INEEL launches comprehensive vadose zone management program
...an external advisorygroup in Idaho Falls, Idaho to plan activities for the national roadmappingexercise. ... TomStoops. "The roadmapping process will help us plan long term for the vision oftoday's top scientists. Expertise from DOE sites, contractors, industry,...Keck Foundation supports research at the edge
...nother concrete manifestation of this trend is the plan to construct a$110-million, 180,000+ net square-foot facility which will provide new researchspace for investigators interested in the interactions between the biologicaland physical sciences. Downloadable @: http://www.uchospitals.edu/news/Keck.ht...Microbial janitors tackle nuclear clean-up problems
...an counterparts with nuclear clean-up. Researchers plan to coax naturally occurring microbes to clean radi...t information, the company will develop amarketing plan for the technology. "It's always hard to predict when or how fasta technology will go to commerciali...Even in the Amazon jungles, treatment for heat exhaustion is the same as it is right here at home
...g really bad happens, we have backup." Whether you plan to trek through the Peruvian Amazon or ride a bike on a sunnyday in Los Angeles, Dr. Hardy says preparing yourself ahead of time for the heatis the most important preventive measure you can take. But if you're in the heat longer than expected, you'r...Social behavior transformed with one new gene
...vasopressin receptors in non-humanprimates and now plan to focus on variation in the receptors in humans. Thiswork is important, as virtually every form of human psychiatric disorder ischaracterized by abnormal social attachments. Yet remarkably, very little isknown about social bond formation; its anat...'Knockout' mouse may lead to major understanding of human kidney disorder
... Dr. Mukherjee said he and his colleagues next plan to test people withIgA-nephropathy to learn if their blood uteroglobin levels differ from those ofpeople who do not have the disease. If their uteroglobin levels are indeedfound to be abnormally low, treatment might involve supplementation withutero...Mountain Lake Hotel places environmental book in rooms
...dby a single discipline. He argues that we need to plan carefully and put intoplace an educational system that will make everyone a part of the solution tothe problem. Wallace has been trying to get that point across for many years. Back in 1990,when the Worldwatch Institute predicted that, if environment...... they have screened more than 4,000 babies, with a plan totest 8,000 more to assess their genetic susceptibility to the disease. Fortifiedby a $2 million grant awarded by the National Institutes of Health this month, they will use the information to trackthose considered to be at high risk and try to dete...Scientists gather in Oregon to decide next steps of mid-ocean ridge exploration
...s will meet inNewport, Oregon, September 22-24, to plan a new decade of research into thegeology, chemistry and biology of Earth's mid-ocean ridge system. The conference, to be held at the Hatfield Marine Science Center ishosted by the RIDGE (Ridge Interdisciplinary Global Experiments) Program Off...USGS studies wildfire ecology in the western United States
...ather conditions. The model has since been used to plan and execute prescribed burns in the park and to predict fire behavior on landscapes subjected to different techniques of understory fuel reduction, from mechanical thinning of trees to prescribed burning. Van Wagtendonk says potential applicatio...Physicians who acknowledge abuse and confirm patient's worth are most helpful
...atient move to a safe environment or in other ways plan for safety. Co-authors of the study are Priscilla Abercrombie, RN, NP, PhD, assistantclinical professor, UCSF School of Nursing; Nona Caspers, MFA, senior editor,division of behavioral sciences, UCSF School of Dentistry; Candace Love, PhD,research as...Communications towers killing birds
...erting to the digital format in the United States plan to erect more than1,000 "megatowers," each at least 1,000 feet tall. The FWS biologist said that friends of birds can expect more catastrophes suchas the Jan. 22, 1998, incident when an estimated 10,000 Lapland longspurs diedone foggy, snowy night in...Scientists identify novel component of cell-fate pathway
...the resulting embryos havea duplicated dorsal body plan just like conjoined twins. When the researchersdestroyed dorsal structures in frog embryos with ultraviolet irradiation, theycould "rescue" them by injecting CKI. In the worm Caenorhabditis elegans, Graffand collaborators showed that blocking CKI dis...Reduce calories, stave off hunger with water-rich foods -- not water
...ok will also detail her energydensity-based eating plan and offer menus, recipes and tips for modifying yourfavorite dishes. As far as her current study of water is concerned, however, Rolls notesthat she doesn't want to discourage people from drinking water either before,during or after their mea...NIAMS funds the North American Spondylitis Consortium
...e about genes that play a role in the disease.They plan to collect medical information and genetic material (DNA) from 400families nationwide in which two or more siblings have AS. The project will beheaded by John D. Reveille, M.D., of the University of Texas-Houston HealthScience Center, along with inv...Stressed-out mice offer clues to depression, anxiety, anorexia
... In future research, Seasholtz and her colleagues plan to continue working withthe U-M mouse model to understand how all the stress hormones and receptorsinvolved in the CRH system work together to produce anxiety-like behavior. Themice also may prove to be a valuable research model for testing new anti...Biosensor expected to improve food safety
... field test at Gold Kist is completed, researchers plan to returnto their laboratories to further refine the technology. "We would like to extendthe biosensor's capabilities to detect other pathogens, and we will need tooptimize the chemistry for that," Hartman said. "Also, we would like to use thebiosens...Cleaner air and less acidification among proposals for new environmental goals
...0 years, all wetlands listed in the mireprotection plan should beprotected. In addition, a plan is needed for the preservation of wet forest anda programme ofmeasures for the care of fertile fens....Major grants support immunology, transplant and diabetes research at the University of Chicago
...rightest minds in immunologyand flows from NIAID's plan to accelerate clinical trials for novel approachesto modulate immune responses," said NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. "Immune tolerance research has great potential to help millions afflicted withsome of the most debilitating and chronic immune......cture of invasin solved, Isberg and his colleagues plan to lookmore closely at the messages the cell receives when invasin binds to itsintegrin receptors. They are also interested in the process by which thisbinding triggers uptake of the bacteria by epithelial cells in theintestine. Meanwhile, the next ...