Historic U.S.-Peru debt-for-nature swap
... for: establishment, restoration, protection and maintenance of parks, protected areas and reserves; development and implementation of scientifically sound systems of natural resource management, including land and ecosystem management practices; training programs to increase the scientific, technical and mana...Invading species have harder time cracking diverse plant communities
... possible. Diverse communities should require less maintenance and monitoring because, the researchers write, "they are generally very effective at excluding undesirable invaders."...Protein causes muscle wasting syndrome in mice
...w know that myostatin can affect muscle growth and maintenance in adult animals and that it acts throughout the body," says Se-Jin Lee, M.D., Ph.D., professor of molecular biology and genetics in the School of Medicine's Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences. "These are key pieces of information, because agent...What keeps the nervous system intact?
.... The discovery of the maintenance mechanism was a surprise to the research team. Dr...., and his colleagues had not set out to find these maintenance proteins. The team had been studying when and where certain genes would act during the development ...Research highights from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
...tion DSOM has improved process efficiency, reduced maintenance expenses, extended equipment life and cut energy consumption and associated harmful emissions. DSOM received an R&D 100 Award for technology innovation in 2001. For more on DSOM, see . Scientists see a vivid picture of DNA repair process - All k...Eliminating battlefield transfusions
...circulating blood with plasma expander followed by maintenance overnight at hyperbaric oxygen pressures gradually...circulating blood with plasma expander followed by maintenance for 3-6 hours at l00 percent oxygen pressures at 30 psig to ambient. These rats were then decompress...Study of vision disorder leads to discovery of new family of ion channels
...rari, said Nathans. It is a high performance, high maintenance tissue. The RPE is like the liver and kidney of the retina. It helps keep the retina running. Best disease teaches us that defects in the RPE can initiate macular degeneration. It was useless to try to guess the function of the bestrophin protein ba...Nature's own antidote to cocaine
...and colleague Marie Nyswander, pioneered methadone maintenance programs for the treatment of heroin addicts in the 1960s. The new genetic association study compared DNA samples from 174 participants, including 83 people who had been previously diagnosed with cocaine dependence or abuse, and 91 "control" individ...Study links gene to success of a treatment for high blood pressure
...ducted at Group Health Cooperative, a large health maintenance organization based in Seattle. Adducin is a protein linked to the inner surface of cell membranes, and one adducin genetic variant (Gly460Trp) is known to increase sodium retention by the kidney. High-salt diets, as well as sodium retention, are one ...PNNL celebrates arrival of powerful NMR
...irst-class customer support team for installation, maintenance and service. Additional information is available at http://www.oxford-instruments.com Varian Inc. is a major supplier of scientific instruments, vacuum technologies and specialized contract manufacturing services. These businesses serve life scienc...Study identifies new protein on neurons that may be useful as survival/growth factor
...plays a physiological role in normal neuronal cell maintenance and confers resistance to aging-induced stress," Jun Tan, MD, PhD, of the Roskamp Institute and lead investigator for the study. The findings suggest that in early life the CD40-CD40L signaling system plays a key role in differentiating immature cel...USF/VA researchers identify gene that increases risk for drug abuse
...entified one of the genes that plays a role in the maintenance of drug use and in the development of addiction," said John Schinka, Ph.D., director of neuropsychology at the James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital and professor of psychiatry at USF. Dr. Schinka, first author for the study, emphasized that mu-opioid i...Experimental treatment for hayfever is safe, effective, and fast
...six-month build-up phase of shots, with subsequent maintenance injection therapy over three to five more years. This study demonstrates that we can induce a clear clinical response in ragweed-allergic patients with a brief six-week, six-injection regimen, Creticos says. There is also the risk of developing a s...University of Southern Mississippi to ship first batch of Pentagon paint
...ebuilt wing," said Bob Billak, who is in charge of maintenance at the Pentagon. "Before then, we will use the paint on the corridors and offices in the (rest) of the building." Billak said the paint has been tested extensively and has shown to be more durable than conventional paint. More tests await the p...Information technology provides biologists with new tools for biodiversity conservation
...m process essential for global nutrient cycles and maintenance of fertile soils. Global distribution patterns of this highly diverse group of animals are unknown, yet may be critical for identifying biodiversity 'hotspots' and how changes to habitats can affect ecosystem health. Wall will reveal how, in just a f...Preliminary research suggests potential nitric oxide link to cocoa consumption
.... Nitric oxide plays such an important role in the maintenance of healthy blood pressure and, in turn, cardiovascular health, said Norman Hollenberg, M.D., Ph.D., professor of medicine at Brigham and Womens Hospital and Harvard Medical School and lead investigator of the cocoa study. If our research results con...Engineers develop odour eaters for pulp mills
... biodegradable air pollutants and is low cost, low maintenance and environmentally friendly....Study shows deoxygenating ballast water can prevent invasive species and ship corrosion
...solving an environmental problem and reducing ship maintenance costs. Tamburri and Wasson summarize research by Japanese scientists and engineers at Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd. who developed a deoxygenation technique to combat the costly corrosion experienced in cargo vessels. The method involves bubbling ni......g cancer that shed new light on the initiation and maintenance of the most prevalent form of this disease. Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related death in the United States. Of the 157,400 people projected to die of lung cancer in the U.S. in 2001, over 40% will be afflicted with pulmonary adenocarci......assumption of upright posture are critical for the maintenance of arterial pressure and cerebral perfusion. Whether orthostatic sympathetic vascular control is different between genders has not been investigated directly. Gender differences in reflex-mediated sympathetic activation have only recently attracted...