Amid Albanian Turmoil, Archaeologists Unearth Secrets Of The Stone Age
...ack L. Davis, co-director of the UC-Albanian team, traveled to Albania last month to report the project's first findings at a two-day conference in Tirana marking the 50th anniversary of the Academy of Science's Institute of Archaeology, UC's partner in the project. Davis and the team began field work in the...International Genome Team Deciphers Genetic Instructions For A Complete Animal
...3. Besides daily e-mail contact, entire lab staff traveled back and forthfrom St. Louis to Cambridge yearly until they got too big. The group leaders,Waterston and Sulston, later resorted to regular Sunday phone calls. "Fortunately," said Waterston, "John is a nightowl." "Scientists are supposed to be lone......ers in 1967 a small colonyof Streptococus bacteria traveled to the moon aboard Surveyor 3, stowed awayinside the spacecraft's TV camera. Three years later when Apollo 12 astronautsreturned the camera to Earth, scientists were astonished to find that thebacteria were viable. They had survived 3 years of hard v...Enzyme Presence Could Be Key Factor In Wolf Health, Study Suggests
...g wolves in east central Alaska.The Alaskan wolves traveled an average of some 40 miles daily, including oneovernight roam of 80 miles, during theobservation-and-capture period. "When you compare animals in zoos and wild populations to diagnose disease orprove their health, a biologist has todo certain things...Bone Marrow Gives Rise To Functioning Liver Cells, University Of Pittsburgh Scientists Discover
...he marker. This discoverysuggests that stem cells traveled from the bone marrow to the liver in responseto injury and differentiated into oval cells, which in turn became functionalhepatocytes. Dr. Petersen and his colleagues repeated this experiment using anothertype of marker. In addition, they te...Scientists find first molecule that guides nerve cells through the brain
...tern changed as the majority of themigrating cells traveled away from the direction of the septum. To determine whether this repulsive activity was due to Slit or some othersubstance from the septum, the researchers cultured pieces of subventricularzone with kidney cells, which normally don't make Slit. The ...As Hurricane Floyd moves up the Atlantic Coast . . . .
... has remained near the coast, past hurricanes that traveled inlandto the Appalachian Mountains brought large amounts of rain to steep hillsidesand caused landslides. During Hurricane Camille in 1969, for example, intenserainfall triggered debris flows in Nelson County, Virginia causing 150 deaths. In the Blu...Tracing the evolution of sex chromosomes
...through which all genes on the sexchromosomes have traveled and to which those persisting X-Y genes bear witness." This study was supported by the National Institutes of Health....Human genome bears a virus related to HIV-1
... diverged from New World monkeys. The viruses then traveled with their simian and pre-human hosts as these species moved along the evolutionary path that led to Homo sapiens. Cullen's group published its findings in the November 9, 1999, issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. During in...Threatened Galapagos plants are focus of biologist's field guide
...by humans would be atragedy." McMullen, who first traveled to the Galàpagos in 1983 as a graduate student studying plantpollination, said some areas of native vegetation are being choked out by imported plants that thrivein the moderate island climate. Several plants that were introduced for human use...Laser light from Free-Electron Laser used for first time in human surgery
...e didn't frighten Whitaker, whose fivechildren all traveled to Nashville to be with her. As a matter of fact, she welcomed the chance to bea part of making medical history. "I think it's a wonderful opportunity to help other people in my situation as well as to help thedoctors learn more. That's why I did it...... trees or flowers-makes the insects feel they have traveled a long way, just as telephone poles whizzing by a car window may enhance a passenger's sensation of speed, says Srinivasan, a professor with the Australian National University's (ANU) Centre for Visual Science within the Research School of Biological...Marine biology course uses Antarctica as its classroom
...om, Spain, Germany, Canada, and the Netherlands -- traveled to Antarctica to study creatures unique to the Southern Ocean and their strategies for surviving at the extreme limits of life on earth. "This is one of the frontiers left in biology," noted instructor Adam Marsh, of the University of S...Adding acetone to compost remediates chunk TNT contaminated soil
...tion Project. Last November, Radtke and colleagues traveled to a conference in Maui to make the remediation managers aware of their promising technique. Although TNT is considered a carcinogenic compound, microbes normally found in the soil will eat it with great relish. That is, if the relish consists of old...Analytical chemists earn national recognition for metals research
University of Cincinnati chemists traveled from New Orleans to San Francisco this month to present results on a vareity of research projects ranging from sensors to detect pathogenic microbes to an analysis of a common dietary supplement. Joseph Caruso, professor of chemistry and dean of UC...Chemical 'crumbs' from microbes' snacks provide a trail to ancient, remote life
...sured the rate at which different isotopes of iron traveled through this chemical environment. Formerly a nurse, Roe decided to switch careers and obtained bachelor's and master's degrees in chemistry before joining Anbar's laboratory and joining the hunt for exotic life. Also contributing to the project were...Scientists record movement of herpes simplex virus in nerve cell
...aid. "For a long time, it was believed that herpes traveled back to the central nervous system by infecting other cells in the nerve sheath," Bearer said. The virus does infect these cells, but this research showed that the virus moves much faster inside the axon. The discovery of a single transport mechanism...Intriguing archaeological sites, isolated lake targets of Kuril Expedition
...have existed far into the past. People would have traveled by boat along the coast and we are looking for an ...d years to when the Ainu people were known to have traveled between Japan and Kamchatka, he said. Or they might be of considerably younger vintage, remnants of ...Hair follicles provide the stem cells for the skin's entire epidermis
...rack the path of the progeny of stem cells as they traveled from the bulge into the epidermis of mice, where they settled in as epithelial cells. Epithelial stem cells are primitive progenitor cells that supply the cells needed for replenishing the skin, one of the body's self-renewing tissues. (These cells a...Study: osteoporosis doubles risk of fractures in nursing homes
...quipment to test bone mineral density, researchers traveled to nursing homes to measure bone density in study volunteers' arms. Eighteen months later, they reviewed medical records of the participants to determine the number of new fractures. A total of 223 osteoporosis-related fractures occurred among 180 w...