Amid Albanian Turmoil, Archaeologists Unearth Secrets Of The Stone Age
...t at Boston University. In addition to Davis, the rest of the team included Sharon Stocker, UC doctoral student; Michael Galaty of Mississippi State University; John Wallrodt of UC; Charles Watkinson, a British archaeologist; Eberhard Zangger, a German goarchaeologist....Gene Identified For Heart Defect That Causes Sudden Death In Young People
...he larger left ventricle, which pumps blood to the rest ofthe body. This ventricle-specific occurrence mystifies researchers. "As far as we know, the same genes are found in the right ventricle as the leftventricle," Roberts says. "The gene may not be present in one of the ventricles,but this is unlikely...Fossil Eggshells Hold Clues To Major Animal Extinctions As Reported In Science
...peared at the same time-for thesame reasons-as the rest of the extinct Australian megafauna. But recentlyMiller's group has begun to investigate sites that contain both Genyornis andother megafaunal fossils at what seems to have been the eve of theirexistence--younger deposits contain no trace of the ex...Eggs Fertilised By More Than One Sperm Can Survive
...ects that this cell shrivels and dies, leaving the rest of the embryo with anormal number of chromosomes. Author: Philip Cohen New Scientist magazine, issue 23rd Jan 99...Little-Explored African Genetic Diversity May Hold Key To Human Origins, Medical Questions
...pia and Somalia is intermediate betweenthat of the rest of Africa and the rest of the world," says Tishkoff. "Perhapsthis group was isolated from the rest of the African continent...Growth Factors Improve Muscle Healing In Animals
...an if they weresimply treated with immobilization, rest or range of motion exercises," addedDr. Huard. Many people suffer costly and disabling muscle injuries. For athletes, muscleinjuries may end their careers because they cannot compete the same as beforeinjury. In their experiments, the investigators ......the National Institutes of Healthsupported him the rest of the way as his team expanded to five. Using th...uingto study both the LOH11A region as well as the rest of the area they mapped. They have found even more genes in the chromosome 11 segment since the rese...Researchers Isolate Gene For Heart And Facial Defects
...d who hadonly a single copy of this gene while the rest of chromosome 22 was normal. One in 4,000 children is born with chromosome 22 deletion syndrome, makingit one of the most common genetic abnormalities in children. Many children withjust facial or just cardiac defects also have the same deletion...Study Finds Choline Deficiency Harms Memory Center In Mammals' Brains
... that performed much better onmemory tests for the rest of their lives," said Dr. Steven Zeisel, chair ofnutrition at the UNC-CH schools of public health and medicine. "Even very oldrats performed better on such tests as running through a maze." Because they had no explanation for the improved performance...Engineered Bacteria Scavenge Heavy Metals
...rocess kills them but that's not a baddeal for the rest of us," Wilson commented. "We don't have to worry about theseorganisms escaping after their work is done." Gene escape is not a major issuewith the metal-scavenging bacteria, he said, because any organisms that receivethe genes to transport and acc...Findings Challenge Notion Of Withholding Food To Fight Rotavirus
... the long-accepted approach of withholding food to rest the bowels ofinfants and animals infected with the virus,documents what happens during recovery. As part of a series of experiments, a team of University of Illinoisnutritionists, animal scientists and veterinarypathobiologists compared the activity ...Story Tips: Engineering Students Pursue Cutting-Edge Research
...vegrowth factor in the brain, but was toxic to the rest of the body. Zand tested avariation of thisdrug on cell cultures in the lab. The biomedical engineering major found thatthe alternative formof Vitamin D also increased the production of nerve growth factor but wasnon-toxic. Next, she tested the drug ...Male Moth's Sperm Protects Females
...ngPAs will protect a female rattlebox moth for the rest of her adult life, about30 days. Females are known to mate with upwards of 20 different males in onelifetime. That's about one every second night. Lady of the rings : Biologists can tell how many times a female mothhas mated by counting the tiny...Invasive fishes pose increasing threat to U.S. waters and native fishes, says USGS
...ative fish species come from foreigncountries; the rest are species that have spread into new environments outsideof their native U.S. geographic range. "Many of these transplants are just as bad or worse than those from foreign countries,"says Pam Fuller, another co-author of the book and a USGS scient...Concern Unfounded About Damage From Vitamin C
...ts of vitamin C supplementation has largely put to rest concerns that itmay have damaging "pro-oxidant" effects in the human body, a question that hadbeen raised by some laboratory studies in recent years. The new report by scientists in the Linus Pauling Institute at OregonState University will b...New Key To Saving African Elephants
...imbabwe. About 40% of theland is protected and the rest is divided into three contiguous districts where p...en about half the elephanthabitat was lost and the rest fragmented....USGS assesses nation's biological resources at century end
...o restore the health of our living landscapes. The rest is upto us." Almost 200 federal, academic, and non-governmental experts providedbaseline information of value to scientists, policy makers, resourcemanagers and the public. The 1,000-page scientifically peer-reviewedreport, written in non-technical ...Target for cystic fibrosis drugs found
...the CFTR mutation studied by theHopkins team. (The rest are caused by assorted CFTR mutations that theirwork does not address.) It is a recessive trait; to have CF, children needto inherit a defective copy of the gene from each parent. The diseaseaffects 30,000 Americans and is most common among whites, w...Gray wolf nears recovery in Yellowstone
...partly because it has the largest herd of elk. The rest of the 17 million-acre ecosystem has flourished too. Wolves haveboosted biodiversity in and around Yellowstone: for instance, there are fewerelk and coyotes, and more eagles, pronghorn, foxes and wolverines. Gray wolves will be taken off the endange...... Some calcium came from outsidethe cell, while the rest was released from internal storage sites. "We also found that if we prevented cells from exhibiting these pulsesof calcium, the cells became stuck so they could no longer pull their back edgesin, which is necessary for forward movement," she ...