NCAR aircraft, ground instruments to track carbon dioxide uptake
...e transportation activities. As the research plane samples air aloft, a dense network of instruments will gather data over a half square mile on Niwot Ridge near Nederland. Perched atop three steel towers provided by NCAR, each between 100 and 200 feet tall, carbon dioxide sensors and sonic anemometers will ...Researchers discover cold virus can 'hit and hide'
...ter 14 days, the virus could no longer be found in samples taken from the airways, but tell-tale traces of the virus's genetic material (viral RNA) were still found lying dormant in lung tissue over 100 days later. The team believes that this may also be the case in humans, and that long after the initial sy...Seabed secrets in English clay
...s may have lived in a given epoch of time. Kenig's samples included seemingly incompatible creatures living together. The standard interpretation of the fossil record needed some refinement. "The animal fossils and bacteria organic matter, though contained in the same packet of rock, were not deposited ...Discovery offers clues to origin of life
...n de Wit from the University of Cape Town, studied samples of pillow lava taken from the Mesoarchean Barberto..." The team then compared its $3.5 billion-year-old samples to the modern pillow lava on the seafloor using several sophisticated tests and was able to find muc...Elusive but ubiquitous microbe fingered as gum disease culprit in Stanford study
...ere periodontitis begins. They rigorously analyzed samples from 58 patients' mouths taken by their collaborator, Gary Armitage, DDS, at the UC-San Francisco School of Dentistry, and found that more than one-third of the periodontitis patients had archaea in their diseased subgingival spaces, but nowhere else...DELTA mission and ESA astronaut dock with ISS
...pening is to transfer the experiment equipment and samples from Soyuz TMA-4 to the ISS. Other experiment equi...s experimental fields. He will transfer biological samples between the European-built Kubik incubators. This will cover the biological experiments ACTIN, ICE-f...Researchers report definitive evidence that HIV-AIDS is not from oral polio vaccine
...blic of Congo in 2000 and in 2003 to collect fresh samples from wild chimps in the Kisangani area. "The fresh...using their calls. The team carefully stored small samples of feces in little screw-capped vials filled with a preservative. The 2000 trip met with some calami...Chlamydiae infection may be associated with ocular adnexal lymphoma
...te in Milan, Italy, and colleagues examined tissue samples from 40 patients with ocular adnexal lymphoma, 26 ...phadenopathy samples, and in none (0 of 20) of the samples from healthy people. None of the lymphoma samples contained C. trachomatis or C. pneumoniae. C. p...Research finds lawn chemicals raise cancer risk in Scottish terriers
...ted lawns and compare the chemicals in their urine samples with those from households where lawns have not been treated. "It's important to find out which lawn chemicals are being taken up by both children and animals," he said. "We hope to start this spring."...Insights on stroke from the peripheral blood suggest ways to develop markers and therapies
...ng what happens during a stroke. Using small blood samples taken from patients' arms during and immediately f...er and more practical than looking at brain tissue samples from biopsy or post-mortem, and have the added advantage of being available serially throughout the ...First study of resveratrol dietary supplement finds effect on breast and prostate cancers unlikely
...presumably active, form. Likewise, the only blood samples containing free resveratrol were those drawn withi...njection. No free resveratrol was present in blood samples drawn after oral doses. Based on this study's findings, Dr. Walle ways it would seem highly unlike...Chicken litter harbors agents that generate antibiotic multi-resistance, according to UGA study
...resistance genes? To find out, they collected samples of poultry litter from Georgia broiler houses regularly over a 13-week period. Litter begins as a bedding material of softwood shavings placed in commercial broiler houses before chicks are brought to it. By the time the flock is harvested, the shavi......been looking for better ways to observe biological samples under its beam. The problem is that the viewing ch...s with an ultra-fine layer of gold, quick-freezing samples in special deep-freezes, or treating them with drying solvents. Now, scientists at the Weizmann In...High-fat fast-food breakfast produces rush of inflammatory factors into blood stream, UB study finds
...300 milliliters of water as a control group. Blood samples were taken before eating or drinking and at 1, 2 and 3 hours afterward. The samples were analyzed to determine the concentration of inflammatory mediators and oxygen free radicals. Th...Tips from the Journals of the American Society for Microbiology
...Researchers determined the bacteria stayed in soil samples for 203 to 231 days and for 84 to 203 days after r... sap usually occurs at the taphole. In the study, samples of sap were taken from the taphole of maple trees throughout two seasons and screened for bacteria. ...SAGE-acious prediction of thyroid carcinoma
...eries of patient cases. RT-PCR analysis of patient samples for the markers successfully predicted tumor class with an accuracy of 83%, indicating the usefulness of this strategy for further development of preoperative diagnostic markers for FTC....Genetic screening study at Stanford ID's most aggressive adult leukemia strains
...y, Pollack's colleagues in Germany collected tumor samples from 116 adults with AML, including 45 with an intermediate-risk form of the disease. Lars Bullinger, MD, then a postdoctoral scholar in Pollack's lab, used a technique called microarray analysis to take a snapshot of the activity level of 26,260 gen...New proteomics core at OHSU will speed discovery process
... can process more than three times as many protein samples in half a day, and much of it can be done by one person. "This can do 180 samples in six hours," said Bystrom, the lab's director, motioning to the large, blue-hooded 2DiDx spotcutte...MCG pursues markers to improve ovarian cancer treatment, diagnosis
...ody attack the cancer. Researchers will take blood samples at various intervals as women with ovarian cancer proceed from diagnosis to treatment to remission to disease recurrence or continued remission then use advanced, high-throughput technology called proteomics to look at protein expression changes as w...New method for determining age of artifacts fills chronological gap for scientists
... potassium argon dating is good for dating mineral samples that are between 100,000 and 4.3 billion years old. Forged artifacts also can be tested with the quartz hydration dating technique. With replications of statues for example, the thinness or lack of the hydration layer will give away their age. The ...