Atacama rover helps NASA learn to search for life on Mars
...ce payloads will be a wonderful precursor to human exploration and excellent 'astronaut/astrobiology assistants' when the time comes for human missions," she added. Scientists also plan to map the habitats of the area, including its morphology, geology, mineralogy, texture, physical and elemental propert...New hydrothermal vents discovered as 'South Pacific Odyssey' research begins
...arine scientists beginning an intensive program of exploration at the Lau Basin in the South Pacific has discover..., it will also be the first time that a systematic exploration and discovery of hydrothermal vents over hundreds of kilometers has been achieved." Continuous updat...URI oceanographers to build laboratory to study subseafloor life
...lead an ocean drilling expedition dedicated to the exploration of life beneath the seafloor. They found an enormous community of microorganisms whose biomass has been estimated to dwarf the total biomass of the ocean above it. To further study life beneath the bottom of the sea, the National Science Foundatio...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, September 2004
... Oak Ridge National Laboratory, offers an in-depth exploration of clathrate hydrates. [Contact: Ron Walli 865-576-0226; wallira@ornl.gov ] TRANSPORTATION -- A road to better highways . . . Video logging, aerial photography and satellite imaging are giving researchers a better picture of highways and ...Computer models expose humans as main cause of caribou decline
...For one, he said, seismic lines, which oil and gas exploration companies make to produce a model of subsurface geological structures, are being made narrower than they used to be and are no longer cut in straight lines. The lines are also reseeded shortly after being cut. Research is being conducted to see if th...Men from early middle ages were nearly as tall as modern people
...which encouraged the spread of disease. And global exploration and trade led to the worldwide diffusion of many diseases into previously isolated areas. "Height studies for the late 18th and early 19th centuries show that large cities were particularly hazardous for health," Steckel said. "Urban centers were res...Revealing bizarre deep-sea secrets
...s," says Dr. Widder, "and that's the best part of exploration discovering something totally new and unexpected. It just doesn't get any better than that." Regular dispatches from the ship about each day's discoveries will be posted at Harbor Branch's expedition web site, www.at-sea.org , and articles written...Dispute over life in Antarctic lake
... Earth, because the lake is a unique test area for exploration of icy moons and planets. Considering that hundreds of microbes were found even in the clean rooms of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which built the Mars Rovers that are now roaming the Red Planet, the arguments about contamination raised by Lake ...New discovery may help transplants survive
...discoveries by Dana and his research team in their exploration of the immune response to corneal transplants. In the normal immune response, cells known as antigen-presenting cells (APCs) are activated when they detect the presence of proteins (also known as "antigens") from foreign intruders such as bacteria,...JCI table of contents, 2 August, 2004
...a Crohn-like mouse model, and open new avenues for exploration for treating these disorders. TITLE: Expanded B cell population blocks regulatory T cells and exacerbates ileitis in a murine model of Crohn disease AUTHOR CONTACT: Klaus Ley University of Virginia Health Science Center, Charlottesville, VA 22908, U......Experimental applications of RNAi have spurred the exploration of gene function in many basic research, drug discovery, and clinical settings. Until now, however, the identity of the molecular scissors that carry out RNAi-mediated messenger RNA cleavage has not been revealed. Two studies published this week in ...Misfiring proteins tied to inflammation and sick feeling of type 2 diabetics
...s that cytokine-dependent fever and reduced social exploration is found in type 2 diabetes mice. The neuroimmune response leading to the sickness behavior, Freund said, was linked to hypersensitivity to lipopolysaccharide and potentially to cytokine resistance. Now Freund is asking what this signaling breakdown...NIH renews funding for continued Rb2 tumor suppressing gene research at Temple
...ational Institutes of Health (NIH) to continue his exploration of the role the tumor suppressing gene Rb2/p130 plays in cancer. An internationally recognized researcher in the genetics of cancer and gene therapy, Giordano discovered Rb2/p130 in the early 1990s while serving as a member of Temple's School of Medi...Ocean scientists assess impact of seismic pulses in effort to protect whales
...els worldwide to penetrate into the seabed for oil exploration and geophysical research, with an estimated 15 to 20 active on any given day. Researchers from the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University conducted tests in the northern Gulf of Mexico in 2003, using the 20-gun array aboard their res......ral organohalogens. Because of improved underwater exploration and research capabilities, most new ones, he says, are being found in the ocean's marine life. The cone snail, for instance, which lives in tropical marine environments, produces a bromine-based venom that is extremely toxic to people, but allows the...Spanish scientists develop powerful tool for exploration and integration of biological information
...uided network allows for a stepwise and controlled exploration of the information space. The iHOP system shows that distant medical and biological concepts can be related by surprisingly few intermediate genes; the shortest path between any two genes involving on average only four steps. Hoffmann and Valencia e...Thimerosal, found in childhood vaccines, can increase the risk of autism-like damage in mice
...rishment (limited range of behaviors and decreased exploration of environment); Significant abnormalities in brain architecture, affecting areas subserving emotion and cognition; Increased brain size. These findings have relevance for identification of autism cases relating to environmental factors; design of...NASA researchers customize 'lab-on-a-chip' technology
...arch for life or on carried on long-duration human exploration missions for monitoring microbes inside lunar or M...veloping these specific technologies for space and exploration applications and has unique experience in miniaturizing these instruments and designing them for the...Clemson University researcher reaches for the stars to prevent osteoporosis
...obstacle to long-term space missions, such as moon exploration and a two-and-a-half-year roundtrip to Mars. In order to maintain health, astronauts need a treatment that will prevent bone loss in space and accelerate recovery afterwards. Recovery of bone mass takes two to three times as long as the length of......cal engineering,materials processing, into a broad exploration to uncoverfundamental knowledge. She has demonstrated an ability to takeadvantage of support to move beyond her own initial training andmove out to address societal needs." - Delcie Durham, programdirector in NSF's Division of Design, Manufacture an...