Geologist Finds Evidence Supporting Mysterious Ancient Sea
...eters wide..about 600 miles." More important, Huff finds no evidence that North and SouthAmerica were ever side by side. He explains the fossilsimilarities, using evidence collected by UC geology graduatestudent Maria Prokopenko. The evidence indicates part of NorthAmerica broke away and eventually reassem...Widespread Genus Of Monkeys Gives Up Genealogical Secrets To Columbia Researchers
... of Morocco andAlgeria from the Asian macaques and finds no particular genetic affinity of theAsian long-tailed macaques with other members of a species group that bears itsname. The researchers advocate abolishing that species group as aclassification. The study of all 19 living macaque species ...Family Ties To Sudden Cardiac Arrest; Study Finds Risk Goes Up 50 Percent
...shington, Seattle. However, the study also finds that an individual's geneticsusceptibility to sudden cardiac arrest is not explained just by suchtraditional heart disease risk factors as diabetes, high blood pressure and highcholesterol. Like heart disease, these risk factors tend to run in famil...Novel Method Of Gene Replacement Reported By University Of Washington Researchers
... Russell uses a typewriter analogy: the new method finds thetypographical error, whites it out and types in the proper sequence in the rightplace. "If you had a 'typo' in a financial statement, say a missing zero, you'dwant to fix in the right place, not randomly anywhere in the statement," heexpla...New Medication Means New Choices For Families Dealing With Alzheimers Disease
... A new study from Penn State's College of Medicine finds thatwhen medication for Alzheimer's disease is offered to all patients, familymembers of patients in the early stages of Alzheimer's are the most likely toaccept available treatment. "When dealing with this terrible disease, families are fac...The Shape Of Life: How Does The Computer "Know" When It Sees It?
... Like evolution, Noever's AI technology finds thefittest candidates. "Before putting the engineer's precision to the finalcandidate, we first let the computer go to work for us" said Noever. But computers aren't doing......r size. "Ours is the first report which finds that measuring levels of theseproteins is as accurate as removing lymph nodes to measure disease progressionand predict patient outcome," said Jennifer Rubin Grandis, M.D., principalinvestigator on the study, director of the Head and Neck Cancer Prog...DFG To Set Up 14 New Collaborative Research Centres
...an plants with a weak growth. The individual plant finds itself in a dilemma:Internal resource allocation favours either growth processes and efficient competition withneighbouring plants or resistance to parasites. In the collaborative research centre "Growth orresistance to parasites? Competition for res...Largest Generation Of Adolescents Faces Reproductive Health Risks
... in Chile,Barbados, Guatemala, and Mexico, Buvinic finds that poor adolescent mothers workmore and earn less than do other mothers, and the timing of their childbearingis directly related to their children's nutritional status. Mayra Buvinic is Chief, Social Development Division, Inter-American Developmen...International Research Team Announces Discovery Of Two Species Of Feathered Dinosaurs
... the origin of birds. Numerous significant fossil finds in thepast decade, including the discoveries announced this week, have causedscientists to dramatically revise their view of the stages in the evolution ofbirds and the origin of flight. One of the many specimens that has contributed to this new unde...Putting Down Your Roots: How Plants Know To Do It
...rection of growth, curving downward again until it finds itsway into the earth. Scientists have known that during root growth, the redistribution of aplant hormone called indole acetic acid (IAA) to the root tip is responsible forgravitropism. When the root tip is cut off, the plant no longer is a...How A Common Protein Becomes A Cancer Killer
...dy by a University of Wisconsin-Madison biochemist finds that a "cousin"of that frog protein found in mammals has the same cancer-fighting potential. Biochemist Ron Raines reports in the Sept. 1 Proceedings of the National Academyof Sciences that ribonuclease A - a digestive protein made by the pancreas -c...New Evidence From Dinosaur Footsteps Show Massive Herds Once Roamed Northern Alaska
...ive evidence," Gangloff said. These new dinosaur finds combined with discoveries near Ocean Point establish Alaska as thepremier high latitude dinosaur region of the world. After the material has been thoroughly documented,a part of the collection will be exhibited at the University of Alaska Museum in F...School Breakfast Participation Leads To Academic, Psychosocial Improvements
...ember Archives of Pediatric andAdolescent Medicine finds that children who increase their participation inschool breakfast programs tend to show improvement on a wide range of measuresof social and academic functioning. Conducted in public schools in Philadelphia and Baltimore, the study found thatincrea......er the pathophysiology of Niemann-Pickdisease, and finds that a component of the myelin sheath is involved in diseasepathogenesis. The other group, a collaboration between people at the NHGRI, inFinland and in Switzerland has combined microarray technology with FISH toexamine the tissues of patients with ...New Phylloxera Strain Poses Threat Primarily To Grape Nurseries
...ke the typicalCalifornia strains of the pest. The finds thus far have all been on the leavesof rootstock varieties. To the relief of the grape growing community, however,the pest does not appear to have an affinity for vinifera varieties such asmerlot, chardonnay and cabernet sauvignon. Although ...Jefferson Scientists Use Gene Repair Technique To Change Albino Mice Cells To Black
...two strands of DNA that don't seem insync. When it finds a mismatch, it replaces one of the chemical bases with onethat fits better. The scientists, then, can use this natural repair system tocorrect a bad mutation. The gene-repair technique is far from perfected, Dr. Yoon says. "Muchmore research ...First Complete Fossil Of Fierce Prehistoric Predator Found In South Africa
...covery as one of the most importantpaleantological finds in South Africa this century. Skulls are the most commongorgon fossil discovery, Ward said. Torso bones typically have been scattered,perhaps by scavengers after the animal's death. The discovery is considered major because in more than 150 years of ...From Germany To The Wild West: Geologists Hunt For Evidence Of Ancient Crinoid
...taceous about85 million years ago. Classic fossil finds include several table-sized slabswith hundreds of organisms intertwined in an odd spoke-like pattern. Typically,marine fossils are preserved lined up in parallel rows when a storm or currentssmother them in sediment. The spoke-like pattern is uniqu...