Researchers Use Hydrated Lime To Reduce Toxic Selenium Emissions
...emove sulfur dioxide from flue gas.But this is the first time studies have shown that hydrated limechemical...s withthe selenium to create calcium selenite, the first time this reactionhas been documented," Fan said. "The compound is thencaptured by the dry sorbent a...Water Recycling Project Tested in Turkey Plant
...ined MarkBaldwin of AWPI. When the water makes its first entry into the system, itmust be chilled to 34 degrees Fahrenheit. Depending on the outdoor air temperature,the water temperature could initially be from the lower 50s to the 70s,thus requiring a major expenditure of energy to cool the incoming water...Core Spins Faster Than Earth, Scientists Find
...cians,"Dr. Richards said in an interview. "For the first time, wehave a hard piece of observational evidence, an actual measurement,of what's happening down there." Thediscovery of such a fundamental property will advance planetaryunderstanding, the scientists said. It will spark new researchto explain the...Florida Researchers Discover Gene For Fatal Childhood Disease
...lable." Researchers identified the gene by first mapping its location in micewith Chediak-Higashi syndrome, sifting through piece after piece of DNA todetermine which gene was mutated. They then isolated it in people with thedisease. The two-year effort was funded by the National Institutes...Photosystem I -- An Intermediate Step -- May Not Be Necessary For Plants
...ry; I didn't believe any of this stuff when it was first reported. I thought it was impossible, but cooper...s an analogy, he describes that when the laser was first discovered, no one had a clue that it could be used for reading CD-ROM disks or making the grocery s...Humble Pocket Gophers Shed Light On The Genetic Fortitude Of Cheetahs
...njayan and Kevin Crooks used pocket gophers in the first attempt to repeat the 1985 experiment on wild animals. Just as with the cheetahs, gophers in populations with little genetic variation accepted skin grafts from one another. However, gophers from a population with higher genetic diversity rejected sk...Protein Glitch May Be Early Problem In Inherited Alzheimer's
Johns Hopkins scientists have assembled the first clues to the behavior of presenilin, a protein li...heimer's disease (FAD) cases, cases where symptoms first appear in patients in their late 20s to the their late 50s. Because presenilin is present only ...Nitric Oxide May Hold Key To First Treatment For Deadly Form Of Malaria, Duke Scientists Report
... down into harmless compounds.Thisis a bacterium's first line of defense. If too much SNO gets in,...gs might be developed, said Hausladen, the study's first author. Thesedrugs could plug up the transcription factor, known as OxyR, preventingit from being sw...Genetic Alterations Linked To Cancer In Some Blood Samples
...n this study was developed by Sidransky's team and first used to detect cancer cells in urine. The test us...policy, cannot be traded until two years after the first commercial sales of the products related to this research. Dr. Sidransky also serves as a member of...Ocean Sediments Contain Record of Past Vegetation Fires in Africa
...ave found in their research on ocean sediments the first detailed marine record of late Pleistocene era fires on land. Their paper, "Late Pleistocene charcoal in tropical Atlantic deep-sea sediments: Climatic and geochemical significance," appears in the September issue of the journal GEOLOGY. "...Nitric Oxide Found To Control Cells By Turning On Genes; Suggests New Role In Health And Disease
... down into harmless compounds.Thisis a bacterium's first line of defense. If too much SNO gets in,...gs might be developed, said Hausladen, the study's first author. Thesedrugs could plug up the transcription factor, known as OxyR, preventingit from being sw...Asian Beetle, New In This Country, Threatens Brooklyn's Shade Trees
...scientists have confirmed what they believe is the first known infestation of an Asian longhorned beetle, A...ea and the southern sections of China, this is the first time this beetle has been seen outside of Asia, said E. Richard Hoebeke, Cornell senior extension as...Duke Primate Center Sets October Expedition To Find 'Juliet'
... whowill search the jungle for the animals. Romeo first came to the Primate Center in fall 1993, along with his motherTitania and another unrelated male Oberon. The three animals were the firstdiademed sifakas ever brought into captivity outside Madagascar. Oberon arrived at the center in poor physical s...Harvard, Duke Researchers Discover 'Off-switch' Inside Human Cells
...rocess of propagatingnerve impulses. "This is the first example of a class of molecules that can turn offa G protein," said Patrick Casey, associate professor of molecularcancer biology at the Duke cancer center, and an author of the Nature paper."Essentially all other routes to desensitization, all other...Duke Ecologist Says Logging Is Creating 'Mahogany Deserts'
...ome a specialiston American mahogany ecology since first exploring the subject during 1987-92for her doctor...s been commercially prized for 500 years. For the first 400 years, woodsmen simply cut the trees down with littlethought to replenishing the supply, she say...Major Plant Genome Research Project Underway
Scientists will soon have access to the first complete genome sequence of a flowering plant. Th...e of about 200 genes per month, and to develop the first complete gene sequence map of a higher plant. The three-year awards total approximately $12 million......e brain. The researchers were able to show for the first time that structures higher up in the brain's chain of command directly control the more abstract information, while the component bits are managed by lower brain centers. The research is reported in today's issue of the journal Science . Daniel Ma...PET Project Helps Reduce Pollution Threat From Heavy Metals
...e. There are two key components to the system. The first is a bedof oxide-coated sand which attracts and holds onto heavy metalsin the storm runoff. Lab-scale experiments demonstrated thespecial sand can dramatically reduce the concentrations ofpollutants such as lead, cadmium, copper and zinc. This compon...Component In Soy Products May Be Substitute For Estrogen Treatment
...soy protein's healthbenefits. The new study is the first to focus on postmenopausal women. Potter's team incorporated 40 grams of isolated soy protein into baked goodsand drinks used in the women's daily low-fat, low-cholesterol diets. Inaddition to a control group, one group ate soy protein with a standa...Researchers Identify A New Cellular Structure: The "Dumposome"
...nsects, and fish, but not humans. But Pdd1p is the first protein to be linked to this kind of DNA removal, and thedumposome is the first cellular component biologists have implicated in DNA elimination. Scientists had expected thatthe pr...