DuPont to launch soybeans into space
...pace, were used in science-based initiatives after returning to Earth. For 200 years, innovation has been the cornerstone of DuPont, said Dr. Thomas M. Connelly, Chief Science and Technology Officer for DuPont. As a science company, we realize that future opportunities don't always come where you found your ...Researchers arming farms to halt increases in greenhouse gases
... as a loss, we can look at it as the potential for returning and storing carbon in agricultural soils." Increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is one suspect in the rising global temperature, known as global warming. "Although it's called global warming, that's really misleading because although the overal......Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System. After returning to her home state of Arkansas in 1986 as a professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) College of Medicine, Dr. Griffin and her collaborators at UAMS first established in 1989 that Interleukin-1...University of Pittsburgh scientist discusses blood cell damage from biomedical devices
...r, then subjected them to high-shear stress before returning them to the animal. "Normally, rabbit red blood cells have a lifespan of 30 days," she said. "But within a few days, the stressed cells were gone." At the same time, tagged red blood cells that were not exposed to shear stress were found to have a no...First soybeans grown in space return to Earth
...pace, were used in science-based initiatives after returning to Earth. "Innovation has been the hallmark of DuPont for more than 200 years," said Chief Science and Technology Officer Dr. Thomas M. Connelly. "As a science company, we know that future research opportunities may come from totally different venu...First awards for FIC global health research initiative program for new foreign investigators
...provides partial salaries to the junior researcher returning home, equivalent to similar professionals in the h...ts to see increases in numbers of young scientists returning to their countries and, importantly, continuing of the international collaborations begun in the Uni...EMBO supports restart of six female scientists at the bench
...logy III). Dr. Arndt is the mother of twins and is returning to the laboratory after a one-year break. Barbara Belletti will be starting her research in January 2003 after a break of 18 months. The Italian researcher has two daughters and will be continuing her work in cancer research at the Centro di Riferim...A new approach holds promise for reducing cocaine craving
...e administration of cocaine prevents the rats from returning to lever pressing. This is interpreted as preventing a return of cocaine craving. In the current study, post-doctoral fellow Krista McFarland found that treatment with n-acetyl cysteine had the same preventative effect....UCR entomologists report bee-dancing brings more food to honeybee colonies
... to the food source visited by the forager. A bee returning from a rich source of food will "dance" on the vertical comb surface by running in a circle. On each revolution, the bee will bisect the circle at an angle. The angle with respect to 12 o'clock represents the angle to fly with respect to the sun. ...Without water, the body will shut down its need to ingest food
...briefly removing the food hopper, weighing it, and returning it to the cage. Rats were anesthetized and given a postoperative subcutaneous injection of the analgesic buprenorphine-hydrochloride. Tubes were inserted in the vena cava, portal vein, gastric cavity, and intestine, all in a single session. Rats were...Cocaine harms brain's 'pleasure center,' addict study finds
...kets called vesicles. VMAT2 acts as a pump to pull returning dopamine into vesicles. When it comes time for another dopamine release, the vesicles merge with the cell membrane, dumping their contents into the gap, or synapse, and the pleasure signaling process begins again. Dopamine neurons in the brain's ple...Polar bear headed for extinction, says University of Alberta scientist
... at the Norwegian Polar Institute in Tromso before returning to the University of Alberta, where he completed his doctorate. "That's why the urgency on the issue for polar bears now." He adds that it is possible a warmer climate will improve polar bear and seal habitats in the short term, mainly in higher lat...'Moss in space' project to test how plants grow 'up'
... preserve the moss containers before returning to Earth. Upon landing, the Ohio State research team will take thousands of microscope pictures for later study. This research was supported by Fundamental Biology Program of ...Field Museum uncovers evidence behind man-eating; revises legend of its infamous man-eating lions
...isticated strategies and techniques, such as never returning to the same place two days in a row. "Lions are a social species, capable of transmitting a behavioural tradition from one generation to the next," Kerbis says. "The fact that they can be born and raised to hunt and eat humans means that an outbreak...Multiple factors affect flight power curves among species
...quickly to escape danger before rapidly tiring and returning to the ground to run or hide....High-density storage of nuclear waste heightens terrorism risks
...-density system could not. The authors recommended returning the water tanks to their low-density configurations and building onsite storage facilities, which would use air-cooling, for the older fuel. Some of the cost of this work already is budgeted as part of a plan to build a national storage facility at Y...Meeting the nitrogen management challenge: Arresting the nitrogen cascade
...re also additional remediation costs associated to returning the water systems to their unpolluted state. Estimates of the economic damage or benefits can be interred from productivity changes relative to pristine conditions. But the estimates of damage can vary widely, Moomaw added. While the goal of constru...New strategies against disease revealed as scientists probe genes' tasks
...s do special exercise regimens and then "detrain," returning to their pre-workout conditions, Hoffman is studying gene expression in their muscle tissue. His findings may be useful for helping to prevent circulatory problem in diabetes, in which blood clotting is related to changes in the muscle tissue, he sai...Study: Prenatal screening in Haiti region cut syphilis by 75 percent
...ensaries, transporting it to a central laboratory, returning the results and then treating women who showed signs of the sexually transmitted disease, she said. Unfortunately, that screening strategy failed, and congenital syphilis rates in the region were 550 per 100,000 live births. The new study showed that......experience at the University of Minneapolis. After returning to Germany he worked at the University of Mainz with an interlude as a visiting professor at the University of California in Santa Barbara; then, in February 1995, he qualified as a professor at the Department of Inorganic Chemistry at Mainz. He had ...