Two-month study of life in mid-Atlantic yields trove of species, new insights & questions
Exploring life in the mid-Atlantic at various depths down to 4 km (2.5 miles), 60 scientists from 13 ...countries on a two-month expedition have surfaced a wealth of new information and insights, stunning ...images and marine life specimens, several thought to be species never before known to science.... ...Using remotely-operated deep-sea vehicles, hydroacoustics and other technologies for sampl...APS/IUPS launch PHYSIOLOGY bimonthly
BETHESDA, MD (July 30, 2004) The American Physiological Society and the...International Union of Physiological Sciences (IUPS) in August are launching Physiology, a bimonthly journal of invited articles that identify, review and critically discuss the most important research and developments in the broad, integrative science of physiology. ... ...The editor is Dr. Walter Boron, MD, PhD, profess...Health benefits of training mothers in developing countries to exclusively breastfeed for 6 months
Reducing diarrhoeal disease among infants in less-developed countries could be assisted by the imple-mentation of straightforward community-based health programmes to promote exclusive breastfeeding for six months after childbirth, conclude authors of a study in this week's issue of The Lancet....... The WHO recommend exclusive breastfeeding until six months of age for infants in less-developed c...Belmonte Science Center trains high school teachers in latest scientific methods
92 teachers meet in Israel from July 20 22 at the Belmonte Science Laboratories Center to participate in the EMBO teachers workshop "Frontiers of Molecular Biology". The workshop comprises scientific lectures from leading researchers and practical experiments. ... This is the first national workshop in a series of nine EMBO workshops. It follows in the footsteps of the international teachers wor...World's largest scientific society convenes regional meeting June 12-14 in Bozeman, Mont.
...... Northwest regional meeting of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society, in Bozeman, Mont., June 12-14. Approximately 350 scientists and students are expected to attend the meeting, held at Montana State University in the Strand Union Building (Conference Office, 406-994-3081). Topics include the following:... ... Bioinorganic chemistry...... Biophysical chemi...Undersea data network planned for Monterey Bay
Computer networks and power grids are common enough on land, but over the next three years a team of oceanographers will be extending such networks thousands of feet beneath the sea. The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently awarded grants to the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), as well as the University of Washington, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and the Woods Hole Ocean...Dinosaur discoveries in Montana
The Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and a team of dinosaur experts and preparators from the Museum of the Rockies at Montana State University in Bozeman, Mont., have discovered and excavated new fossil dinosaur specimens in Montana. Two Tyrannosaurus rex specimens and a Triceratops specimen are among the discoveries at 12 excavation sites near Hell Creek, Mont. A helicopter wil...Testosterone gel (AndroGel) study demonstrates safety and efficacy up to 42 months
San Francisco, Calif. and Torrance, Calif. (June 20, 2002) A Phase 3 study conducted at multiple research centers in the U.S. under the direction of Ronald Swerdloff, MD, Principal Investigator at the Research and Education Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (REI) shows that long-term use of AndroGel, a transdermal testosterone replacement gel, is safe and effective in men with low testoste...Society for Women's Health Research will be releasing reports related to Heart Month
February news and resources for health editors cover sex differences ...in interventions, mortality and risk factors in honor of Heart Month ......Washington, DC Throughout February, the Society for Womens Health Research News Service will provide news and additional resources for editors interested in covering women and heart disease in conjunction with Heart Month. The Womens Health Research...Society for Vertebrate Paleontology to hold annual meeting in Montana in October
BOZEMAN, MONT--The worlds largest group of scientists that studies dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures will meet in Bozeman, Mont., Oct. 3-6 to talk about the latest discoveries.... ... A record 1,200 members of the Society for Vertebrate Paleontology are expected to attend the conference at Montana State University. This is the first time the society has met in Montana.... ... Shelley McKa...Montana State University begins major trout and salmonid book collection
. Allan was the fisherman, his boyhood river the Little Bighorn in eastern Montana. His brother, Fred, was the historian and non-angler. . When Allan graduated from college in 1940, Fred gave him an 18th-century leather-bound edition of that British classic known as "The Complete Angler." . Fred Roush is dead now, but for decades Allan Roush of Bozeman, Mont., kept the rare volume. Recently...Montana drought sends paleontologists to field early for largest project in state's history
