Warmer weather, human disturbances interact to change forests
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...dy to directly measure when and how quickly rivers outside of growing mountain ranges cut through rock, geolo...oltwood Gorge. Great Falls, located about 15 miles outside of Washington, D.C., hosts hundreds of thousands of visitors each year; Holtwood Gorge lies along th...Family-friendly, flexible and far-reaching
...candidates the opportunity to work in laboratories outside their home countries for a period of up to 3 months. New additions to the short-term fellowship eligibility criteria aim to remove geographical boundaries from applications and promote collaboration in research. Previously movement was only possible ...University of Pittsburgh medical center among first to implant heart assist device
...a patient still on a device to await a human donor outside the hospital. Based on UPMC's experience, the FDA later allowed patients implanted with the Novacor to be discharged to their homes to await heart transplant. It was the first in the country to develop an experienced bioengineering team, called Vital...A pathway to blocking autoimmunity
...at the work provides insight into how signals from outside the cell can influence differentiation and gene ex...ed response whether endogenous ligands arrive from outside of the cell or are generated inside the cell," Nagy said. Previous studies with non-obese diabe...Living at home helps young mothers stay in school
...urrent welfare policy might require that they work outside the home. Also, because the parents in this study all had low birthweight babies, it is also possible we might find different results studying parents of higher birthweight babies....Scientists identify molecular link driving spread of skin cancer
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...eurons that are involved in communication with the outside world. From ongoing research with bacterially-related, cyclase-like sensor proteins, we got the idea that maybe the heme domain in GCY-35 was binding to oxygen." At the time, Marletta and his group were carrying out parallel studies with UCSF's Bargm...Italian research links diet with endometriosis risk
... is found only in the lining of the womb, develops outside the uterus and attaches itself to ligaments and organs in the abdominal cavity. This tissue responds to the menstrual cycle as though it were still inside the uterus. The repeated growth and disintegration of endometrial tissue in the abdomen can cau...APS recognizes Intel high school finalists for experiments in physiology
...nd prize of $500. He performed much of his project outside the laboratory as he studied the effects of chlorine on the lung function of outdoor swimmers. The APS judges were led by P.K. Rangachari, professor of pharmacology and therapeutics at the University of Alberta, Canada, who said, "Mr. Finlayson's st...Report outlines steps needed to lessen smallpox threat
...of the variola virus, which causes smallpox, exist outside the two known repositories in the United States and Russia. Second, the impact of intentional release of the virus would "probably provoke a global health crisis." The report states that "the lethality of the disease (up to 40 percent) and its ease o...New lower-cost assay system equivalent to flow cytometry for accurate CD4+/CD8+ cell counts
...ently marketing the EasyCD4 and EasyCD8 in nations outside of the United States, Europe and Japan. The company is also introducing a version of the EasyCD4 system for research use only in the United States and will subsequently seek U.S. Food and Drug Administration clearance for use of the system as a clini...Warren Pharmaceuticals publishes results of preclinical evaluation
...ms. Warren has retained all rights for indications outside of Lundbeck's field, including the eye, cardiovasculature and diabetic complications. Accompanying the Science article is a commentary written by Hannelore Ehrenreich, a neuroscientist at the Max Planck Institute for Experimental Medicine in Goetting...Key principles for the foundation of a European Research Council (ERC)
...g of basic research by an organisation established outside the European Commission as part of the 7th Framework Programme for 20062010 are now quite good. An important step by the European Commission was its statement of priorities for the 7th Framework Programme in mid-June, in which one of the six major ob...Mitochondria in spinal cords is ALS target according to UCSD medical researchers
...ignores all other mitochondria in cells and tissue outside of the spinal cord, and binds only to the mitochondria in the large motor neurons that begin in the spinal cord and extend down the arms and legs. They found SOD1 both inside the mitochondria and coated on the mitochondria's outer components. "How...UCSD team determines cellular stress within body is critical
...rs when the concentration of molecules in solution outside of the cell is different than that inside the cell... that cells of the immune system or any other cell outside the kidney, for that matter, were exposed to significant osmotic stress in the body." One of the dif...Protein controls acid in cells by direct detection of volume changes, study finds
... in a cell's membrane. This allows sodium from the outside to come in and protons positively charged particl...lowed them better control over what was inside and outside of the cell. They also optimized the use of tiny sensors that can measure exactly the movement of p...