When the shaking stopped, the work began - for USGS scientists
...ic officials and the generalpublic understand "the lessons of Loma Prieta" and take action to reducethe region's earthquake vulnerability. Figures for the probabilities of large earthquakes on Bay area faults arenot included in the fact sheet. These figures, which are part of a newreport by scientists from ...New Cosumnes River research partnership announced
...conservation programs in the watershed; to use the lessons learned to guide river and floodplain restoration programs throughout the Central Valley. The Cosumnes (pronounced Kuh-SOOM-ness) River begins in the steep, forested canyons of the Sierra between U.S. Highway 50 and State Road 88. After its three f...A big whoop! Crane chicks will hatch on-line: Go to whoopers.USGS.gov
...h represents the culmination of years of research, lessons learned by trial and error, and untold hours of patient, meticulous care and training....GM seed may be more widespread than we think
...onfident that the companies are already taking the lessons on board. "My guess is that when harvest comes around, the percentage testing and segregating will be much higher." Author: Andy Coghlan New Scientist issue: 27th March 2000 PLEASE MENTION NEW SCIENTIST AS THE SOURCE OF THIS STORY AND, IF PUBLI...Welch Award honors 2 for unlocking nature's secrets
... Currently his diverse lab is looking to apply the lessons learned from his B12 research to make other products, such as the cancer treatment taxol. He also recently started new research to use RNA, instead of DNA, as a template for carrying out organic synthesis. Dr. Scott was born in Glasgow, Scotland, i...NIGMS Structural Genomics Awards scale up protein structure studies
...enome sequencing efforts, can teach us fundamental lessons about biology and can advance efforts in structure-based drug design. For example, the structure of a disease-related protein can provide insight into how the protein works normally and how a faulty structure can cause disease. This same structure...Singing silently during sleep helps birds learn songs
... rules by which sleep acts on song learning, these lessons may apply to learning in other animals, including ...Margoliash. "Neurobiologists have often found that lessons learned from weird and wonderful animals apply to all animals. The beautiful songs of birds could ha...Biological warfare: an emerging threat in the 21st century
...xposure to a normally harmless chemical. History lessons Biological warfare is as old as civilization, observes Block, but it was international revulsion over the widespread use of poisonous mustard gas during World War I that finally led to a 1925 treaty banning bioweapons during future wars. ``Disappoi...A valuable lesson in gene therapy
...son's talk, Woo urged his colleagues to take these lessons to heart: "We all need to learn a lot of science from this patient," he said....Nagyvary's violin research to be celebrated Feb. 12
...olin maker himself and who took his first practice lessons on a violin belonging to Albert Einstein. "I am proud to say that I was the first chemist to apply modern analytical methods and define the makeup of these great violins. And it's satisfying to know that the American Chemical Society has confirmed m...Friendly microbes control intestinal genes, study finds
...f their hosts. We wanted to figure out some of the lessons that they have learned about us, and how they contribute to our health." Gordon, who led the study, is the Alumni Professor and Head of the Department of Molecular Biology and Pharmacology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Th...UW researchers show that the human genome is helpless in the face of chocolate
...t affect the taste response to chocolate. "The lessons from chocolate can be applied to Brussels sprouts," Drewnowski said. "There are things that can be done in the kitchen to make these bitter foods acceptable. As we already know, making bitter foods palatable is important in adding phytonutrients t...Fly on a treadmill demonstrates super directional hearing
...nds and noises in the environment. The biological lessons provided by Ormia 's abilities in hyperacute time-coding and localization of sound promise to produce strategies for improved nano- or microscale directional microphones in hearing aids. Applications of these new principles may improve life for in...Putting randomness to work: unique form of nanoscale random motion may drive key cellular functions
... about heat and motion in a new way. "There are lessons here for nanotechnology in these biological nano-systems," he added. "This will help people to appreciate that thermal motion can actually be harnessed to do many kinds of useful work." And the work may also restore the original hypothesis...GIS, bioinformatics collaborations offer promising new perspectives
...s arrived at in one discipline can serve as object lessons for the other." Bult added that when some of the display and interactivity features of GIS maps are ported to genomics maps, genetic maps will go from being mere display tools to serving as interactive "mechanisms for discovery." Campbell said othe......ctures far more complicated and then putting those lessons to work in the development of synthetic self-assembling molecules. Principal investigator on the effort is Virgil Percec, a Penn chemistry professor. Together with a team of Penn chemists, physicists, biochemists, biophysicists and materials scienti...A closer look at the genomes black holes
... histone H3 may teach researchers some interesting lessons about evolution. "While histones are crucial, they are thought to be boring, because they are so highly conserved," said Henikoff. "Because the histones must interact reliably with the entire genome, there are few amino acid differences in these prot...How brain cells remember their birth order
...flies are evolutionarily distant from mammals, the lessons learned about neural development in the insect might well be important in understanding human neural development. The Drosophila system is simple compared to mammals, but what I have found amazing is the apparent parallels between mammalian cortical ...DNA transcription is tuned to specific cells
...AFII105," he said. Tjian also emphasized that the lessons learned from TAFII105 offer insight into the complexity of the transcription machinery. "Our work and that of others is revealing a multitude of cell-specific differences in other components of the transcriptional machinery and in different organisms...Conservation International and Starbucks announce new coffee sourcing guidelines
...These guidelines create opportunities to apply the lessons learned from our field project in Chiapas, Mexico, on a larger scale within the worldwide coffee industry. A major outcome of the partnership to date has been the availability of Shade Grown Mexico coffee in Starbucks stores and other retail channels...