K-State researchers study response of prairie ecosystem
...e of carbon dioxide by the plants above ground and slowing carbon dioxide release by roots and microbes below ground. "We found a significant reduction in the amount of grass growth and productivity, just by changing the pattern of rainfall but not by changing the total amount," Knapp said. "We saw significa...Science picksLeads, feeds and story seeds (December 2002)
...ruption, which began in 1983 and shows no signs of slowing down, is the longest on Kilauea's rift zone in 600 years, has covered 189 buildings and around 8 miles of highway and added 220 hectares (544 acres) to the island's southern shore. Kilauea is Hawaii's youngest volcano and one of the most active. USG...Acorda Therapeutics acquires CeNeS neuregulin products
...inating therapeutics. Current MS therapies work by slowing the progression of the disease but do not address ... and bladder control. Current MS therapies work by slowing the progression of the disease but do not address the permanent demyelination that leads to the disa...Even in middle age, cutting calories slows aging of the heart
...nstrated significant health benefits and a general slowing of the process of aging. In some instances, the life span of experimental animals has been increased by as much as a third. In 1982, Weindruch and his colleague Roy Walford discovered that caloric restriction, begun in middle age, could extend the li...Asian dust storm causes plankton to bloom in the North Pacific
...iron fertilization of the ocean would be useful in slowing global warming will also remain unanswered. There's a huge amount of science left to be done in the next decade to assess the ecological changes and the downstream effects of the technique. We've only scratched the surface."...Alzheimer's, nutrition, smallpox, and other 'Human Health Frontiers' addressed by AAAS speakers
...bryonic stem cells in federally-funded research is slowing down U.S. stem cell research. "Clearly, with stem cells in hand, we can approach this dream of constructingpieces of organs and tissues," said John Gearhart, C. Michael ArmstrongProfessor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Bu...Study suggests coenzyme Q10 slows functional decline in Parkinsons disease
... and trunk, impaired balance and coordination, and slowing of movements. Patients also sometimes develop other symptoms, including difficulty swallowing, disturbed sleep, and emotional problems. PD usually affects people over the age of 50, but it can affect younger people as well. While levodopa and othe...Seven E.O. Lawrence Award winners named
...pansion of the Universe is speeding up rather than slowing down. Perlmutter is an astrophysicist in the physics division of the Berkeley Lab. Santer, a physicist, was honored in the Environmental Science and Technology category for his contributions to understanding the effects of human activities on the Ea...New Amazon forest monitoring team: RAINFOR
... fuel emissions of the entire European Union, thus slowing the rate of global climate change. Climate change and forest fragmentation (Laurance et al. 2002), as well as surprising ecological changes such as newly reported increases in liana densities (Phillips et al. 2002), threaten to turn the Amazon into...It pays to save: Science study shows huge economic benefits from conserving wild nature
... there are few signs that global ecosystem loss is slowing down. On the eve of the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, natural systems are changing from their intact state at a rate of 1.2 percent per year, or 11.4 percent in the decade since the last sustainable development summit in Ri...Discovery sheds light on how breast cancer cells progress to more aggressive forms
... must turn to investigational therapies in hope of slowing the progression of the disease. But now researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center have begun to understand how breast cancer cells suddenly stop responding to treatment and become more aggressive. The finding, which appea...Hormone replacement therapy may help prevent heart vessel disease, says Wake Forest researcher
...replacement therapy (HRT) has a beneficial role in slowing heart vessel disease after menopause. Clarkson add...rosclerosis," Clarkson says. "The best results in slowing the build-up of plaque in blood vessels have been seen in women who begin estrogen replacement as so...The greening of the North: real, and caused by climate change
... land in high latitudes, and it contributed to the slowing of the carbon dioxide growth rate at a global scale. These results represent a "coming of age" for ecosystem modelling. They clearly demonstrate the value of collaboration between observational and theoretical communities (which has often been defici...Methamphetamine drastically increases virus' ability to replicate in brain tissue
...in. That knowledge is vital in slowing or lessening the dementia that often accompanies AIDS and similar diseases. Ohio State University researchers reported this finding in a paper to be ...Gemcitabine demonstrates promise as a low toxic chemotherapeutic agent for bladder cancer
...ntimetabolite that interferes with cancer cells by slowing their growth and spread through the body, shows early promise as one such agent. Dr. Egorin explained that toxic effects associated with standard treatment for bladder cancer can include fever, chills, flu-like symptoms, burning upon urination and re...Biodiversity crucial to Earth's ecosystems
...un so they weren't growing as fast. Everything was slowing down." "None of these ponds [that we studied] have species that are at risk or are near extinction," Leibold said. "But if we can understand how they work, we might be able to better understand what the consequences are and better predict the effects...Tomato ripening gene could make store tomatoes tastier
...atoes, allowing the fruit to reach full size while slowing the ripening process. Today, this hybrid is commercially ubiquitous. But, says Giovannoni, in order to be fresh for the supermarket, these tomatoes are harvested while they are still firm and unripe so they can survive the rigors of shipping and ha...Honey the darker the better Has potential as dietary antioxidant
...tives (butylated hydroxytoluene and tocopherol) in slowing oxidation in cooked, refrigerated ground turkey. While the meat browned during cooking more extensively than traditionally preserved products, taste was not negatively affected.For the just-published study, Engeseth and Nele Gheldof, a doctoral stu...New protein plays espionage role in bacterial attack on plants
...tory mode. Pathogen growth would be facilitated by slowing the host defense response, Dangl said. But the resistance protein RPM1 appears to serve as a guard for cellular proteins that are potential targets of pathogen molecules, like RIN4. Dangl and other researchers in this field are beginning to think ...Researchers develop first oral drug to treat smallpox infection
...mpound was 100 times more active than cidofovir in slowing smallpox reproduction. Also presented at the conference were Huggins results of HDP-CDV therapy in mice infected with cowpox, a poxvirus closely related to smallpox. Working in collaboration with Hostetlers group, Huggins and coworkers at USAMRIID f...