Tiny collars fitted on youngest-ever tiger cubs
...sian colleagues from the Sikhote-Alin Reserve have fitted three wild Siberian tiger cubs under six months ol...enetic and disease analysis, Goodrich and his team fitted them with radio collars and returned them to their den. The cubs represent the third generation of ...New milestones on the path to conquering HIV drug resistance (AIDS)
...oliferate. These building blocks or substrates are fitted together to create new copies of the viral genetic information. Arnold's team, including scientists from Gilead Sciences and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as well as Rutgers Chemistry Professor Roger Jones, conclude that tenofovir on the ......t, RI, a mobile autonomous research vehicle (MARV) fitted with an agile "brain-based" controller will attempt to smoothly and quietly maneuver itself in and out of a docking tube. This tricky feat could be critical to future missions in which UUVs might carry out missions too dangerous for humans. ONR proje......s were rounded up, each was weighed, measured, and fitted with a plastic numbered tag that will allow scientists to identify individuals, before being released. Blood samples were taken from 70 of the largest chicks to record baseline data on their health. For the past three years, WCS has participated in ...Siberian tiger rescued from poacher's snare
...the tiger was given a clean bill of health, it was fitted with a radio collar, where it will be tracked by WCS scientists as part of a long-term study to better understand and ultimately protect these magnificent big cats. "The release went well," said WCS scientist John Goodrich, who participated in the an...University of Delaware lays keel for new research vessel
...t. "When these modules are completed, they will be fitted together like a huge jigsaw puzzle, and the ship will take shape," Longdale said. Once the vessel is completed in the autumn of 2005, it will be delivered to the East Coast aboard a larger commercial ship equipped with cradles for transporting other ...B2MIN/6 scientists wait for Beagle 2 to call home
... that the 250 ft (76 m) Lovell Telescope, recently fitted with a highly sensitive receiver, would be able to pick up the outgoing call from the Mars lander between 19.00 GMT and midnight last night. An attempt to listen out for Beagle's call home by the Westerbork telescope array in the Netherlands was unfo...Brookhaven Lab develops 'ThraxVac' to clean up anthrax
...both of these technologies, a disposable filter is fitted with its own enclosed low-level polonium-210 source that emits alpha particles to continuously kill collected spores. All collected spores would be dead when the filter is discarded. Using alpha particles for commercial processes is not new to indust...University of Toronto professor turns hemp into auto parts
...Mohini Sain has his way, cars of the future may be fitted with tough, durable and completely biodegradable bumpers made of hemp. Sain, a professor in the University of Toronto's Faculty of Forestry and Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, creates biocomposites from processed plant fibre...Nasal contribution to breathing with exercise: The effect of race and gender
...m 060% PWCmax for each subject). Each subject was fitted with a nasal mask similar to that used in pulmonary sleep laboratories and modified to allow insertion of a mass flowmeter. Total ventilation ( E) was determined by respiratory inductance plethysmography (calibrated by spirometry). Bands were fixed ...Cold-climate creatures may be the ultimate survivors of global warming, study finds
...tillman explained. Once acclimated, each crab was fitted with electrodes to allow monitoring of cardiac activity. The animal then was placed in an experimental chamber where the temperature was either raised or lowered 0.1 C every minute until its heart stopped beating a point known as the "upper thermal ...Is there an unexpected price for late night high tech excitement?
...performing an exciting video display terminal task fitted with a bright display suppresses the nocturnal changes in melatonin concentration and other elements of our biological clocks. In other words, playing an exciting video game at night with a bright display backlight might just be the physiological ca...Highway deaths highest for males Male urban squirrels, that is
...r laboratory for study. They trapped 20 squirrels, fitted each with a miniature collar equipped with a battery-powered transmitter, and released each squirrel within 15 minutes of capture. The radio-collared squirrels were monitored five to seven times a week by undergraduate and graduate students using ho...Unique fleet of underwater vehicles to gather elusive environmental data
...s and Controls Laboratory at Virginia Tech will be fitted with sensors for monitoring dissolved oxygen and other environmental parameters, including conductivity, salinity, temperature, and depth. When on the surface, the AUVs will use geographical positioning system (GPS) for precise navigation. The AUVs ...Neanderthals used both hands to kill
... spear - ratherthan throwing one - the researchers fitted an aluminium pole with two setsof sensors, one at the front and another at the back. They then askedstudent volunteers to thrust the pole into a pad, and measured the forcesthat this generated (Journal of Archaeological Science, vol 30, p 103). On a...A new twist on an age-old problem: Making knee replacements last
...ess the model's predictions. "Just as suits can be fitted to business executives, orthopedic surgeries will be custom tailored to the patient," Fregly said. Fregly's group also is seeking to improve the success of a surgical procedure called tibial osteotomy, which involves realigning one of the lower leg ...Wrong proteins targeted in battle against cancer?
...osses "active sites" or pockets that can be easily fitted with small inhibitory drugs. Instead, drugs designed against transcription factors would have to target protein-protein interactions - which, because of their larger surface areas, are much harder to disrupt. Still, Darnell argues that, despite inh...Molecular architecture and action of a proton pump
...a homology model of the proton pump. The model was fitted to the lower-resolution map determined by electron crystallography (fig.1). This revealed that the P-type ion pumps are surprisingly dynamic. The part which binds ATP rotates by more than 70 during the ion pumping cycle, enabling the release of energ...Tips from the Journals of the American Society for Microbiology
...ological niche which O. formigenes may be uniquely fitted to occupy. Studies with colonized and noncolonized individuals of different ages and health status will advance our understanding of oxalate metabolism in the human gastrointestinal tract, and may ultimately provide practical approaches for the prev...National Institutes of Health green lights additional research into new breast imaging system
... while the patient lies face down on an exam table fitted with a special ring housing. Four laser rings encircle and lightly touch the breast. A one-ring prototype has already been through phase-one clinical trials at Greenville Hospital System....