Link between climate change, amphibian declines explored
...ed in three areas of the world in the past several decades has turned up no significant correlation between the two. But University of Colorado at Boulder Professor Cynthia Carey, who undertook the study with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration climatologist Michael Alexander, said they will c...NY pilot study pushes Human Genome Project toward cures for disease
...efinition of what task it performs." It would take decades to determine every three-dimensional structure of every protein encoded by the human genome, and this undertaking would yield many of the same shapes over and over. Because of this, the scientists suggest focusing primarily on disease-related protein...Record breaking temperatures seen as evidence of faster rate of global warming
...enhouse gases and the length of time, ranging from decades to centuries, that they remain in the atmosphere, they urge that studies be conducted to enable society to minimize the risks of climate change and prepare for more, and perhaps even more rapid, changes to come....Study suggests that logging may affect monkey health
...may provide second-rate habitat for primates, even decades after the forests have been allowed to regenerate, according to a study of monkeys living in African forests. While studying the movements of gray-cheeked mangabeys in the Kibale National Park of Uganda, Purdue University doctoral student William Olu...Pain drug reveals what most already know - men's and women's brains are simply different
...ipitous. "The drug had been known for more thantwo decades and had simply been considered a bad analgesic," says Levine. The discovery, he says, demonstrates a clear biological difference in the waywomen and men respond to kappa-opioids. "If it weren't for the people data, I'd say, `who knows, a rat's a rat ...New research proves fullerene can be cosmic carbon carriers
...-old Allende meteorite that landed in Mexico three decades ago. The subsequent work examined several Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary (KTB) sediments distributed worldwide, including deposits in Denmark, New Zealand and North America. In each case, fullerenes encapsulated noble gasses with unmistakably extrate......ty: Microbial pathogens detected in the last two decades appear to have increased resistance to traditional food processing techniques. New regulations are being developed that will rely more heavily on food manufacturers to test rapidly for pathogens. Recent advances in computer technology and biochem...Breakdown of penicillin by resistant bacteria elucidated
...e that quickly breaks down penicillin. Now, seven decades later, scientists at the University of Chicago led by Marvin W. Makinen, Ph.D., professor of biochemistry & molecular biology, have discovered exactly how b-lactamases deactivate penicillin. Their findings, published in the March 28 issue of the jo...UC Berkeley biologist disputes current dogma that genetic mutation is the cause of cancer
...ediately after a mutation. Instead, cancers appear decades after exposure to a carcinogen. "A hallmark of carcinogens is that they have a very long latency period," he said. "Scientists argue that this is because cancer is a multistep, epigenetic phenomenon, but that exactly describes aneuploidy." A major ar...Researchers develop new technique for identifying remaining unknown human genes
...e end. The conventional method being used in past decades converts each messenger RNA into DNA molecule, which also includes a long "tail" copied from the messenger RNA. During the subtraction reaction, tangled hybrids form randomly between these long tails of unrelated DNA molecules. Because all the hybr...Life and death struggle: Proteins play against each other, bringing balance to immune system
...ntigens from one exposure to anotherthere could be decades between exposuresby laying in wait, by being exposed to antigens regularly or by holding on to small parts of the virus. Recently, National Jewish researchers found that none of these explanations were quite right. Rather, "memory" T cells stay alive...Biological legacies a key of ecological rebirth after Mount St. Helens eruption
...e," Franklin says. "Otherwise they would wait for decades or even millennia for development of such structures." Franklin was among the first ecosystem scientists to take what was learned about legacies at Mount St. Helens and other sites disturbed by natural forces and apply it to human-caused disturbanc...Chlordane found in foods decades after pesticide use
...anned hazardous chemical introduced more than five decades ago. The finding is reported in the May 15 print edition of the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, published by the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society. The report shows that although food contains small amounts...Fact sheet: the Report on Carcinogens - 9th edition
...s and the National Toxicology Program, said, "Two decades ago, when saccharin was shown to produce bladder t...vant to the human situation. In addition, we have decades more data from observations of humans using saccharin that adds to our confidence. In other words, ...Spring meeting press conferences
...e protected landscapes. However, over the last few decades the increased production of energy and food outside of Shenandoah National Park in eastern United States has increased environmental pressures within the Park. This press conference will present highlights from the meeting session on ozone episodes, ...Tropical tree distribution could have implications for forest management, conservation
...clumped. The size of the data set should help end decades of debate on this subject, according to Patrick Baker, co-author and doctoral student at the University of Washington's College of Forest Resources. The findings have implications for environmental decision-makers interested in such things as design...Arctic ozone depletion linked to longevity of polar stratospheric clouds, according to studies
...compounds pumped into Earth's atmosphere in recent decades by humans initially were tied up as chlorine nitrate or hydrochloric acid, both of which are non-reactive. But if there is a surface area to attach to like the polar stratospheric cloud ice crystals, the chlorine compounds change into ozone-gobbling...Welch Award honors 2 for unlocking nature's secrets
...ific Advisory Board. "In particular, after several decades of effort, Dr. Scott and Dr. Battersby each finally unraveled the complicated pathway for creating vitamin B12 * a significant achievement. Their research shows great creativity combined with dedication and patience, using chemistry to answer difficu...Building better engines through natural selection
... can accomplish in weeks what would otherwise take decades to run. Mechanical engineering Professor Rolf Reitz, Senecal's Ph.D. thesis advisor, says the computer model is extremely versatile and could be used for all types of engines. While curent work focuses on questions like fuel injection and air intak...Feathers on reptile older than dinosaurs, reported in Science
... Kansas, the fossil was discovered more than three decades ago in central Asia by a Russian paleontologist who specialized in insects. When the scientist published the first report of the fossil in 1970, he described a row of long narrow appendages down the animal's back, interpreting them as a frill of extr...