Dangerous Chemical Combination Presents Possible Scenario For Gulf War Illnesses
...ethrin were administered subcutaneously and PB was given orally. "Even if a person was exposed to one chemical alone at three timesthe recommended dose, he or she would have remained healthy," Abou-Doniasaid. "Our first task was to demonstrate the safety of each chemicalwhen used individually." The chick...Transgenic Rice Plants Resist Insects, Drought And Salt Damage
...ts to make them salt-and drought-tolerant, will be given to developing countries under provisions of a Rockefeller Foundation grant. Rights to the technology, which potentially can reduce crops losses by billions of dollars each year, will be sold in developed countries such as the United States and Japan...Nutrition Study Reshapes Strategies For Athletes
...an edge. And some of the women feel Houtkooper has given them one. Houtkooper said non-athletes also can benefit from her research. "What werecommend to athletes are the same kinds of things we recommend for thegeneral population to eat. "The difference is that if you are less active, you should eat small...Water Recycling Project Tested in Turkey Plant
...at there is only about 3 grams in existence at any given moment. Current Food and Drug Administration rules do not yet allow ozone to comein contact with poultry products. The system strips out any residual ozonein the water prior to returning it to the chiller. The system also preventsozone from leaking ...Researchers Find Possible New Route to Making Cancer Cells Vulnerable
...f BiologicalChemistry. They found that three drugs given to stop organ transplant rejection-- cyclosporin, FK506, and rapamycin -- also block the cellular pump thatexpels cancer chemotherapy drugs. But it turns out the drugs block the pumpby different mechanisms. Previously, scientists believed ...Hawaiian Whales Show 'No Overt Response' To Sounds Of ATOC Simulation
...ve than others," Frankel said. "Some react to a given vessel and some do not. Likewise, we may expect differences in how the whales respond to the ATOC project." Monitoring of marine mammals' behavior must continue when the full-scale ATOC source is operating in Hawaii, Frankel said. One concern ...Salvage Gene Is At The Root Of Many Mutations
...ple withgenetic predispositions to cancer could be given drugs to knock out the REV1 enzyme, stopping mutations before theyarise....Low-Protein Diet May Reverse Kidney Disease
... opinion that kidney disease patients shouldn't be given severely protein-restricted diets needs to be reconsidered." Hopkins researchers plan to repeat the study with a larger number of patients. Nephrotic syndrome is marked by damage to the glomeruli, the kidney's filtering units. This causes severe loss...New Software Provides Quick Analysis of ion-Channel Activity
...d time-consuming that many researchers have simply given up on it. But comprehending the properties of ion channels, which control the activity of the body's organs, including the brain, is key to understanding normal physiology. It also is critical to understanding various genetic diseases, including cy......of a type of marine microorganism. In a talk to be given on Thursday, Oct. 31, at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in Denver, Doris Sloan and Andrew N. Cohen of the University of California at Berkeley, and Mary McGann of the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park, Calif., report the i...Sea Turtles Have Favorite Oceanic Routes
...er 1109-B and some of her fellow leatherbacks have given humanity a fascinating glimpse into the long-distance migration patterns of vertebrate marine life. Scientists have learned that the turtles prefer specific ocean routes as if traveling an aquatic interstate highway. "They're all going along the sam......ars and is asked to do." The children were given a number of verbal and non-verbalperformance tasks as part of a test battery called the Bayley Scale ofMental Development. To test language comprehension, toddlers also wereasked to find the cat when shown slides of both a cat and a shoe, forexample...Scientists Identify Gene For Sexual Behavior In Male Flies
...question is not whetherbut how do the actions of a given gene influence some interesting aspectof behavior." However, he said, "Even if a gene of this sort could be identified inhumans, that does not mean it would solely 'determine' behavior. Bydefinition, those actions are also influenced by upbringing an...Researchers Find How Disease-resistant Plants Recognize Bacteria
...ly into the host cell's cytoplasm. Scientists have given this method of infection the name "type III secretion pathway." Researchers found evidence that indicated that the type III secretion pathway also operated in plants, and Martin recognized that this pathway would explain why the kinase proteins are f...Proteins Interacting With RNA And DNA Are Surprisingly Similar
...d to Extend Researchin Time. The10-year awards are given only to scientists with a record ofoutstandingcontributions and for work that has excellent future potential.The award wasissued in September 1996 by the NIH's National Institute ofGeneral MedicalSciences, which has funded Draper's research since 198...Selenium Supplements Can Reduce Cancer Rates
... micrograms of selenium a day). The patients were given either a placebo or a 200-microgram daily supplement of selenium (twice the average amount these Americans consume in their diet, thereby tripling their selenium intake). Skin cancer patients were chosen because they have a 25 percent annual chance o...Bog Beetle, Misidentified For 85 Years, Is 'Discovered' At Cornell
...llections throughout the Northeast, had never been given proper scientific identification. The half-inch long predator, a natural resident of the Ithaca area, had eluded entomologists' detection for decades. It is no longer incognito. The Coleopterists Bulletin (Dec. 30, 1996) published the official name...Bottom-up Ecological Processes Better For Clear Waters, Study Finds
...is likely to find only large effects -- especially given the nature of ecologicalstudies, which typically use small samples sizes -- and ecological systemscan vary greatly. So Brett decided to take another look at the trophic cascade hypothesisusing a newer statistical technique called "meta-analysis." Mo...Penn State Wetlands Project Seeks Scientific Evaluation Criteria
...gh Brooks says the wetlands assessment project has given resource professionals the tools with which to identify or describe wetland types, the next step to completing the portrait of the state's wetlands is understanding how wetlands function. "What we're missing is the personality of wetlands," Bro......p-to-the-minute accounts on where birds are at any given moment -- and so will anyone who opens BirdSource." Emphasizing the value to biological conservation of data gathered by thousands of volunteers across a wide geographical area, Fitzpatrick said: "If this had started in the 1890s when there still we...