AAAS US Presidential Candidates' Forum
...e next decade through next-generation hydrogen and clean coal technologies. When asked about the future of embryonic stem-cell lines, Kerry wrote that he would lift the current ban on federal funding of research on stem cell lines created after August 2001. "Right now, more than 100 million Americans suffe...UMaine anthropologist wins Solon T. Kimball Award
...ng other threatened natural resources, from oil to clean air. Allan Burns, professor of anthropology and associate dean of faculty affairs at the University of Florida and chair of the AAA's award selection committee, writes in an announcement of this year's Solon Kimball Award that Acheson's "work is espe...Poplar DNA code cracked -- a step in combating global warming?
... overstate the importance of trees as providers of clean air and energy, or as raw material for furniture, building materials, and other implements. A great many properties found in trees are not found in other plants - like their abilities to provide large quantities of wood, to synchronize their growth w...The book opens on the first tree genome
...ster more carbon from the atmosphere or be used to clean up waste sites. Just as DOE earlier played a lead... and help deliver the poplar's parts list--and the clean energy and cleaner environment that scientists will produce using the genetic sequence of the poplar...Natural mineral locks up carbon dioxide
...e reactor as the last component of their emissions clean up and sequester carbon on site. Or, if the area is heavy with fossil fuel burning plants, each plant could pipe their carbon dioxide to a central treatment plant. ...Purdue study finds antioxidant protects metal-eating plants
...e development of plants that could be used to help clean polluted sites. The work also answers a fundamental question for researchers studying how certain types of plants tolerate levels of metals in their tissues that are toxic to most other plants. "We were able to clearly establish for the first time t...Professor calls for a new branch of learning
... be used in clothing manufacture, to purify water, clean up contaminated ground, deliver drugs to specific parts of the body or be used as tiny security sensors....University of Arizona licenses patent for natural fungicide
...s how to use biosurfactants from soil organisms to clean up environmental contamination. So Stanghellini teamed up with Maier to investigate a novel use of biosurfactants. The researchers verified that the natural surfactants in Stanghellini's hydroponic system were rhamnolipids produced by a common soil b...Highlights of American Chemical Society national meeting in Philadelphia, Aug. 22-26
...es represent the most difficult biothreat agent to clean up," she adds. Canter will discuss the various cleanup approaches used and the costs involved. She also will describe lessons learned, both with respect to responding to possible future bioterrorism attacks and to preparing for and protecting against...Gold quantum dots have applications in biological labeling, nanoscale optics
...s, the researchers produced quantum dots with very clean mass spectra. The 8-atom cluster, for instance, produces bright blue emission and fluorescence quantum yields of 42 percent in an aqueous solution. The researchers produce the nearly spectrally pure, size-tunable gold nanodots through a slow reducti...Dispute over life in Antarctic lake
...g that hundreds of microbes were found even in the clean rooms of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which built the Mars Rovers that are now roaming the Red Planet, the arguments about contamination raised by Lake Vostok look set to continue. ...New lower-cost assay system equivalent to flow cytometry for accurate CD4+/CD8+ cell counts
...ntenance is minimal just a fast and easy 5 minute clean and shutdown procedure performed at the end of each day. "The Guava EasyCD4 and EasyCD8 enable easy monitoring of T cell health in HIV-infected patients, using a benchtop system that is reliable and robust, and that provides results with excellent pr...Myths surrounding Cuyahoga River fire 35 years ago
...at the federal government was doing at the time to clean up the environment. "The earlier, more intense fir...nd had passed a $100-million bond issue in 1968 to clean up the water (the federal government spent less than $160 million for environmental clean-ups throug...Loss of circadian genes results in epilepsy
... on Mondays and Thursdays, when the animal keepers clean the room hosting these mice with the vacuum cleaner. Placing a cage with triple knockout mice and, as a control, a cage with double knockout mice, close to a vacuum cleaner revealed a tragedy when the vacuum cleaner was turned on: About half of the t...Can we restore wetlands and leave the mosquitoes out?
...s do have benefits for people, she said. "Wetlands clean water, help in flood control, provide habitat and have aesthetic value." Even so, she said that environmental ethics require taking into consideration that after a wetland is restored or created, people's exposure to mosquito-borne diseases may incre...Testing soil for contamination
...rapid screening of soils. This will facilitate the clean up and re-use of such land, which will bring viabl...er of Atlas Ireland. "It can identify hotspots and clean areas, saves time by allowing the extension of the sampling regime at very low cost, and makes it po...Derek R. Lovley receives 2004 Proctor & Gamble Award from American Society for Microbiology
...ions, research that is also suggesting new ways to clean up polluted environments. At the ASM General Meeting, he will deliver the Proctor & Gamble Award Lecture, "GEO-omics: Merging Systems Biology and Environmental Genomics with Geochemistry To Model the Activity of Geobacteria." Lovley is perhaps best...American Lung Association's 2004 State of the Air report ranks cities and counties with dirty air
...ard to protect tools in the Clean Air Act that can clean up the pollution a tool that the Administration h..., dirtiest power plants and oil refineries to meet clean air standards. The American Lung Association sued to stop that rollback, and in a December 2003 Cour...UCLA chemists develop new coating for nanoscale probes
...s to block toxic heavy-metal ions as a strategy to clean up the toxic environment in which they grow. These organisms synthesize peptides, called phytochelatins, that reduce the amount of toxic-free ions by strongly binding to inorganic nanoparticles made of the sequestered toxic salts and other products. ......garis or similar sulfate-reducing microbes to help clean up pollution by toxic metals near mines or similar sites. Says Voordouw: "This is important to help combat the spread of toxic metal ions in the environment at mining sites."...