Lutein supplements may improve vision
... on wall charts they were instructed tocreate, and returned data via weekly e-mails to the study coordinators. Besides the increase in visual acuity and visual field size among most patients, the researchersnoticed that blue-eyed participants had substantially higher gains in vision than dark-eyedparticipants...Spring meeting press conferences
...Meeting. For a press registration form that can be returned online, or by fax, email, or mail, visit the AGU web site: [http://www.agu.org/sci_soc/prrl/sm00pressreg.html].Eligibility requirements for press registration and other important information are contained in Media Advisory 1 (see Note at top of this ......living animal, treated with genetic material, then returned to the animal. In the project to prevent diabetic nerve damage, gene therapy will be used in vivo; that is, genetic material will be introduced directly into a living animal....Advanced cell technology reports reversal
...of their lifespan. "The old cells were not merely returned to a youthful state. Remarkably, they were actually given a longer life span than those from normal animals," said Dr. Robert P. Lanza , MD, Vice President of Medical and Scientific Development at ACT and first author of the report. The cloned animal...2000 Spring Meeting: Sessions and abstracts online
...agu.org/sci_soc/prrl/sm00pressreg.html . It may be returned online, by e-mail, fax, or through the post. It may also be taken to the meeting for on site registration. We expect to send Abstract books soon after May 9 to those press registrants who have requested them.......g, we saw the Middle Pack standing there. Later we returned to the area and found the carcass of a wolf where ... left her body and moved off into the woods and we returned to camp to refuel our plane and get a pack to haul out her carcass. "When we returned to the site n...2000 Spring Meeting press registration
...rm The press registration form that follows may be returned to AGU by mail, fax, or email. If you use email, please do not send back this entire media advisory, just the form. There is an on line version of the form at [ http://www.agu.org/sci_soc/prrl/sm00pressreg.html ]. --or-- Email to: hleifert@agu.org...Tube worms in deep sea discovered to have record long life spans
...the whitetubeworm casings a robin's-egg-blue, then returned to the site a year laterto collect and study the animals. By comparing the overall length of eachtubeworm with the length of its new, unstained, growth, the researcherswere able to determine the average growth rate for animals of differentlengths an...Common anti-inflammatory drug rescues low-growth fetuses in mouse study
...ng the middle period of the pregnancy, the fetuses returned to patterns of normal growth and reached appropriate, healthy weights. FitzGerald notes that other products of COX play critical roles in both the early and late periods of a pregnancy, so that administering indomethacin or any COX inhibitor during...Increased production of antibiotics in space reported by University of Colorado researchers
...n., took place during the flight of Discovery that returned astronaut John Glenn to space. Similar experiments flown by BioServe in the past and carried out in test tubes also showed increases in antibiotic production, although relatively small quantities were produced, said Klaus, Bioserve's associate dir...Most highly endowed promotion prize for fourteen scientists and scholars
... Institute at Yale University followed. In 1997 he returned to Göttingen as Director of Neurobiology at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry. Through his studies, Jahn has made an essential contribution to our understanding of the processes of membrane fusion, which are vital for innumera...New treatment may relieve chronic pain, as reported in the 19 November issue of Science
...emporary relief. In these cases, the pain probably returned because the surgeons cut through hundreds of other neurons in addition to those that expressed the substance P receptor. The damage to these additional neurons could have induced the brain to experience pain even without a real stimulus. "That's the...Evidence for historic global warming published in Science
...d years, global carbon and oxygen cycles gradually returned to equilibrium conditions after the LPTM, although marine and terrestrial ecosystems were forever changed." Pak explained that the sediment core, removed as part of the Ocean Drilling Program, was taken from an area known as the Blake No...Men more sensitive than women to fat-reduced label
...you." Later in the day, at 4:45 p.m., the subjects returned to the food lab where they each remained in a secluded booth for one and a half-hours to study and snack, if they so desired, from a wide variety of foods. Hunger reported in the afternoon did not differ for males, regardless of what they had for ...Lemur 'Juliet' may be new subspecies; no mate for 'Romeo'
....C.-- Duke University primatologists who have just returned from an expedition to capture a mate for a rare lemur "Romeo" report that the "Juliet" they captured may be a previously unknown subspecies of the acrobatic lemurs known as sifakas. If DNA tests performed over the next months prove the genetic diffe...Breast-feeding plays second fiddle to work, study finds
... About half (54 percent) of the women who returned to full-time work (more tha... compares to only 35 percent of women who had not returned to work. At six months postpartum, 38 percent of the whole ...Cattails and contamination: marshy stalks hold DNA clues on pollution
...polluted. Leaf samples from the various sites were returned to UC labs and extracted forthe DNA comparisons. The biologists focused on variable-number-tandem-repeat(VNTR) sequences, a type of DNA fingerprinting modified after similar techniquesused with humans. By sampling a wide area in the Midwest and a s...New paleontology research from Natural History Museum of L.A. at international conference
...ibuted. His research also shows that the sauropods returned to thesame nesting site over a long period of time. This site continues to providescientists important information on the reproductive biology and behavior ofsauropods. (Photo available). The Origin of Jaws: Scientists have long debated the origin...On the floor of the sea: USGS biologists search for rare, white abalone
...cale version of the baby boom that began when GI's returned totheir brides after WWII. It's too bad the weather is so nasty in February or wecould schedule this for Valentine's Day." The second approach will be to bring white abalone back to several laboratoriesup and down the West coast for safe keeping a......and tidal flooding.Over the next three years, they returned to the sites periodically to notechanges to the tree populations and correlate them with measurements of tidalflooding and changes in groundwater salinity. Despite the relatively short duration of the study, many trees died by the endof the field res...