Environmental costs of home construction lower with wise choice, reuse of building materials
....org/reports/ . Life-cycle inventory international protocol experts reviewed the report and information from this study is slated to become part of the life-cycle inventory database for the designers and engineers at http://www.nrel.gov/lci/ . A 2,100-square-foot house designed for the cold Minneapolis cli...Forgetting, reminding, and remembering: The retrieval of lost spatial memory
... Martin, and Richard Morris have developed a novel protocol that distinguishes retrieval from new learning. Th...den just under the surface. The new twist on the protocol gives rats a reminder by briefly raising the platform above the water in either the learned location...Outcome for acute lymphoblastic leukemia linked to gene expression patterns
...olled on the ALL-IX Dutch Childhood Oncology Group protocol at the Erasmus University/Sophia Children's Hospit...ith these same drugs, but on a different treatment protocol at St. Jude. "The gene expression patterns linked to drug resistance were particularly importa...Springtime blooms seen earlier now than in the past, say Boston University biologists
... The relatively low-tech, data-from-the-community protocol used by the team might open such studies to participation by botanical gardens, zoos, museums, or even individuals who, over the years, have carefully collected and tended records on how biological organisms respond to their environment. ...Heat and exercise alone may not determine how much we sweat
...ing. Each subject performed the following exercise protocol on separate days, with each bout being separated from the prior bout by at least 48 hours: The subjects lay face up (supine) at the rear position of an adapted supine tandem cycle ergometer. Each subject remained in this position for 30 minutes whil...Symposium to tackle questions of genetic engineering and biodiversity
... malaria, and utilizing an international biosafety protocol to mitigate GEO risks to biodiversity. Oberhauser, an expert on monarch butterflies, will present an overview of research and decision-making concerning the effects of Bt corn on monarch larvae. "The good news is that in the end, the strain of...Sequential signals choreograph embryonic tubule formation
...en gels and stimulated with HGF. This experimental protocol results in the formation of branching tubules that resemble the development of tubules in many organs in vivo and allows for examination of molecular events that occur during tubulogenesis. "We found that downstream targets of HGF coordinately regula...UCSD undergraduates participate in collaborative studies abroad on cyberinfrastructure
...E) major, aims to explore the next-generation IPv6 protocol with respect to key components of the telescience infrastructure. Stephen Geist, a mechanical engineering major from Thurgood Marshall College at UCSD, is concentrating on migrating code from a camera at UCSD's National Center for Microscopy and Ima...APP reports Abraxane(TM) is active in breast cancer patients who failed taxol or taxotere
...y the finding that 95% of cycles were given at the protocol specified dose of 100 mg/m, and that 91% of the patients were able to receive 100% of the planned dose of ABRAXANE at 100 mg/m2 administered weekly over 30 minutes with no dose reduction. Further, no grade 4 non-hematological toxicities and no sever...Loyola decides to test new blood substitute in trauma patients at the scene of injury
... which is saline solution or salt water. Loyola's protocol will be that blood substitute will be used on alternating days with saline. The study will compare the survival rate of patients receiving the blood substitute to that of patients who receive saline solution. In previous studies, the substitute has...UC Riverside professor to spend year with US State Department
... become familiar with public policy issues and the protocol under which the department operates. They also have been investigated for assignment of security clearances. They will spend one year serving at the Department of State in Washington, D.C., traveling abroad to U.S. embassies as necessary. After thei...Discovery of tiny microbes in ancient Greenland glacier may define limits for life on Earth
...renchley says. "At present, no single established protocol exists and little is known about the recovery of these stressed and possibly damaged cells from a frozen environment that subjects them to severe conditions for long periods." Some of the cells that Miteva and Brenchley were successful in cultivatin...Small, cold, & hungry: Ultra-small microbes from 120,000-year-old glacier ice sample
...renchley says. "At present, no single established protocol exists and little is known about the recovery of these stressed and possibly damaged cells from a frozen environment that subjects them to severe conditions for long periods." Some of the cells that Miteva and Brenchley were successful in cultivatin...What it Takes: Design principles to broaden participation in SET
... costly impact studies. The BEST Panel developed a protocol that defined a rigorous study as one that provides meaningful research evidence comparing the outcomes of students who experience a given intervention and those who do not. Other category ratings include: probable, notable and meriting further resea...Biological oceanographers examine 'regime shifts' in complex marine ecosystems
... 2003, Collie, Richardson, and Steele adapted this protocol for examining marine data for the occurrence of regime shifts. The scientists analyzed data on the commercially important haddock stock on Georges Bank off the coast of New England. This 69-year data set indicates that a regime shift in the haddock p...MacroPore - adipose-derived cells - potential to engraft & differentiate into heart muscle
...herapy Conference II in Cambridge, MA. The study protocol involved injecting approximately 1.0 million regenerative cells isolated from subcutaneous adipose tissue of Rosa26 mice into recipient mice with injured myocardium. Control mice received saline injections. Engraftment was demonstrated by detection o...Researchers identify the pattern of gene-expression changes for tuberculosis in a living host
...two years of technology development to establish a protocol that allowed high-throughput analysis of genes that were expressed in a pathogen that was extracted from an infected animal, rather than simply grown in culture. "This is an example of how the high-throughput system is a new avenue to study a ...Gene-disabling techniques simplified by Stanford team
... said Blau. Undaunted, the students came up with a protocol for making an siRNA library to obstruct expression of all genes in a given cell - including genes that were previously uncharacterized. They could then pull individual molecules like books from a shelf to test each one for a biological effect. The te...New findings can help parents looking to combat number of kids' sick days
.... Methodology The researchers followed the protocol outlined below: Subjects : Sixty-one fifth grade students (29 boys, 32 girls) from three randomly selected schools in Southwestern Ontario participated in the study, which was conducted in May and June. Any medication taken for treatment of il...Alcohol exposure in pre- and early post-natal stages may cause insulin resistance
.... Methodology The research team followed the protocol outlined below: Animals : Timed-pregnant Sprague-Dawley rats were used (n=3-4/group) and randomly divided into three weight-matched groups. Throughout pregnancy, one group was given 2g/kg EtOH (36%) twice daily and the other groups were given th...