1999 Fall Meeting: Press conferences and special events
...nterviews and use just 10 seconds, not even on the main point? Can scientists explain their discoveries in plain English? Do some researchers avoid media contact, while others relentlessly seek publicity for minor advances? Our panel of journalists and scientists will discuss the realities of TV news and ...New transgenic mouse likely to advance Alzheimer's disease research
...ring questions about the relative roles of the two main pathological markers of Alzheimer's disease. "Tau has not been as highly regarded a player as beta amyloid in the mechanisms of brain degeneration associated with Alzheimer's disease," says John Q. Trojanowski, MD, PhD, a coauthor on the study, codi...Another component of the blood clotting machinery unraveled
...pon. Fibrin and activated platelets constitute the main components of the blood clot, which seals the site of the injury. A research group, headed by Wolfram Bode in the Department of Structural Research (Director: Prof. Robert Huber) at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry in Martinsried/Germany, ...New Cosumnes River research partnership announced
...e rivers. The new Cosumnes Research Group has four main goals: to conduct baseline scientific surveys; to design and implement long-term hydrologic, biologic and land-use monitoring programs; to develop new methods to measure the success or failure of conservation programs in the watershed; to use the...Fall Meeting: updated press conferences and special events
...tor, Mars Volatiles and Climate Surveyor (MVACS -- main science payload of MPL), University of California ...iews and then use just 10 seconds, not even on the main point? Can scientists explain their discoveries in plain English? Do some researchers avoid all medi...Chemistry leaders expect longer lives, less pollution in the future
...iverted from food production." And for some, the main concern remains the people who will carry on their work. To Alan Shaw, chief operating officer of Archimica Fine Chemicals, the greatest challenge is "how to attract intelligent minds."...MGH research shows gene therapy may be able to reverse heart failure
...heartbeat, calcium isreleased from the SR into the main body of the cell (the cytosol), stimulating the cell to contract. After contraction, calcium moves back from the cytosol into the SR via a molecular calcium pump,the SERCA2a protein. In heart failure, the return of calcium into the SR is diminished...El Niño triggers tropical forest reproduction
...an and her colleagues studied Dipterocarpaca---the main family of rain forest canopy trees in Indonesian Borneo. Field research covered a 57-square-mile area, but focused on six square miles in the Gunung Palung National Park. The research team also surveyed timber concessions throughout the surround...3-D structure of human transcription factor proteins revealed
... x 135 x 100 angstroms in size, dominated by three main lobes, each of which measures about 60 angstroms in diameter but differs in structural detail. The lobes are connected by narrow bridges some 20 angstroms wide which are arranged around a cavity whose open channel measures 40 angstroms. This open c...Fossil mayflies can be used to 'weigh' ancient atmospheres
...about the air in which it once flew: -- A mayfly's main flight muscle fills most of the pterothorax, the body's two wing-bearing segments. -- The force that the muscle delivers to the wings is registered in the length of the pterothorax ("L" in the accompanying diagram). -- The corresponding force that th...Howard Hughes Medical Institute funds biomedical facilities at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
...hrotron light source like the ALS -- is one of the main techniques for accomplishing this. Inx-ray crystallography, a beam of x-rays sent through a protein crystal creates a set of diffractionpatterns that can be translated by computer into 3-D images with atomic-scale resolution. The ALS houses one of ...Algal food quality, not quantity, critical factor in healthy lake ecosystems
...lled Daphnia, a type of zooplankton and one of the main consumers of algae in lakes. Using a controlled laboratory system, they fed Daphnia algae taken from Stonegate Pond in Davis, Calif., at various times of the year. During the summer, a type of phytoplankton poor in omega-3 fatty acids called cyanob......alf long that sits directly under the bladder. Its main function is to produce part of the fluid for semen. Prostate cancer is the most common male cancer, striking more than 175,000 men in the United States each year....Side effects of prostate cancer surgery far less when performed by specialist
...alf long that sits directly under the bladder. Its main function is to produce part of the fluid for semen. Prostate cancer is the most common male cancer, striking more than 175,000 men in the United States each year....Photoreceptor gene mutations cause degenerative eye disease
... and rare mutations," says Sheffield. "I think the main interest in this paper will be the insight that it might bring to understanding the signaling pathways that determine cell type in the embryonic retina." Right now, researchers do not know how precursor photoreceptors reach their ultimate cell type....Some carotenoids specifically target colon cancer
...r, with an enhanced effect in younger people. The main sources of lutein consumed by the study participants were spinach, broccoli, lettuce, tomatoes, carrots, oranges and orange juice, celery, greens and eggs. In explaining the apparently potent antioxidant effect of lutein and zeaxanthin, the authors p...Evolutionary implications: myoglobin-like proteins found in ancient microorganisms
... in muscle) and its close relative hemoglobin (the main protein in the red blood cell) play an essential role in oxygen transport and storage. The newly identified proteins may be the evolutionary ancestors of proteins involved in oxygen sensing as well as transport and storage. The findings, which appea...Could fish clean up sewage works?
...ment say space and the low rate of removal are the main obstacles to the system being widely used. "It's fun and provocative, but I wouldn't regard it as practical in most cases, the demand for space being the key point," says Rod Palfrey of the process technology group at Britain's Water Research Centre ...2000 Spring Meeting press registration
...nd of for-profit corporations must register at the main registration desk and pay the appropriate fees. As noted above, the book of meeting abstracts will be sent to press registrants who request it. Others will receive it, along with the program book, when they first check in at the Press Room. 7. Press ...Study: Methane cleans nitric oxide from power plant emissions
...en to produce nitric acid -- a main component of acid rain -- and ...an said, as well as cheap and plentiful. It is the main component of natural gas, and is already present in some smo...