Antarctic Science Season Gears Up With Searches for Meteorites, Neutrinos, and New Life Forms
Spring in Antarctica heralds new U.S. science efforts on several fronts: a series of cruises in the Southern Ocean to trace carbon cycling associated with plankton blooms; drilling to assess the stability of the massive ice sheets; and an expedition to search for more meteorites...Future uses of MicroElectricalMechanical (MEM) systems to be featured at Santa Clara show
...fficientcars and intelligent home appliances, MEMs heralds another revolution in whichsmall, reliable, low-power devices will be able to sense, think, act andcommunicate. Applications range from medical treatment and anti-terrorism to thestate-of-health monitoring of engineering systems. Advances are still ......ever been pinpointed by scientists, Kern says, and heralds new possibilities for future NMR imaging of other evanescent biomolecules. Key to the research was an innovative approach to nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy that allowed Kern to regenerate, for a day and a half, the fleeting active c...Completion of the Drosophila genome sequence
...The completion of the Drosophila genome sequence heralds a new era of biomedical discovery. The Drosophila community welcomes this leap forward and the opportunity it affords to advance our understanding of how organisms function and how genetic defects cause disease. The Drosophila Genome Project is ...Completion of comprehensive index of human proteins to be presented at New York Academy Of Sciences
...ed, "This first version of the Human Protein Index heralds a new era in the study of human anatomy begun in the 1400's. For the first time, scientists now have a meaningful way to relate the function of the broadest array of proteins to their roles in disease and treatment. In fact, many of the discovered p......ed, "This first version of the Human Protein Index heralds a new era in the study of human anatomy begun with the reawakening of interest in human physiology in the 1400's. For the first time, scientists have a meaningful way to relate the function of the broadest array of proteins to their roles in disease ...Fisheries forecasting in the Niger inner delta
... concentrated in the period of flood retreat which heralds the return of fish into the fluvial zone and their unavoidable movement through the channels fishermen know well and when their capturability is highest. Activity diminishes and the season ends with the onset of the next flood, when again the fish a...Parasite, mosquito genomes complete malaria picture
...encing of both P. falciparum and its insect vector heralds a new era in the fight against malaria. When joined with information we have about the human genome, a much fuller understanding of this disease and its transmission is now possible," says Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., director of the National Institute of...A subtle tool to study mankind's diseases
...the way to set up these models". The new work also heralds a new era for genomic engineering in many living systems. "The Mll cassette is a first demonstration of what can be done with large DNA molecules," Stewart says. "Red/ET recombination increases the size of DNA that can be comfortably engineered by mo...Collaboration at EMSL produces innovative mass spectrometer
... FTICR mass spectrometer and the automation system heralds the next generation of proteomics research," said Harold Udseth, technical leader of EMSL's High Performance Mass Spectrometry Facility. Mass spectrometers are used to weigh atoms and molecules. This can be done with a precision of one part in five m...Stem cells illuminate early stages of human development
...n 1998, human embryonic stem cells were considered heralds of a new age of transplant medicine. The prospect of an unlimited supply of cells and tissue of all kinds to treat disease captured public imagination and enthusiasm. But lost in the glitz of the cells' potential to treat an array of devastating and ...European Virtual Institute for Genome Annotation receives 12 million Euro
...hanging annotations on genomic sequence data. "DAS heralds a new era for database structure, where information is distributed by a network rather than a single site," explains Søren Brunak. Meetings and workshops organized by the institute will encourage cooperation and reduce duplication of effort. T...Tony Hunter and Raymond N. DuBois awarded Landon-AACR Prizes for Cancer Research
... developing new treatments for cancer, and that it heralds an era of cancer treatments that can specifically halt cancer cells with a minimum of adverse effects." Raymond DuBois is being honored for his groundbreaking contributions to the understanding of the role of an enzyme called cyclooxygenase-2 or COX...... developing new treatments for cancer, and that it heralds an era of cancer treatments that can specifically halt cancer cells with a minimum of adverse effects."......the operating range of cell phones. The experiment heralds the possibility of improving cell phone communications in cities and other environments where obstructions, such as skyscrapers, may eventually aid cellular performance rather than hindering it. 2) Exploiting Noise to Increase Profits A. Traulsen e...