Biologists predict more marine disease
...fthe iceberg as global warming and pollution allow old diseases to find newhosts, 13 biologists predict in this week's issue (Sept. 3, 1999) of the journal Science . Dying seals infected with distemper from sled dogs, sardines with herpes virusimported in aquaculture feed and corals killed by a soil-born......to the space. The gene-modified mice rememberedthe old object, and devoted their time to exploring the ne...of time exploring both objects,indicating that the old object was no more familiar to them than the new. Byrepeating the test at different intervals, the r...Microbial hydrocarbon 'cracking'
...nown compounds thatsustain microbial life in deep, old sediments. Hence, the process as observed inthe studied culture could, in principle, lead to methane formation in such oldsediments and maybe even in petroleum reservoirs....A socially responsible car for the new millenium
...achtonnes of steel presently used is recycled from old steel, ULSAB is sociallyresponsible too. Similar projects using ultra-light steel have shown that thematerial is also suited to closures, such as doors, and to suspension systems,for which more than 55 designs have been generated. According to Walker......ecular and histologic analysis,thinking these were old cancers that had returned. Instead, they found that someof the tumors were actually completely new breast cancers. The new cancers tookan average of 8.5 years to develop. "If this study is validated with a larger prospective study, it maysugges...Testosterone, stress may not suppress immune system after all
...buteswhite blood cells," says Braude. "I think the old theory about immunosuppressionmade a lot of sense on the surface. You can see it every day. If someone'sstressed, they're likely to get sick. The simple interpretation is that theimmune system is suppressed. But the redistribution hypothesis is m...New textbook is first comprehensive guide to horse dentistry
...formance years, as young adults, in maturity andin old age. They cover equipment, techniques, diseases and treatment, as wellas the four types of teeth, how they develop and how they have evolved from asmall horse-like animal living in South America more than 50 million years ago. "Nobody has been in a ...Scientists discover addition of new brain cells in highest brain area
...ys. Thediscovery reverses a dogma nearly a century old and suggests entirely new waysof explaining how the mind accomplishes its basic functions, from problemsolving to learning and memory. Elizabeth Gould and Charles Gross report in the Oct. 15 issue of Science thatthe formation of new neurons or nerve ...Primitive primate makes the case for Asian anthropoid origins
... also available in French Forty million year old fossil teeth and jaw fragments from a new species ...ke a livingfossil. " Bahinia is a 40 million year old fossil that looks like a 57million year old fossil in its teeth," said Jaeger. "What makes this inte...Peering at a machine that pries DNA apart
... theDNA. The structure does, however, nurture an old passion, says Ellenberger. "As a kidI always loved engines, and I am still fascinated that you can make a proteinfunction as this large, cooperative assembly to move rapidly down a strand ofDNA. You've got all these motions flickering in a nanosecond...Search and support for the rare white abalone is on; sex must occur with close neighbors
...rom recentlydead individuals, but most shells were old and disintegrating, testimony to onceabundant populations, which in the 1970s numbered 1,000 to 5,000 per acre. This month a group of university, government and private biologists, ina two-person submersible, began to cruise the ocean floor ...On the floor of the sea: USGS biologists search for rare, white abalone
...rom recentlydead individuals, but most shells were old and disintegrating, bearing mutetestimony to once abundant populations. The researchers also discovered that white abalone habitat on deep reefs wassimilar to that on shallower reefs: small reefs with low relief and bouldersscattered on sand, with s...Higher obesity rates prevail among Dutch women exposed to famine in utero
...d of comparative affluence. In this study, 50 year old womenexposed to famine in early gestation were by far the most affected, whereas menshowed relatively mild effects....Old brains can learn new tricks!
...er studies have conducted comparisons of young and old brainactivity, this is the first to focus on how the interplay of brain regionsrelates to cognitive functioning and aging. "The older brain is more resilient than we think," says Dr. Randy McIntosh,Rotman scientist and assistant professor, Department...Wolf response to climate change can impact ecosystem
...d encounters between the two species and made more old moose and calves available to wolf predation. The greater food supply for wolves during snowy winters made them healthier and able to reproduce more successfully, according to Peterson....Why are the elderly so easily fooled by con artists?
...e completely healthy. This may help to explain why old people so often fall victim to fraudulent advertising. A1996 survey showed most victims of fraudulent telephone marketing are 50 or older.......s almost four times as variable and three times as old in chimpanzees as it is in humans. Although this c...chimpanzees, "it is likely that the subspecies are old enough for the mitochondrial DNA to have become different between the subspecies, but not old enough...JMU builds supercomputer for national model undergraduate program
...one time. Today, it's speed that counts. "In the old days, a supercomputer was a computer that was a lot faster than the computer on your desk," Sochacki said. "Nowadays, a supercomputer is more of an environment." The program's physics component involves fluid dynamics, the study of the behavior of ...Science and Amersham Pharmacia Biotech award Young Scientist Prize
Washington D.C.- Victor Velculescu, a 29-year old cancer researcher at the Johns Hopkins Oncology Center in Baltimore, is the grand prize winner of a prestigious science award for his enterprising work on a technique that provides a "snapshot" of all the active genes inside a cell. This method promi...MGH researchers first to identify genetic malfunction in type 1 diabetes
...nd other immune cells, mice that were 6 to 8 weeks old lacked Lmp2 protein in corresponding cells. "This almost complete shutdown of protein production is very rare," Faustman explains. "The finding suggests that the problem is not in the DNA segment that codes for the protein - which appears totally nor...