Hawaiian Whales Show 'No Overt Response' To Sounds Of ATOC Simulation
...uiet place, Frankel noted. Underwater microphones connected to one of the ATOC simulation boats recorded what whales and other marine mammals hear every day: the ocean's ambient sounds, such as wind and waves, seismic activity and animals, including the humpbacks themselves, vocalizing loudly. Offshore h...Proteins Interacting With RNA And DNA Are Surprisingly Similar
...of themolecules and DNA has two strands, which are connected in atwisting structurecalled a double helix. Learning why the RNA- and DNA-binding proteins are so similarcould lead toinsights specifically about the protein's interaction with RNA,which couldshed light on how the antibiotic distinguishes between th...Moving DNA Molecules With Magnetic Tweezers
...magnets are three sets of coiled copper wire, each connected to apower source. The coils are positioned to produce electromagneticfields in three dimensions: backward and forward, side to side,and up and down. With a joystick, Wirtz can shift the amount ofelectricity flowing to each set of coils. That lets him...Cricket And Chemistry Combine To Provide New Understanding Of How Fats Work
...y out of fats is in the shape of three long chains connected together at the top of those chains by a short chain akin to the bales on a set of cricket stumps. Chemical companies have long been aware that the application of certain enzymes to fats can change, remove or replace one or more of the three long cri...Pea Plant Stem Growth Gene Cloned
...ut it was not until the early 1980s that the group connected it to stem height. Now, the researchers have demonstrated that in the tall pea plants used by Mendel, the tallness gene codes for an enzyme that adds a hydroxyl (HO) group at a very particular location onto GA20, which is the is the immediate precurs......tivated duringsome types of epileptic seizures not connected with clozapine, includingmyoclonus. Because some of the most important symptoms of schizophrenia are sensorydistortions and difficulty focusing attention, the authors suggest that"kindling" with low doses of clozapine might activate brain ar...Strange South American Fossil Mammals Found In Madagascar And India
...separated landmasses suggests to us that they were connected in the Late Cretaceous. A recently proposed geophysical model shows that India and Madagascar were attached to eastern Antarctica well into the Cretaceous while South America was attached to the western end of Antarctica. This discovery supports th...New Sensor Adds Precision To Search For Dangerous Gases
...d version, now in the prototype stage, can also be connected to a computer or operated independently. Miremadi is currently looking for financing to bring his products to market. "People think what they have is good enough," he says. "They need to see our c...Low B Vitamin Levels Common In Many People Linked To Increased Heart Disease, Stroke Risk
...id deficiency with heart disease and stroke may be connected to their effects on homocysteine metabolism. Homocysteine, a natural byproduct of the body's metabolism of meat and dairy foods, has been shown in earlier research to damage the lining of blood vessels. Low levels of vitamin B-6 can lead to elevatio......ation of ecosystems, which results insmaller, less connected habitats, making it harder for species to disperseacross landscapes as climate changes. Practical Information These ideas will be discussed on Day 3 (March 16) at 9:00 in the session 2"Global Change and Ecosystem Structure" and in the poster sessio...Tiny Worm Reveals Workings Of Suspected Tumor Protein
...t, in vivo, p300 indeed plays a pivotal role inthe connected processes of cell division and differentiation, says Shi. P300acts when a cell begins to differentiate, and it does so for most of the worm'stissues. This may provide insight into how adenovirus E1A corrupts cell growth.Shi suspects that if...UPMC Reports On New Liver Assist Device
...ts with acute liver failure on the device,which is connected to a vein and remains outside their bodies. Researchersbelieve it should help remove toxins from the patient's own liver cells, as thepatient's blood circulates in a chamber with pig liver cells inside polymermembranes. The membranes allow toxins t...PSA To Debut At National Oceans Conference
...points out that not only are small bodies of water connected to theocean, but each of our actions is connected to the ocean. In the InternationalYear of the Ocean, the message is that each action you take, even ...Horses Prefer Bridles That Have A Bit Missing
...ther side of the horse's mouth. Bypulling on reins connected to the two side rings, the rider exerts sideways andbackwards pressure to move the animal's head. But some horses dislike having thebit pressing on their tongue, and misbehave as a result. Now Allan Buck, a horse trainer from Ramona in Califo...University of Kentucky Neuroscientist Develops Unique Device For Treatment Of Brain Tumors
...directly into the center ofthe tumor. The tube is connected to a small plastic bubble, called an Ommayareservoir, that is implanted under the patient's scalp. A cellophane-likepermeable membrane in the bubble regulates the flow of the cancer-fighting druginto the tumor. "By using Serodur, we're able ...Alaska Scientists Say Salmon Declines Inevitable
...a couple of decades. Salmon productivity itself is connected to conditions in the ocean that operate on similar time scales." Adkison says research being done at the University of Alaska Fairbanks suggests the changes in fish and shellfish abundance, called regime shifts, occur about every 20 years. It's been ...New Device Brightens Recycling Efforts
...a hand-held probe, which looks like a hair dryer, connected to a mobile console. The probe illuminates a solid object with a laser and collects the light scattered from the sample, much like a bar-code scanner. "The device uses the principle of Raman spectroscopy to read the information encoded in th...NASA Using Space Incubator To Understand Breast Cancer
...rdisciplinary effort. In this regard, Richmond was connected to a breast cancer susceptible donor of the mammary tissue now used in his laboratory by Dr. Mike Swift of the Medical College of New York, Hawthorne, N.Y. Drs. Olive Pettengill (Pathology Department of the Dartmouth Medical School) and Dr. Martha St...Mice Lacking Gene Show Reduced Alcohol Preference And Sensitivity
...h specificmutations in the D2 receptor gene may be connected with alcoholism. Our researchdoesn't point towards... receptorsensitive to serotonin, another substance connected with pleasure, drink morethan mice that have the gene. Phillips, Grandy and others are now working o......that she also suffered from a hernia, so shehadn't connected the "bloaty feeling," often symptomatic of ovarian cancer, withany other illness. "The first time I went to see the Southwestern doctors, I took six pages oftypewritten questions in with me, so I wouldn't forget anything I wanted toask," Ruff said. R...