DNA Techniques Allow Scientists To Become Pollution Detectives.
... from could helpsave time and money spent devising solutions to protect theenvironment. "Down the road, these techniques could be used to help us manageour problems," Edmiston said. "There is good potential here tohelp us develop management plans for different sources ofpollution."...Honeybees In The Wild Nearly Gone In North America
...reat numbers or importing foreignbees are not easy solutions to the honeybee shortage. "A honeybee is a generalist. It does a good job pollinatingapples or cucumbers," he said "Other types of bees arevery specific to certain crops. "Plus, if we take native wild bees and culture them, we'regoing to generate new......onneeded to help find the best and most economical solutions for problemsranging from the quality of drinking water to the quality of biologicaland natural resources in regional watersheds like Everglades and SouthFlorida, San Francisco Bay and Chesapeake Bay," Eaton said. "The USGS iscommitted to providing...Restoring Farm Land To Natural Wetlands Key To Stemming Flood
...blems on the Illinois River. Amongthe most obvious solutions identified by the group, he said, is "incooperation with landowners, restoring natural wetlands in the floodplain." And while that may be a logical solution in theory, implementation isnot simple. Aside from the economic and political ramifications ...Experts: Public Will Accept Irradiation In Wake Of Meat Recall
... preparation areas. Some over-the-counter cleaning solutions are OK, he says, but consumers should read label directions carefully. ACS code/970829 Ag Mason.irradiate/9708f39...New Ultrafine Metal Powder Production Process
... Extracting waste silver from spent photographic solutions is another possible application. Singh notes that the reaction materials used in the new process are environmentally friendly. Hydrazine, a carcinogen, is used in the commercial reactions most often used to produce silver powder curre...Early Career Development Grants Foster Faculty Research And Education
...clopedias and other databases. The research seeks solutions to the technical challenges of performing automated backup to protect the storage system from disk failures andnatural disasters; receiving data simultaneously from various network connections such as satellite,cable TV and phone lines; creating data...... new focus, have thepotential to deliver effective solutions for some of the problems facing theagriculture and food processing industries. The following summaries highlight some of the initiative's activities: Foodborne Pathogen Detection Technologies that will help detect foodborne organisms that caus...Research Aims At Nation's First 'Smart' Ground Water Regulations
...e computers to examine the variables and prescribe solutions -- in this case, chemical regulations for specific areas. Engel, at the request of the Office of the Indiana State Chemist, is working to create the nation's first smart environmental regulations for ground water contamination by agricultural runoff ...DT104 Advice:How To Slow Salmonella Spread
...a bactericidaleffect on salmonella, as do cleaning solutions of chlorine, iodines, ammoniumsand phenolics. However, many salmonella strains are relatively resistant tofood-preservation methods such as drying, salting and smoking. -- Testing for DT104: "Fingerprint" identification of a particular strain ofsal...Late Blight Battle Goes Online, Marking 150 Year Struggle Since Irish Potato Famine
...logists remain persistent in their struggle tofind solutions to the newest strains of the aggressive late blight fungus(Phytophthora infestans). The latest battle against this devastating fungus,however, isn't taking place in a lab or out in a potato field, instead theAmerican Phytopathological Society (APS) ...Computer Models Find Cost-Effective Solutions For Species Preservation
...riousbudgetary limits, and it can produce multiple solutions forpoliticians and planners to consider. "Say there are 50 best solutions, we can find all of those.But if there's only one unique best solution, we can generate thetop 50 based on cost. So, you can add these to the computer modeland provide alternat...US-Cuban Scientific Collaborations Jeopardized By Travel Restrictions
...t ways of furthering thatexchange. We need to find solutions to this problem and remove scientificresearch from the grip of political hostilities." The report is based on the results of a 1997 AAAS mission to Cuba in which 25Cuban scientists in Havana were interviewed about their experiences in obtainingentr...Weary Tibetan People Find Supporting Hand In ASU Graduate Student
..., whose livelihood depends on yaks, find long-term solutions to poverty in an environment where the average temperature is below freezing. But thanks to record snowfall, Mother Nature has put the future of the plateau on hold. And while Foggin's brain concentrates on the answers of tomorrow, his heart cann...Mussels Muscling In, Crabs Pinching Native Species
...erfect,so scientists have looked at other possible solutions for ships, includinginstalling powerful on-board f...the invaders who havemade it into American waters, solutions range from the standard ? such aschemical treatments for zebra mussels ? to the exotic ? such as int...DFG To Set Up 32 New Postgraduate Research Groups - First "Virtual Research Group"
...omic implications of natural disasters and develop solutions for coping with such events. In a new bioscience postgraduate research group to be set up in Hamburg glucose molecules at cell surfaces, so-called glyco-conjugates, will be studied by chemists, biologists and medical scientists. This interdisciplinar...Spinach Enzymes Neutralize Explosives
...k of explosion or fire. There would be no alkaline solutions to dispose of because the process is done at a neutral pH. A variety of naturally occurring enzymes found, for example, in spinach, plants, fungi,bacteriaand buttermilk, have an apparent reactivity to degrade explosives. These nitroreductase enzymes ...The Shape Of Life: How Does The Computer "Know" When It Sees It?
...Cube. A supercomputer randomlyworking all possible solutions wouldtake about a billion years to get the right a... AI software starts with a few mediocre solutions toproblems, and then develops several variations on these solutions based ...Potential Solutions For Gulf of Mexico's "Dead Zone" Explored
...ral resources at Ohio State University.“These solutions embrace ecotechnology, which includes restoring or...compasses Midwestern farm fields. Other potential solutions to the hypoxia problem include reducing theinitial disposal of nutrients into waterways; increasing ...Report Focuses On Managed Care Impact In Clinical Microbiology Labs
...t more importantly, we wanted to try and recommend solutions to these issuesbefore they become intractable problems. Efforts are urgently needed to studyand implement methods for addressing the issues we have identified."Changes in health care that affect clinical microbiology are taking place onmultiple level...