NSF awards University of Georgia $8.7 million for crop genetics research
...n be detected simultaneously. To handle the large volume of biological data that will be generated by the project, powerful computer-based tools will be developed to manage and analyze data and share it with other researchers. The use of bioinformatics an emerging discipline at the interface of biology an...New book on warnings can help save lives
...nd Ergonomics Society has just released the second volume of past Annual Meeting proceedings papers on the design of effective warnings: Human Factors Perspectives on Warnings, Volume 2: Selections from Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meetings, 19942000. The first volume, covering the years 1980...HFES honors 2001 awardees at 45th Annual Meeting
... the best article published in the previous year's volume of the journal. Human Factors, the Society's techn...echnical article published in the preceding year's volume of Ergonomics in Design, the Society's quarterly applications magazine. The magazine combines articl...Wind-borne pollutants may travel thousands of miles
...orbent that soaks up the dissolved pollutants. The volume of rain going through the sampler is measured The air sampler contains a filter to collect particles in the air (dust) and polyurethane foam plugs that trap gaseous air pollutants. Wade and his collaborators recently collected pollutants in about 3,0...Mysteries of the stumpy lizard revealed
...eeks before birth both breathing frequency and the volume of breath are reduced quite significantly." Dr Munns also found the metabolic rate of pregnant stumpies decreases quite markedly in the last three months of pregnancy, and in particular the last four weeks, where they hardly consume anything....UNC scientists develop new way to calculate stability of proteins
...al - to treat the interactions within the internal volume of a protein in subsets of four at a time to produ...way to accomplish this is to consider the internal volume of a known protein structure as tiled with tetrahedra, each having an amino acid side-chain at each ...Researchers discover new route to high blood pressure
... enzymes could increase reabsorption, expand blood volume and raise blood pressure. Further exploration of the new blood-pressure-regulating pathway revealed by the WNK1 and WNK4 mutations could lead to new anti-hypertensive drugs, said Lifton. Intriguingly, he said, the WNK4 gene maps to the same region a...'Gold Bug' sheds light on how some gold deposits formed
...so only a teeny amount isdispersed in a very large volume of water." "There are waste streams from gold processing where this same reductionprocess might work on a larger scale, but the goal of this study was tooffer an explanation of how gold deposits are formed, more than it was toproduce any profitable o...Homeground ecology 101: Sara Stein to speak at ESA Meeting
...ants' and animals' absence inspired her well-known volume on the importance of local ecosystems, Noah's Garden. Her work has been compared to that of Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson, and Henry Thoreau, and her books have often translated some of the toughest ecological science into plain language which has bee...Dietary approaches to stop hypertension diet reduces cholesterol and long-term cardiovascular risk
...t would be required to adopt a diet with twice the volume of healthful food in the typical American diet could be prohibitive, whereas "those who make small, incremental changes in their diet over time have the highest probability of success."...A new marker for schizophrenia?
...with schizophrenia. Changes in brain structure and volume appear to arise from a reduction in neuritic processes (such as dendrites and synapses) rather than from a loss of neuronal or glial cell bodies. A missing link for this hypothesis is a biochemical marker for cellular integrity in the brain that can ......itecture. While the town does not attract the high volume of overnight tourists that most of the coastal towns do, it's becoming a popular day trip destination because of its natural beauty, archaeological sites, spectacular vineyards and grapes, and its "old world" charm. UC's previous work in Crete has b...How did we get so smart? Study sheds light on evolution of the brain
...ies. They calculated the percentage of total brain volume contributed by each part and created the term "cerebrotype" to describe the resulting 11-number characterization, just as the word "genotype" describes the unique DNA sequence for each species. The analysis shows that mammals fall into a spectrum of ...Dartmouth researcher goes to Cape Cod to study cell division
...deal for this research mainly because of the large volume of eggs they create, and how easily they can be manipulated to undergo mitosis at the same time. "The eggs can be induced to undergo cell division synchronously, and I can study millions of cells, each at the very same stage of division," Sloboda sa...New finding accelerates discovery of disease genes and human population history
...o years, scientists have been creating a companion volume to the "Book of Life," and have accumulated the largestpublicly available catalog of single letter DNA differences (SNPs)1.4 million SNPswith their exact location in the human genome. Scientists have also known that SNPs travel togetherone SNP carr...DNA gene chips and novel software used to describe kidney development
... says. "Although it is commonly said that the huge volume of data makes gene expression analysis difficult, it really is the amazing complexity of tracking perhaps 30,000 variables which is the hard part." That data comes from the high-tech use of gene chips, also called DNA microarrays, which permit scient...A stomach enzyme deficit may place women at more risk from drinking alcohol
...he alcohol is distributed throughout a lower water volume in women, resulting in less alcohol dilution. Third, it is believed that women younger than the age of 50 have a greater bioavailability (blood circulation) of alcohol, or less first-pass metabolism, than men do. When people drink alcohol, a portion...Scientists invite others to join them online to discuss exotic species threat
...athologist with the USDA Forest Service. The sheer volume of global shipping today has amplified the danger beyond the scale of the regulatory barriers we currently have in place. Its time for us to take a fresh look at the problem and begin to develop options for dealing with it on a global scale. The onl......rming. The conference will result in the fourth volume in the Economics of Important Public Policy Issues... published by the University of Chicago Press. The volume will serve as a handbook on global climate change that will be readily accessible to policy makers. ......nce between users and non-users of HRT. Cartilage volume was almost 8 per cent greater in women who had been using HRT for five years or more. The authors conclude that HRT may protect against the development of osteoarthritis by preserving the knee cartilage. Previous research shows that oestrogen recept...