A kindler, gentler cut for LASIK
... also hope to use the lasers to create micro-sized drainage ducts in the eye to treat glaucoma patients. In recent years, ultrafast laser science has become one of the most promising areas of study, leading to advancements in manufacturing, high-speed electronics, quantum computing, physics and other areas of...Invasive species summit aims to halt Great Lakes-Mississippi River species exchange
...160 non-native species now live in the Great Lakes drainage basin, and nearly the same number live in the Mississippi River drainage basin. These two basins are connected by the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal and the Cal-Sag Channel...Summit generates possible solutions to exchange of invasive species in Midwest waterways
...cies between the Great Lakes and Mississippi River drainage basins. According to these experts, invasive speci...160 non-native species now live in the Great Lakes drainage basin, and nearly the same number live in the Mississippi River drainage basin. These two basins are...Adirondack interstate underpasses designed for wildlife attract anything but, study says
...d tracking techniques to record animals using both drainage culverts and underpasses specifically designed for wildlife and human use. The passage rates were much lower than those in Florida, where wildlife underpasses have been used with moderate success. The reasons why Adirondack wildlife avoid underpasse...Worlds most endangered alligator released in China
...hinese alligators are currently relegated to a few drainage ditches and farm ponds in China's Anhui Province, with their numbers continuing to decline as much as six percent annually. The three released animals came from an alligator breeding center. Scientists equipped each individual with a radio transmit...Mediterranean fishery recovers, thanks to manmade pollutants
... Nixon discusses how human sewage and agricultural drainage now support the fertility once provided by the Nile, although the nature of the productive ecosystem now supporting the fishery appears to be quite different from the historical one. Recent satellite images document the continuing fertility of the N...Duke ecologist finds devastation, hope in Iraqi marshes
...bowl," he said. Locals had broken a Hussein-built drainage dike in one area in an effort to return some water, but "nothing was growing there yet," except for a few remaining desert plants, he added. In another recently re-flooded area, too much salt had been drawn out of the long-dry soils to support freshw...NIEHS study identifies gene for hydrocephalus in mice
...le copy of this gene in mice leads to a failure of drainage of cerebrospinal fluid from the brain cavity, which causes the skull to swell. About one child in 2,000 worldwide is afflicted by hydrocephalus. Identification of the mouse gene provides a means for researchers to study the possible genetic origin......s. Some of the more surprising features of bathtub drainage that may be new to you are that bubbles often detach from the bottom tip of the vortex before it reaches all the way down to the plughole. These bubbles occur because the tip of the vortex is unstable when rotation is fast. The air bubble is usually ...Microbial biofilm yields community genomes, metabolic clues
...century ofoperations, created the most acidic mine drainage in theworld, discharging-on average-a ton of toxic... remediationefforts began a decade ago. Acid mine drainage remains a significant environmentalproblem worldwide. Banfield, a professor at the Universityof Cali...Scientists report first sequencing of environmental genome
...minerals to produce acid mine drainage. "Acid mine drainage is one of the most pressing long-term environmenta...nt of much more highly refined models of acid mine drainage systems." "If we understand the organisms and how they cause this environmental problem, we can try ...Symposium relates long-term ecological research to ecosystem management
...t in Florida's Everglades,remediation of acid mine drainage in the western United States,and marine reserves in coastal ecosystems are some of the topicsthat ecologists will explore February 26th, at a symposium on the"Application of LTER Science to Ecosystem Management." Thesymposium will be held at the Nat...International critical care doctors release first-ever guidelines for sepsis
...ce, removal of a potentially infected catheter or drainage of an abscess) "Based on the most rigorous scientific evidence available, these recommendations standardize the approach toward and clinical management of severe sepsis, and are a major advance that will benefit hundreds of thousands of sepsis pati...Antibiotics in the environment
...in rainfall and snowmelt runoff as well as through drainage from manure applied lands. There is an increasing concern that sub-therapeutic feeding of antibiotics in animal agriculture is increasing microbial resistance in the environment. As it appears very small amounts of antibiotics move in solution form a...Other highlights in the May 5 JNCI
...llows researchers to visualize sentinel lymph node drainage in mice may be able to detect lymph node metastase...ic resonance imaging to detect sentinel lymph node drainage in normal mice and mouse models of breast cancer. Using this method, regions of sentinel lymph nodes...Sediments in many Central Valley streams contain toxic levels of pyrethroid pesticides
...diment samples from 42 rivers, creeks, sloughs and drainage ditches in California's Central Valley and exposed amphipods and midge larvae to the sediments for 10 days. Twenty-eight percent of the sediment samples (20 of 71) killed amphipods at an elevated rate, and in 68 percent of these sediments, the pyreth...