Biosphere Lessons Can Be Applied To Space, Former Crew Co-Captain Says
...en only to sunlight. The structure hadsystems that provided water, food, air regeneration, and waste water recycling. Inside Biosphere 2, a half-acre cropping area produced enough food tomeet about 80 percent of the crew's nutritional needs, she said. Biosphere 2also contained a rain forest, a million...... and a defined number of lipids. This provided a unique opportunity to study the structure of a natural membrane at sub-molecular resolution by diffraction methods. A new method was developed to incorporate, in vivo, deuterium labels exclusively into the g...... data from different laboratories has provided evidence that certain proteases are essential for the development of nerve processes, most likely by digesting proteins in the vicinity of the growing structures. By applying inhibitors against different proteases into the c...15 Drugs, Dyes And Other Chemicals Newly Listed As Known Or Likely Human Carcinogens
...entific Counselors in an open meeting with comment provided fromindustry and public interest groups and there was a period for publicreview and comment. George Lucier, Ph.D., director of the Environmental Toxicology Program atNIEHS, said, "A great many scientists have worked on the studies andreviews that pr...New Vancomycin Structure May Point To Path For Overcoming Antibiotic Resistance
...nce then, using the detailed structuralinformation provided by their studies, the scientists have used powerfulcomputational chemistry techniques to design vancomycin variants that might beable to circumvent bacterial resistance. Finding the support needed tosynthesize and test the candidate compounds, howeve...Antibodies Know Right From Left
... of theHebrew University of Jerusalem. Funding was provided by theGerman-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development(GIF). The Weizmann Institute of Science, in Rehovot, Israel, is one of the world's foremost centers of scientific research and graduate study. Its 2,400 scientists, students, t...Clusters, Computers And The Human Brain
...Blatt, Dr. ShaiWiseman and Gaddy Getz. Funding was provided in part by theGerman-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development(GIF). The Weizmann Institute of Science, in Rehovot, Israel, is one of the world's foremost centers of scientific research and graduate study. Its 2,400 scientists, stu...Neurogenetics Lab Scan Suggests Genetic Linkage On Chromosomes 4 And 11
...minobutyric acid (GABA) receptor gene cluster also provided suggestive evidence for linkage to alcoholism risk. Ethanol is known to enhance GABA receptor actions, an effect believed to influence intoxication, tolerance, withdrawal severity, and cognitive effects of alcohol consumption, and researchers long ha......6 AEDs in the 172 higher-incidencesites would have provided treatment for 134 cardiac arrest patients over afive-year period. To cover the 347 cardiac arrests occurring in other publicplaces -- hotels, buses, taverns, etc. -- over the same period, AEDs would havehad to have been placed at approximately 71,00...Space Grown Insulin Crystals Provide New Data On Diabetes
...es. "The space-grown insulin crystals have provided us new,never-before-seen information," said Dr. G. David Smith, scientist atHauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute, in Buffalo, N.Y. "As a result, wenow have a much more detailed picture of insulin," Smith said. Because of the increase...... isolate new variants of the virus as well. Sandia provided additional emergency room equipment as well as the videoconference and computer hardware necessary for the hospitals involved tocoordinate their work over the Internet. Sandia also helped design the patientquestionnaire and postulate its questions al...Georgia Scientists Study Salt Marsh To Understand Global Warming
...n grow rapidly. The 10-acre Sapelo study site also provided another advantage to theresearch team; years of research have been conducted at the site and,hence, a great deal is already known about the dynamics of theecosystem. The study represents a major departure from the typicalapproach to studying salt mar...The Fishing Hole Had Better Be Upstream From Commercial And Industrial Centers
...Department of Forest Resources. Bolstad andEdwards provided the GIS data. McTammany will complete his master's degree bythe end of June and his thesis will be available electronically from VirginiaTech's library ( http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/index.html ). For more information about this research, contact...As A 'Carbon Sponge,' Iron-Poor Coastal Waters Can't Always Do The Job, NaturePaper Shows
...however, thatcoastal waters contain abundant iron, provided by nearby continental dust andsediments. Consequently, researchers have assumed that coastal areas supporthealthy food chains and act as effective carbon 'sponges.' In fact, Hutchins and his coauthor, Kenneth W. Bruland of the University ofCalifornia...Penn Researchers Invent World's First Device To Rapidly Assess Lung Function
...recision, and reduction of analytic time and error provided withthe use of the new sensitive probe device. In approximatelyeight to ten minutes, a mathematical description of eachsubject's lung function was obtained. Because both rabbits andhumans have the same basic mammalian physiology, researchers arecon...Vitamin C May Reduce Angina, Heart Attack Risks
...evel of vitamin C in their bloodstream - which was provided in onestudy by a daily 500 milligram supplement - had blood vessels withsignificantly improved "vasodilation," or the ability to relax and avoiddangerous constriction. Similar findings were also made with oneprescription drug. "These studies are prov......Weber fromMarshfield. Support for the research was provided by the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation ofAmerica; the Gastrointestinal Research Foundation; the Logan Center forGastrointestinal Research, Univ. of Chicago; the Myerhoff Inflammatory BowelDisease Center, Hopkins; the Mazza Foundation; the Edison Found...Discovery Of Plant-Like Metabolic Pathway In Common Parasites Supplies New Targets For Therapy
...fsimilarities of Apicomplexan parasites and plants provided the rationale for theinitial experiments," she added, "followed by multi-institutional collaborationsof infectious disease specialists, parasitologists, biochemists, plant molecularbiologists, and JohnCoggins , Ph.D., of Glasgow University, one of t......related cancers. Funding for the study was provided in part by the National Institutes onDrug Abuse (USA), Nicogen Research Inc., the University of Toronto and theCentre for Addiction and Mental Health....