Gene therapy frees two children from sterile 'bubbles,' Science authors report
...scher says, the children will be monitored for the rest of their lives, both to ensure their continued health and to monitor the long-term success of the therapy.......used by the TMI incident. "This study helps put to rest the lingering question of whether the residents of Three Mile Island are experiencing an increase in cancer deaths as a result of the nuclear accident," said Evelyn Talbott, Dr. P.H., associate professor, department of epidemiology and principal inve...Chlordane found in foods decades after pesticide use
...five micrograms of chlordane per gram of peel. The rest of the carrot contained only trace amounts of the compound. At that rate, it would take eating more than one million carrots to even approach dangerous levels. While peeling affected root crops can significantly reduce their chlordane content, other ......odes genes lies in particular regions, whereas the rest of it is devoid of coding information meaning "a lot of base pairs but little text". The current estimate of the total number of human genes is between 80.000 and 140.000. In light of the data examined here by the scientists, the number of genes woul......ffspring to be too fit," says Jirtle. "What if the rest of his genes are bad? And she doesn't want any single batch to take too much out of her." Jirtle suspects that even monotremes will be found to have imprinted genes. "Imprinted genes expressed outside the uterus agree with the theory, though this has...... take multiple insulin injections each day for the rest of their lives to survive. JDF is the world's number one nonprofit, nongovernmental funder of diabetes research. It was founded in 1970 by parents of children with diabetes. JDF's mission is to find a cure for diabetes and its complications through...Nanofabricated 'gel' separates DNA
...llow area to form a sort of beachhead and pull the rest through. Armed with this knowledge, Han used the facilities of the Cornell Nanofabrication Facility to build a silicon device with channels made up of about 1,400 sections, each about 1.5 millionths of a meter deep, separated by shallow barrier secti...June 'Geology' and 'GSA Today' highlights
...by the subduction of very young oceanic crust. The rest are associated with the subduction of older (10 - 45 million year old) crust, which according to published numerical models should not reach sufficiently high temperatures at 100 km depth to allow melting. An unusual type of subduction, "flat subduct...Saving the whales -- how scientists measure success
...f gray whales seems to have fully recovered." The rest are still classified as endangered under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. "The lesson here seems to be that at least some large whale populations can recover from overexploitation, but only if their numbers are not reduced to some level, beyond whic...Lactose intolerant girls can have their milk and drink it, too
... yogurt and cheese - while the rest came from bread and vegetables. Each subject consumed about four servings of dairy foods throughout each day. On days 1 and 21, each girl participated in a breath hydrogen test. The researc...New research animals earn their stripes
...on a few of the most interesting ones, and put the rest aside," he said. "Still, it's better to have too many than too few." The understanding of the genetics of zebrafish is now so advanced, that scientists believe the entire zebrafish genome will be sequenced by the end of 2001. While that will mean tha...Putting medical research on-line to give patients the information they need
...tment with steroids, while being restricted to bed rest helped prepare the fetus for premature delivery (via emergency cesarean section) at 32 weeks. Jean used Medline, the US Government's National Institutes for Health (NIH) abstract archive, to locate the research articles that were relevant to her diso...Biological clock gene in bees found to have another function
...hey found that young bees shifted randomly between rest and work regardless of time as they performed their duties of feeding the larvae, while foragers only ventured from the hive during daytime hours. In the latest study, Robinson's team noted that levels of mRNA of the period gene, a message carrier of...Cincinnati researchers document environmental problems caused by tourist trade in Crete
...nfall is used for island water use, Wray says; the rest represents an untapped source that could be used for non-potable purposes such as agriculture, laundry and more. Returning to traditional water storage methods such as cisterns would help to decrease the reliance on other sources of water in each com...Caffeine in colas: 'The Real Thing' isn't the taste
... concentration in Coca-Cola Classic or Pepsi. The rest of the group couldn't taste the difference between caffeine-containing and caffeine-free cola until caffeine levels were raised to much higher levels beyond those approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The report appears in this m...Cloned pig debuts in Science, sets the stage for organ transplants
...omes out, and avoid contaminating the egg with the rest of the material from the donor cell nucleus." After stimulating the injected eggs with an electrical pulse and allowing them to mature into early-stage embryos, the Science researchers transplanted the embryos into four surrogate mothers. Hea...Major air pollution study launched
... improve air quality in the Houston region and the rest of southeastern Texas, and provide fundamental sci... of the study, are the months when Houston and the rest of southeastern Texas experience the worst air-quality problems due to the presence of hot, stagnant...UC Davis research helps state air board set auto-emission rules
...rnia market soon finds its way to cars sold in the rest of the world. Some of the influential studies published by the Institute of Transportation Studies are: -- Comparisons of auto technology life-cycle costs and energy use: This April 2000 report, produced for and funded by the California Air Resources...Vanderbilt archaeological team unearths buried Maya royal palace
...of howler monkeys. The area became an oasis as the rest of the rainforest was cleared for farming. The walls of the 270,000-square foot palace are built of solid limestone masonry, rather than the concrete and mud typical of other sites. As a result, it did not collapse the way that other Maya structures...No AIDS-related viruses or chimpanzee DNA found in 1950's-era polio vaccine
...titute. "We trust that these results will put to rest any remaining concerns of a link between a Wistar-produced oral polio vaccine and AIDS. The findings should also serve to restore public confidence in the production and administration of vaccines and in the response of science to public in...