Midwest geologists propose new view of ancient continental collisions
...Argentine Precordillera where bentonites have been recovered from dozens of sites. The Precordillera formed before the Andes and contains fossils which are similar to those found in North America, but very different from those found elsewhere in South America. In the revised model, the Precordillera land mas...Mother nature cleans up human-made mess
...d a polar lake in the Arctic to have significantly recovered despite decades of sewage dumping, proving that if given a chance, nature can help people clean up their act. Marianne Douglas, a geology professor, and her co-investigator, Queen's University professor John Smol, analyzed clusters of algae or diato......Grade 3 or greater neutropenia or thrombocytopenia recovered in a median of 14 and 13 days, respectively. Only ...Grade 3 or greater neutropenia or thrombocytopenia recovered in a median of 8 and 13 days, respectively. ZEVALIN for Relapsed or Refractory NHL Patients with Mi...New predatory dog-sized dinosaur unearthed on Madagascar
...izarre, dog-sized predatory dinosaur were recently recovered on the island of Madagascar. The discovery, funde...viduals. The great majority of these fossils were recovered from a single site. Included in the collection are parts of the jaws and about 40 percent of the re...A bizarre new predatory dinosaur unearthed on Madagascar
...rre predatory (or theropod) dinosaur were recently recovered on the island of Madagascar. The discovery was an...viduals. The great majority of these fossils were recovered from a single site. Included in the collection are parts of the jaws and about 40% of the remainder......esearch on these specimens. Since 1976, ANSMET has recovered more than 10,000 specimens from meteorite strandin...ature of asteroids; and proved that some specimens recovered from Antarctica represent planetary materials from the moon and Mars....Freezing human eggs - new findings point way to greater success
...at the time of grafting. But, when the grafts were recovered from the mice around 20 weeks later, the researchers identified normal antral follicles in the majority of both fresh and frozen tissue. Antral follicle development is the crucial stage shortly before ovulation, when a central cavity is formed in th...Tips from the Journals of the American Society for Microbiology: March 2001
...esis of infection of pigs with hepatitis E viruses recovered from a pig and a human. Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 39: 918-923.)...Designer solvents promise revolutionary pollution solution
...st remains in the ionic liquid phase, so it can be recovered and recycled. The ionic liquid research being presented at the weeklong symposium is just the tip of the iceberg, say the scientists. Compared to the 300 organic solvents widely used in the chemical industry, more than a trillion possible i......ents in southeastern North Carolina have partially recovered from recent hurricanes. Many of these areas are no... of a most unusual new form of gliding reptile was recovered from the Solite Quarry on the North Carolina-Virginia state line in 1998. Tentatively classified as ...Chemistry of life in outer space is topic of two-day symposium, April 4-5
...ill present her findings. The meteorite, which was recovered from an icy Canadian lake in January 2000, is one of the rarest and most primitive meteorites ever examined by researchers. (The paper on this research, GEOC 148, will be presented at 3:20 p.m., Wednesday, April 4, in the U.S. Grant hotel, Crystal ro...Dried-out human cells can come back to life
...hydrated the cells 8 days later, half of the cells recovered and started dividing again, Potts told a meeting of Britain's Society for Experimental Biology in Canterbury earlier this month. "It's a breakthrough," says Potts. "By applying the techniques we have found in cyanobacteria, we can dry out human cells...New reserach shows promise in conquering ulcer-causing H. pylori
...ient immune systems completely recovered from infections with H. pylori after they were treated with healthy spleen cells. After that treatment, no trace of the bacteria was found in the stomachs of these mice. "These mice initial...Seabirds still not recovered from Exxon oil spill
.... For instance, Pacific herring and clams "had not recovered by 2000". ExxonMobil argues that it is unreasonable to expect all bird populations to recover because there are other environmental changes affecting the numbers. "For example, average summer water temperatures have increased in the last 10 year...Researchers discover the ultimate adult stem cell
...e bone marrow. After two days, the stem cells were recovered from the bone marrow of the female mice, and only those cells with the brightest color were used in the subsequent part of the study. The bright color indicated that the cells had not yet divided, assuring the researchers that these cells had the gre...Progenitor cells can have protective effect against brain trauma
...kills, rats with the transplanted progenitor cells recovered substantially better than rats that did not have the transplanted cells. The researchers used two different types of cultures of the same progenitor cells. One type remained nave; that is, they had not been altered, while the other had been transfec...Genetically engineered poliovirus fights brain tumors
...mice with experimental brain tumors. The animals recovered after a single dose of the virus. "Pathological analysis of their brains revealed tumors to be eliminated by replicating virus within days," says Gromeier.......of 2000. During a six-week field season, the group recovered nearly 6,000 pounds of dinosaur bones and other fossils to examine. Their research is ongoing. The fourteen members of the Penn team were led by 30-year-old Penn graduate student Josh Smith and supervised by world-renowned paleontologist, Dr. Pete...Glucose deficit affects young and old, could impact school schedules
... Three-month-old rats had a 12 percent decline and recovered quickly. Older rats given injected glucose supplements prior to testing did not show the drainage of glucose and performed at the same levels as the younger rats. "Glucose enhances learning and memory not only in rats but also in many populations of......of hurricane activity. Analysis of storm deposits recovered from Strathmere, New Jersey, provides a 700-year r...ing artifacts can be properly dated, and artifacts recovered from these deposits cannot be placed into their proper chronostratigraphic or archaeological context...