New species of early bird discovered in Mongolia by team of research scientists
...Mongolian Academy of Sciences, to which it will be returned after it is studied in the United States....Polyphenolic compound found in chocolate may protect against coronary disease
...f the subjects leukotriene/prostacyclin ratios had returned to preconsumption levels. The same changes in the leukotriene/prostacyclin ratio were obtained in cultured human aorta cells exposed to procyanidin. The authors suggest that frequent consumption of procyanidins may provide cardioprotective effects by...Job stress may lead to back injury for some people, study finds
...rvisor left the room, and then returned pretending to be in a foul mood. He switched off the music and told the student that the laboratory director wasn't pleased with how the experiment was going. The researchers rigged the sec...Hyporheic zone appears key to nitrogen remediation in streams
...y, it is ultimately desirable that the nitrogen be returned to a gaseous dinitrogen, he said. Retention delays the sweeping of the materials downstream, but if denitrification does not occur, the material will be transported downstream, where it may alter environmental conditions. "We're trying to determine w...UF researcher: antioxidants play a role in deadly malnutrition disease
...the samples on dry ice at -70 degrees Celsius, and returned them to the United States, where Leeuwenburgh analyzed them using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, a sensitive and specific procedure that tests for oxidative damage. Leeuwenburgh found that children with malaria, and especially children wit...Colorado U. study indicates Denver area drivers unmoved by state air quality advisories
...ut 94 percent of the 281 people that completed and returned the surveys said they were aware of what the high-pollution advisories meant and 93 percent heard the posting via the media at least once a day prior to work. "We were somewhat surprised to find that people were fully aware of the air pollution ad...Moderate vitamin E supplementation may lower diabetics' cardiovascular risk
...ementation, plasma concentrations of vitamin E had returned to baseline values, and the therapeutic effect had disappeared. This phenomenon, which has also been noted in other studies of vitamin E, suggests that uninterrupted supplementation is preferable to a short-term "cure" using high-doses or intravenous...Wild salmon vulnerable to climate change, Science study reports
...astal lakes if it's released from dead salmon that returned to the lake at the end of their lives to spawn. Lakes blocked off by waterfalls, for example, have lower levels of nitrogen-15. Finney's team found several major fluctuations in nitrogen-15 levels over the last 300 years. These swings implied drops i...Media Advisory 2: Fall Meeting: Abstracts, press conferences, press registration
...ml . If you prefer, this form may be copied and returned to Harvey Leifert by email to hleifert@agu.org or by fax (202-328-0566). Once the Abstract book is available, and while supplies last, it will be sent to registrants, upon request, below. (Others will receive a copy in the Press Room.) Nam...Terra spacecraft and ER-2 aircraft begin study of Southern Africa's environment
... within minutes of the overpass. The aircraft then returned inland to sample the hazy air over South Africa. "We're excited about the opportunity to fly with NASA's ER-2 for the first time in this campaign," said Bob Swap of the University of Virginia, principal investigator of the South African plane that fl...Biologists find Peruvian plants inhibit growth of TB bacterium
...his colleagues examined about 1,250 plant extracts returned from Peru and found that 46 percent showed an inhibition against Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis), the bacterium that causes TB. The finding is a first step toward developing potential drugs that can combat the disease. The unexpected res...Faulty practices threaten condor program
...ehaving birds in the wild should be re-trapped and returned to captivity, since they pose a risk of passing on their bad behaviors to birds released in the future." The study strongly urges that future releases be limited to parent-reared birds, especially ones that are raised free of all contact with human...Cincinnati researchers document environmental problems caused by tourist trade in Crete
...rsity of Cincinnatibiologist, grew alarmed when he returned for hissecond summer field project in Hersonissos, Crete, as a member of the UC Sustainable Development Group studying the problem of mass tourism in the region. "Last year the mayor took us on a tour of the coastal area that included the wetland. Th...Ancient mediterranean port city may have been holy land way station
...eginning of the fourth century, when relative calm returned to the region, the defensive sea walls apparently were pushed into the bay by residents to extend Aperlae's shoreline, said Hohlfelder. But the defensive walls went up again in the sixth century due to the declining Roman Empire and increased coasta...UF researcher: gene therapy effective in animal studies of Parkinson's disease
...f time. But after our treatment, eight of the rats returned to using each front paw half the time." Autopsies later showed that in this group of rats, the initially destroyed dopamine fibers had begun to regenerate, thereby providing the critical link between the substantia nigra and the striatal area of th...Cadmium toxicity threatening wildlife in Rocky Mountains
...o Durango known as an "ore belt." Larison, who has returned to the OSU faculty, said abandoned mines throughout this area have "exacerbated the problem." Though cadmium is natural to the area, he pointed out, mining tends to mobilize potentially toxic metals. "Cadmium poisoning originally was discovered in J...Compound that switches off appetite in mice discovered by Hopkins scientists
...or more than 90 percent in the first day. Feeding returned to normal in the next few days as the drug's effect faded. C75-injected mice resembled fasting mice in the way they lost body tissue in fasting, some muscle is lost as well as fat. But the C75-treated mice lost far more weight than their untreate...Frequent pressure shifts increase risk of blindness in glaucoma patients
...fter supper and at bedtime. After five days, they returned to their ophthalmologist's office for another recording. During an average day, the pressures recorded at home fluctuated by 4.3 mmHg and ranged from 1.5 to 12.5 mmHg. Over a five-day period, fluctuation was even greater 10 mmHg and ranged from 4....Welch Award honors 2 for unlocking nature's secrets
...rews. Following post-doctoral work in the U.S., he returned to England as a lecturer at the University of Bristol, and then held a chair at the University of Liverpool. In 1969, he accepted the Chair of Organic Chemistry at the University of Cambridge. Since his university retirement in 1992, he first continu...New robotic microarray technology finds novel genes involved in cardiac hypertrophy and recovery
...eeks. When the drugs were withdrawn, heart weights returned to normal in these groups. Mice in a matched group, serving as controls, were given only saline solution. To test each stage of hypertrophy and recovery, RNA was extracted from heart tissues at daily intervals, including the RNA representing all the...