Cornell Researchers Precisely Date Wood From Ancient Tomb In Turkey
...he Aegean Dendrochronology Project. The project's ultimate goal is to connect early chronologies like the one described in Nature to the present, to create an "absolute chronology." By way of explanation, Newton offers this scenario: "You go to a forest today and take a sample from a tree that you know gre...Asian Beetle, New In This Country, Threatens Brooklyn's Shade Trees
...orth America." These beetles might prove to be the ultimate Brooklyn dodgers. Short of cutting down the maple and horsechestnut trees, there is little that can be done to curb the Greenpoint infestation, Hoebeke said, adding that there are no known natural predators. For back-up species confirmation, Hoebeke...Duke Primate Center Sets October Expedition To Find 'Juliet'
...zoo, education center and tourist attraction. The ultimate objective of the Primate Center capture program is to builda breeding stock of captive animals that can be used to replenish populationsin the wild when protected areas are created. The October expedition will involve Glander, Welch and a local guid...Major Plant Genome Research Project Underway
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...nefit because less energy is used." The ultimate goal of the team's research, he adds, is to treat and reuse the effluent once it has been cleaned. The research on waste air is sponsored by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council and a group of companies known as Environment...Regulator Of Fat Thermostat Found
...the appetite-taming hormone lost someluster as the ultimate diet drug when scientists found last year that obesepeople already have high levels of leptin in their blood. This finding suggestedthat overweight people may become unable to respond to leptin, though little isknown about leptin's interactions in th...Peutz-Jeghers Disease Gene Identified: Enzyme Loss Causes Polyps And Cancer
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...inhours of flying to a likely log and making their ultimate mate choice, newlypaired termites are building their future home. They erect concrete-like wallsfrom their own fecal matter to keep interlopers away from the sections of thelog they intend to mine. The nitrogen-rich cambium portion of trees is the ...Emerging Field Of Industrial Ecology
...form the same functions as their predecessors. The ultimate example is the integrated circuit, Graedel said, in which packingdensity has increased exponentially since 1960. Less energy intensity, which means adopting manufacturing processesthat require less energy and contribute less carbon dioxide t...3-D Structure of Human Tumor-Suppressor Protein Produced
...approach for the treatment of cancer, which is the ultimate goal ofwork like this. “Determining the structure of the protein is the first major stepin developing such a drug,” said Tsai, a professor of chemistry andof biochemistry. The study, conducted by Tsai and a team of Ohio State researchers,...Food Bacteria-Spice Survey Shows Why Some Cultures Like It Hot
... 'This is how to cook a mastodon.' Webelieve the ultimate reason for using spices is to kill food-borne bacteria andfungi." Sherman credits Billing, a Cornell undergraduate student of biology at the timeof the research, with compiling many of the data required to make themicrobe-spice connection: More t...Tiny Worm Reveals Workings Of Suspected Tumor Protein
... thenematode and mammalian cells, mindful that his ultimate curiosity lies with thelatter. Editors, please note: a black-and-white photograph and diagram are available....Hard Hearts: New Discovery Of Bone In Heart Tissue May Explain Valve Disease
...stion is: What's the trigger?" The team's ultimate goal is to devise a treatment to prevent thehardening in the first place. Knowing how and why bone forms in the soft tissueof the heart might lead to a preventive or corrective therapy. The next stepsare to develop cell and animal models of valve cal......t UC San Francisco that the drugs don'taddress the ultimate concern. That concern, said UCSF's Jay Levy, MD, one of the discoverers of HIV and aleader in understanding its mechanisms, is the need to eradicate HIV frominfected cells, so that these protected reservoirs of the virus will not be ableto allow the ...New RNA Repair May Lead To More Successful Gene Therapy
... be permanently established in cultured cells, the ultimate aim isto incorporate such particles into patients' bone marrow where red blood cells,which carry hemoglobin throughout the body, are produced." The new gene therapy technique might work with many other geneticillnesses as well, he said. ......arent active, signaling form of Fhit. "The ultimate aim is to follow the entire pathway from the initiation ofthe ApppA signal to the ultimate events that arrest the growth of cells and keepthem from forming tumors," he says. "We'd like to ide......nism of action forinhaled anesthetics." While the ultimate goal of the experimental studies is toimprove safety and extend the control physicians have over the anesthetic state,Eckenhoff also hopes the project will build a base of new knowledge that willlead indirectly to other advances. "There will be spino...