Environmental Reform: The Next Generation Project
...ion and the McKnight Foundation. A reception will follow the workshop from 5:30 to 7 p.m. in the Yale Law School faculty lounge. For more information, contact project director Marian Chertow, or project administrator Janet Testa at 432-6197, e-mail jtesta@minerva.cis.yale.edu...Green Glow: Not Only For Halloween
... tool used to illuminate the workings of genes and follow the wanderings of protein molecules inside a living cell. The source of the green glow is a unique protein, called green fluorescent protein (GFP), found in a Pacific Northwest jellyfish. National Science Foundation-supported biologists Jame...Optical Microscopy Shines Light On Biology
... regulate the tip position above a specimen and to follow contours in its surface. "With the straight tip, the problem is that when you start going through water, the water itself reduces the vibration of the tip," Dunn said. "With our tips, we vibrate vertically with respect to the sample so you don't get ...Hot 'Lanta: NASA, School Kids Team To Study How Trees Help Cities Keep Their Cool
...hrough ATLAS and other instruments, is that cities follow this rule to the extreme. Asphalt parkinglots and roofs soak up virtually all of the radiation that falls on them and reradiate it as heat. The NASA Lear 23 will carry ATLAS plus a standard 9x9-inch aerial mapping camera taking pictures on false col...Researchers Find Association Between Alzheimer's Gene And Mental Impairment After Cardiac Surgery
...and the APOE variant. Newman andcolleagues plan to follow heart patients for five years to determine howtheir cognitive status changes. Joining Newman in the study were Dr. Barbara Tardiff, Ann Saunders, Ph.D.,Dr. Warren Strittmatter, James Blumenthal, Ph.D., William White, Narda Croughwell,Dr. Duane Davis...Purdue Researchers Track Oil Spill's Effects On Sea Otters
... significant comprehensive effort has been made to follow the impact such a disaster has on an entire ecosystem, including predators, prey and the environment," Rebar says. Rebar, who was asked by the Justice Department to serve as an expert witness before the Exxon case was settled out of court, says there......eir mothers. He wrote that male and femalechildren follow the same developmental schedule. Aristotle, forexample, wrote that males, with their "greater heat," areperfected faster than the female and the male fetus achievedmotion and formation of the body around 40 days, while femalesquickened and achieved f...Wake Forest University Study Takes Students In Flight With The Albatross
...oat-based observations. But boats are tooslow to follow the birds as they fly, and airplanes are too fast and have to be refueled too often to keep pace with foraging trips that can last from days to weeks. From boats, biologists also cannot determine the age or sex of the birds beingobserved or whether ...Detective Work Uncovers New Tick-Borne Disease In North Carolina And The Southeast
...mpared to the Lyme diseaserash. And they seemed to follow the bite of the Star tick, which has neverbeen associated with Lyme disease. And none of the 14 campers with the rashshowed any laboratory evidence of infection with the spirochete that causesLyme disease. But she says it raises more questions than ...Ant Pheromone May Aid Alzheimer's Patients
... sensethe pheromone, they become excited enough to follow the trail back to the prey-- perhaps a worm or gru...round, but not asingle ant was able to proceed and follow any of the continuation trails." "As we continue to investigate the roles of chemicals in the lives...Jefferson Researchers Find Correlation Between Gene And Endometrial Cancer
...ry effort should be attempted. "We need to follow large groups of patients and randomize them, including patients who have had chemotherapy and/or radiation either pre- or post-operatively. [The findings] may allow physicians to intervene in a more appropriate manner." He explains t...New Dating Technique May Revise Geologic Time Scale
... glaucony formationis going on, which allows us to follow the ups and downs of sea level," saysPatrick Smith, another investigator from the department of physics at U of T."Each grain is a different clock." This new knowledge has applications in the oil exploration industrysince the sea level condit...Prostate Cancer Switch May Yield Map Of Cancer Machinery, Targets For Drugs
...ther. The researchers' next aim will be to follow this initial clue tounderstand how the RNA switch itself is controlled, and ultimately to use thisinformation to broadly map the deadly machinery of prostate cancer. "While we think this switch has tremendous physiological consequences,b...Chromosomal Abnormalities Key For Prediting Leukemia Outcome
...BUS, Ohio -- One of the longest running studies to follow leukemiapatients has confirmed that chromosomal abnormalities seen in many of thesepatients can help determine treatment and predict the likelihood of cure. The study is a 15-year follow-up of 628 patients with acute myeloidleukemia (AML). Thi......, asindicated by the genetic markers and long term follow up studies to identifypatients that go on to have ... Serial scans are used to follow the progressive spreading of the diseasethroughout an increasing number of structures within the bra......r engineers they will find her method difficult to follow and thus her conclusions won't receive the recognition they deserve." For more information, contact Kramer in Seattle at (206) 286-6698 or at pakramer@u.washington.edu . She may be reached Wednesday and Thursday in Salt Lake City at the Hilton at...Spinal Cord Injury Treatment May Improve With New Findings On Nervous System Damage
...ey do in the brain." To mimic the conditions that follow stroke, Goldberg and McDonald transientlydeprived cultured oligodendrocytes of oxygen and glucose. The treatment causedwidespread oligodendrocyte death, which again was attenuated by an AMPAantagonist. Damage to the living brain To see what happens...Infant Dependency Drives Menopause, NSF-Supported Researcher Reports
...sdivision of environmental biology. "Studies that follow individuals throughouttheir lifetimes and that determine numbers of offspring they leave behind arecrucial to finding answers to questions such as why there is menopause." The results suggest that "there's no evolutionary benefit to menopause...Homocysteine: A Possible Risk Factor For Alzheimer's Disease
...ss of the medial temporallobe, that can be used to follow the progression of Alzheimer's disease. Notes to editors: No interviews or further comments will be given by members ofthe OPTIMA team until publication of the full paper. More details about OPTIMA'sresearch are available on the OPTIMA website at h......d now we've discovered that other cockroaches will follow the trail back to food and water sources. It's ver...he laid out trails and found roaches will, indeed, follow where other roaches have traveledbefore. "The pheromones are communication devices between cockroach...