Humboldt awarded for study of acid-mine drainage in Germany
... metal sulfides. These acidic effluent flows, from mine entrances and waste piles, mix with air and oxygenated surface water and precipitate metal oxides, oxyhydroxides, and/or hydroxysulfates." These phases form mineral/rock coatings and sediments down to the nanometer scale that may contain very high c......swimmer defense, deep-water object recoveries, and mine countermeasures. They are healthy and well cared for, and the loss of just one of these carefully nurtured animals is a costly and tragic event. A newly developed type of vaccine is the plasmid DNA vaccine, which avoids the use of killed or live i...Virus found to carry antibiotic against E. coli
...r own right. It looks like small phages are a gold mine for protein antibiotics." Young agrees. "The important thing is that this is the second small phage which we have found to make a protein antibiotic, and other people in the lab are working on a third," said Young, "Surprisingly, each of these phages...So just how many genes do we have?
...ll through the cracks. While many labs continue to mine the genome for new genes, some are finding it difficult to get funding. The head of one biomedical research lab, who preferred not to be named, says his funders recently asked him why he was continuing to look for genes when the "genome was finished"...Output from major platinum-group metals producer could increase
... gathered by the USGS indicate that total domestic mine production of PGM last year was more than 13,000 k...xpand production at this site and to open a second mine should reduce the domestic shortfall. Reserves at these sites are expected to allow production at c...Glennda Chui and Richard Stone win AGU journalism awards
...y scientists and Canadian colleagues deep inside a mine at Iron Mountain, near Redding, California. There, miners had extracted over a billion dollars worth of minerals over the years and left, in Chui's words, "an environmental disaster." She describes both the chemical processes that make the water so a...Drug resistance found to vary by ethnicity
...l drug therapy. "So its always been an interest of mine not to confine my investigations to 18- to 35-year-old Caucasian males, which is where most drugs are studied, but to try to look at males and females of different ethnic groups," McLeod says. ...Saving Florida's gentle giants
...nsors - originally developed by ONR for underwater mine detection - was fitted onto the gates and locks at Port Canaveral. Designed to stay open if a manatee is near them, the Port Canaveral gates now operate like garage doors - sensing in a tenth of a second if a manatee is nearby. The gates will not clo...Discovery may jump-start mine remediation efforts
...vers exploring the dark, flooded tunnels of an old mine in southwestern Wisconsin, the historic lead minin...amination around mining sites is significant. Acid mine drainage, for example, is a threat to surface and ground water near mines. It occurs when metal-sulf...Biodiversity databases: biodiversity information on every desktop
...the Names of Known Organisms and search engines to mine the vast quantities of biodiversity data. Biodiversity is distributed all over the earth, with the highest concentration in tropical regions, especially in developing countries, and in the oceans. In contrast, scientific information abou...Cadmium makes brittle bones in Rocky Mt. birds
...hes through the piles of ore tailings at abandoned mine sites. Most trees and other plants readily take up cadmium from the soil, but willows in particular act as biological pumps to biomagnify, or concentrate, the toxic metal in willow leaves and leaf buds to as much as 100 times the levels found in soi...Fact sheet: the Report on Carcinogens - 9th edition
...l exhaust. These groups include railroad workers, mine workers, bus garage workers, and trucking company workers. Isoprene - Isoprene is listed in the 9th Report as "reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen." Isoprene is one of the major components that makes up natural rubber and is used to m...DoubleTwist completes the first annotation of the human genome
...ding a mechanism for scientists to easily view and mine this information on DoubleTwist.com." "With today's announcement, the stage is set for a new era of discovery," said Greg Papadopoulos, Chief Technology Officer for Sun Microsystems, Inc. "What the Web browser is to the Internet, DoubleTwist....Researchers decode human chromosomes 5, 16, and 19
...said Secretary Richardson. "Scientists can already mine this treasure trove of information for the advances it may bring in our basic understanding of life as well as applications such as diagnosing, treating and eventually preventing disease." Richardson made his remarks at the 25th Annual American Assoc...Manatees saved by ONR-supported technology
...site transducers are submarine sonar, surface ship mine hunting, nondestructive testing, medical ultrasound, and seismic exploration. A demonstration of the newest, second-generation Manatee Protection System is planned for today, Mar. 24, at the Port Canaveral locks. A swimmer or towed target will go th...Acid-loving microbe may be a key to mine pollution
...f Wisconsin-Madison report the discovery in an old mine of an archaeon that thrives when metal sulfide ore...lieved to be a key mediator of the process of acid mine drainage, the primary environmental problem associated with the extraction of metal ores from the ea......omics technologies and databases to systematically mine the genome to discover appropriate drug targets against which to use the XenoMouse technology for developing antibody drugs." Antibodies are naturally occurring proteins used by the body's immune system to combat many diseases. As therapeutic produc...Just how serious a problem is alcoholism?
...: the majority of alcoholics -- yourneighbors and mine -- do not receive the treatment they need. A recent study funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism(NIAAA) began with the premise that much of the information currently availableon alcoholics is based on those who enter formal ...UMass virologist publishes book on "The Real Science Behind 'The X-Files'"
... And it appeals to a rangeof ages: "A colleague of mine is reading it, and so is his 13-year-old son,"notes Simon. "People who give science a chance will find that it's fun. Scienceisn't boring." Simon's book tour includes a scheduled appearance on "Good Morning America" onOct. 22. Several Amherst-area r......ed to their own beliefs, and I don't want toimpose mine on anyone; however, I can see how some people might feel hurt by theobvious play on the traditional fish logo. I can't speak for everyone, but Idon't see it as anything but light-hearted." Another respondent said pointedlythat "the last thing I would...