Healy researchers make a series of striking discoveries about Arctic Ocean
...hermal activity on this cruise than in 20 years of exploration on the mid-Atlantic Ridge," said Charles Langmuir, co-chief scientist on Healy from Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO) at Columbia University. While the heated water from the hydrothermal vents does not significantly affect ocean temperatures, ...Rutgers scientists to explore ocean depths off New York-New Jersey harbor
...D.C., the voyage is the second leg of a three-part exploration of waters off the East Coast by the research vesse...f Marine and Coastal Sciences (IMCS) will lead the exploration of the ancient underwater section of the Hudson River Valley, which extends more than 400 miles seaw...Researcher receives grant to help halt HIV replication
...on." The monetary awards support Dr. Grandgenett's exploration of integrase, a protein he and his colleagues at Saint Louis University discovered in 1978. Integrase is one of three HIV proteins crucial to the infection's survival. The first protein, reverse transcriptase, converts the ribonucleic acid (RNA) in ...Researchers discover new route to high blood pressure
...nd blood volume and raise blood pressure. Further exploration of the new blood-pressure-regulating pathway revealed by the WNK1 and WNK4 mutations could lead to new anti-hypertensive drugs, said Lifton. Intriguingly, he said, the WNK4 gene maps to the same region as the gene linked to blood pressure regulation ...APS promotes innovative science teaching practices with "Frontiers in Physiology"
...ong retreat focused on laboratory research and the exploration of innovative and effective science teaching metho.... submissive behavior in Siamese Fighting Fish, an exploration of factors that affect blood flow and bloodpressure in humans and Project WISE, an online effort to ...... hull-ice rating, features that facilitate glacial exploration and enable the ship to approach the coastline in very shallow bays. Using Zodiacs, the small inflatable landing craft developed by Jacques Cousteau, participants will explore in detail otherwise inaccessible islands, coves and natural habitats. Eq...Scientists share multidisciplinary discoveries at 'Earth System Processes'
...ment of Geosciences at Princeton, will discuss the exploration for a deep, hot microbial biosphere in deep gold mines in South Africa. Malcolm Walter, Australian Centre for Astrobiology at Macquariue University, will talk about a variety of fossil biosignatures in billion-year-old-plus deep-sea vent deposits in...LSU researcher finds new petroleum method, receives patent
...'s approach minimizes problems associated with oil exploration and production because it utilizes contemporary bi...d in the process, no ecosystems are compromised by exploration and drilling activities, and no net increase of atmospheric greenhouse gases is involved in the proc...First chapter of Earth's "biological record" documented from space
...ds reveal about Earth's past. "This is a period of exploration for us," said lead author Michael Behrenfeld, an oceanographer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD. "We've never been able to see the Earth this way before." The study, which appears this week in the journal Science, is based on the ...... the laboratory, and the NIGMS grant makes further exploration possible. "Compstatin has great potential as a complement inhibitor,"said Mark Tykocinski, MD, Chair of Penns Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine. "Developing complement inhibitors with therapeutic potential has been a long-standing goa...Genome project opens the book on human evolution
...nes and their regulatory sequences. "In this first exploration of the human genome data, we addressed questions interesting to molecular evolution that could be answered in some detail in a short time frame," said Wen-Hsiung Li , George Wells Beadle Distinguished Service Professor in the department of ecology ...Pauling Centenary to recognize scientist, humanitarian
...pment of X-ray and electron diffraction opened the exploration of many inorganic compounds, resulting in publication of the structures of hundreds of substances."His later work addressed organic substances and led to the eventual discovery of the structure of proteins critical to cellular and life functions. Thi...Clemson hosts workshop in frontier-science field of biological computation
...s dangerous to humans such as space or ocean-floor exploration or next-generation biosensors better able to detect toxins in the environment. In biological computation research, scientists attempt to unlock the mystery of how cells encode and pass information inside the cell and between cells, and then bring th...Tipsheet: Journals of the American Society for Microbiology
...apeutic potential," say the researchers. "Further exploration of the potential of garlic powder and garlic oil in enteric disease control appears warranted." (Z.M. Ross, E.A O'Gara, D.J. Hill, H.V. Sleightholme and D.J. Maslin. 2001. Antimicrobial properties of garlic oil against human enteric bacteria: Eval...Geological Society of America: Annual Meeting 2000
... Rationales for human return to the Moon and human exploration of Mars. Note: The session will conclude with ro...ff, Indiana Univ., Evolution, development, and the exploration of the history of life. Eric Davidson, California Institute of Technology, Bilaterian evolution: Th......ial." Rouse believes this is the first time such exploration has been conducted in the Gulf of Mexico. He foresees some information exchange with the University of California at Santa Barbara but said there is a completely different population of organisms in the warm waters of the Gulf than in the colder Pac...Unearthing the secrets of human skeletal remains
...d pigs at various sites to test the latest mineral exploration technologies from around the world, including ground-penetrating radar and 3D laser imaging devices. "Ground-penetrating radar has become very popular recently but it has its limitations, with tree roots being virtually undistinguishable from skele...Compound that switches off appetite in mice discovered by Hopkins scientists
...ite." The C75 work comes out of the team's 14-year exploration of the abnormal fat metabolism that exists in many cancer cells. "Breast, prostate and cancer cells, for example, make a lot of fat. They have, correspondingly, a lot of constructive enzymes such as FAS," says Kuhajda. C75 was one of the chemicals...DNA details suggest how human chromosomes break, rearrange and cause a genetic disease
...t The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia continue exploration of chromosome 22 Philadelphia, Pa. -- Chromosome 22, one of the smallest human chromosomes, is known to be a hot spot for disease, including heart defects, leukemias and schizophrenia. Genetics researchers at The Children's Hospital of Philadel...NASA Materials Conference Features Science Results, Experts on Technologies for Exploration
...arth and seeking resources in space to fuel future exploration will be featured at NASA's Microgravity Materials ...of materials on the Moon and Mars to advance space exploration -- called in-situ resource utilization. This research focuses on "living off the land'' by using lun...