentoring
...cientific society for his insights into how plants capture light energy -- studies he has conducted using Bowdoin College undergraduates as research associates. He will receive the 2003 Award for Research at an Undergraduate Institution from the American Chemical Society at its national meeting in New Orlean...U of A scientist finds Atlantic salmon escapes higher than government reports
...of commercial fishing activity, Volpe recorded the capture of 10,826 Atlantic salmon by 249 different vessels. These figures are 40.8 per cent higher than the numbers published by the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans, says Volpe. "The message coming out of fisheries and oceans is false," said Volpe...Can carbon sequestration solve global warming?
...rsity, has designs for new power plants that would capture carbon dioxide before it leaves the facility, as w...t will fund public-private ventures to explore the capture of carbon, but researchers say there are considerable barriers to be overcome before the technology ...Researchers record first 'pheromone images' in brains of mice
...females and behaved as if all mice were female. To capture the pheromonal image created by this accessory olfactory system, Katz and his colleagues, which included Minmin Luo of Duke and Michale Fee of Lucent Technologies in Murray Hill, N.J., developed miniature electrodes and micromotors to record the firi...New hope for preventing major problems of the retina
...da, MD -- The primary function of the retina is to capture light and initiate neural signals. The retina contains the photoreceptors, which are the site of sensory transduction in the visual pathway. Major landmarks in the retina are the fovea and macula, where light has a direct pathway to the receptors. ...Discovery of iron-acquisition pathway suggests new treatments for drug-resistant Staph. infections
... Staph. aureus uses to burst open red blood cells, capture their hemoglobin, remove the iron-containing heme groups, transport them across the bacterial membrane and extract the iron. They also found that the human pathogens Anthrax and Listeria use the same method. "It's a beautiful system, a complete and ......hus, spider web evolution seems driven not only by capture efficiency, but also by protection of the spiders themselves.......eat for a fish that can weigh over 200 pounds. To capture sturgeon, the team set out gill nets and hauled the fish into shallow water, where they were measured, tagged and released....