First sea-level photographs released of massive Antarctic iceberg
... miles. The Gould reportsthat it took the ship 12 hours to circumnavigate B-10-A at a speed of 10 knots. Besides photographing the iceberg, the crew plotted its main body with theship's bridge-mounted radar and collected about 40 pounds of blue ice fragmentsfor further study. A plot of the ship's track, ...Advance may put gene chip technology on scientists' desktops
...lishing: "Instead of several weeks, it takes eight hours to make achip," he said, and the cost of producing such chips is reduced significantly. Moreover, MAS has the potential to be used to clinically diagnose geneticdisease in humans, and holds great promise for various drug discovery schemes,and the tes...Biosensor expected to improve food safety
...andSalmonella -- in food products in less than two hours while in operation on aprocessing plant floor. ...milliliter, and they usually take from eight to 24 hours to yieldresults. In addition, lab equipment costs $12,000 to $20,000 per instrumentcompared to an es...Testosterone, stress may not suppress immune system after all
...s return tonormal levels in the blood stream three hours after an animal is stressed,suggesting that they leave the blood stream and go to the skin. While Dhabbarand Braude concede that large pharmacological doses of steroids can inhibitimmune cells, they have shown that is not the case with normal levels...Scientists look for signs of pollution in the superhighway in the sky
...heat up the globe. The team flew for more than 100 hours fromBangor, Maine, Azores and Shannon, Ireland in a specially equipped NASA DC-8,collecting samples of the air's chemistry. In the end, Thompson said, the findings showed that jet aircraft, whichburn very "clean," fuel, probably added a few t...AGU 1999 Fall Meeting -- Information for media representatives
...and fax numbers for the Press Room. Press Room hours of operation: Sunday, December 12: 9:00 A.M. to 12:00 Noon (for registration only) Monday, December 13: 7:30 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. Tuesday, December 14 to Friday, December 17: 8:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. The room will be equipped with telephones (no...Counting elephants by monitoring sounds
...two assistants are lookingfor clues in hundreds of hours of audiotapes and videotape of savanna elephantsrecorded in a previous season. Payne's study is showing that the rates andpatterns of calling reflect the difference between small and large groups, andoften reveal what is going on. "Elephan...New molecular clues to herpes control
...s demonstrated that JNK is activated three to four hours after theherpes virus infects the cell. The enzyme functions along a signaling pathwayinvolved in responses to stress signaling. They found that JNK activates a transcription factor - a protein that helpsregulate the machinery that makes copies of DN...Search and support for the rare white abalone is on; sex must occur with close neighbors
... abalone habitat, access tolarge areas, and longer hours for observation. In addition the submersible?scontinuous video and tracking systems provide excellent records of surveyedareas and environmental conditions....A 'Juliet' is found for the rare lemur Romeo
...orest segment. It tookthe rescue team another four hours to approach and tranquilize Juliet [and theaccompanying male]," Glander wrote. Once captured, the two diademed sifaka were carried in transport kennelsby the local villagers the 10 kilometers from the forest to the expedition'svehicle, then d...News from the zebrafish cousin of the human genome: A radiation hybrid map of the zebrafish genome
...slein-Volhard and Friedrich Bonhoeffer worked long hours on thezebrafish map. 1275 markers were placed on the Tuebingen map, covering 82 % ofthe zebrafish genome at a resolution of 350 kb. The markers on the map includegenetic markers (SSLPs) suitable for mapping mutations, developmental controlgenes known...Breast-feeding plays second fiddle to work, study finds
... while the women working one to nine hours per week breast-fed most fr...ey also compared daily work hours and breast-feedings at infant ages three and six months. Breast-feedings also...When sperm whales talk, UW researcher listens
...ngle dive and staying submerged for as long as two hours at a time. "They spend most of their time underwater - about 83 percent of the time," Dougherty said. "When they come up, it might be a considerable distance from where they went down and it's hard to get to them in time to take a photo adequate for......s, taking anywhere from several minutes to several hours to consume a meal. But threadsnakes, which measure just six to eight inches long and weigh in at roughly one gram, survive largely on the pupae and larvae of ants. "Theonly place you can find huge numbers of these are in ant nests," pointed out Kley......of HGS press releases are also available by fax 24 hours a day at no charge by calling 800/758-5804, ext. 121115. Any statements released by Human Genome Sciences, Inc. that are forward looking are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Editor...MGH research shows gene therapy may be able to reverse heart failure
...RCA2a gene to these heart muscle cells. Within 24 hours ofreceiving the gene, which induced overproduction of the SERCA2a protein, the cells from failed heartbegan beating and contracting at levels very similar to those seen in cells from normal hearts. Thecycling of calcium also appeared normal in cells...One theory solves two ancient climate paradoxes
...70 degrees gives large parts of each hemisphere 24 hours of sunlight for three months. If this sunlight wer...night, the temperatures would plummet. Twenty-four hours of sunlight for three months on water does not get as hot, but also never cools below the freezing p...... Microorganisms living on the surface divide after hours or days. Those living deep underground may divide only after hundreds of thousands of years. Life may have persevered below the surface 4 billion years ago, when asteroids routinely pelted the earth and caused the oceans to boil, Onstott said, so ...Laser light from Free-Electron Laser used for first time in human surgery
... year the Vanderbilt FEL delivered more than 2,000 hours of beam time tofacility users. Gabella and his team have demonstrated a reliability approaching that of conventionallasers. For the four days preceding the operation, they put the beam through an intensive series oftests and calibrations designed to ...Awareness, quick action key to battling canine bacterial disease
... healthy prior to being found very sick only a few hours later," Fenwick said. "The course of the disease f... healthy prior to being found very sick only a few hours later. The course of the disease of initial recognition of disease to death can be as short as 6 hou...