Environmental engineer works to resolve arsenic poisoning in Bangladesh water supplies
Engineering professor Shafiqul Islam returned to his native Bangladesh in October 2001 as a Senior Fulbright Scholar for six months to help solve what has been called "the worst case of natural contamination in human history." "Arguably, nowhere in the world is water so abundant and yet so scar...Pain in the gut? Don't blame stomach acid
...ded following antibiotic treatment, gastrin levels returned to normal releasing the hormonal brake inhibiting somatostatin. "Our findings show that changes observed in gastrin-deficient mice are caused by inflammation triggered by an overgrowth of many bacterial species," Zavros explains. "An abnormally low...Munching microbes aid environment, oil industry
...ing fluid as they can off the cuttings when theyre returned to the surface, Roberts says, but a small percentage of fluid remains on the cuttings, which are usually discharged into the sea. The new regulations identify methods to control the discharge of cuttings associated with SBFs. If the industry couldnt...2002 Ocean Sciences Meeting - Media Advisory 1
...vailable in two versions, may be submitted online, returned by email, or printed and faxed or mailed to AGU. Email address: hleifert@agu.org Fax: 202-328-0566 Mail to: Harvey Leifert AGU 2000 Florida Avenue N.W. Washington, DC 20009 USA Or, you may take the form with you to the Press Room to reg...Respiratory activation in patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSA)
...eatment with optimal pressure CPAP, eight patients returned for the second night (N2) study, which followed th... into the recovery period, although the findings returned to control. For the group as a whole, hypoxia resulted in increased one from 11.4 2.6 to 14.8 3.1 ...Subjects lying face up reveal a reduced ability for 'nasal air conditioning'
...e was measured every five minutes until the volume returned to the baseline value. Preliminary experiments showed that nasal volume returned to baseline within 30 minutes. After completion of these measurements, nasal conditioning was measur...White sharks migrate thousands of miles across the sea, new study finds
...evoand the Farallones islands. In November, Tipfin returned to the Farallones,giving Pyle, Anderson and Boustany the opportunity to attach another pop-uptag on his back. The tag was programmed to record data for nine months andcould answer some of the questions about the shark's round-trip migration. "We see ...Prizes awarded in the 2002 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Programme
...d University and the Free University of Berlin, he returned to RWTH Aachen in 1992, where he is currently Prof...-Electronics at the University of Ulm. In 1994, he returned to the University of Brunswick and has since been heading the Institute of High-Frequency Technology...Scientists use gene therapy to correct sickle cell disease in mice
...the genetically altered cells, which would then be returned to the patient. Currently, the only cure available for sickle cell disease is bone marrow transplantation. In this procedure, a sick patient (the recipient) is transplanted with bone marrow from a healthy, genetically compatible ("matched") sibling ...Women more susceptible to orthostatic hypotension
... of 20, 40, and 60 of tilt. The subjects were then returned to the supine position. After ~10 min of quiet rest, a second baseline period was obtained, followed by insertion of a hand into ice water (~4C) for two minutes. During HUT, the increase in sympathetic outflow is due primarily to baroreceptor unload...Scientists study how the lobster's nose knows
...dor-sensitive cells. But when the antennule slowly returned to its original position, it acted more like a ``paddle``; instead of rushing between the aesthetascs, most of the dye-laden water flowed around them, leaving the pattern of dye picked up by the aesthetascs during the downstroke intact. The researche...Science steps up on International Space Station with new experiments, fresh crew to operate them
...lograms) of research hardware and experiments, and returned more than a thousand pounds (500 kilograms) of hardware, samples and other data to Earth, said John Uri, the Expedition Four science mission manager. Uri works at NASAs Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, but his team members are stationed in NAS...URI oceanographers receive $900,000 from NSF to study carbon cycling in Arctic Ocean
... Guard ice-breaker Healy. The samples will then be returned to GSO for analysis. Campbells research concerns planktonic food web interactions in the Western Arctic shelf and basin regions. He and a team of scientists from Oregon State University and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution will analyze the i...Researchers zero in on date of early hominids
...tify several magnetic reversals. When Levi and Ron returned to Erk-el-Ahmar, they conducted more comprehensive tests. These tests looked not only at the existence of magnetic reversals, but also at the degree of fluctuations of the horizontal and vertical components of the magnetic field. In a "normal" perio...Student discovers well-preserved embryo in dinosaur egg
...t the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences before being returned to the Auburn University Natural History Learning Center....Caterpillars make noise to fend off intruders, researchers discover
...nds. In follow-up tests, displaced residents, when returned to the leaf where their nests had been taken over, took on the role of invader, with the new occupant defending the nest as its own. We found that the caterpillars only do this communication when they are in the nest, Weatherhead said. The interactio...Bacterial communities found to follow water
...nce the soil started drying out, the cyanobacteria returned to the subsurface though the light didnt change. Essentially nothing changed except the availability of water, he said. Subsequently, the bacteria were moved to a laboratory setting and were tested under controlled lighting conditions, using microp.......S. blood centers. Of the 52, 650 blood donors who returned questionnaires, scientists identified 197 who reported a diagnosis of hemochromatosis. Analyses were restricted to donors who reported hemochromatosis and did not indicate some other health-related reason motivating them to donate blood. Although ne...Gene therapy technique reduces alcohol consumption in rats
...vels peaked three to four days after injection and returned to near baseline after eight days. Dr. Thanos and his colleagues then analyzed the drinking behavior of injected rats of two types: rats with a high alcohol preference that drank 80 to 90 percent of daily fluids as alcohol, and rats with low alcohol ......d three to four days after injection and gradually returned to near baseline after eight days. Then the scientists examined how the injected genes affected the drinking behavior of rats that had been previously trained to self-administer alcohol. Rats that showed a preference for alcohol over water during tra...