National Laboratory, National Parks And Forests Leaders Seek To Share Resources
...of researchprojects. Some of the projects would be immediately useful to the parks andforests, such as work with bacterial resources that can be applied to microbialpopulations found in the park system, INEEL's fleet of alternate fuel buses andtrucks and their management, or computerized information systems that...Media Advisory: 1999 Spring Meeting -- Updated Press Conference Schedule
...ence Writers, the regional NASW affiliate.Followed immediately by: Against the Tide: The Battle for America's Beaches June 1, 7:00 P.M. - Room 111 Cornelia Dean, Science Editor of The New York Times, has just completed a newbook for the Columbia University Press with the above title. Dean, who lives ontwo isla...Genetic testing and modified diets may save babies born with genetic defect
...unctions. Eight of the infants died --seven almost immediately and the other died 18 months later, despite treatment. "The remaining 16 patients are alive and are currently being treatedwith dietary modification," Ibdah said. "Eight of the surviving children are nowolder than 5 years and attending school...Horseshoe crab studies providing new insight into valuable ancient creatures
...ried out on thehigher of the two daily high tides, immediately following a new or full moon. In 1998, the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission implemented amanagement plan for the species along the Atlantic Coast. Adopted lastOctober, the plan calls for the collection of information necessary tomanage the...Gene triggers formation of sensory cells in the ear
...empting to understand why micelacking the gene die immediately after birth....Stimulation technique holds new promise for spinal cord injuries
...inal cord injuries, creating aregion of dead cells immediately around the injury, the neurons below the injury level are alive. That is where the CWRUresearchers plan to put the neural prosthetic device. "The idea is to put electrodes below the spinal injury to artificially re-establish the communications link f...New targets for nerve diseases, nerve regrowth: It's all in the handshake
...s the mice approachedearly middle-age. "We could immediately see something amiss in these nervecells," says Kazim Sheikh, who did the neuropathology studies, "and the damageis quite similar in chronic human neuropathies." Mouse behavior also reflectedthe deterioration: mice were weaker, had trouble moving and......ancer. HPV-16 does not usually causeacute disease immediately after infection, but can, after years of latency,contribute to the development of cervical cancer....Eating proper foods at right time after exercise can speed recovery
...ng leucine, a branch-chained amino acid, are eaten immediately afterintensive workouts. Leucine is found in proteinproducts such as meats and dairy products, as well as in protein bars and somesports drinks. The use of a pure amino-acidsupplement is not recommended, because optimum dosages are not known. "Leucin......the scientists found that micelacking Munc13-1 die immediately after birth because their nerve cells have noreadily releasable vesicles (Figure 2). Combining electrophysiological andstructural analyses, the group demonstrates that synapses lacking Munc13-1 arearrested at the vesicle maturation or 'cocking' state...Children are at greatest risk of eye damage during the eclipse
... may occur rapidly, without pain and without being immediately apparent and no treatment has been shown to be effective for the condition, says the author. Furthermore, photochemical damage is cumulative and there are concerns that such injuries may predispose people to eye disease in later life, suggests Mr Do...... from Rhode Island was collected, packed on iceand immediately flown to Sapelo Island, where it was exposed to a group ofherbivores on the same day. Likewise, southern plants were flown to Rhode Island in the same manner for usewith northeastern herbivores. Leaf beetles, grasshoppers, moth larvae and crabswere u...Microbial janitors tackle nuclear clean-up problems
...carry' enough food. The idea of athick gel became immediately obvious. Researchers are now using inert celluloseas the base of the gel. An off-the-shelf, commercially available productitself, the cellulose has also been used as a thickener in cosmetics and foods. Aside from stickiness, the other crucial fact...Disconnecting molecular handbrakes has drastic consequences
...ffects, said Ihle. "We suspect that the lethality immediately after birth that we saw inknockout mice is basically a consequence of turning on the immune system withouta brake and allowing it to produce all kinds of noxious inflammatorysubstances." In a second article, Ihle and his colleagues demonstrated that...Satellite fire alarms keep watch on raging California fires
... specially developedcomputer program, you can tell immediately when a fire starts." Using the same technology and computer software, in May 1998, Flynn and histeam were able to see signs of an impending volcanic eruption from spacefor the first time. Seven days before the eruption, the Guatemalan volcanoPacaya s...New hope for self-injury sufferers
...re analgesia sites, such as the temple or thewrist immediately behind the thumb, seem to respond to naltrexone treatment,presumably because self-injury in those sites causes the release of betaendorphin while self-injury in other locations does not. Observing over timewhere on the body an individual self-injures...USGS scientists tracking environmental damage from Floyd
... West Virginia. Samples were collected during and immediately afterthe storm at sites on the Pocomoke River, Nassawango, Choptank River, andChesterville Branch, in Maryland and the James, Appomattox, Pamunkey, andMattaponi Rivers, among others in Virginia. Samples are being collected thisweek from the Susquehan...Stressed-out mice offer clues to depression, anxiety, anorexia
... stresshormones ACTH and corticosterone during and immediately after acute restraintstress tests. "Our data suggest CRH-BP is an important modulator of corticotropin-releasinghormone and other CRH-like peptides, such as urocortin, produced in the brainsof mice," says Seasholtz. "Our hypothesis is that CRH-BP bi...Breast cancer relapse rates appear higher in women who have cancer-causing gene, Yale study finds
...early relapse. They respond very wellto treatment immediately following therapy, but begin developing second tumorslong after therapy has been completed, up to 10 years or more after originaltreatment. "In our study, women who developed second tumors can be effectivelytreated with mastectomy at ...Hutchinson Center to lead $11.5 million ovarian-cancer research consortium
...o significantly improveoutcomes, it can be adopted immediately and incorporated in standard care.Already there is some evidence, from previous smaller studies, that socialsupport can improve survival among cancer patients. For example, one studyindicates that group counseling improved survival of women with adva...