Hikers may disturb breeding spotted owls
...ding their young, and a third less time on daytime maintenance activities such as tending the nest, and preening themselves and their young. Preening is important to birds' health in part because it reduces parasites. Because female Mexican Spotted Owls provide virtually all of the parental care, these behaviora...Facing extreme ice conditions, coast guard, NSF deploy second icebreaker to Antarctica
...ice. Because Polar Star is undergoing substantial maintenance and is unable to steam south, Healy is being deployed to help Polar Sea meet two challenges, Sutherland explained. The first is to break a channel through the ice to Hut Point at McMurdo Station and to keep it open. Although the Polar Sea already ha...Applied Biosystems and Immune Tolerance Network announce immunology research agreement
...chanisms that relate to the induction, loss and/or maintenance of tolerance and identify new genetic markers for tolerance in humans. Ultimately, this marriage of clinical and genetic sciences in the tolerance arena is designed to improve therapeutic options in organ transplantation, autoimmune diseases, and all...JCI Table of Contents, December 2, 2002
...lear understanding of the role of pericytes in the maintenance ofnormal vessel stability will be important for an...umor suppressor genes are involved ininduction and maintenance of senescence, suggesting that senescence preventstumorigenesis. Hoping to find a new way to prevent...Artificial cell gets light-powered nanopump for calcium ions
...hen the cells would be dead. The cell requires the maintenance of an ion gradient across its borders to be considered a living cell. It's of interest to us to explore ways to generate this gradient to pump these ions across artificial cells. This way, from the standpoint of energetics, we can drive reactions t...Council for Responsible Nutrition questions WAVE study conclusions
...amins E and C are essential nutrients required for maintenance of health. Vitamin E has potential benefits for vision, Alzheimer's disease, counteracting free radicals that may play a role in fighting cancers, and reducing the risk of coronary disease. Vitamin C is believed to promote a healthy immune system a...Moderate alcohol consumption during pregnancy is risky too
...rain, plays important roles in the development and maintenance of LTP in the hippocampus and other brain regions. Evidence suggests that the LTP deficit observed in rodent offspring prenatally exposed to alcohol is due to functional changes in hippocampal glutamate neurotransmission. More specifically, glutama...A pathway towards cures for Parkinson's and cancer
...ng pathway, which is essential to the development, maintenance and repair of cells in the human body. The potenti... the development of healthy animals as well as the maintenance and repair of adult cells. Hedgehog genes were first identified in the fruitfly, and were so called ...Crucial gene found for embryonic stem cell maintenance
...fate and preserve the delicate balance between the maintenance of a pluripotent cell population and the differentiation of more specialized cell types. In the October 15th issue of Genes & Development, Dr. Patricia Labosky and colleagues add Foxd3 to the short, but growing list of genes essential for the establ...UT Southwestern researcher, colleagues report drug therapy eases chronic depression
..., said the results send a strong message to health maintenance organizations and insurance companies that deny lo... randomized to Zoloft or a placebo for an 18-month maintenance trial. The patients taking Zoloft reported improvement rates of 58 percent to 84 percent on tests qu...Rad50 and the maintenance of genome stability
...response to DNA damage, DNA recombination, and the maintenance of chromosome ends (telomeres). Previous attempts to elucidate the function of the Mre11 complex in mammals have been thwarted by the embryonic lethality of null Mre11 complex member mouse mutants. Dr. Petrini and colleagues have now overcome this hu...Macarthur Award winning physiologist to present Scholander Award and lecture
...opkins Marine Station in September of 1994 for the maintenance of captive tunas. The TRCC personnel, in collaboration with aquarium personnel, maintain two large populations of tunas, one in the TRCC facility and one on exhibit at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Currently over 150 tunas representing four species (yel...Marine biodiversity essential to preserving species
...hin the context of marine reserves, and see if the maintenance of balanced and healthy fish populations in such reserves can have a positive influence on the availability of species elsewhere, including those sought in commercial or recreational fisheries outside the reserves....New research site established in Australia to help predict climate change
...ic data for research purposes; (2) Operation as a maintenance base for the Darwin, Manus, and Nauru TWP sites, thus streamlining operations in the TWP locale. The Darwin site will feature a large array of state-of-the-art instrumentation for collecting data at the surface of the earth as well as in the atmosphe...Other highlights in the July 17 issue of JNCI
...who actually have the disease). The minichromosome maintenance (Mcm) family of proteins plays a critical role in regulating the initiation of DNA replication. Previous studies have suggested that expression of these proteins is a marker of epithelial carcinogenesis. Kai Stoeber, M.D., of the University of Cambr...'Obesity sleuths' find chronic diseases linked to behavior contrary our DNA
... lack of physical activity leads to failure of the maintenance of normal signaling by cellular networks that activate that genome. Since the normal orchestration of protein expression in cells in humans was selected during evolution, when physical activity was higher than today, an altered protein expression of...Researcher is using nature's command and control network to develop ways to engineer organisms
...al because the response is more proportionate. The maintenance of a more balanced distribution of resources among cellular processes also makes the organism more viable and robust. One application of the new method is in the development of biosensors, enzymes that are intermediaries in the natural sensing of out...'Rock-paper-scissors' preserves biodiversity in bacterial neighborhoods
...ract and disperse can have profound effects on the maintenance of biodiversity," says co-author Brendan Bohannan,...in neighborhoods has profound implications for the maintenance of biodiversity." Other authors of the Nature paper are biological sciences graduate student Benjami...Big fish not always best, sounds might mean hurricanes and Hawaii tsunami safety
...as that may, if properly designed, provide for the maintenance of natural genetic variation of marine life. CONTACT: David Conover, New York Sea Grant Researcher, Professor of Marine Science, Stony Brook University, (O) 631-632-8667, E-mail: dconover@notes.cc.sunysb.edu ACOUSTIC SENSING METHODS MAY IMPROVE ...Possible gene for form of mental retardation, brain development identified
...e formation of structures and relationships or for maintenance of important functions in the brain.Next, researchers will study individuals with both MR and the AGTR2 mutation to determine if there is a common area on the gene that is altered in some or all of them. They will then try to determine if the AGTR2 ...