Hurricane Floyd signal of a new weather era?
... activity," Taylor said."Certainly one of the most prominent is Atlantic Ocean hurricanes. Also veryclear is more La Nina years, and wetter, cooler conditions in the PacificNorthwest. In fact, we have a graph showing the tight correlation between severehurricane seasons like the one we're now having, and wet w...Researchers find new mechanism for growing new blood vessels
...gene that makes HIF-1alpha. Angiogenesis is also a prominent feature of tissue repair and inflammation. In this setting, it is believed to be induced by the presence of inflammatory cells, such as macrophages, which are capable of secreting angiogenic growth factors such as VEGF and FGF. For example, experimen...Awareness, quick action key to battling canine bacterial disease
...Rapid onset, high fever, hypotension and shock are prominent characteristics of Streptococcal Toxic Shock Syndr...Rapid onset, high fever, hypotension and shock are prominent characteristics of STSS in humans. At approximately the same time, a number of unusual cases of necr...Heat can help maintain muscle mass in immobilized limbs, study shows
...archers measured the degree of muscle atrophy in a prominent leg muscle. They analyzed the muscles for protein content and for levels of the heat shock protein HSP72, a stress protein produced in the cells by excessive heat and known to protect cells from some types of damage. In rats that had been treated wit...Light receptor may be key in how animals use Earth's magnetic field
...The receptor -- cryptochrome -- is known to play a prominent role regulating an animal's day-and-night rhythm. Now, UI scientists report in the February issue of the Biophysical Journal that chemical experiments and computational modeling indicate that cryptochrome may be the site of a neurochemical reaction ...President Clinton awards nation's highest honor for science and technology
... many have built and led some of the nation's most prominent academic and research institutions. And this year a number of laureates have been particularly lauded for fostering a better understanding of science by the general public. "We honor these exceptional U.S. scientists and engineers for their ach...Alexion and Yale discover harmful complement activation in patients with acute coronary syndrome
...platelet and anti-clotting agents, an increasingly prominent literature demonstrates that ACS patients may also suffer from severe inflammation. The current findings add significantly to these previous observations by demonstrating that severe and injurious complement activation occurs specifically in the coro...Genes or environment: what shapes the sensory homunculus?
...e visual world in lower brain centers also plays a prominent role in imprinting a proper body map on the brain's cortex. The work is intriguing because previous research in other areas has correlated representation in the brain with functional abilitysuggesting, in essence, that more important things get more...$11-million grant supports study of how genes affect cancer chemotherapy
... to Ratain and Relling, the research team includes prominent specialists in genetics, drug metabolism, pharmacology, new drug development, cancer chemotherapy, statistics, medical ethics, and molecular diagnostics (with a core gene array facility at Tulane). The group's early studies will be carried out in tis...UF researchers develop tiny tool kit to study genes and unhealthy cell
...ear in Angewandte Chemie International Edition, a prominent international chemistry journal, the research by Tan, Schuster and UF researchers Jeffery Li and Xiaohong Fang produced a molecule that contains a "photophore," a substance that lights up only in the presence of a target protein, DNA or RNA molecule....Welch Award honors 2 for unlocking nature's secrets
... chemistry, organizes a visiting lecture series of prominent scientists, supports a summer scholar program for high school students, and helps fund a biennial conference for chemistry and science teachers at the high school and junior high levels....June 'Geology' and 'GSA Today' highlights
...ii grew differently than was previously thought. A prominent submarine ridge that extends eastward from the island, just north of the city of Hilo, was not built by lofty Mauna Kea volcano but instead by older Kohala volcano, which was later overlapped and partly buried by Mauna Kea. Similar overlaps are suspe...Cocaine use while pregnant may cause ADHD
...DHD, but in both cases, attentional dysfunction is prominent while many other cognitive processes are unaffected," she says. "However, perhaps it should be noted that even though the effects of prenatal cocaine exposure are likely to be significant, they do not support the devastation implied by media reports...UCSD researchers find genetic key to puzzling congenital disease
...velopment, and the females that survived developed prominent skin abnormalities that appeared in phases. After...IP is a relatively rare genetic disease whose most prominent features appear in stages and involve the skin and its derivatives (hair, teeth and nails). The fir...New research animals earn their stripes
...ater fish about 3 cm long that gets its name from prominent black and white stripes running along its body. Originating in India, the fish are now widely distributed across the world. Zebrafish have been studied by developmental researchers for more than 30 years, and they even have their own website where ...UCSF research reveals how the embryo brings its heart together
...perspective on the research by Wolfgang Driever, a prominent developmental biologist in Germany. ...Cows and conservation: a round-up of speakers to discuss new ideas on ranching
...iver Landscape." Ranching, which continues to be a prominent land-use in the western United States, may have either neutral, positive, or negative effects on natural resources. In many landscapes grazing and fire are natural processes that can shape the land's ecological potential, Budd believes. Surprisingl...Researchers discover new oceanic bacterial photopigment that converts light into biochemical energy
...ew techniques, biologists have started to identify prominent groups of microbes in the ocean, allowing them to map their distribution and abundance. But the function of those microbes in their environment has remained unknown. DeLong and postdoctoral associate Oded Bj have devised methods to dissect the genome...Two distinguished Rutgers chemists named Biophysical Society Fellows
...ophysical Society as 2001 Society Fellows, two are prominent chemists at Rutgers -- Helen M. Berman and Wilma K. Olson. The award honors distinguished members who have demonstrated excellence in science and contributed to the expansion of the field of biophysics. There are currently about 6,000 members of the...Two distinguished scientists to share leadership of new Life Sciences Institute
...Bollinger announced today that he has selected two prominent scientists---a biochemist from the U-M and a cell ...ons of medicine and public health, as well." A prominent cell biologist and molecular geneticist, Emr joined the School of Medicine at the University of Cali...