. BOZEMAN, Mont.--Crews working on the largest known paleontology project in Montana's history headed to the field early this year. . Drought and the potential for another bad fire season sent Jack Horner and his Montana State University-Bozeman team to Eastern Montana on May 15, said Pat Leiggi, administrative director of paleontology at MSU's Museum of the Rockies. The early start means they'......The Journal of Cell Biology (JCB), a research journal published by the non-profit Rockefeller University Press, announced today that it has made its content available for free on its web site ( , and the...ST@T SHEET: A monthly update on science/technology @ Temple University
. . .TO STUDY CORAL REEFS, STUDENTS TRAVEL TO BELIZES BARRIER REEF: .Fifteen Temple University students are spending their winter break learning first hand about the organization, framework and biological diversity of coral reefs through a special month-long course, "The Biology of Coral Reefs," that includes a field trip to Belize. Taught by Drs. Richard Miller and Robert Sanders, both Temple p...Researchers trace toxins from algal blooms through the marine food web in Monterey Bay
.Santa Cruz, CA -- Researchers studying a bloom of toxic algae in Monterey Bay last summer found the algal toxin domoic acid in anchovies, sardines, and krill, all key species in the marine food web. Harvesting of anchovies and sardines for human consumption was halted and there were no reports of adverse effects on wildlife from this particular bloom. Nevertheless, the findings raise concerns a...Montana researcher co-authors Science article on Niger dinosaurs
. BOZEMAN, MONT--A Bozeman, Mont., researcher who's studied dinosaur fossils in Morocco, Argentina and Niger co-authored a paper that appears in the Nov. 12, 1999 issue of Science.. David Varricchio, a research associate at the Museum of the Rockies at Montana State University, was one of 11 scientists who contributed to the article. It is titled "Cretaceous Sauropods from the Sahara and the Un...Experts take aim at Montezuma's revenge at conference organized by UM school of medicine
.About 400 infectious disease experts from around the world will gather in.Baltimore this month to share the latest information on how to combat two common.forms of bacteria, known for their ability to cause a tremendous amount of.discomfort. One type of bacteria, called Campylobacter, is the leading cause of.diarrhea worldwide. The other, Helicobacter pylori, has been linked to ulcers.and sto...Montana Hantavirus Study Looks At Why The Mouse Goes Into The House
.BOZEMAN, MT--Ask Rick Douglass, a man who has handled deer mice about.30,000 times, why the mouse goes into the house. . . Douglass, a biologist at Montana Tech in Butte,Mont., wants to know what.brings the rodents into Montana houses, barns and outbuildings, where the.likelihood of spreading hantavirus to humans is far greater than in the field.. . Hantavirus is a respiratory dis...Sandia, University Of Montana Researchers Try Training Bees To Find Buried Landmines
.ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.--Bees dutifully going about their daily.business -- gathering nectar and pollen and taking it back.to the hive -- may one day help protect the lives and limbs.of people, literally, if a landmine-detection demonstration.at the Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories.is successful.. .Sandia chemists are working with entomologists at the.University of Montana to see i...Montana Scientist Returns From Dinosaur Nesting Site In Patagonia
.BOZEMAN--A giant dinosaur nesting ground in South America, where a year.ago scientists found the world's first fossilized dinosaur skin, will probably.make headlines again this year, said a Bozeman, Mont., scientist connected with.the project.. . "This is the most incredible site I've ever seen," said Frankie Jackson,.a researcher at Montana State University who accompanied a crew that...Montana State University Scientist Contributes To Latest Dinosaur Discovery
. BOZEMAN, MONT.--A Bozeman, Mont., woman took particular notice of recent.news that scientists had found a rare dinosaur embryo in the Patagonia region of.Argentina.. . Frankie Jackson, a research associate in the Museum of the Rockies and.earth sciences department at Montana State University-Bozeman, is one of six.scientists who described the discovery in the Nov. 19 issue of the....BOZEMAN, Mont.--When drilling through the ice of Antarctica's Lake Bonney in.the 1980s, John Priscu and his team would utter expletives when reaching a depth.of about six feet, or two meters.. On their way down to liquid water, which lay under a permanent ice layer.about 15 feet deep, they invariably struck a layer of sediment.. "At first I cursed the sediment layer because it d....A fossilized skeleton believed to be the largest specimen of a.Tyrannosaur ever unearthed was found this summer by a field crew headed by J..Keith Rigby, a University of Notre Dame paleontologist. The fossil, which has.been only partially excavated, lies in a vast dinosaur graveyard in northeastern.Montana near the Fort Peck Reservoir.. . According to Rigby, the fossil is nearly complet...