New technology treats dairy wastes, odors
...wastewater, laden with suspended manure solids, is returned to the lagoon where it is recycled back into the flush system after processing. The DeRuyter demonstration, which is on a lagoon approximately 1 1-3 acre in size, will run for one year. Soil Search of Finley, Wash., is assessing the demonstration b...Electronic tags reveal transatlantic migrations and breeding grounds of Atlantic bluefin tuna
...percent of the recovered electronic tags have been returned from the Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea by commercial fishers from Italy, Morocco, Portugal and Japan. Sixty-nine percent have been recaptured in the Western Atlantic, primarily off Maine, Nova Scotia and Cape Cod, Mass., by American, Canadia...A pill for reversible suppression of periods - a new option
... follicular phase concentrations of oestradiol and returned to normal menstrual cycles within 15 to 41 days after treatment stopped." He said that his laboratory was now working on some of the cellular mechanism underlying the actions of the compounds and collaborating on the next generation of progesterone r...Using hard science to protect fragile seas
...ts - no longer threatened by hungry urchins - have returned all along the coast, providing ideal habitat for indigenous crabs, clams, snails and fish. But protection can have an unexpected downside - especially when the natural ecosystem is totally out of balance. Micheli is evaluating the effects of no-take...Study shows top predator makes prey population vulnerable in catastrophe
... One year later, the control populations had all returned to their pre-hurricane numbers, but most of the po...ne could exterminate lizard populations. When they returned to the islands this time a month after Hurricane Floyd has passed, they expected to find the same re......nts in organic matter and how much is respired' or returned to the environment by organisms in the open ocean," says Kolber. The Rutgers researcher cautioned that at present the impact of the photosynthetic bacteria on the carbon cycle is unknown: "We don't know how they affect the amount of...A new marker for schizophrenia?
...up of schizophrenic patients had S100B levels that returned to normal while a second group of patients continued to have increased levels. The patients of the second group had significantly higher PANSS negative scores than the first group, and the higher scores remained after six weeks of treatment. The incr......ar II and no official dinosaur expedition had ever returned to this remote part of Egypt until the Penn team's arrival in January of 2000. During a six-week field season, the group recovered nearly 6,000 pounds of dinosaur bones and other fossils to examine. Their research is ongoing. The fourteen members ...Shift from forest to crops lowers temperatures
...read across the Midwest andnortheastern farm lands returned to forests, the temperaturedifference steadily increased. The Northeast became warmer in thespring and summer as forests returned. Bonan is currently using a computerized model of the climate tofurther investigate the impact of historical deforestati...Undergrad's digital model of amoeba helps scientists study human cells
... the University of Connecticut Health Center, then returned to Johns Hopkins to work on the project. Building on the mathematical foundation created by Iglesias and Levchenko, Kim created a two-dimensional model that replicates the chemotaxis process in Dictyostelium. The model, being tested in a lab set up b...Welch honors Kornberg for insights into DNA transcription
...owing post-doctoral work in Cambridge, England, he returned to the U.S. as an assistant professor of biological chemistry at Harvard Medical School. He moved to Stanford in 1978 as a professor of structural biology. He served as chairman of the Department of Structural Biology from 1984 until 1992. He has rec......ious aspects of a system, depending on information returned at regular time intervals by various components located "globally" throughout the entire system. Feedback can be used to create a control signal, which regulates system performance. To put their theories to the test, Rotermund, Ertl and Mikhailov--wi...K-State veterinarian's lab site for DNA registry
...entity of the dog. The completed kit is sealed and returned by over-night carrier to Fenwick's laboratory where a team of skilled technicians completes the process. "This is a sophisticated level of science which as a laboratory we apply in a very strict way because you never know when a case will result in ...Florida scientists find enzyme replacement restores muscle strength in mice with Pompe's disease
...ice revealed that glycogen levels in the cells had returned to normal levels. "We saw complete restoration of the GAA enzyme activity in animals after two doses of the replacement therapy," Byrne said. "That is particularly significant because the modification of the therapeutic enzyme seems to have...Action at a distance in the hyperoxic eye
...ent and blindness, occurs only after the infant is returned to normoxic conditions. Intravitreal neovascularization is puzzling because it occurs at a considerable distance from the retina, where the angiogenic factor VEGF is produced. Based on their experiments with mice deficient in the inducible nitric ox...Elephants pick up good vibrations - through their feet
...ions in the ground from approaching herds. "When I returned to the University of California at Davis, I teamed up with my Ph.D. adviser, Lynette Hart, and geophysicist Byron Aranson to find out if there really are seismic communications among elephants," she says. The result was a series of geophysical exper...European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology international conference
...lso available from Margaret Willson. These must be returned before 10 May). OR: there is free on-site registration of all bona fide media representatives on presentation of press credentials....... in the molecular and cellular biology program and returned to medical school this fall, as part of the MD/Ph.D. program. For his thesis, Lauring studied the pathogenesis of feline leukemia virus, which serves as a model system for both human cancer and AIDS. Knowledge of how the virus causes feline leukemia...Different effects of puberty on resting metabolism in white and African American children
...udy at an average age of 8 years old. Participants returned annually for repeated measurements of their REE and body composition. All of the boys maintained a higher REE than the girls throughout the study. The influence of maturation on body composition and REE was apparent at a younger age in African Americ...ST@T SHEET: A monthly update on science/technology @ Temple University
...n of the rockshelter in 1973 and again in 1975 and returned to direct new excavations in 1997 with the assistance of fellow Temple faculty member Dr. Patricia Hansell, one of the studys co-authors. The study was also co-authored by Dolores Piperno, a Temple alumna, and Irene Holst, both of the Smithsonian Tro...