Cornell Researchers Precisely Date Wood From Ancient Tomb In Turkey
...ll's Goldwin Smith Hall. Pinned on the walls of a narrow lab cluttered with microscopes and maps, books and statues, computers and cabinets filled with charcoal samples, are long colored strips of paper depicting various chronologies. One orange strip on the wall runs from circa 500 B.C. to 50 A.D.; a blu...Cooking And Salad Oils Could Lubricate Cars, Boats, Machines
... While the tests examined important but relatively narrow characteristics, Duda notes that one of the group's commercial partners, Renewable Lubricants of Ohio, has also demonstrated vegetable oil's potential by using similar corn oil formulations successfully in company vehicles for...Medicinal Leech May Offer Clues To Neural Regeneration
...rgets," Sahley says. "Our goal in this study is to narrow it down and see, in a regenerating system, who this protein talks to and what it does at any specific time." Her studies suggest that nitric oxide may serve as a "stop sign" for microglia, specialized cells that roam the central nervous system to ing...Sea Turtles Have Favorite Oceanic Routes
...the discovery that turtles are concentrated within narrow corridors, what we're finding is that this may not be true," Morreale said....Moving DNA Molecules With Magnetic Tweezers
...s pulled by a magnet, the moleculestretches into a narrow trumpet-like shape. Wirtz used themagnetic tweezers in his home city of Brussels, Belgium, tobecome the first scientist to measure the friction coefficient--force divided by velocity--of a single DNA molecule. In 1995, hisfindings were published in P...Team Identifies Switch For Tumor Suppressor Gene
...protein, knownas PP1c, does its work during a very narrow time frame duringmitosis, when a cell is dividing. PP1c turns on RB through a chemical process known as de-phosphorylation, a common process in the body where a proteinknown as a phosphatase strips phosphate groups off a protein. Thestripped-dow...NIH Team Discovers Endocrine Tumor Gene
...; collaboration with NCI and NIDDK enabled them to narrow the interval further. With the physical map in hand, collaborators at the University of Oklahoma were able to sequence the critical genomic region and all the genes were identified with help from bioinformatics experts Drs. Mark Boguski and Jane Wei...Researchers Find Production Point Of Key Protein In Fragile X Syndrome
... affected. Telling physical featuresinclude a long narrow face and/or prominent ears, jaw and forehead. Impairmentranges from severe retardation to slightly below normal intelligence. The X chromosome contains many genes. The fragile X gene contains thecode for the fragile X mental retardation protein. Tha...Insulin Resistance Is A Risk Factor For Atherosclerosis In Whites And Hispanics
...le. Stroke canresult when the carotid artery walls narrow to the point that the brain does notget sufficient blood. Howard will present the researchers' findings on August 16 at InternationalNeurosonology '97. The conference, which ends today, has drawn doctors fromaround the world to review the lat...Colorado State Anthropologist Finds Fossil Treasures In Africa
...of the cave and learned how to better navigate its narrow passages, whichserve as a link between two chambers where the fossils are located. To get to the main chamber--called the Drop Room--the researchteam must climb down a steep rubble slope to a small opening measuring 4 feet across. The larger primate ...Geologist Finds Evidence Supporting Mysterious Ancient Sea
... volcanic ash beds which he believesdemonstrates a narrow Iapetus Ocean did exist during theOrdovician but closed off and disappeared by the Silurian 420million years ago. "If you look at the younger beds 420 million years ago there is no more Iapetus Ocean," said Huff. "The question iswhether there ever...Good Ergonomics Is Good Economics
...sales to about 30%, and it was shrinking. The new narrow isle and swing-reach truck lines were introduced in the United States in 1992, and the swing-reach line was introduced in Europe in 1993. Order books at Raymond are full and the company is once again enjoying success. Raymond stock has risen from aro......anowire between two gold electrodes separated by a narrow gapof 12 microns, about one-tenth the width of a human hair. They synthesizedstrands of DNA that linked themselves together to form a kind of constructionscaffolding between the electrodes. Since DNA by itself does not pass current,they finished the ...Insights Into The Proteasome - A Fascinating Macromolecular Machine For Protein Degradation
... proteasome the two outermost constrictions are so narrow that only unfolded polypeptides are admitted to the interior. This size exclusion mechanism was visualized by electron microscopy with a gold labeled insulin b -chain caught in transit; the bulky gold label prevents the insulin chain ...Caribbean Lizards Evolve Independently
... One has extremely short legs andcrawls slowly on narrow twigs; another has long legs and runs rapidly on t...horterlimbs to move with greater efficiency on the narrow vegetation in their newhabitat. Examination of the populations 15 years after their establ...Kaposi's Sarcoma Caused By Virus Usually Transmitted Through Homosexual Sex, According To UCSF Study
... one well-defined population of men observedover a narrow time frame, and by controlling for our subject's sexual behaviorand degree of HIV-related disease, we believe we have eliminated the possibilitythat the apparent association between HHV-8 and Kaposi's sarcoma, seen in priorstudies, was caused by anyt...Purdue Herbarium -- A Noah's Ark For Egyptian Plants
... people live on just 4 percent of its territory, a narrow swath of land along the Nile River. Population density along the water's edge is 5,000 people per square mile. Beyond them lies desert. By bringing water to the desert, the Egyptians hope to reclaim land in the "New Valley" for agriculture. By the ye......e forthe Report on Carcinogens -- recommended by a narrow margin that the sweetenercontinue to be listed as an "anticipated" carcinogen. The NTP, which is headquartered at the National Institute of EnvironmentalHealth Sciences in Research Triangle Park, N.C., particularly asked informationon: ...COGA Genome Scan Suggests Linkage On Chromosomes 1,2,4, And 7
...cation, investigators will use flanking markers to narrow the region of interest on each chromosome. "We also plan a 5-year prospective followup with juvenile members of the genotyped families. Observing their development will allow us to directly measure the effects of susceptibility loci and to test gene-...