UK small firms pay lip service to green issues
...One architect also explained that his clients were simply not interested in sustainable design or construction: 'They're not aware of carbon emissions and the amount that's given off Clients are interested in speed and economy and the way that the market is at the moment.' One of the restaurant owners admi...Mammoths stranded on Bering Sea island delayed extinction
...its current level, what are now the Pribilofs were simply uplands connected to the mainland by a large, flat plain," Guthrie said. Using accelerator mass spectrometer (AMS) radiocarbon dating, bathymetric (water depth) plots, and sea transgression rates from the Bering Sea, Guthrie found that the mammoths ...NIH launches first center in Nationwide Chemical Genomics Network
...ncis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D. "What we are doing is simply giving academic and government researchers a chance to contribute in a much more vigorous way to the earliest stages of the drug development pipeline: the identification of useful biological targets. This is a win-win situation for basic biology, for...Susceptibility of mice to mousepox offers promise of smallpox protection
...ype-1 response. Karupiah's group demonstrated that simply taking away IL-4 in susceptible animals is not by itself enough to reverse susceptibility, "meaning that it's a lot more complicated than people think," said Karupiah. "But the prerequisite for efficient virus clearance seems to be high levels of gam...Researchers report major advance in gene therapy technique
...at they could get genes to express in muscle cells simply by injecting naked DNA into rodent muscle. The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) licensed the technology to Vical, a California biotechnology company. Once Wolff created Mirus, a local company, he and his colleagues turned their attention ...Junk DNA yields new kind of gene
... function, in this case to regulate a nearby gene, simply by being turned on. Joseph Martens, Lisa Laprade, ...eins that are acting there. It might be that it is simply the act of transcribing that is causing regulation." Like many researchers, Winston and his colleagu...Beware cancer, insomnia and liver disease UH students are taking aim
...y drugs to attenuate light-induced phase shifts by simply running them through pupillary light experiments," Figueroa said. "It's a simple and relatively inexpensive way of determining the effectiveness of the drugs, and I hope it will save researchers time and money." Also out of NSM's Biology and Bioch...Concerns remain about UVB damage to amphibians
...phibians could avoid the effects of UV-B radiation simply by avoiding sunlight or laying their eggs in deeper water," Blaustein said. "But that ignores millions of years of evolution, in which amphibians have developed certain types of behavior for specific reasons. Some species lay their eggs in warm, shal...Mutant biological machine makes proteins but can't let go
...onsible for catalyzing the protein's construction, simply by properly orienting the new building block and the chain, an idea they are testing now. For the current study, graduate student Elaine Youngman first created 12 mutant ribosomes -- the 12 singly changed alternatives to the natural ribosome. (Four n...Danger spots identified for threatened grizzly bear
...on the species. "Mortality rates in many sites are simply way too high to expect long-term persistence of grizzly bears," said Nielsen, the lead author on the paper. "Methods that identify mortality sites in most need of management or restoration are needed." Over the past century, human encroachment has de...Without words, bullfrogs communicate through stutters in their croaks
...eared to have a communication function and did not simply represent that a male was getting tired, Simmons said. An acoustic analysis showed the stutters followed certain rules: 100 percent of the recorded calls began with a croak containing no stutters; when the frogs started stuttering they generally did...Super-effective 'jumping gene' created
...ich random genes are either silenced completely or simply "quieted" by the jumping gene's intrusion. Studying these mice should reveal the function and identity of the disrupted gene -- in that order. "The ability to study genetics "backward" -- to disrupt a random gene, determine its role in the animal a......hat afflicts us all as we age. Others say they are simply too small to be living creatures. Now a team of doctors has entered the fray surrounding the existence or otherwise of nanobacteria. After four years' work, the team, based at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, has come up with some of the best...U of T study finds music teachers at risk of hearing loss
...ge the inner ear. "The hair cells of the inner ear simply crumble under the load, and they don't grow back again," says Kunov. According to Ontario's Occupational Health and Safety Act, noise levels on the job should not exceed 90 decibels (dB)-the equivalent of a power lawn mower-over eight hours of a 24-h...Dramatic decline of California native frog linked to introduced trout in mountain lakes
...ns. "This is a stopgap. At this point, we are just simply trying to prevent extinction," Graber said. "These frogs have nearly disappeared from the high Sierra, so we're (conducting) a panicked rear-guard action." There also are other possible causes of frog declines, he said, including a fungus now attacki...Fat fighting undermined by over active eating pacemaker
...hy they seem unable to solve their weight problems simply by employing the usual methods, - eating less may be a more difficult and complicated problem than we currently anticipate....Botulinum toxin structure offers clues for vaccines/treatments
...armless, it might be possible to design drugs that simply disable that amino acid to treat the disease. "The results of this study, combined with the known structures of two other botulinum toxins -- one of which was also determined by our lab [ http://www.bnl.gov/bnlweb/pubaf/pr/2000/bnlpr073100.html ] -- ...Only half of recalled meat and poultry is recovered, study finds
...ial hazard, people might not get the message." But simply allowing the USDA to initiate a recall doesn't go far enough, Hooker said. "The success of recalls can get very complex. Our research says timing matters. A recall has to be managed in a proper way to get product out of the marketplace. And if we eve...Citizens asked to monitor impact of invasive bird species
... neighborhoods. Phillips points out, however, that simply putting up nest boxes isn't enough. In order to ensure the long-term future of native cavity-nesters, nest-box owners need to monitor and report what's going on inside their boxes. Only then will scientists have a true picture of the current status a...Risk of preeclampsia rises sharply with increased pre-pregnancy body mass index
...percentage of body fat) as a continuum rather than simply by conventional classification units. It also is the first study to try to determine the mechanisms by which body fat increases preeclampsia risk. Preeclampsia affects about 7 percent of first pregnancies nationwide, and is characterized by high bloo...