Rosemary May Have Anti-Cancer Properties
...missions and cigarette smoke.) The rosemary diet reduced by 76 percent the number of instances of DMBAbindi...s were similar:DMBA's binding to mammary cells was reduced by 66 percent. The researchers also found that rosemary's effectiveness against tumor formationinc...Transgenic Rice Plants Resist Insects, Drought And Salt Damage
...r eat less, grow less quickly, and plant damage is reduced to tolerable levels. A barley gene enables rice plants to produce a protein that makes them salt- and drought-resistant so that they grow in saline conditions and recover quickly from dry conditions. "These are capabilities that wild plants develop ...Honeybees In The Wild Nearly Gone In North America
...aintained by the nation's beekeepers havealso been reduced by mites, Tew said, although not as severely.Estimates of domesticated bee losses to mites vary from stateto state, he said. "Honeybees are not in danger of extinction. Beekeepers arestill maintaining around 3 million colonies in the United States,"T...Water Recycling Project Tested in Turkey Plant
... initial major cooling processand needs only to be reduced by a couple of degrees as it makes subsequenttrips through the process. Once a supply of water has been used, it passes through a mechanical pretreatmentand then four ozonation cylinders. Ozone gas is pumped into the cylindersto further clarify the ...... sample requirements. Also, the spray diameter is reduced so that more of the sample goes into the mass spectrometer, creating greater efficiency. "The achievement really is due to two things: slowing down the flow rate and having one of the highest performing mass spectrometers in the world for protein an...NCAR Scientist Models Earth's Climate and Vegetation Patterns At Last Glacial Peak
...the continental ice sheets and were intensified by reduced amounts of atmospheric carbon dioxide, which insulates the earth by trapping heat reflected from the surface toward space. While a 4- degree global average cooling might not sound like much, it translates into regional average temperatures that were ...Optical Microscopy Shines Light On Biology
...mple's surface, the movement of the probe's tip is reduced by the sample, he said. This is used to regulate the tip position above a specimen and to follow contours in its surface. "With the straight tip, the problem is that when you start going through water, the water itself reduces the vibration of the ti...Florida Company Using ORNL Technology For Revolutionary Wheelchair
...ing offeringincreased convenience and dramatically reduced down time. The TransRovr's lightweight, three-piece modular construction makes thewheelchair easy to pick up and transport in a car's trunk or back seat. Theseat portion of the unit, expected to be provided by Superior UnlimitedCorp. of Bristol, sits...... brief lives. They found that life expectancy was reduced overall for both protein-deprivedmale and female Medflies. But females seemed to be harder hit by the dietarydeficiency, their life expectancy plunging by more than 26 percent comparedto only a 6 percent reduction among males. This, in effect, revers...President's Budget Proposal Cuts R&D By 14 Percent By 2002
...ort for R&D at colleges and universities, would be reduced even more, dropping 4.7 percent to $7.4 billion in FY 1998. Funding for R&D performed at colleges and universities would increase by 2.4 percent to $13.3 billion. Adjusted for inflation, the level represents a 0.2 percent reduction since FY 1997. ...Erodible plastic microspheres could be effective oral drug delivery system
...orthree days. For insulin, blood sugar levels were reduced within two hours. Theplasmid DNA was incorporated into cells of the liver and small intestine andproduced an active protein within five days. Moreover, use of the microspheres greatly enhanced the drugs' availabilityin the bloodstream. For example,...Purdue Researchers Prod Plants To Clean Up Pollution
...ndreds of billions of dollars. If phytoremediation reduced those cleanup costs by even 10 percent, an estimate Goldsbrough considers plausible, it would save taxpayers billions. Goldsbrough, working with researchers from Australia, has been studying how plants take up and store cadmium, a toxic heavy metal. ...Isle Royale Moose Continue Decline
...ngly, he says, those trees grew up when wolves had reduced the moose herd to 700-800 animals back in the 1970s. Under the best conditions, mountain ash, aspen, and willow are the favored browse species of moose, but when those species are not available, moose will turn to balsam fir and other less nutritious...Scientists Use Magnetic Field As Alternative To Space-Based Zero Gravity
...minutes until the current wascut. The technique reduced both the body forces and the gravity-induced stresseson the frog embryos by a factor of 10, which simulated a near-weightlessenvironment. No other ground-based technique has produced a similar reductionin forces and stresses. "The magnetic field act...Early Tests Indicate Motor Skills Unharmed In Consumers Of Tainted Fish
...ing and attention). "We thought that we might see reduced motor function," shesaid. "At this point, however, it doesn't look like it. We've onlylooked at two of a large number of tests that we have yet to analyze. We'veidentified one aspect of nervous system function that seems not to be affected.But we saw...Ozone 'Chat Room' Provides Real-Time Air-Quality Research
...ervation: Compared with weekdays, ozone levels are reduced over weekends. "Only humans operate on a weekly cycle, so this graphically ties human activity during the work week to ozone production," says Schichtel, who has concentrated greatly on meteorological data to develop ozone transport animations. The...Natural Shelters on Leaves House Plant Bodyguards
...s "leafdomatia," on cotton plants, the researchers reduced the populationsof cotton-eating spidermites and boosted cotton yield by 30 percent. These results, offeringthe first experimental evidence that plants and certain bugs both benefitfrom the presence of domatia, are reported as scientific corresponde...Couch Potatoes, Not French Fries, May Be To Blame For Obesity
...cal activity as a reasonable explanation." Besides reduced activity and exercise, Gretebeck says, there may be other possible explanations for the seeming anomaly, "and what we really need to do is to investigate further." Sources: James Binkley, (765) 494-4261; e-mail, james.k.binkley.1@purdue.edu Rand......of lead transfer frommother to offspring, and that reduced saliva flow has beenimplicated as a likely mechanism of decay in lead-inducedcavities. "Lead is not something that most dentists think of when theytalk about the causes of cavities, but they should," says Watson.Poor hygiene, lack of dental care...