Mysterious beach closures may be linked to contaminated groundwater, study finds
...from Maine to California are forced to temporarily close some of their most popular beaches because of unsafe levels of bacteria in the water. Typically, these sudden bacterial blooms disappear, only to return without warning later in the season. In many cases, health officials are unable to pinpoint the c...Study of Cape Cod Seashore finds off-road vehicles harmful to beach fauna
...ce might take to further protect beach fauna is to close beaches to traffic on an alternating schedule, rather than close some beaches for the entire season and open others. "Maybe by alternating closures at various beache...NIH awards $20.7 million to make smallpox vaccine safer
...hould not receive the vaccine, it is possible that close to 40% of the population are not currently eligible to routinely receive smallpox vaccination. Decisions about whom to vaccinate are complicated by the fact that there are no reliable medical tests that can definitively say if a person currently has ......nical symptoms. The accumulation of PrPSc is seen close to the onset of symptoms but is greatest after clinical symptoms are well established. Deposition appears to occur through the spinal motor neurons into the myofibers of the muscle tissue. This animal model provides an excellent source for investig...JCI table of contents, 17 May 2004
...nical symptoms. The accumulation of PrPSc is seen close to the onset of symptoms but is greatest after clinical symptoms are well established. Deposition appears to occur through the spinal motor neurons into the myofibers of the muscle tissue. This animal model provides an excellent source for investig...Muscle-derived cells and gene therapy may cure for post-prostatectomy erectile dysfunction
...ral nerves, including the cavernous nerve, located close to the prostate gland. Glial Cell-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (GDNF) Improves Erectile Dysfunction in a Model of Post-Radical Prostatecomy Erectile Dysfunction Abstract 1421 In this study, presented by Jang Hwan Kim, Ph.D., researchers injected h...Tests show biotech corn rules need revision
...not increase quickly. Non-Bt corn refuges must be close to Bt corn so Bt-resistant moths will almost certa...sider that the Bt and non-Bt corn plants were also close enough to mate, potentially reducing the amount of non-Bt corn in the refuge. The research article,...Using science to restore habitat for declining species
...ods that mussels use to lure specific fish species close enough to "infect" them with their young. Mussels display remarkable adaptations to actively infect their hosts, setting out lures similar to the prey of the host fish, releasing mussel young in small packets that resemble food, or entangling fish br...Into the dead zone: Galveston researcher examines loss of marine life
...ter. Without sufficient oxygen, marine life on and close to sediment dies. The Mississippi is the largest river in the U.S., draining 40 percent of the land area of the country. It also accounts for almost 90 percent of the freshwater runoff into the Gulf of Mexico. Where the Mississippi empties into the G...Scripps scientists look deep inside sharks and their high-performance swimming system
...hat in fact tunas and lamnids share a surprisingly close array of swimming muscle dynamics. Scientists who study large fish in the open ocean have long noted the similarities in species that exhibit high-performance swimming mechanics, particularly those built for fast and continuous motion. For example, s...Staying close to mother helps baby dolphins swim
...afting' whereby dolphin calves position themselves close to their mothers' side in an apparent attempt to r...long. In the ideal position the mother can provide close to 90% of the thrust needed for the young cetacean to move at around 8.5 km per hour. The author wri...UCSD finds genetic time bomb in heart that leads to heart failure in some patients
...es. The most common treatment has been surgery to close the hole. "People have thought that congenital heart disease is cured by surgery, which is true for the short term," said the study's senior author, Kenneth Chien, M.D., Ph.D., professor of medicine and director of the Institute ...UCLA chemists develop new coating for nanoscale probes
...lls' surface and inside cells. "Humans have close to 40,000 genes," Weiss said. "A large group of these genes operates at every moment, in every single cell of our body, in very complicated ways. By painting a subset of proteins in the cell with different color quantum dots, we can follow the molec...Harvard Stem Cell Institute hosts inaugural symposia
..., seven Harvard-affiliated teaching hospitals, and close to 100 researchers and scientists are banding together in an ambitious new institute with a simple goal: to explore the promising area of stem cell research. The Harvard Stem Cell Institute holds its inaugural symposia today comprised of a day-long...U.S. President's budget proposal means 5-year cuts 'well below historic levels'
...years that his FY 2005 proposal will be enacted in close to its proposed form. However, with the crisis in the Middle East, and a slow track-record for passing the 2003 budget, it may be months before we see the FY 2005 budget resolved....More useful plants may sprout from gene role discovery
...acre," Chapple said. "You can only plant things so close together; plants can only grow so big. If a seed company were able to increase yield per acre by 1 percent, that's a big improvement." In contrast, if the quality of a crop or its digestibility could be altered, that would be a significant benefit to...MIT aims radar research at breast cancer
...uction in the incidence rate of cancer cells found close to the surgical margins. This is important because...en recommended for patients that have cancer cells close to the edge of the lumpectomy surgical margin. "One of the primary objectives of this randomized st...Better techniques needed to predict earthquake hazards, UC study finds
... data for very large earthquakes where the site is close to the causative fault. UCSB, UCR, and UCSD all have major faults that are very close to the campus." "A single estimate of ground motion for a site is not appropriate," said Heuze. "Eve...New IU Bloomington life sciences building gets a name
...s of the family have degrees from IU, and all have close ties to the university. Simon Hall was designed by John Belle of the New York City-based architecture firm Beyer Blinder Belle, which helped renovate Grand Central Station and Ellis Island and was tasked with redesigning the World Trade Center site....Oil exploitation in Ecuador's Amazon basin produces a 'public health emergency'
...dor in 1999 of rivers used by communities that are close to oil fields showed high levels of total petroleum hydrocarbons in the waters. In some streams, hydrocarbon concentrations were more than 100 times the limit permitted under European Community regulations. Epidemiological studies have indicated tha...