Changing Continental Runoff Patterns Could Change Ocean Circulation
...day's oceans, deep water forms near the poles with cold water sinking and then traveling toward the equat...ed soft drinks, carbon dioxide dissolves better in cold liquids than in warm liquids. If deep water is being formed in the warm subtropics, it will carry ...NCAR Scientist Models Earth's Climate and Vegetation Patterns At Last Glacial Peak
...xis), and its elliptical orbit around the sun. The cold temperatures of the last glacial maximum resulted from the existence of the continental ice sheets and were intensified by reduced amounts of atmospheric carbon dioxide, which insulates the earth by trapping heat reflected from the surface toward spa...Northwestern Scientists Discover How Herpes Simplex Virus Infects Cells
...hevirus. Consequences of viral replication include cold sores and feverblisters, similar lesions on the genitalia, corneal destruction,encephalitis and severe disease of newborns. The virus can bind to manytypes of human cells but is capable of penetrating only certain cell types. Rebecca Montgomery, a re...Herpes-Based Gene Therapy Is Key To Promising Liver Tumor Vaccine
...plex virus -- the same onethat causes blisters and cold sores in people and animals, onlymodified so that it can't replicate -- to send into rats genesthat code for substances known as cytokines. Cytokines beckon thebody's immune system to mount an attack against a foreignsubstance. Doctors also injected ...Herpes-Based Gene Therapy Is Key To Promising Liver Tumor Vaccine
...lex virus -- the same one that causes blisters and cold sores in people and animals, only modified so that it can't replicate -- to send into rats genes that code for substances known as cytokines. Cytokines beckon the body's immune system to mount an attack against a foreign substance. Doctors also injec...New Vaccine Blocks Viral Entry In Cattle, May Have Implications For Human Vaccines
...of human herpes viruses are the viruses that cause cold sores, chicken pox, shingles, roseola, mononucleosis, Kaposi's sarcoma and cytomegalovirus (CMV) infections. Although there is encouraging new evidence that drugs might eliminate the Human Immunodeficiency Virus from individuals with AIDS, animals a...Enzymes Targeted As Key To Understanding Drug Interactions
...senal of over-the-counter supplements and pain and cold remedies. How is the patient -- or the health care professional -- to know when the potential exists for a serious, even life-threatening, interaction between medications? Or when one drug may render another ineffective? News stories have highlighte...Two Parasitic Wasps Show Promise For Controlling Pest Flies
...nt in the Midwest, where we have harsh summers and cold winters. It has been said that we never could release enough to be effective,"Weinzierl said. "However, it may be that endius is a potentialbiological control agent that we should be concentrating on. That couldbe from the fact that there's a lot...UW Smogmobile Offers Cleaner, Safer Alternative To Gas Or Electric Cars
.... It's just cold." Ironically, Hertzberg says, the cold temperature is precisely what stalled previous efforts to develop a liquid nitrogen vehicle. Researchers have known for decades that pressure built up when super-cooled liquid nitrogen is converted to a gas could power a car. But the UW group was the...Common Childhood Virus Poses Threat To Adults, Research Shows
...ry said the typical patient had experienced severe cold symptoms fora week or two, then, despite taking antibiotics, developed a worse fever,shortness of breath, or wheezing before entering the hospital. Some hadunderlying medical problems such as heart disease or lung disease that wereexacerbated by the ...New Way To Drive Chemical Reactions: Collision Of Liquids At High Speed
...es intense local heating, forming a hot spotin the cold liquid with a transient temperature of about 9,000 degrees Fahrenheit,the pressure of about 1,000 atmospheres and the duration of about a billionthof a second." Any turbulent flow can cause cavitation in liquids, Suslick said. "Butgenerating bubble...Disease Takes Its Toll On Waterfowl Populations
... the mortality is continuing and may not end until cold weather drives the birds further south. Avian botulism is a disease of birds resulting from the ingestion of a paralyzing toxin produced by the bacterium, Clostridium botulinum type C. The toxin is closely related to botulism toxins A and B, which ...Presence Of Protein Extends Life; Potential Aging Mechanism Found
...other heat-shock proteins, he said."Although heat, cold and all sorts of stresses can elicit these chaperoneproteins, the normal level of stress actually produces the body's optimalamount of heat-shock proteins. So putting your body through a series of minorstresses, such as heat exposure, won't elicit an...Widespread Genus Of Monkeys Gives Up Genealogical Secrets To Columbia Researchers
...t sea level and at 12,000feet, from semi-desert to cold mountain forest to low-lying tropical habitats. "The macaques have spread to so many environments precisely because theyhave conserved many of the generalized features of the old-world monkeys,"Professor Melnick said. "As good generalists, t...Careful Honeybee Breeding Combats Tracheal Mite Pests
... of the problems facinghoneybees in North America: cold winters, wet springs, and pesticides haveall combi...this past spring,”said Cobey. “We had a cold wet spring, and many bees died in the generalpopulation, but our population did tremendously well.&#...Gene Therapy Enables Transplantation Without Immunosuppressive Drugs
...virus -- avirus usually associated with the common cold -- that has been engineered toincorporate the gene that encodes for a protein called CTLA4Ig. The gene-bearingvirus, referred to as a vector, is then introduced into an organ preservationsolution used to maintain the liver after harvesting and prior ...Common Cold Caused By Multiple Viruses
A recent study investigating causes of the common cold affirms that most coldsare caused by viruses, but ...not work on viral infections, not be used to treat cold symptoms. The study appears in the February1998 issue of the Journal of Clinical Microbiology. Resea...Study Links Viruses And Vascular Diseases
...tremely common herpesvirus simplex 1, the cause of cold sores, is a moredistant relative. "These viruses are now legitimate candidates for initiatinghuman vascular disease," Virgin says. "It's a possibility that deserves furtherinvestigation." Despite repeated efforts, researchers have never been able to ...Food Bacteria-Spice Survey Shows Why Some Cultures Like It Hot
...he spices in each recipe is greater in hot than in cold climates. Accordingly, countries like Thailand, the Philippines, India and Malaysia are atthe top of the hot climate-hot food list, while Sweden, Finland and Norway areat the bottom. The United States and China are somewhere in the middle,although ...