Nutrition Study Reshapes Strategies For Athletes
...ther key, Houtkooper says, is eating enough of the right kinds of foodsand eating them on a schedule coordinated with their competitions. Lighteris not necessarily better, which flies in the face of some trainingorthodoxies. Some athletes feel that if food is cleared out of theirsystems, they will be light...Water Recycling Project Tested in Turkey Plant
...win said. "They're using it in Canada andAustralia right now. We're going to be in the process of setting up sometest sites for that." The direct application process would do away with the need to use chlorinein the chillers. Canada prohibits the import of products treated with chlorine."Even before the d...PET Project Helps Reduce Pollution Threat From Heavy Metals
...f the highway," saidSansalone. "Solids are stopped right at the surface of the porouspavement. They can accumulate there, and as a part of routinemaintenance, they can be vacuumed back off the surface." Theconcrete also neutralizes acidic rainwater and actually raisesthe pH to the level where the sand lay...Medicinal Leech May Offer Clues To Neural Regeneration
...ry, but they have been shown capable of making the right connections to fully restore motor function," she says. Humans and other vertebrates, by comparison, have only limited capacity to restore neural growth or function. One problem with studying neural regeneration in vertebrate systems is that there ar...No Such Luck: Nitrogen From Air Pollution Unlikely to Moderate Global Warming
...m the atmosphere in Minnesota and the Ohio Valley, right up through the amounts of highly agricultural and industrial areas of Europe," said Tilman. "Two of our nine treatments went beyond these rates to try to predict the longer-term effects of nitrogen deposition." Tilman and Wedin found that mor...New Finding Suggests "HATs" Are Key To Gene Activation Puzzle
...amesBrownell at Rochester. "Gene activation at the right time and place is critical for cell survival and properdevelopment. Scientists have proposed many different mechanisms for how genes are turned on. Our finding provides strongsupport for one of these mechanisms." During much of its lifetime, the......e their own vitamin C and must rely on eating the right foods to obtain it. Researchers at the Boyce Thompson Institute created mutant plants that have no capacity to make vitamin C, and they then subjected the plants to strenuous environmental factors such as high levels of ozone and ultraviolet light. ...Blood Test Can Identify Some Children With Strep-Related Behavioral Disorders
...ker for rheumatic fever moreclosely and catch them right away if they begin to show OCD or tic symptoms," said Leonard. "We can also see if there is a way to prevent illness onset inthe children, possibly through the use of preventative antibiotic treatments.Some kids with OCD or tic symptoms never get ove...Molecular Imposter Rebuts Long
...chanism by which DNA-replicating enzymes selectthe right bases to insert into a growing strand," Kool says. "Theenzyme might form a tight pocket around the DNAtemplate which allows only correctly shaped bases to be added" --like an empty space in a jigsaw puzzle that can onlybe filled by the one puzzle pie...Fund Aims To Repay Developing Nations For Valuable Genes
...fund. "Establishing this fund is, simply put, the right thing to do. Hopefully,it will serve as a model for other research institutions as they searchfor equitable ways to recompense source nations for genetic materials,"Vanderhoef said. "The most effective form of assistance that universitiescan provide ...A Drug Pump On A Computer Chip
...nitoring blood glucose levels and pumping just the right amount of insulin into the bloodstream. "Ideally, an insulin delivery pump would sense the patients blood glucose level and change the dose of insulin accordingly," said Huff, who has begun with a pump and a flow sensor to ensure a constant pumping r...NIH Team Discovers Endocrine Tumor Gene
...this remarkable collaboration had come up with the right gene. "The systematic and powerful process of positional cloning ultimately led the intramural NIH team to the identification of the MEN1 gene," says Dr. Chandrasekharappa, the paper's lead author....Project Shows Native Bacteria Can Destroy Widespread Pollutant In Groundwater
...ng bacteria in groundwater with enough air and the right type of food, then the microorganisms may respond ...s determined that feeding native bacteria with the right mixture of oxygen and toluene, a naturally occurring petroleum product, causes them to produce the c...Biosensor Is A Model For Widespread Testing Of Chemicals, Molecules
... recognition of the desired molecule with just the right signalingproperties, Hellinga said, "and such comb...the reporter group to be attached precisely in the right place.They produced the protein and tested it with maltose, and it worked. "Itwas a very exciting mo...Method Eases Making Amino Acids Critical In Medicinal Chemistry
...mpounds are highlystructure dependent, just as the right hand of one person requires the righthand of another to perform a handshake. Thus, the correct chirality mustbe built into a synthesized biomolecule. "Our chemistry begins with a molecule that is superimposable onits mirror image, and converts it in...Restoring Farm Land To Natural Wetlands Key To Stemming Flood
...tomlands of the Illinois River and appropriatedthe right to hunt, fish and gather resources," Schneider said. "Thelegacy of the levee districts on the Illinois River has been twofold: thedeterioration of the natural resources of the river and increased flooding.Draining wetlands behind the levee districts ...Hot 'Lanta: NASA, School Kids Team To Study How Trees Help Cities Keep Their Cool
...ed how the difference is readily "visible," to the right camera. The Huntsville pictures were taken withATLAS, the Airborne Thermal/Visible Land Application Sensor aboard a Lear 23 jet operating out of NASA's StennisSpace Center in Bay St. Louis, Miss. ATLAS, which will also be used in the Atlanta experime...Munching Microbes Make A Meal Out Of Toxic Substances
... to cleaning up the environment, the answer may be right under our feet. A Purdue University engineer is investigating how and why bacteria in the soil eat certain toxic chemicals, and he is developing procedures for using the hungry bugs in environmental cleanup efforts. "We've known for decades that the ...Genetic Trickery Offers New Way to Target HIV
...de. Initiating the copying process atprecisely the right spot is the primer's critical task. Rosenblatt's team genetically engineered a new primer, amutant tRNA that docks at a different site on the HIV template,causing reverse transcriptase to begin copying at the wrong spot. Just like a typist whose...Merging Physics And Neuroscience: First Evidence Of Self-Organized Criticality In Brain Networks
... fitsthe model very well, so we know we are in the right class ofsystems." Origins of Self-Organized Criticality Physicists Per Bak, Chao Tang and Kurt Wiesenfeld firstdescribed the phenomenon of self-organized criticality in physicalsystems ten years ago. The best-known example involves sandpilesthat ...