Core Spins Faster Than Earth, Scientists Find
...ace up to 10degrees from the north pole, where the spin axis would emerge. TheEarth and the core are rotating on the same spin axis, but becausethe inner core rotates just a bit faster than the planet as awhole, the "fast axis"......on cars by the end of the decade. VDO also expect spin off technology from the project enabling them to produce pollution sensors for automated housing for disabled and elderly people....Duke Studies Show U.S. Central Plains Vulnerable To Global Warming
...n solar heating dueto a wobble and tilt in Earth's spin and changes in its orbit around the sun. In another paper prepared for the ESA, Clark and graduate student PhilipCamill reported on the expected effects of global warming on peatlands inpermafrost regions of Earth's northern latitudes...Study Pinpoints Rare Molecular 'Transitions' As Possible Cause Of Skin 'Photoaging'
...rt added. The term "singlet" refers to the spin states of a molecule's mostexcited electrons. With electrons in the singlet state, oxygen is likely tobreak existing chemical bonds and form new ones, Simon said. "That's why singletoxygen is so devastating. It's highly reactive." Examining ......fibers and engineering plastics. Hoechst plans to spin off these globalindustrial businesses into a new company called Celanese AG later this year. The donation to Clemson - the largest corporate gift in the university'shistory - comes almost one year later to the day of the announcement of theCe...UMass microbiologist's Nature article contributes to understanding of how cells divide
... damage. According to Sandler, "This gives a new spin on data so that it now is illuminating instead of confusing. We have interpreted old studies and combined that information with our own research, to see recombination in a new light. There is a link between DNA replication and recombination that we n...Genome annotation experts take standardized test
...e genome is upon us, scientists must find a way to spin mountains of DNA code into biological gold. To do it, they are building their own Rumpelstiltskins: powerful computer programs that automatically scrutinize the code and decipher its genetic elements. The April issue of Genome Research reports a ne...ZymoGenetics discovers potential new therapy for autoimmune diseases
..." A demerger of Novo Nordisk with the intention to spin off the Enzyme Business into a separately listed company is expected to take place around the turn of the year 2000/2001. Novo Nordisk's current plans anticipate that ZymoGenetics will be listed independently at a later date. For further company info......pted this small region of RNA, the enzyme began to spin out telomeres uncontrollably, until they stalled out like a car run into a ditch. This result occurred in culture and in the yeast cells themselves. Cell death soon ensued. As the human version of telomerase appears to have a structural region that...Carbon diem: Grants awarded to research that seizes excess carbon dioxide
...thane and gas streams, developing a vortex tube to spin out carbon dioxide from exhaust streams, and improving the ability of algae to remove carbon dioxide from power plant exhausts. Tornado in a Tube In order to capture carbon dioxide from a power plant's smokestack, the greenhouse gas needs to be ...Experts to share biotech future world
...ging environments. The Microbial Genome Program, a spin off of the Human Genome Program, will be a virtual parts list of microbe DNA. Viewing a "Real" World: Traditional "family" tree graphs no longer provide an accurate view of evolution, especially for genealogies of bacteria that do not reproduce se...Anthropologists find evidence of early humans in southern China cave
...t McMaster University in Canada are using electron spin resonance to date the dental remains more precisely. Ruth Shahach-Gross of the Weizman Institute verified the difference in chemistry between burnt and unburnt bone. LSUProfessor Brooks Ellwood is analyzing magnetic differences in sediment samples ...Researchers link failed cell division, Alzheimer's disease
...ons. The cell division hypothesis puts a different spin on this idea," he says. While previous studies from this team and others have provided indirect evidence of cell division in Alzheimer's disease through the detection of proteins usually involved in cell division, this paper supplies direct evidence...Chemists spin materials to improve magnetic resonance data
...lleagues are taking new, high-tech materials for a spin -- inside a nuclear magnetic ... than ever before possible, if they spin the material at just the right speed inside the NMR instru...Heroin users' mystery a hope for back pain sufferers
...tment for heroin and otherillicit drug users, "the spin off for other people in the community who alsosuffer from these symptoms, such as chronic back pain sufferers, could besignificant", Professor White says. "This study will focus on small numbers of people, but studying themintensively to gain a much ...UCSF scientists halt tumor growth by manipulating telomerase enzyme
...eonard Hayflick, PhD.) The telomerase's ability to spin out DNA from an RNA template - a technique known as reverse transcriptase - to replenish telomeres is essential to the life of dividing cells. The mutation within the telomerase RNA - which itself is a mere 450 nucleotides - was a tenth the size of a...Common variation of 'klotho' gene associated with human life expectancy
...tho," a gene named for the Greek Fate purported to spin the thread of life, contributes to life expectancy in humans, according to a team led by Johns Hopkins scientists who report their findings in the Jan. 15 online version of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Studying more than 2,00...Nexia and US Army spin the worlds first man-made spider silk performance fibers
...nd are thrilled finally to have the opportunity to spin synthetic silks and move the field towards real ap... been a fundamental breakthrough in our ability to spin spider silk fibers." Scientists at the Natick facility are well-known for their expertise in high-......s of tiny wells, one for each egg. The trick is to spin the chip in a centrifuge, forcing the eggs' dense nuclei through a small hole at the bottom of each well. About 90 per cent of the eggs can be successfully denucleated this way, Kuo says. Kuo and Baxter are now working on the next step, which is to...Office of Naval Research awards $8.4M to young investigators
...ch will lead to an understanding of the charge and spin information stored in the electron wave functions and will lead to the design of nanoelectronic transistors and logic devices. Dr. James C. Newman, III, Aerospace Engineering, Mississippi State University will investigate complex variable approaches ...