Moving DNA Molecules With Magnetic Tweezers
... containing a drug," Wirtz explains. "You coulduse the tweezers as sort of a surgical tool to take it to thetargeted area and then penetrate the diseased cells. It could bedone very easily. Right now, you can move things inside a veinmechanicall...Bog Beetle, Misidentified For 85 Years, Is 'Discovered' At Cornell
...rr, Cornell professor of entomology and curator of the Cornell insect collection, were working through the university's insect collection when they stumbled upon a species that looked familiar but which they...Bottom-up Ecological Processes Better For Clear Waters, Study Finds
DAVIS, Calif. -- Weighing in on the ecological debate about how best tocontrol human-i...eir previousclarity. This is because in most cases the upper levels of a lake's foodweb cannot exert enough influence to control the algae feeding on pollu...Bigger Biology Tackled Through Keyboards
...ties on vastly different scalesand timelines, from the rapid genetic mutations of certain viruses to thel...gyis coming of age, according to a review paper in the Jan. 17 issue of theweekly journal Science by researchers from the University of California, Davis,...ORNL Finds Common Genetic Cause For Epilepsy, Migraine
... which theyisolated, mapped and studied effects of the chromosome 8 Cacnl1a4 gene foundin mutant "totteri...s modelsfor human epilepsy. The specific region of the mouse gene has a counterpartin humans (a chromosome 19 region) that had previously been identified a...The CIA Would Like To Know What Scientists Are Seeing Over The Rainbow
Nearly 60 years after Dorothy left gray Kansas for the vibrant land of Oz, wizards of a different sort have concocted a powerful new way to visualize the full set of human chromosomes in a rainbow of colors. The new technique, called "spectral karyotypi...Laser Microscope At Cornell Images Serotonin In Live Cells
...eloped at Cornell, have produced images displaying the neurotransmitter serotonin in live cells in real time, and they have for the first time measured the concentration of serotonin in secretory granules. The microscope, which uses...Researchers Corral Millions Of Microscopic Membranes
Scientists at Stanford University have done the next best thing to packaging living cells in indiv...abrication techniques from electrical engineering, the researchers have created a specially prepared surface that holds millions of cell-sized squares comp...Penn State Wetlands Project Seeks Scientific Evaluation Criteria
...s are marshy ponds with a duck or two floating on the water. To Robert Brooks, associate professor of w...ources, "all wetlands are not created equal," and the results of a three-year study of 51 natural wetland sites in Pennsylvania have shown this to be tru...Birds Deal With "Cocktail Party Effect"
...ely simple, but scientists have beenpuzzled by how the human brain is able to selectively focus onone voice from among the tangle of other voices and sounds. Newfindings are providing evidence that humans are not alone in t...Learning From Birds And Bees: Engineers Study Insects For Ideas On Tiny "Micro Air Vehicles"
Imagine an aircraft small enough to fit in the palm of your hand,yet able to fly into damaged bui...Air Vehicles" capable of these and other tasks are the goalsfor a new program proposed by the <AHREF="http://www.darpa.mil/">Defense Advanced Resea......tration has proposed a budget of $745.4 millionfor the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in Fiscal Year 1998 that calls forincreasing the availability of water quality information, for expandingearthquake monitoring to reduce hazards and ...Stronger Evidence That Global Climate Change Can Reduce The Variety Of Life
...cousins of crabscalled ostracodes provides some of the strongest evidence yet that globalclimate change can reduce the variety of life forms on Earth, according toa report released Thursday (Feb. 13, 1997). "For...Scientists Determine 3-D Crystal Structure Of Cancer-Causing Protein
...ransforms cells into cancer, report scientistsfrom the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at The Rockefell...clarifies earliermodels that sought to explain how the gene, called src , works and offersnew information for designing drug therapies to fight cancers. ...'BirdSource' Website For Citizen-Science Data
SEATTLE , Wash. -- To the legions of amateur bird-watchers making observations across North America, the National Audubon Society and the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology say: Nest your birds on the Web....Vietnamese Chemist Finds New Use For Old Cashew Shells
...etnam could lead to new rubberproducts improved by the oil squeezed out of old cashew nuts. Vu-Thi-Yen ha...g to UC to work on herdoctoral degree. The goal of the research project is to find readily availablenatural products which can be used to improve the prope...ITHACA, N.Y. -- By looking into the plant world, researchers are expanding human appre... is key to human health or that people get it from the foods they eat, but researchers at Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research Inc. at Cornell Unive...Blood Test Can Identify Some Children With Strep-Related Behavioral Disorders
...NCE, R.I.--Scientists have developed what could be the firstgenetic test for a psychiatric illness. The... children are genetically predisposed todeveloping the repeated behaviors and involuntary movements and vocalizationsconnected with OCD and tic disorders. ...A Phoenix From A Ring Of Fire Is A Pattern For The Recovery Of Mount St. Helens
...rom its moon-like state On August 27, 1883, the volcano Krakatau in the Dutch East Indies erupted with the force of more than 10,000 Hiroshima-type hydrogen bombs, killin......ts will report theirprogress in addressing some of the nation's most troublingpollution problems during a...tute of Environmental Health Sciences issponsoring the conference to celebrate the 10th anniversary ofthe Superfund Basic Research Program. The University ...