Most highly endowed promotion prize for fourteen scientists and scholars
...ated himself to marine research orientated towards raw materials. He has already participated in 15 research expeditions on board research vessels and diving boats. His special field is the hydrothermal systems known as "Black Smokers", which are found in and around oceanic rift basins; his work on these......n living cells, are generating enormous amounts of raw data. These data are accumulating at a rapidly accelerating pace in a variety of public computer databases, such as those maintained by the National Center for Biotechnology Information at the National Institutes of Health. "The driving force behin...International trade imperils U.S. plants, animals and crops
... arrive in the U.S. as stowaways on nursery stock, raw logs or cargo containers. And many invasive exotic plants are purposely introduced through the horticultural market." Alien invaders already cost the country $136 billion every year in lost and damaged products and the expense of controlling them, ...Could fish clean up sewage works?
... and lakes. Most sewage works remove solids from raw sewage and get rid of organic matter with the help of sludge-dwelling bacteria. But few remove dissolved phosphorus and nitrogen from detergents and fertilisers. When too much of these nutrients get into fresh water, they can trigger explosive growth...Iron chefs get nutritional boost cooking vegetables
SAN FRANCISCO, March 30 -- While raw food diets are trendy today, the chemistry behind ... Some 35 percent had low iron bioavailability when raw that was substantially enhanced by cooking. They included: amaranth leaf, with an increase ...Drosophila genome sequence completed
... sequencing last April and finished collecting the raw data in early September. "Since then," says Rubin, "we1ve been putting all the pieces together, which is not trivial. It1s the big challenge of the whole genome shotgun approach." The finished genome already seems to be remarkably revealing. Of the...Shark cancers cast more doubt on cartilage pills
...t angiogenesis allows tumors to obtain much of the raw material they need to fuel their own abnormal growth, they began to look for factors in the body that could stop angiogenesis. One of the first places they looked was cartilage, a tissue with relatively few blood vessels. Sharks are animals wi...New fossils may be first human ancestors out of Africa, say Science authors
...te for the site. Despite the ready availability of raw material suitable for making Acheulean tools, the authors say, all of the Dmanisi artifacts are of a pre-Acheulean type that appeared in Africa as early as 2.4 million years ago. If superior technology didn't lead the way out of Africa, as the Dman...Chemical from venom of Chilean tarantula could aid treatment of heart attack, other major diseases
...aking process of separating, or fractionating, the raw venom into its 100-150 different components and testing them to identify the most active component. This turned out to be a 35-amino-acid peptide the researchers labeled GsMTx-4 (for Grammostola spatulata, the spider's Latin name, "M" for mechano, "...Virtual reality tool quantifies physics of a doctor's touch
...asuring no more than 8mm. The system takes as its raw material the Visible Human Data Set developed by the National Institutes of Health that features complete, digitized data sets of the human body. Using a very powerful graphics computer, the researchers "supersample" smaller and smaller sections of ...Study: too much sugar, not enough milk may damage U.S. teens' health
...atter of which is positive, but also a decrease in raw fruits, non-potato sources of vegetables and calcium-rich dairy sources," the authors wrote. "Many national surveys that focus on adolescents, such as the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Preventi......which produces not only capsicums, which are eaten raw or cooked, but spices such as chilli, prepared by drying the fruit and grinding it to a powder. These spices provide the characteristic hotness of Asian and South American foods. Chillies originated in South America. While they now grow world...Researchers discover new oceanic bacterial photopigment that converts light into biochemical energy
...t Molecular Dynamics (Sunnyvale, CA), produced the raw gene sequences from the picoplankton DNA. The sequences were assembled and analyzed at MBARI to reveal the encoded genes and their hypothetical function. The oceanic microbial genome sequence revealed a new rhodopsin-like pigment never before found i...Lead-contaminated calcium supplements pose small but avoidable risk
...pond by labeling their products and finding better raw materials for their supplements." The UF research...we need manufacturers to voluntarily obtain better raw material, measure the amount of lead and label their products." At the small but detectable levels ...UNC-CH study offers new evidence that garlic protects against cancers
...at Chapel Hill study shows that people who consume raw or cooked garlic regularly face about half the risk of stomach cancer and two-thirds the risk of colorectal cancer as people who eat little or none. "There seems to be a strong, consistent protective effect for people who are regular garlic consumers......, a simple carbohydrate that every cell employs as raw material to build and maintain the cell membrane. Without glycerol, there would be no membrane and, without its membrane, the cell would immediately be swamped by an incoming chemical and electrical surge. And yet the cell vitally needs new materials...American Society for Microbiology news tips for November 2000
...ous methods to kill human pathogens that may be on raw apples," say the researchers. "Among the obstacles in achieving this goal is the probability that pathogens infiltrate tissues within produce, giving them protection against chemical sanitizers, physical methods of removal such as brushing or high-...Mother nature cleans up human-made mess
... to examine the phosphorus levels - a component of raw sewage and a nutrient that spurs algae growth - and compared their results with data from an earlier 1970s study done during the peak of activity at the base. They found that the phosphorus levels have declined sharply since 1972, which is in keeping...New discovery: 'footprint' shows master switch simultaneously controls plants' disease defenses
...er scientists around the world," he said. "All our raw data will be available publicly over our Web site for anyone to use and to help them make further discoveries."....... And though the atmosphere is 95 per cent CO2-the raw material for photosynthesis-atmospheric pressure is less than 1 per cent that on Earth. That means bionic plants would have to be housed in enclosed spaces such as converted caves or greenhouses. One idea is an inflatable greenhouse that could be ma...