Black water turns the tide on Florida coral
In early 2002, a patch of "black water" spanning over 60 miles in diamete... bloom turned the water dark and the "black water" patch re-circulated for several months in a slow clockwise motion off southwest Florida in the Florida Big...Reduced daily eye patching effectively treats 'lazy eye'
...e amblyopia, were randomly assigned to wear an eye patch for two hours or six hours daily for four months. ...ard eye chart, a clear indication that wearing the patch for just two hours is an effective means of treatment," said study chairman Michael Repka, M.D., a p...Drug improves the sense of touch, Science study says
... millimeter disc for three hours that stimulated a patch of skin on tips of their right index fingers. This coactivation boosts the number of neurons involved in processing tactile information coming from the area of stimulated skin. By this method, external stimulation to finger tips temporarily reorganiz...Models show gene flow from crops threatens wild plants
...alley just southwest of Mexico City stands a small patch of teosinte - a wild, weedy grass thought to be the ancient ancestor of corn. As a gentle breeze blows gene-carrying pollen from a nearby crop of maize to its wild relative, the genetic integrity and even survival of this ancient plant and others cou...Brain links non-food images with eating -- But only when hungry, study suggests
... "Say a rabbit is hopping around its little grassy patch and he's learned how to find clover," Gottfried explained. "So, if he sees a particular tree stump, or rocky slope, that predicts clover." As if nature knew we wouldn't just stop eating when we were full, it also evolved a "brake system" for the cond...UVa scientists detail salmonella protein
... core, flexible polypeptide extensions and a large patch that may help SipA bind to the mostly acidic surface of actin....Want a side of algae with that? Hawaiian farmers sell seaweed by the seashore
...next step would be "put 'em out and start a little patch of it and that would be your little patch to harvest and tend." The starter plants can be grown in a variety of places: an ancient fishpond in...Microbial biofilm yields community genomes, metabolic clues
...arch focused on a sample from a postagestamp-sized patch of pink biofilm taken from a thin microbiallayer found growing hundreds of feet underground. (Oftenslimy, biofilms are communities of microorganisms-such asbacteria and fungi-that grow on surfaces. Think of a kitchensink left unwiped.) The research t...Topical vaccine protects against inhaled ricin
... that can be applied directly to the skin or via a patch protects mice from lethal exposure to aerosolized ... adjuvant and applied directly to the skin or on a patch that is applied to the skin. The vaccine was then applied either directly to the skin of mice or inc...Research suggests new way to repair cartilage damage
...injury site. Costing more than $26,000, the tissue patch approach works well for athletic injuries, but isn't recommended for osteoarthritis treatment, said Setton. Focusing on an alternative approach that provides for rapid and easy defect repair, Setton and her Duke University Medical Center colleague, T...Genetic profile, not clinical appearance, to determine tumor treatment
...vealed that the extent of spread of a precancerous patch is often much greater than previously realized. Long-term follow-up of cases screened by these molecular diagnostics suggests that detecting these troublesome foci of disease can help to identify individuals at risk of developing local and distant re......the aggregation and growth of prions-acting like a patch of Velcro that locks the misshapen proteins together. They went on to find that a short stretch of peptide repeats was required for the inheritance of prions - the proper division of prion masses and subsequent distribution of propagons during cell d...St. Jude researchers create image of enzyme that orchestrates natural genetic engineering
...tes the use of one strand of DNA as a blueprint to patch up a broken section of another piece of DNA. This also contributes to introducing new genes into chromosomes. "This process is like the continual mixing up of pieces of blueprints for two different houses," White said. "You still have two sets of blu...Ocean dye to help Rutgers scientists trace Hudson River's path miles into the Atlantic
...ool/latte. IMCS will take aerial photos of the dye patch and then post and later archive the images online. The five-year study, called the Lagrangian Transport and Transformation Experiment (LaTTE), also involves the ongoing use of unmanned submarines, satellites, coastal radar and other technologies. It ...New mouse species found in the Philippines
...re is a second set of "whiskers" that arise from a patch at the back edge of each eye. "Nearly all of the many unique small mammals on Luzon Island are descended from just two species that reached the Philippines from the Asian mainland about 10-15 million years ago," said Lawrence Heaney, Curator of mamma...UNC scientists block cellular enzyme activity involved in cancer progression
...uter modeling of the FERM domain predicted a small patch of positively charged amino acids on its surface. ... molecule devoid of positive charges on that small patch of FERM and found that their mutant protein was nonfunctional. Whereas breast cancer cells responded...Utah scientist helps discover new mouse species -- and maybe a new genus
...re is a second set of "whiskers" that arise from a patch at the back edge of each eye. "Nearly all of the many unique small mammals on Luzon Island are descended from just two species that reached the Philippines from the Asian mainland about 10 million to 15 million years ago," said Eric Rickart, curato...Tips from the Journals of the American Society for Microbiology
...on Researchers from Maryland have developed a patch designed to stimulate the immune system and enhanc...e researchers. LT-IS, an immunostimulating patch containing the enterotoxin Escherichia coli, is to be applied directly over the flu vaccine injectio...Despite darkness, nocturnal bees learn visual landmarks while foraging at night
...wn for using visual landmarks to locate a favoured patch of flowers and to find their way back to their hive. Researchers have now found that nocturnal bees can do the same thing, despite experiencing light intensities that are more than 100 million times dimmer than daylight. The new findings, reported by...