UW Smogmobile Offers Cleaner, Safer Alternative To Gas Or Electric Cars
...converted mail truck. The prototype musters only a fifth of a mile per gallon using the inefficient winch motor. But Hertzberg is seeking a follow-on grant to design a more efficient motor that could achieve two to three miles per gallon in an optimally designed vehicle. This would enable the smogmobile, u...Pharmaceuticals Manufactured In Insect Larvae
... three days. Just prior to the fourth day, or the fifth larval stage, the proteins being grown in the bug are ready for harvest. Hughes says the bug never reaches pupation, and if the protein is not harvested from the caterpillar during this crucial larval stage, the proteins are destroyed. Farming the ...Calcium Potentiates The Effect Of Estrogen And Calcitonin And Bone Mass
...um) with risk of serious bone fractureafflicts one fifth of all postmenopausal white women in the United States.This review of 20 published trials shows that bone health is best preservedin postmenopausal women who use a combination of estrogen replacement and atleast 1200 mg calcium daily, rather than ei...Growth Factors Shown To Increase Vitamin C In The Immune System
...g was named the nation's bestcancer center for the fifth consecutive year by U.S.News and World Report . Links: Blood U.S. Newsand World Report...Fruits And Vegetables Protect Lungs
...nic bronchitis, asthma and emphysema. COPD is the fifth leading cause of death in the United States, affecting 5 million people over age 55 and contributing to about 2 million hospitalizations a year. Cigarette smoking is the principal risk factor for COPD, say the researchers, yet only 15 percent of ciga...Scientists Use Gene Therapy To Correct Deafness In Mice
...tion of a deafness-relatedgenetic mutation and the fifth time that identification of a deafness gene inmice helped scientists find a similar gene in humans---according to Sally A.Camper, associate professor of human genetics in the U-M Medical School, whodirected the research. "There are at least 12 othe...Ecological Consequences Of Jasmonate-Induced Responses For Plants In Native Populations
...rbivory is typically much higher (345 pairs). A fifth population of 50 pairs was created in a nearby field-plantation where plants were protected from herbivores with fencing and pyrethrin insecticide applications. The amount of jasmonate required to add to the roots of plants in order to el...Blindness Linked To The Cytoskeleton?
...residing on the X chromosome. Approximately one fifth of the X-chromosomal cases is caused by mutations within the gene identified by Uwe Schwahn and colleagues from the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin (Dahlem). X-linked RP is considered one of the most severe forms in ...UCSF Study Finds No Association Between Hair Dye And Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
...ucts and risk fornon-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL), the fifth most common cancer in the United Statesamong both women and men. The results of the study will be published in the December 1 issue of theAmerican Journal of Public Health. "These are wonderfully negative results," said Elizabeth Holly, Ph.D., MPH, U......nants." Namedin honor of Walter Curran Mendenhall, fifth director of the USGS, the MendenhallSeminar Series seeks to expand communication among various scientificdisciplines by giving premier USGS researchers the opportunity to lecturenationwide to a variety of audiences. Meade has spoken in Menlo Park, Ca...Fat In Spite Of Hard Farm Work - Tracking Down Obesity
Every second German is overweight. And every fifth German exceeds his normalweight by even more than 20%; this is what the medical profession refers to aspathological obesity or adiposity. Obesity is the cause of many sequellae suchas hypertension, diabetes and cancer. So far little has been known ab...A Fifth Of Asian Children Deficient In 'Sunshine'
Vitamin D
Model Polymers Reveal New Clues to Protein Folding
...ereare five links in the chain, that's five to the fifth ways the chain could fold,3,125 possibilities. If there are a hundred links in the chain-not unusual for aprotein-there would be something like 10 to the 30th possibilities. If you triedthem randomly, even a trillion times a second, it would take lon...UCSD And NIH Researchers Isolate Candidates For Genetic Basis Of Human Taste
... on the back of the tongue(Taste buds respond to a fifth taste, umami, which is a reaction to the commonfood additive monosodium glutamate). "We began a systematic search for the molecular basis of taste several years agoand it is very gratifying to find receptors that seem to be involved in thisprocess,"...... of chinchillas with leupeptinfor 14 days. On the fifth day, some of the animals were exposed to noise, at100 decibels or 105 decibels. The left ears of all animals served as controls. Results from the noise exposure study showed massive loss of hair cells in theears not treated with leupeptin, while onl...The Origins Of Hereditary Breast Cancer -- Studies With Knock-Out Mice Reveal Underlying Mechanisms
...s been inactivated (knocked-out) specifically. One fifth of the mice that had their BRCA-1 gene removed from the mammary glandcells developed a tumour within one year. The scientists noted that anothergene, the p53 gene, had also become altered in these tumours. The p53 gene hasbeen known for some time to ...Purdue Students Win $4,500 For Vegetarian Gelatin Dessert
.... The students created the new product for the fifth annual "Innovative Usesfor Soybeans Contest," which was sponsored by the Purdue Agronomy Department andthe Indiana Soybean Board. The two received $4,500 for their effort. Gelatin is typically made from the animal protein collagen, which isextrac...UCSF-Led Team Offers New Insight Into Neurological Basis Of Dyslexia
...ffered in frequency and that occurred a tenth or a fifth of a second apart. They were then asked to identify the sounds and to replay the sequence in whichthey were presented. Their brain activity was simultaneously recorded usingmagnetoencephalographic brain imaging, which measures magnetic fieldfluctuat...Ecotourism: Penguins can get used to people
...otearea. "Tourist trail" penguins displayed only a fifth as many head turns as"remote" penguins (40 vs. about 200 head turns). Moreover, "tourist trail"penguins' corticosterone levels were only a third as high as those of "remote"penguins. This shows that "tourist trail" penguins have gotten used to people......st serious of all gynecological cancers. It isthe fifth most common cancer among women, accounting for 4 percent of allcancers in women. According to the American Cancer Society, about 25,200 newcases of ovarian cancer will be diagnosed in the United States in 1999, andabout 14,500 women will die from it...