Medicinal Leech May Offer Clues To Neural Regeneration
...oxide synthase, or NOS, is activated when parts of the nerve cell are damaged in the medicinal leech, a three-inch-long invertebrate known for its ability to regenerate its neural conne......mputing Center , Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center have teamed up to create a new capability for viewing the brain during mental activity. By linking an MRI scanner with the <A HREF="http://www.psc.edu/ma...Impact of Meteorites, Drop in Sea Level Caused Mass Extinctions 65 Million Years Ago
The scientific dispute over what caused the extinction of 70 percent of all species worldwide ...ion, with new research by scientists from UCLA and the University of Washington. The research was funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). ...Duke's Russian Laser Making Ultraviolet Light And Gamma Rays
...rstandingthermonuclear processes inside stars like the sun. The OK-4 optical klystron FEL, originally developed at the Budker Instituteof Nuclear Physics in Novosibirsk, Russia, was moved to Duke in May 1995to take adva...Cornell Scientists Find Way To Boost Rice Crop Yield -- They'll Walk On The Wild Side
... species that may help boost production of some of the world's major agricultural crops. "We've gone back...Breeding and Biometry. "The world is only so big, the population is growing and we need to continue feeding that population." Tanksley and Susan R. McCouc....... -- Worried parents with greedy kids may now have the ultimate role model: subterranean Africa's naked...ered food sources with their kin. As reported in the November 1996 issue of Animal Behaviour (Vol. 51, pp. 957-69) by Paul W. Sherman of Cornell Unive...Sea Turtles Have Favorite Oceanic Routes
....Y. -- While radio station traffic reporters track the annual migration patterns of Thanksgiving holiday celebrants, somewhere in the Pacific Ocean -- off the western coast of South America -- there are some leatherback turtles who ha...Plants Have Future As Environmental Clean-Up Agents
MANHATTAN -- It's a problem occurring across the country.Hazardous chemicals left behind in landfil...s which are present inthe root zone." In essence, the vegetation serves as a pump bringing contaminatedwater close to the surface. Depending on the type o...KU Researcher Eyes The Rain Forest Through The Trees
...tive forests. That's an area roughly equal to half the state of Kansas. So when Valery Terwilliger, assistant professor of geography at the University of Kansas, talks about deforestation in Central and South America, she makes her point qu......ords toddlers understand is farmore important than the number they speak during the second year of life,according to a recent study of twins by Yale University psychologist J.Steven Re...Bacterial Protein Structure Hints At Mechanism Of A Class Of Premature Aging Diseases
...s at Duke UniversityMedical Center have determined the first step in understanding how a newclass of gene...ermination protein(RTP), stops DNA replication in the bacterium Bacillus subtilis, a commonexperimental organism. Rather than simply acting as a roa...Researchers Develop Model Using Birds As Indicator Of Wetlands Health
...ght say "a little birdie told them."Researchers at the University of Cincinnati have found thatcounting b...n about thecondition of a wetland. "How healthy is the habitat?" asked graduate student JamieColeman, who also works for MAI, a Loveland company under thed...Two Long-sought Diabetes Gene Found
... prevalent disease, report research teams based at the University of Chicagos Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Rockefeller University (New York), the University of Michigan, the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human G...Researcher Discovers Key Brain Center For Speech
A key area of the brain that controls the mouth, tongue, larnyx andother intricate movements necessary for speech has been identified for thef...No Such Luck: Nitrogen From Air Pollution Unlikely to Moderate Global Warming
Modern society pollutes the air not only with carbon dioxide, but also with la...ounts of nitrogen-containing compounds released by the burning of fossil fuels and the use of fertilizers. Scientists had hoped that this extra nitrogen w...Optical Microscopy Shines Light On Biology
...onment has been a goal of scientists for years. At the University of Kansas, Robert C. Dunn, assistant pr... molecules. In instruments that use this process, the object to be viewed is placed close to a special fiber-optic probe. Laser light emitted from the pro...Siblicide In Nature: Study Of Galapagos Seabird Finds Death Can Ensure Species Survival
...w of Darwinian natural selection is that it favors the evolution of parental interest in offspring," said Anderson, a member of the Wake Forest faculty since 1992 and reviewer for the National Geographic Society, National Science Fo...Fast Measurement Technique Reveals Early Steps In Protein Folding
..., Ill. -- A new measurement technique developed at the Universityof Illinois has shed some light on the early stages of protein folding. In experiments conducted on the small, oxygen-carrying protein apo...Florida Company Using ORNL Technology For Revolutionary Wheelchair
OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Dec. 6, 1996 -- Some of the barriers faced every day by people in powered whee... invention licensed to a new company in Florida by the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Cybertrax Innovative Technologie...Environmental Impact Statements Need To Be Made Easier To Decipher
...nedreading comprehension about a simple project in the nation's heartland. However, simple editing and the inclusion of "before and after"visuals increased individual understanding dramatically in a subseque...