Bacterial Toxin Surprises Scientists
...raise more questions than they answer. But as they continue to study colicin Ia, the researchers hope they will improve general understanding of the critical interactions between proteins and membranes. Please acknowledge partial funding for this work from the Nationa...Duke Researchers Discover Candidate Susceptibility Gene For Autoimmune Disease
...understand the autoimmune response,Blackshear will continue studies to determine how TTP is involved in theinsulin response. "Right now we really don't have a good handle on what TTP is doing,although there are hints it is involved in gene regulation," Blackshearsaid. "Our next step will be to determine if...Transgenic Rice Plants Resist Insects, Drought And Salt Damage
... countries of Asia. "Populations are projected to continue growing for at least 30 years, and essentially no land is left for agricultural expansion," he said. "Discoveries such as those made at Cornell reduce crop losses and help farmers to produce more food on the same land while causing less environmenta...Hawaiian Whales Show 'No Overt Response' To Sounds Of ATOC Simulation
...t." Monitoring of marine mammals' behavior must continue when the full-scale ATOC source is operating in Hawaii, Frankel said. One concern is for animals capable of diving through the so-called "deep sound channel," the 800- to 900-meter deep layer of water that catches and transmits sounds much farthe......'s ionized molecules in the gas phase. These ions continue into the mass spectrometer, which is a sophisticated weighing machine. Using a spectrometer with a 6.1 Tesla superconducting magnet, the Cornell team took a sample representing 1 percent of the protein in a single red blood cell and correctly deduced...Newly Discovered Gene Halts Cell Division and May Have Cancer Link
...ugs or environmental stresses -- cell division can continue out of control and leave some new cells without a copy of each chromosome, which can lead to cancer," Dr. Benezra says. The MAD2 checkpoint appears to plays an essential role in the cell cycle, Dr. Benezra says. After a cell's DNA is copied, each pa...Antarctic Science Season Gears Up With Searches for Meteorites, Neutrinos, and New Life Forms
...plete the world's deepest and oldest ice core will continue at Russia's Vostok Station in East Antarctica this season. Some 30 researchers from the United States, France, and Russia study the ice record, expected to stretch back perhaps half a million years. Studies of Vostok's ice have already shown a close...Cornell Scientists Find Way To Boost Rice Crop Yield -- They'll Walk On The Wild Side
...y so big, the population is growing and we need to continue feeding that population." Tanksley and Susan R. McCouch, Cornell assistant professor of plant breeding, along with other Cornell researchers are announcing their research in the journal Nature, (Nov. 21, 1996) in an article, "Genes from the wild boos...No Such Luck: Nitrogen From Air Pollution Unlikely to Moderate Global Warming
...he functioning of these and other ecosystems if we continue to pollute them with high rates of atmospheric nitrogen deposition," said Tilman. "Nitrogen pollution is a problem that will grow progressively worse as the human population rises unless we take direct steps to counter it."...Moving DNA Molecules With Magnetic Tweezers
...more than $500,000 in federal andprivate grants to continue studying and refining the tool. The forces that allow Wirtz's device to work are already familiarto any child who has played with a magnet. If you place a sheetof paper over a steel button, then hold the magnet on top of thepaper, you can move the bu......s that guided rescue andrebuilding efforts; and we continue to investigate the long-term effects ofthe upstream floods on downstream resources like the Chesapeake Bay and SanFrancisco Bay. "We remain committed to our long tradition of setting nationalstandards for scientific excellence in earth, wate...President's Budget Proposal Cuts R&D By 14 Percent By 2002
...improved over past budget proposals, yet all signs continue to point downward as the Administration and Congre..., by far the largest sponsor of federal R&D, would continue its decline of the past several years, dropping by 1.8 percent to $36.8 billion in FY 1998. The DOD...Isle Royale Moose Continue Decline
..."There are so few moose that if wolves are able to continue increasing, they should be able to keep moose at a relatively low level. While the Isle Royale moose have had their problems in the past couple of years, the park's wolves have been gradually building their numbers. Peterson says there are 24 wolves ...Early Tests Indicate Motor Skills Unharmed In Consumers Of Tainted Fish
...cceptably high, according to health officials, who continue toissue advisories on fish consumption. Working with Schantz are Harold E.B. Humphrey and Marvin L. Budd of theMichigan Department of Community Health; Anne M. Sweeney of the Universityof Texas Health Sciences Center at Houston; Joseph C. Gardiner, ...New Evidence For Corn's Ancestry Could Lead To Insect And Drought Resistant Crops
DURHAM, N.C. -- Scientists continue to debate the ancestry of domesticatedcorn. But Duke University researcher Mary Eubanks said she has mountingevidence that corn emerged from the interbreeding of two different wildAmerican grasses. Those grasses are Tripsacum dactyloides , also kno...Natural Shelters on Leaves House Plant Bodyguards
...uts,coffee and avocadoes. Agrawal and Karban will continue their research, comparing use of domatiato induced resistance as biological controls for spider mites in cotton.To jump-start the plant's defense mechanisms, they have previously inducedresistance in cotton plants experimentally with naturally occurr...More To Drought Than Meets The Eye
...ter, including deeproots and thick leaves that can continue to photosynthesize -- convert sunlightinto usable energy. Drought intolerant species tend to have shallow roots andshut down during drought. It is not unusual for drought-intolerant species todrop their leaves in time of drought and stop photosynthes...Basin Traps Air Pollution In Mexico City: International Study Has Implications For U.S. Cities
...of the models and publication offinal results will continue for the next two to three years.......zophrenia and addiction.Dopamine producing neurons continue to be the focus of research because of theirwidespread importance in regulating complex locomotor, emotional andmotivational states." Grandy further explains that dopamine producing neurons are involved inmediating some of the positive reinforcing pr......addition to these three new projects, the ODS will continue its support of five studies begun in 1996, two wit...lating to dietary supplements. The ODS expects to continue to fund investigator-initiated awards through the REAP program as a means to expand research opportu...