Tourism to Earth's most threatened areas surges by over 100 percent in last decade
...dustries on the planet. With nature and adventure travel one of the fastest-growing segments within the tourism industry, the Earth's most fragile, high biodiversity areas are where most of that expansion will likely take place. While tourism has the potential to provide opportunities for conserving natur...Study shows prions stick around in certain soils
...reas prions in sandy soils either may wash away or travel deeper into the ground, says Pedersen, those in clay soils may remain near the surface. "Because the material may be more available for ingestion by animals," he explains, "the rate of infection may be greater." Analyzing the absorption capacity of s...Trade Center debris pile was a chemical factory, says new study
...e (insoluble) particles, in this case glass, which travel through the lungs to the bloodstream and heart. High-temperature organic matter, many components of which are known to be carcinogens. "For each of these four classes of pollutant, we recorded the highest levels we have ever seen in over 7,000...Cells' ability to live without oxygen give clues for treating major diseases
...He doubts that these two very different cell types travel the identical road to survival. "But the final result is the same," he says. "They simply become stronger, tougher and more resistant to injury, and for those in tumors, more resistant to cancer therapies." The researcher, whose latest findings are ...New funding mechanism for melanoma research announced
...ecipient will receive registration and support for travel expenses to attend the 2004 AACR Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida and to accept the award. The application deadline is Wednesday, October 15, 2003. Details about the Fellows Grant and the nomination process are located on the AACR Website at http...Applications accepted for research fellowships by the American Association for Cancer Research
...cipients will receive registration and support for travel expenses to attend the 2004 AACR Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida and accept the award. Unless noted, awards are open to investigators conducting research anywhere in the world. Employees, subcontractors, or trainees of a national government or pri...Science picks: Leads, feeds and story seeds for August 2003
... to learn how long it takes for those chemicals to travel in the environment. Throughout the summer, USGS scientists in Iowa and Colorado are injecting a nontoxic red dye, as a proxy for the drugs, into rivers and following the dye downstream using high-tech instruments to detect even minute portions of the...UCSD biologists discover key step for 'designer plants' that could clean up heavy metals
... Phytochelatins, in other words, were not known to travel significant distances within a plant. If the phytochelatins remain in the roots and concentrate the heavy metals there, using plants for bioremediation is much less feasible. That's because pulling the plants out of the ground with the roots attached...Gene therapy delays death in mouse with symptoms of Lou Gehrig's disease
...earch fellow Brian Kaspar discovered that it could travel from muscles into nerves. Once in the nerves' nuclei, the cells' machinery pumped out the glowing protein. The virus's ability to migrate (known as "retrograde delivery") into nerves from muscle gets the therapeutic IGF-1 protein where it appears t...APS awards more than $33,000 to its 2003 undergraduate research fellows
.... Each fellow receives a $2,000 stipend to cover travel and living expenses during the 10-week fellowship. Fellows also receive an additional $800 in travel funds to present their research at the Experimental Biology meeting, which attracts nearly 15,000 sc...Portuguese teacher gets hands-on look at cutting-edge research at EMBL, Germany
...hing salary did not allow her to cover the cost of travel and accomodation for the course. Fortunately, two Portuguese institutions understood the importance of the participation of Portuguese teachers in such international training activities. Fundao Calouste Gulbenkian (Servio de Educao e Bolsas) and the ...Stanford symposium on future of air and space travel
... and Astronautics Department. While commercial air travel hasn't fully recovered from the aftermath of Sept....ging from precision navigation to revitalizing air travel and improving access to space,'' says Jim Plummer, the John M. Fluke Professor of Electrical Enginee...New marine protected area to safeguard world's largest fish
...ow conservation, local communities and responsible travel can work in harmony to save the marine environment." The region surrounding Little Water Caye is considered one of the highest priority areas for conservation in the Caribbean by several environmental organizations due to its high biodiversity. The...Infertility treatment versus fertility control: the challenges for developing countries
...nd can only be accessed by a few rich couples, who travel overseas, or through expensive private sector services. In the public sector, however, the provision of new reproductive technology is not considered a cost-effective option. A more practical solution, said Professor Okonofua, would be to give peopl......ght enough (80 lbs) for two men to handle, and can travel up to 60 miles at speeds between 3-5 knots at depths up to 300 feet. It is programmed using a laptop computer, and can employ sound-emitting transponders as navigational reference beacons, or its onboard computer can autonomously select another mor...Cross talk between bacteria, host leads to E. coli infection
...ound that when a person ingests EHEC, the bacteria travel blindly through the digestive tract until reaching the intestine, where friendly bacterial flora in the intestine and the human hormone epinephrine, or adrenaline, send cellular signals alerting the bacteria to its location. This cellular cross talk ...Chemical Heritage Foundation and BIO give Biotechnology Heritage Award to William Rutter
...ical Heritage newsmagazine; offers fellowships and travel grants; conducts oral histories with leading scientists and industrialists; and hosts awards, conferences, and public events. For more information, visit http://www.chemheritage.org ....Molecular fingerprint predicts HIV-associated dementia
...is that HIV attacks immune cells in the blood that travel to the brain, rather than infecting the nerve cells. In a healthy individual, those blood immune cells, called monocytes, nourish the brain. However, studies have suggested that in a person with HAD, the corrupted immune cells may release substance...Study finds direction of enzymes affects DNA repair
...ach of a human's 10 trillion cells, repair enzymes travel up and down the double helix strands of DNA until they find a damaged area. The enzymes cut out the lesion and fill the gap with fresh DNA. All this is performed in very tight quarters. Each human cell has a strand of DNA that is almost two met...Immigration and Travel Issues for Foreign Scientists and Technology Workers
...mmigration professionals to consider the issues of travel for scientists from foreign countries. What effect is visa regulation having on the ability to recruit and retain foreign scientists? What documentation is required under new federal immigration laws? How do foreign-born employees transition from te...