Second Breast Cancer Gene Located
... With the help of physicians and scientists in five countries, Futreal andStratton studied a series of families with multiple cases of early-onsetbreast cancer that did not have mutations in BRCA1. Using DNA from these families, they were able to track the gene to a regionon chromosome 13. A...Race Plus Roaches: A Breathtaking Link
...city are hospitalized three times as often and die five times more often from asthma than those of other races. The study included 66 boys and 21 girls, 48 Caucasian and 39 African-American children from 37 urban and 50 suburban homes. All had moderate to severe allergic asthma. The researchers hunted ...Researchers Use Hydrated Lime To Reduce Toxic Selenium Emissions
...to 600 degrees Celsius, and able to "capture"up to five percent of its weight in selenium. At higher temperatures,calcium selenite is thermally unstable, which reduces the efficiencyof selenium capture. The scientists compensated for this by injecting the dry sorbentfurther away from the firing point in a...Hawaiian Whales Show 'No Overt Response' To Sounds Of ATOC Simulation
...ion speaker's decibel level was "ramped up" over five minutes to allow animals a chance to move away. But if any Hawaiian whales responded to the sound, their reactions were not noted by shore-based observers in the field. The observers charted swimming courses of whale pods during sound transmis...Low-Protein Diet May Reverse Kidney Disease
... disappeared during the next three to 15 months in five participants, who started the study before kidney ...ilure became severe, the results show. Four of the five people have resumed normal or nearly normal diets and have remained in remission or near remission f...Study Shows Songbirds Switch From Bugs To Berries To Fuel Fall Migration
... Parrish also conducted feeding experiments with five species of migratingbirds to test the hypothesis that the diet shift to fruit aided birds' abilityto gain mass. These experiments demonstrated that a mixed diet of fruit andinsects led to a significantly greater weight gain for birds than did astrict...Duke Primate Center Sets October Expedition To Find 'Juliet'
... disease and natural enemies, theycan produce from five to 10 times more offspring that survive to adulthoodthan wild animals normally can." The outlook for diademed sifakas in the wild is especially grim, becauselogging operations in the Madagascar jungles where they live are rapidlydepleting their habi...Gene Discovery Could Overcome Aluminum Barrier To Higher Wheat Yields Worldwide
...aluminum tolerant than existing varieties in about five years," Gustafson said. That would offer potentially higher yields for a hungry world, he added. World population, now 5.8 billion, may grow to more than 9 billion by the year 2046, according to estimates by the U.S. Bureau of the Census. Other USDA...'Juliet' Evades Primate Center Expedition
... are under. "Although we saw groups of animals on five of our eight days in theforest, the instant they saw us, they would run away," Glander said."We also found a lot of lemur traps and extensive cutting of trees."Glander said his observations supported the accuracy of estimates that thediademed sifaka ...Behemoth Animals May Follow Same Extinction Patterns
...enn Statepaleontologist. "If we look at the last five million years before extinction for bothdinosaurs and proboscideans, we find a surprisingly similar pattern of extinction,"says Dr. Roger J. Cuffey, professor of geosciences. The Proboscideans -- mammoths, mastodons, stegodons and elephants -- aren...NCAR Scientists Trek To Africa For Biosphere-Atmosphere Chemistry Study
..." says Klinger. On hand for the field work will be five NCAR scientists and technicians, along with four scientists from the University of Brazzaville and collaborators from Paul Sabatier University, the California Institute of Technology, Germany's Max-Planck Institute, and the New York-based Wildlife Co...Researchers Develop Model Using Birds As Indicator Of Wetlands Health
...ncinnati area. Then, hetracked bird occurrences in five Indiana and Ohio wetlands aswell as three Cincinnati parks for a dry land comparison. Colemanused his own observations as well as the records of well-knownbirders. With Styer's help, the two then developed a mathematicalformula which can be used to e...Urbanized Watersheds More Sensitive To Climate Change
...t 50 years. In each area, De Walle is comparing five urban watersheds with five rural watersheds. Analysis of data for the northeastern sector is complete. "It is obvious that ...Selenium Supplements Can Reduce Cancer Rates
...oard and in the Pacific Northwest -- ingest two to five times more than citizens of New Zealand and 10 to 20 times more than people living in some areas of China. Selenium blood levels vary among populations largely because of wide differences in soil, agronomic practices, food availability and preferenc...Researchers Corral Millions Of Microscopic Membranes
...tern of microscopic squares. Each square was about five microns (about five thousandths of a millimeter) on a side. Its surface was treated to be chemically compatible with the...Ten Years of Progress For Superfund Basic Research Program
...incinnati researchers thatspans three colleges and five departments will report theirprogress in addressing some of the nation's most troublingpollution problems during a <AHREF="http://www.niehs.nih.gov/sbrp/97conf/">specialconference Feb. 24-26 inChapel Hill, North Carolina. The National Instit...Pets Provide Physiological Benefits For Women Living Alone
...onitor recorded cardiovascular measurements every five minutes for 40 minutes at each session. Researchers were not in the room, but pet-owners had their pets with them. Results showed that blood pressure of pet-owners was lower than that of non-pet-owners in both age groups. Among elderly wom...Erodible plastic microspheres could be effective oral drug delivery system
...all intestine andproduced an active protein within five days. Moreover, use of the microspheres greatly enhanced the drugs' availabilityin the bloodstream. For example, the increase in activity of dicumarol could beexplained by intestinal uptake of up to 47 percent of the microspheres afterfeeding. Usua...Purdue Researchers Prod Plants To Clean Up Pollution
... and contaminated soils. "Phytoremediation is only five or 10 years old," says Purdue horticulture Professor Peter Goldsbrough, "but there's a lot of hope that eventually plants can be used to restore sites and remove pollutants at a fairly low cost." Initial commercial efforts at phytoremediation have be......pups survived from last year's litters, so despite five deaths during the year, the total number of wolves increased by two," he says. "The East Pack produced two young, the Middle Pack successfully raised three pups, and a lone pair of wolves had two pups; only the West Pack failed to produce any young."...