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...le. One company even calls theirautomated chemical storage unit a 'Haystack'" But the tests are founded infundamental biochemistry, says Dessy. "If we are taking fiscal chances in adiscovery process we couldn't do without the equipment, at least we are notwasting time that could save lives. Speeding up dru......it examinesthe way in which the body regulates the storage of fat," he said. Brennan has been working in collaboration with Ute Hochgeschwender of theOklahoma Medical Research Foundation and Linda Yaswen and Nicole Diehl, formerlyof the National Institute of Mental Health....Virginia Tech microbe-minerals group launches new field of study
...gof industrial waste, leaking underground gasoline storage tanks, variousagricultural practices, and septic tanks. "The contaminants cover a huge rangeof organic and inorganic compounds. Examples of particularly toxic organicwastes are benzene, xylene, and toluene; and inorganic wastes are arsenic,chromium, ...Unveiling all of the consequences: Introduced plants may be causing hidden trouble
...rie to wheatgrass may have eliminated an important storage area for atmospheric carbon. The researchers reason that if native prairie grasses put more nutrients into the soil and plant tissue, they are effectively tying up carbon that would otherwise be in the atmosphere. When carbon is in the atmosphere, it...Screening programs find health problems among former Hanford workers
...al monitoring of former workers. - The status of storage tanks that hold Hanford's high-level nuclear waste. - Efforts to reconstruct the amount of radioactive exposure in the area. - Discussion about the "Hanford Openness Workshops," to foster open decision-making at Hanford and across the Department ...Exercise improves learning and memory
...he primary mechanism involved in the formation and storage of long-term memories by humans and animals. "Presumably, LTP affects the flow of information through synapses, the connections between two nerve cells," said Sejnowski. Neurons communicate with each other by sending signals through synapses. Examina...UB establishes institute for research on lasers, photonics and biophotonics
...ng and display technologies High-density data storage Optical coatings and solar energy panels Medical and dental imaging and diagnostics Bioinformatics Laser-activated treatments Photodynamic cancer therapies In addition to world-class testing and research facilities, the in...Expect rapid, pervasive innovation in 21st century
...ra-compact video and audio equipment with far more storage capacity. Nontoxic rocket fuels that will be cheap to handle, making space flight less expensive....DFG to set up 21 new collaborative research centres in 2000
...netic-field sensors and the control of future data storage media. Speaker: Prof. Dr. Hartmut Zabel, Institut fur Experimentalphysik/Festkrperphysik, tel.: 0234/322 3649/3650 Due to the technological problems it presents, the terahertz range, the transition between the radio and the infra-red ranges of the ...Most highly endowed promotion prize for fourteen scientists and scholars
...rmation of the receptors regulating the uptake and storage of iron. Hentze was the first person to conduct a systematic study of metabolic regulation through control of so-called translation, the formation of proteins on the basis of genetic information. These pioneer studies are of great significance for un...The future of planet earth: scientific challenges in the coming century
...s, monitoring volcanic emissions, assessing carbon storage and movement and looking at potential future changes in hydrology, climate and vegetation patterns, and storm effects on coastal systems. More information about global change is available at geochange.er.usgs.gov or contact USGS scientist Elliot S...Ground-penetrating radar detects hard-to-find hazardous waste
...ads that supported the missing storage tanks. It also detected creos...were there just to support the storage tanks," said Daniels. "But the GPR showed that there was definitely something un...Do US ecosystems balance US fossil fuel use?
...from one year to the next. This shows that carbon storage is very sensitive to the climate and if there is climate change in the future, ecosystem carbon storage will respond. In general, warmer and drier conditions caused carbon release to the atmosphere. The......ts are interested because it appears to be a major storage protein for zinc, which is of particular importance during fetal development. Biochemists and molecular biologists might be interested in the regulation mechanisms of an extremely inducible protein. And now addiction researchers are interested in M...Study points to U.S. as generator of greenhouse gases
...e United States are not completely "offset" by the storage of carbon in growing forests and other vegetation of North America, as some earlier studies had suggested. The new study, which will be published Friday in the journal Science, may have important implications for the role of the United States in com......is very sensitive to the climate. Ecosystem carbon storage will respond to future climatechange. Another implication of the high, year-to-year variability relates to the Kyoto protocol, theinternational agreement to limit fossil fuel emissions. Under the protocol, national carbon budgetsmust be put toge...Iron chefs get nutritional boost cooking vegetables
...s available to be absorbed by the body. Cold storage after cooking diminished the bioavailability of iron in cabbage by nearly half, with the cooking benefit dropping from a 20 percent increase to just over 10 percent three days after cooking. When cooking is used to boost iron intake, the researchers ......d quality, researchers have introduced a synthetic storage protein gene into sweet potatoes, which resulted in increased protein quality and, surprisingly, a fourfold increase in protein content. (V. Knauf, Monsanto Corporation, Davis, Calif., AGFD 124, Tuesday, March 28, 2:45 p.m.; A. E. Blechl, USDA, Alban......dical imaging, and producing ever-smaller data storage devices. But before these magnetic nanoparticles ...anoparticles. When the bits get smaller as the storage density increases, the magnetic state could become unstable. To avoid data loss caused by magnet...