Tracking path of virulent bacteria via the web
...and 21 people died around the country after eating hot dogs contaminated with a rare strain of Listeria ...e of the outbreak. Consequently, the contaminated hot dogs were immediately recalled in what was to become one of history's largest food recalls. That ear...The ecological consequences of 'promiscuous' boating
...xterior surfaces of boats with chlorine solutions, hot water, or long periods out of the water. The results of this study permit the development of better educational policies that can focus more precisely on the mechanisms of highest risk, i.e., entangled macrophytes. The results of this study are app...Geophysicist studies life in the early solar system
... organisms that were designed to live in extremely hot environments, the kinds that would have existed for millions of years after the impact of a large asteroid. A glance at the names of modern members of the Archaea and Bacteria branches turns up an overwhelming number of ``thermos`` - Thermococcus, T...Science's Top Ten: nanoscale computing circuits named top scientific advance of 2001
...2: As in previous years, Science has chosen six hot topics to watch in 2002. This year, their choices include: U.S. stem cell research in private industry and abroad, the field of proteomics, the maiden voyage of several new telescopes, multifactorial diseases, optical clocks and fundamental constants...Researchers call herbs rich source of healthy antioxidants; oregano ranks highest
...erb extracts, which can be made by adding herbs to hot water to make potent antioxidant teas. Others use concentrated herbal oils available in some health food stories. Most of us prefer a little dash and sprinkle of the familiar leafy or powdered versions to add flavor to our favorite meats and vegetabl...January media highlights-GSA Bulletin
...y above the calculated position of the Yellowstone hot spot, and ceased abruptly in this part of Oregon at 15.3 million years ago, the main eruption subsequently migrating northward to form the Columbia River basalt plateau. In east-central Oregon, cessation of flood basalt volcanism was immediately foll...Media Advisory 2 - 2002 Ocean Sciences Meeting: press conferences scheduled
...g up for a close-up look at Hawaii's Kauai Channel hot spot later this year. Participants: Robert Pinkel, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego; La Jolla, California; Daniel L. Rudnick, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego; La Jolla...Deep sea creatures collected for studies
...lif.) Sea animals that live deep in the ocean near hot water vents, and rarely brought to the surface for...mersible called Alvin. The deep sea vents are like hot springs, and are located in areas where the Earths tectonic plates are moving and there is volcanic ...Hormone therapy may boost quality of life, say Stanford researchers
... that women who have symptoms of menopause such as hot flashes, are more likely to see improved quality o...that range from annoying to life-altering, such as hot flashes, mood swings, vaginal dryness, lowered libido and trouble sleeping. Many women opt to replac...High hit rate in drug development
...hesized for each molecular target to finally hit a hot spot. The researchers of the Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Physiology want to enhance this search by means of the combinatorial chemistry of evolutionary selected and therefore biologically relevant natural products. In the currently pursued app...Still waters? 'Clear-cutting' robs the deep-sea of ancient treasures
...ary (Williamsburg, Virginia). Whether they live in hot vents or cold seeps, deep-sea extremophiles share evolutionary histories, and ongoing research has "greatly expanded our understanding of the limits to life on Earth," said Van Dover, who has spent much of her career underwater, one of an elite few s...The new biology of rocks: 'Are there medical implications of geomicrobiology?'
...ing in deep-ocean vents and other harshly cold and hot environments, she said. Could it be, she asked, that previous probes to Mars Viking, Mariner and, more recently, the failed Mars Polar Lander carried Earth bacteria that survived the cold vacuum and intense radiation exposure of space? Many microbe......ron in a purple color and helped them zoom in on a hot zone: an area of the spleen called the marginal zone. But here they ran into problems. This region contains a large number of different types of cells, all mixed very closely together, Barchet says. You cant distinguish them in tissue sections under......bles may reach up to 10 million degrees Kelvin, as hot as the center of the sun. Although the high temper...n be as high as 5000-7000 degrees Kelvin, about as hot as the suns surface. But, recent experiments by a number of researchers suggest that bubble temperat...Purdue to help NASA create life-supporting ecosystem in space
...grees Fahrenheit. Because the bacteria thrive in a hot environment, they are said to be thermophilic, and because air will be circulated through the reactor, the process is aerobic. Alleman also is developing a system that freezes liquid wastes to remove the salt and leave behind pure water crystals, e...ORNL material could help pilots keep their cool
...s who have to contend with protective clothing and hot working environments. "In addition to these conditions being dangerous to these people, the heat can substantially degrade a persons effectiveness," Klett said. "And we are working with the racing industry to develop a system geared toward drivers n...Scientists conduct first DNA field tests on Antarctic soil microbes
...ad worked primarily with the bacteria that inhabit hot springs on land, while Carys focus had been on the microbes that live at underwater hot springs called hydrothermal vents found over a mile deep in the ocean where new seafloor is being fo...April GEOLOGY and GSA TODAY media highlights
...arger zone, volcanism is episodic and sustained by hot mantle, with three peaks of volcanism occurring: o... DOE may be underestimated. Moreover, if models of hot mantle are correct, then volcanism is not dead and another eruption peak is possible. The authors su...Scientists discuss microbial pathogenesis in era of bioterrorism, drug resistance
...n Society for Investigative Pathology symposium on hot topics in microbial pathogenesis provides a look into five cutting edge approaches to how pathogens get into the cell and cause their damage and what science can do about it, identifying better drug targets, even using the microbes themselves as weap......the Archives of Internal Medicine. "In this study, hot tempers predicted disease long before other traditional risk factors like diabetes and hypertension became apparent," says Patricia P. Chang, M.D., lead author of the study and a cardiology fellow. "The most important thing angry young men can do is...