Media Advisory 2 - 2002 Ocean Sciences Meeting: press conferences scheduled
...on dioxide in the deep ocean. Planned ocean carbon storage experiments off Keahole Point, Kona, on Hawaii's Big Island, have, however, generated strong local opposition. James Barry will discuss recent experiments conducted using submersibles in the deep ocean, exposing organisms to high concentrations of ca...A novel cardiac glycogen storage disease
Glycogen storage disorders are inborn errors of metabolism that typ... et al. show here that a cardiac-specific glycogen storage disease occurs in individuals with any of 3 dominantly acting missense mutations affecting conserved...'Night eating syndrome' may be related to the performance of the body -- not the mind
...nd were kept on ice until centrifugation at 4C and storage at -27C. Cortisol and ACTH were then measured using commercial immunoassay. The significance of differences between the two groups in the plasma concentrations at time point 0 was evaluated by a Wilcoxons rank sum test. The significance of differenc...New light on molecular switch that turns genes off
...ls. While chromatin packaging allows for efficient storage of genetic information, it also impedes access to DNA by transcription factors, proteins that regulate gene expression. Among the biochemical modification mechanisms that can dynamically change chromatin's structure - its loosening or tightening - i...Hypoglycemia may affect newborn's brain cell function, says Hopkins researcher
...f there is an interruption in the baby's own sugar storage processes. The researchers studied two kinds of glutamate receptors, the kainate and N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors, so-called because each receptor specifically binds one of the two glutamate-like molecules. Kainate and NMDA are chemicals typ...Plant stems and leaves are always proportional to roots
...ere were observable, universal patterns of biomass storage across all plant species in different habitats, and they wanted to know if such patterns could be predicted. "Yes and yes," says Niklas. "These patterns can be found in any terrestrial plant, whether you are talking about bamboo, or palm trees, or ...X-ray analysis of shipwreck may help conservators save waterlogged artifacts
...archaeological artifacts that are on display or in storage in museums all around the world - that is, the destruction of the wood by way of sulfuric acid produced when sulfur embedded in the wood is oxidized in air," says SSRL chemist Patrick Frank. "Museum curators world-wide will have to pay attention to t...Optical tweezers show how DNA uncoils
...be about two inches long. Were it not for compact storage -- in part due to the coiling of DNA in nucleosomes, which are, in turn, condensed into higher-order structures -- two inches of DNA would be too long to fit inside cells. However, DNA must be decondensed for its genes to be read or copied. The C...'Buried dams' help clean recycled water
...an one month, he has found. This makes underground storage one of the most promising ways to cleanse and recycle water. Australia is naturally a dry continent, and in many areas our groundwater resources are being heavily exploited. This appears to offer a safe, clean way to recharge them. We also need to t...Brain's cleaning crew may aid learning, memory formation
...potentiation is one mechanism responsible for the storage of some memories. Now, for the first time, researchers at the University of Houston have determined that levels of transport molecules for glutamate chemicals that latch on to and sweep away glutamate increase during learning, suggesting that this ...Natural antifreeze yields secrets
...se proteins work. The research could lead to safer storage for food or blood products. It may also help scientists understand how bones and sea-shells are made and how mineral deposits can cause kidney stones and heart disease. The antifreeze proteins studied at UC Davis, called antifreeze glycoproteins, ar...Hurricanes impact carbon sequestration by forests
...ust be taken into account in predicting the carbon storage capacity of US Forests along the southeastern seab...can convert ten percent of the total annual carbon storage for the United States into dead and downed forest biomass, said McNulty. Hurricanes leave behind a l...April GEOLOGY and GSA TODAY media highlights
... years before the eruption. A new estimate of the storage conditions of the magma based on a revised crystal...f Energy (DOE) has been studying only one site for storage of high-level radioactive waste. This site is at Yucca Mountain, about 160 km northwest of Las Vegas...University of Chicago chosen as Sun Microsystems Center of Excellence
...logy Core Facility at U. Chicago. The analysis and storage of large amounts of data are essential in all aspe...reTM 6800 enterprise server with 4.6 terabytes of storage housed in Sun StorEdgeTM T3 arrays for the data warehouse, plus tape storage units; a Sun Fire V880...A green tea extract could help alleviate shortage of livers available for transplant
...ours later, stored in University of Wisconsin cold storage solution for 24 hours and rinsed with lactated Ringers solution containing green tea extract prior to implantation. Free radicals in bile were trapped with a-(4-pyridyl 1-oxide)-N-tert-butylnitrone (4-POBN) and measured using an electron spin resonan...Dynamic brain atlas may help diagnose patients using advanced brain scans
...c collections of computational systems, large data storage and other remote facilities that an individual may use. The Grid is fundamental toe-Science, future large-scale science that can be carried out through global collaborations. Professor Jo Hajnal, from the MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial Colleg...New x-ray resource for examining biomolecular structures
...es-CAT, both also located at APS. The APS particle storage ring, built by the Department of Energy, is one of the world's most powerful X-ray facilities....New research could spearhead permanent nuclear waste storage
...clear fuel rods and caustic solutions added to the storage tanks to break down the rods and minimize corrosio...crusty sludge. This will make transport easier and storage less costly, Johnston said. But in order to do this, they need to understand the chemistry of the wa...End of 'free ride' on ecosystem CO2 absorption
...said Jackson. "However, production and soil carbon storage basically saturated above 400 parts per million, a CO2 concentration very close to the current one. "For me, this was the most interesting part of the study, because it indicates that we are now right at a threshold where the benefits of extra CO2 ...Three nations agree to share ice core thatmay yield clues about nature of Lake Vostok
...made to bring out some of the remaining ice from a storage trench. They represent roughly the bottom 12 meters of the ice core and are thought to have formed from accretion, the process by which water from the lake freezes onto the base of the ice sheet. This ice is different from the core that provided th...