Keep Off The Grass - Reduce Air Pollution
...icals increase around 100-fold after grass is cut, taking hours to reduce to their original level. To measure emissions of these air pollutants from grass, scientists from Monash and CSIRO set up a transparent chamber in a grass paddock in Gippsland, south-eastern Victoria. The scientists collected an...Gene Study Shows Mammals Lived Before Extinction Of The Dinosaurs
... could haveanalyzed all the data so quickly was by taking a 'bioinformatic' approach," hesays, explaining that they used computers as well as manual methods to comparethousands of gene sequences and test them for rate constancy using differentparameters. "It very easily is the largest evolutionary study of...National Network Provides Update On Devastating Corn Disease
...e to the disease." The NCR-25 committee recommends taking the following steps to minimize disease: Select newer gray leaf spot resistant hybrids for fields with high gray leafspot potential Rotate away from corn for one to two years Plant more, different crops in rotation with corn Monitor fields throu......ouble again in less than three decades, even after taking into account declining birthrates and rising death... Fortunately, African governments are increasingly taking steps to address these challenges. Today, two-thirds of countries in the region have active family p...Some AIDS Patients May Show Resistance To Sulfa Drugs
...gnificantly larger numbers among patients who were taking medication that has proven very successful in prev... higher incidence of mutation in patients who were taking sulfa drugs (71 percent) compared with those who weren't (15 percent). All of the mutations occurre...ACE Gene Linked To High Blood Pressure In Men But Not Women
...onging to the youngest of athree-generation family taking part in the Family Blood Pressure Program inRochester, Minn. Blood samples were taken to analyze the DNA, the spiral-shapedmolecule that contains a person's entire genetic make-up. The ACE geneaccounted for 38 percent of the difference in blood pre...Cancer Test May Offer High-Risk Groups Quick, Affordable Screening For Tumors
...The patients, who were diagnosed with cancerbefore taking the new test, had a variety of tumors. The results of the study,supported in part by an American Society of Clinical Oncology Young InvestigatorAward and by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development,appear in the May issue of In V...Malaysian State Of Sarawak Bans Commercial Hunting Of Wildlife
...ckling it decisively under the new law, Sarawak is taking a highlylaudable stride towards conserving its wildlife populations, as well as inpromoting sustainable use of wildlife by rural people," said Dr. John Robinson,WCS vice president of international conservation. Called the Wildlife Protection Bill of ...University Of Pittsburgh Scientist Discovers How A Novel Vitamin K Stops Cancer Cell Growth
...developed countries, livercancer may be treated by taking out the area of the liver containing a tumor orby surgically removing the diseased organ and transplanting a new one. However,liver transplantation is costly and often unavailable due to the scarcity ofdonated organs, or due to the advanced nature o......rican HeartAssociation, researchers in Seattle say taking time to plan where to place AEDs-- which are used to "shock" hearts back to life after they've stopped -- mayhelp save lives. In their study of commercial and civic establishments in theSeattle-King County area, researchers found the incidenc...University Of Georgia Researchers Help Design Decision Support System For Forest Managers And Owners
...age a single-species, single-age treestand, NED is taking the process to a new level. The new system, named NED forNortheast Decision Model, reflecting on the part of the country for which it wasoriginally targeted, provides decision support for multiple stands with multiplespecies, trees of differing ages,...... On June 1, hospitals in Snezhinsk, Russia, began taking 1cc blood samples fromrandomly selected emergency room visitors who agree to the tests. Meanwhile themain hospitals in three small New Mexico cities--Los Alamos, Silver City, andAlamagordo, selected for their demographic similarities with Snezhinsk--...Duke Researchers Call Gene Therapy A Promising Strategy For Sickle Cell Anemia
...sionsdangerous to the patient. Sullenger envisions taking some of a patient's ownblood, correcting the sickle cell trait, and giving it back in a transfusion.Since it is a patient's own blood, he or she would not develop antibodiesagainst it. In addition, promising experiments with umbilical cord bl...Report Focuses On Managed Care Impact In Clinical Microbiology Labs
... health care that affect clinical microbiology are taking place onmultiple levels. One of the most important involves the ongoing changes ininfectious disease pathogens, patient populations, and clinical presentations ofinfectious disease. Existing capabilities for diagnosing and managing newlyrecognized di...Jefferson Researchers Provide Leads To Potential Parkinson's Treatment
...ntinue to follow 21 patients who wanted tocontinue taking the drug upon study completion. "Most of these patients havereceived GM1 treatment now for at least two years," he notes. "The condition of18 of these 21 patients is better now than it was two years ago when they firstbegan the trial. Although they h...Seeing Blue-Yellow Color Perception For The First Time
...nal mapof the location of the blue-yellow cells by taking electron micrographs of 320cross-sections of the retina. "We photographed the mosaic of retinal cells pieceby piece, analyzed over 2,000 images, and then used a computer program to buildup a library of the complete structure," explains Sterling, a p...Fauci To Present New Insights Into HIV Latency At 12th World AIDS Conference
... says Dr. Fauci. When an HIV-infected patient is taking HAART, pro-inflammatory cytokines andother factors...stream who discontinue HAART. When a patientstops taking HAART because of toxicity or other reasons, or if HIV becomesresistant to the drugs, the virus almos......ie-offs is far from clear, Rosen says, but "we're taking itvery seriously." The chytrid fungus first made headlines two weeks ago when an international teamof scientists fingered it as the culprit in die-offs of 19 species ofamphibians in apparently pristine streams in Central America and Australia.Deta...... available. "We found a lot of drug users were not taking the therapies, even though theywere theoretically ...dsome of them had heard of them but were still not taking them for whateverreasons," said Brian R. Edlin, MD, of the University of California SanFrancisco. In......ot completely eliminated fromthe bodies of persons taking them. Rather, the virus persists in safe havenswhere the immune system cannot detect it. These hiding places includenon-dividing, resting CD4+ T cells in the blood and lymph nodes, which canharbor HIV DNA for prolonged periods while remaining invisi...