Microbes and the dust they ride in on pose potential health risks
... are known to enhance microbial survival." Florida receives more than 50 percent of all microbe-laden African dust that reaches the United States. Over the last 25 years, dust quantities reaching Miami have increased during periods of African drought. "The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says these tiny ...Presbyterians vote in favor of fetal, embryonic, and stem cell research
...us has already been terminated when the researcher receives tissue from an aborted fetus, while the life of embryonic tissue resulting from infertility treatment must be terminated. The morality of ending the life of embryos rests on how one views the moral status of the embryos. We believe, as do most author...APS promotes innovative science teaching practices with "Frontiers in Physiology"
...ories of 130 APS members nationwide. Each teacher receives a grant of up to $8,500 for research laboratory expenses as well as travel expenses to the retreat and the APS annual meeting, Experimental Biology 2002....'Imprinted' gels hold promise for future medical devices
...be incorporated into a drug-dispensing system that receives signals from the sensors and then commands the meshwork to expand, releasing insulin. Another possibility is that the sensors themselves might directly command the meshwork to expand. "The system would be sensitive to what is in the blood, and then, ......s also being conducted there. The center currently receives about $3 million in external support from the Department of Defense, the National Institutes of Health and several foundations. Center management has identified four areas for growth: materials science, particularly the use of the FEL in nanotechnolo...Highly specific biological agents attack mechanisms of treatment resistance
...ision, is needed to ensure that each daughter cell receives the correct amount of chromosomes. Maytansines mechanism of action is similar to paclitaxel (Taxol), but it works at concentrations up to 1,000-fold lower. New Bcr-Abl Inhibitor Shows Superior Potency to Gleevec in Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia Cell ...Small, mountain rivers play big role in ocean sediment
...and receive as much as 32 feet. Ohio, by contrast, receives only about three feet of rain per year. The sediments contain chemical elements such as carbon, copper, and phosphorus, which affect the chemistry of the oceans, Carey e...Scientists use gene therapy to correct sickle cell disease in mice
...arrow of the transplant recipient before he or she receives the genetically corrected bone marrow. "A number of research studies are underway to develop less toxic regimens which would still allow the new bone marrow to produce normal red blood cells for the long term," added Evans. The first human applicat...Russian universities receive US funding to improve basic scientific research capabilities
...enter proposals to the 2001 BRHE competition. BRHE receives fifty percent of its funding from American sources. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is contributing $18 million to the BRHE program over seven years. Carnegie Corporation of New York is contributing two million dollars over four y...Clamping down on a cancer-causing protein
...t on to other molecules like a radio operator who receives a message telling him to turn on an alarm. If Abl is defective, it might not hear incoming messages, or it might continually send off alarms, even when it hasnt been told to do so. One of the messages that Abl transmits tells the cell, Its time to d...Tidying up transcription factors
... discussions of the various ways in which the cell receives instructions from the outside and then responds to these signals by altering the production of specific proteins, or, in scientific terms, the "expression" of certain genes. These signals include primarily hormones (e.g., estrogens) and small protein...Discovery of bacterial 'touch sensor' could lead to biofilm treatments
...formation, plus a two-protein receptor system that receives and transmits the signal within the cell. "In a sense, you can say that for E. coli this is a touch sensor," said Silhavy, a professor in the Department of Molecular Biology. "If we mutate these genes, the bacteria don't attach as well and, if they d......y cortex is the region of the cerebral cortex that receives the auditory radiation from the medial geniculate body and has a spatial arrangement of structures such that certain tone frequencies are transmitted, as in the auditory pathway. The Study A new study from the University of Wyoming provides the fir...Alaskan waters growing hospitable to sharks while seals and sea lions decline
...versities Marine Mammal Research Consortium, which receives money from those in the fishing industry interested in the relationship of fishing and marine mammals and from NMFS. There have been changes in the populations of fish these animals eat. Climate conditions in recent decades have favored salmon in Ala...AAAS awards the Philip Abelson Prize to 'Green Revolution' champion Norman Borlaug
... developing countries over a short period of time, receives the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Philip Hauge Abelson Prize. Borlaug was honored for lifetime achievements in scientific research and contributions to the scientific community. Borlaug, an agricultural scientist who work...Military technologies and increased fishing effort leave no place for fish to hide
... the U.S. East coast, the Atlantic swordfish fleet receives daily faxes from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, showing satellite images of sea-surface temperatures on the fishing grounds. These maps, and temperature and depth sensors carried by boats, allow the fleet to target the places wh...Go ahead with EMBO restart fellowship
...ndent scientists geared toward professorship level receives just 25% of its applications from female scientists. The German Federal Minister for Education and Science has estimated that the education of a scientist to PhD level costs the government and the individual together approximately 500.000 Euro. In a...Hopkins researchers find eye drops preferable to eye patch in treating children's amblyopia
...y preferred atropine treatment, in which the child receives painless eye drops that blur the unaffected eye, to patching, in which the child's unaffected eye is covered with a patch. Both treatments challenge the amblyopic eye to work harder at focusing properly by covering or blurring vision in the normal ey......that includes the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, receives more than double the amount of mercury that falls on the northeastern United States in a year. New research now shows a similar phenomenon also occurs each year in the Antarctic the first time its been reported in the South Polar Region. Two studie...