Statement on discovery of the gene for narcolepsy in dogs
...cantplayer in regulating sleep. This represents a giant step toward understandingthe molecular basis of sleep, a major aim of sleep research at the NationalInstitutes of Health. This discovery not only links a gene to a disease, butpaves the way to an improved understanding of the fundamental nature of ...INEEL launches comprehensive vadose zone management program
...fer and the surface, the vadose zone, works like a giant sponge, soaking inwater and contaminants. But there are many more unknowns within the vadose zonethan in a kitchen sponge. Different types of soils and the permeability of rocklayers affect the retention of rainfall, the solubility of chemical contam...Mobile DNA sequences could be the cause of chromosomal mutations during the evolution of species
...hanges is the Drosophila fly. This organism has giant sized chromosomesin the salivary glands of its larvae which are relatively easy to view with amicroscope. This characteristic make it an excellent source for studyinggenetic changes that take place in the course of evolution. One of the mosttypical......in the laboratorydinoflagellates cultured from the giant clam and a Caribbean coral. Labtests unveiled significant differences in thermaltolerance between them. If an increase in water temperatures is causing the algae to lose theirability to carry out photosynthesis, then do the algae die? "That really i...'Fishboys' - the new cowboys of a world dependent on water...and ceramics.
...s' herding schools of fish, in seas converted into giant fish ranches,could become more fact than fiction in the next century, according to ProfessorRobert E Newnham speaking today [Tuesday 22 June] at the European CeramicsSociety conference organised by The Institute of Materials. Naturally 'grown'submar...Horseshoe crab studies providing new insight into valuable ancient creatures
...which use the protected waters of DelawareBay as a giant nursery, also consume eggs and larvae. Juvenile and adulthorseshoe crabs are a dietary staple for the threatened loggerhead turtle. Human Pressures Horseshoe crabs have long been important to humans as well. Theirrelatively simple biology has made th......evious bacterial record-holder. In addition to its giant size,the new microbe is an exotic organism that pr...entually to other organisms. The newly identified giant Thiomargarita bacteria join Thioploca ina small class of microbes now known to link the sulfur a...Montana Scientist Returns From Dinosaur Nesting Site In Patagonia
BOZEMAN--A giant dinosaur nesting ground in South America, where a yearago scientists found the world's first fossilized dinosaur skin, will probablymake headlines again this year, said a Bozeman, Mont., scientist connected withthe project. "This is the most...Fossil Eggshells Hold Clues To Major Animal Extinctions As Reported In Science
...occurred has been as non-existent as the long-gone giant sloth. Parts of theQuaternary were periods of rapid and extensive climatic change that could havebeen capable of driving many species to extinction. On the other hand, modernhumans, who first spread across the globe during this time, might also haveb...Study Provides Guidance For Treating Patients With Brain Aneurysms
... per year forboth groups. The risk of rupture for giant aneurysms (greater than 25 mm indiameter) was about 6 percent for the first year for both groups. The exactposition of the aneurysm in the brain was also a predictor of rupture in bothgroups. Of course, the risk of rupture for an aneurysm must be c......ost two inches long, Deltatheridium was a relative giant in the Lilliputian world of Mesozoic mammals. Its diet probably included lizards and other early mammals. One of the specimens was preserved with a crushed fragment of a mammal skull ( since broken remains are very rare at Uhkaa Tolgod, it is possi...Discovery Of New Large, Predatory Dinosaur Reported In Science
... Washington D.C. - Curved claws like giant meathooks and a long, narrow,crocodile-like skull were among the fossil remains of a new genus and species ofdinosaur recently excavated in the Tnr Desert of central Niger. The findingsby a group of scientists from the U.S., France, the U.K, and Nige...The Comet That Wiped Out The Dinosaurs May Have Washed Up Boulders Onto Hills In Arkansas
...teroid that wiped out the dinosaurs also left some giant chunksof sandstone perched on top of hills in Arka...n swept up onto the hills from coastal regions bya giant tidal wave, or tsunami, that followed the impact. The rocks, roughly 120 kilometres northeas......linical Nutrition believe the new consortium is a giant step forward in bringing nutrition into its proper place in American medicine. M.R.C. Greenwood, Ph.D., President of the American Society of Clinical Nutrition, Inc. says, "until physicians are better trained to provide high levels of information o...Research Answers Burning Questions About Pollution
...ct and scatter the laser light, which gives you a giant background signal that has to be separated out from the real signal you want to see. Also, there's a problem called 'quenching,' where the pollutant molecules lose their energy not by fluorescing light, but just by bumping into one another, which ...New Rehabilitative Device Combines Form And Function For Children With Mobility Impairments
Taking a giant step forward for non-ambulatory children, researchers atthe Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a rehabilitativedevice called a prone stander that takes the angst out of therapy. Prone standers allow children with mobility impairments to s...New Satellite Tags Track Movements Of Atlantic Bluefin Tuna
... With thistechnology it will be possible to manage giant bluefin tuna so mature breedingstocks could recover in our lifetime." A 1994 report by the National Research Council recommended that fisheriesscientists test the stock structure theories to confirm whether bluefin tuna areone or two stocks in the At...United States And Ukrainian Governments Establish Permanent Chernobyl Laboratory
...ey envision anuclear desert with two headed frogs, giant worms, and creatures like Godzillawandering about. We see none of that. There are no monsters. The Chernobylzone is actually a very beautiful place with thriving wildlife communities. Without a Geiger-counter, you wouldn't know you were in a highl......ructure for this protein molecule. "It's like a giant jigsaw puzzle. Piece by piece, we're slotting it together," Dr Ward says. "There has been plenty of excitement from our colleagues round the world about this discovery because it is the first glimpse of that part of the receptor which binds the h......s tracked down and isolated intact DNA from the giant sloth. These vegetarian animals, which were the size of an elephant and lived on the ground, inhabited North and South America until some 10,000 years ago. In a cave near Las Vegas, Nevada, researchers found deep layers of about 20,000...