System to measure carbon dioxide flux from soil patented
...in determining how much carbon dioxide forests can remove from the atmosphere and retain, or sequester, as carbon pools or sinks," says inventor John Butnor. "Accurately measuring carbon dioxide respiration from the forest is essential to truly understanding the carbon cycle. The ACES system gives us a way ...Double mastectomies significantly lower risk of breast cancer in women who are genetically at risk
...mutation; type of mastectomy different procedures remove varying amounts of breast tissue; and the age and timing of surgery many women past their child-bearing years also choose removal of their ovaries at the same time as their breast surgery," said Rebbeck. "The decision to undergo genetic testing or h...UC San Diego faculty receive funding from von Liebig Center to commercialize academic research
...led on new software systems that could effectively remove human beings from the loop in certain key networking functions such as controlling Internet attacks and spam. He is proposing to develop two new software products that, according to one von Liebig reviewer, "represent technology that could solve a re...Statistical technique helps researchers gain more information from a single data run
...stical analysis techniques, including: Ability to remove noise from complex data sets; Sensitivity to the fractal nature and self-similarity of data; Ability to minimize correlation and time-dependency of data; Locality of the analysis and ability to handle multi-scale information; and Computational si...Radioactive and toxic waste site plans are a recipe for disaster, says Rutgers sociologist
...d that the agency has admitted it is impossible to remove the contaminants from the sites within its purview. It has redefined 'acceptable risk' and now, with its Long Term Stewardship program in place, "it plans to walk away from these sites," he said. "The DOE's Long Term Stewardship program relies on e...New X-ray sources speed protein crystallography
...ration. One such new technology, which promises to remove many of the present limitations of existing storage ring X-ray sources, is based on the use of a superconducting linear accelerator (or linac) to continuously accelerate and recover the energy from an electron beam. This device, called an Energy Reco...Duke open-air experiment results could deflate hopes that forests can alleviate global warming
...at planting more trees will help because that will remove some of the CO2. Under this scenario, trees may al...oduced carbonic acid. While that action would also remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and "store" the remnants in the added soil, the impact would be "...HUPO scientists tackle human blood plasma proteome
...n proteins in plasma tolerate? Is it necessary to remove the most abundant proteins, such as albumin and immunoglobulins, in order to detect lower-abundance proteins, such as cytokines or cellular receptors? What are the advantages and limitations of each technology platform? Which database search engine...Passwords to guard entry aren't enough to protect complex data
... databases need not be redesigned to reclassify or remove data that is inappropriate or proprietary. Protecting data before it gets released means vetting the contents of documents retrieved from internal files, Wiederhold says. Document release protection may be desirable for diverse systems with data out...Immerge reports PERVs most infectious to human cells not part of germ-line DNA of mini-swine
...ng programs, which were thought to be necessary to remove germ-line viruses, might no longer be required. "Our identification that human-tropic PERV is acquired somewhere during life, rather than something the pig is born with is a major step forward. It allows us to develop measures that will ensure the...Goal of ocean 'iron fertilization' said still unproved
...ches of microscopic plants called phytoplankton to remove large amounts of carbon dioxide from Earth's atmos...artin's original hypothesis is ultimately shown to remove significant carbon from the atmosphere, a separate question is whether regulators could find a way t...New reactor puts hydrogen from renewable fuels within reach
... the researchers said. The technology is poised to remove the major stumbling block to the "hydrogen economy...uga explained, is due in large part to the need to remove all the water from ethanol before it can be put in an automobile gas tank--and the last drops of wat......s of carbon dioxide, agreenhouse gas, which plants remove from the atmosphere. Nighttime-lights data from the Defense Meteorological SatelliteProgram and a vegetation-classification map created at NASA'sGoddard Institute of Space Studies, New York, were used toportray urban, peripheral and non-urban areas a...New evidence points to pollution as main cause of much coral reef destruction
...eed growth, or that overfishing and other problems remove key grazers such as fish or sea urchins that would normally feed on the seaweed, keeping its growth and spread in check. "The reason this issue is so important is that we're losing our coral reefs at a very accelerated rate," says Lapointe. "These s...Scientists develop plant that produces potential anti-carcinogen
...c nutritional supplements, but also may be used to remove excess selenium from agricultural fields. By intr...earch is the possibility of developing plants that remove contaminants from the environment. Selenium contamination, for example, is a major problem in certai...Activation of receptor ups development of precancerous intestinal polyps
...ey treated wild-type cells and cells engineered to remove the PPAR-delta gene. There was no change in cell proliferation; however, treatment with GW501516 significantly suppressed apoptosis (programmed cell death) in the wild-type cells but not in the cells lacking PPAR-delta. "These results argue t...Carnegie Mellon enhances Quantum Dot Corp. technology for long-term, live-animal imaging
... image them more effectively and allow surgeons to remove cancers with greater accuracy, according to Ballou...igh concentration of phagocytes, immune cells that remove circulating debris inside the body. This finding strongly suggests that quantum dots were collected ...Researchers develop model to help control West Nile outbreak
...arvicides to the water, filling in the wetlands to remove the habitat and as a last resort, spraying chemicals to kill the adult species. "Since applying chemicals and filling in wetlands costs money and causes environmental damage, one would ideally use the minimum amount of control that would still be eff...Hopkins researchers identify transplantation antigens among Sioux Indians
...roup," Leffell adds. "We hope this knowledge will remove some barriers to donation within the tribes." The study was conducted as part of a series of workshops initiated in 1992 by members of the American Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics to provide a thorough characterization of the im......itrogen. Sparks et al. reportthat plant leaves can remove organic forms of nitrogen, which couldhave a significant effect on atmospheric carbon and nitrogen cycles.The authors measured the uptake rate in eight plant speciesrepresenting vegetation from a range of global climates and foundthat the pores on th...