Colorado U. to fly hardware, experiments on space shuttle, space station
...CGBA, he said. While the cell experiments will be returned to Earth at the end of the nine-day shuttle mission, the CGBA will be delivered to the International Space Station during the mission to act as a refrigerator for a second set of experiments involving BioServe. The other experiments involve plants ...Sea snake homing instinct could nix translocation
...anslocated snakes, they found that all of them had returned "home" within about a month. The researchers also caught, marked and released 674 snakes on Mabualau, and found that none of them were recaptured on Toberua. These findings suggest that the populations on the two islands are separate, a conclusion th...Antioxidant protects islet cells used in transplants for diabetes
...l the animals with antioxidant-treated islet cells returned to full health. "The antioxidant-treated cells are healthier when they are transplanted into the mice and survive better after the transplant," said Dr. Piganelli. "We think it may be worthwhile to use the antioxidant during preservation of the pancr...Sea Grant asking anglers to collect sea lampreys for Lake Champlain study
...ted for the most lamprey returned, and the lamprey returned from the farthest distance, and through a random drawing. This study of lampreys is funded by the Great Lakes Fishery Commission, which continues to support innovative and traditional approaches for controlling lamprey populations. The studys princip...Scientists get no-strings awards for biodiversity leadership
...ion techniques. Several of these students now have returned to Madagascar and are filling leadership positions in the nation's scientific community. Ya-Ping Zhang studies the evolutionary history and genetic makeup of animals in his native China. As vice director of the Kunming Institute of Zoology, a compon...New robotic microscope helps scientists track cells over time
...cific area. Hours or days later, the plate can be returned to the microscope, and the same cells can be identified and re-examined. A computer program, also developed by Finkbeiner, automatically analyzes the photos within minutes. He can ask the computer to measure cells with specific morphologies, specific...Low-level oil spills can cause serious damage
...ound on San Cristbal Island on Jan. 17, 2001. They returned after the accident and found that the levels had increased dramatically, leading Wikelski to predict that many iguanas would die. "In this context, corticosterone levels are a reliable indicator of the induction of life-threatening stress," the autho...Los Alamos researcher conducts volcanic voyeurism
...increased just after the eruption and then quickly returned to pre-eruption levels hours later. This detection gives the researchers hope that volcanoes really can put out a chemical semaphore that signals impending eruption. Interpreting remote sensing data takes care, however, Love said. For example, during...DuPont to launch soybeans into space
... station. The plants and harvested grain will be returned to Earth this summer by the Space Shuttle Atlantis. Seeds exhibiting unique and desirable qualities will be planted by Pioneer researchers to determine if the traits can be inherited in future generations. Pioneer will identify the genetics of thos...Iron-binding compounds decrease body odor
...y, the levels of bacteria in the underarms rapidly returned to pre-use levels after ending product usage....Older adults can exercise just once a week to maintain muscle strength
...groups of five. Six months later, the five who had returned to a free-living lifestyle with no regular physical activity after their training had a significant decline in thigh muscle strength and size. The five who did resistance training once a week were able to maintain the strength that they had acquired ...American Cancer Society funds Space Station scientist who studies how good cells turn bad
...lle, Ala. On April 19, the Space Shuttle Atlantis returned with the first biological crystals that she grew on the Space Station. The American Cancer Society funding will help Borgstahl study Replication Protein A, know as RPA, and another protein called Rad52. Scientists discovered RPA and learned it is a ...Filtering patient's blood before kidney transplant allows transplant from any donor
... separate the cells from the fluid. The cells are returned to the person undergoing treatment, while the plasma, which contains the antibodies, is discarded and replaced with other fluids. Doctors also gave patients an intravenous drip of a medication designed to prevent the antibodies from returning and to...Alcohol-intoxication slows bodys efforts to restore normal blood pressure after small blood loss
...n to normal blood pressure after adequate fluid is returned to the body through the equivalent of an IV drip. Both these findings have enormous implications for trauma patients and the physicians who treat them, says Dr. Molina. Delayed normalization of blood pressure prolongs the period of time tissues have...Brookhaven Lab scientist wins Environmental Mutagen Society Award
...okhaven's Associate Director for Life Sciences. He returned to full-time research in 1998. Among his many honors, Setlow won the 1988 Enrico Fermi Award, the most prestigious scientific award given by the U.S. Department of Energy, for his contributions to the fields of radiation physics and molecular biology...Tibetans retain resistance to the oxygen-deficient disorder hypoxia regardless of altitude
... than 10,000 feet had migrated to Shanghai and not returned in the immediate four year time period. Age, body-weight, and height were similar; hypoxia was introduced into the subjects by placing them into a hypobaric chamber for two hours, at a simulated height of more than 11,000 feet. Hypoxic tolerance wa...Anthrax drugs used to treat adults can treat children, too
... of tetracyclines. Growth rates returned to normal, however, once tetracycline treatment was stopped. "There haven't been any further reports of doxycycline-induced bone growth inhibition," Nahata said. "Also, the drug seems to ...New process by Temple grad student can place loose fossils back into the strata or determine fakes
...eochemists working in paleontology, she says. She returned to Temple in January 2001 to major in geology, and while working on her thesis about rare earth elements, began to look at bone types and the amount of rare earth elements they contained. The preliminary research was successful in identifying a foss...Endangered freshwater mussels saved
...more than a quarter million endangered animals and returned them to the wild at a cost of less than $1 each. N...ew weeks. After growing for up to a year, they are returned to the wild to begin their work of improving water quality by filtering sediment and other water imp......ter in Houston during the summer of 2000. When she returned for her sophomore year at Johns Hopkins, she looked for a related research job and joined the lab team directed by Deborah J. Andrew, an associate professor in the Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Becau...