Baboon studies suggest strategies for coping with stress
...tuation poses a real threat, baboons who sit there waiting for a fight have higher stress-hormone levels than those who take control of the situation and strike first. Baboons who cannot tell if they are winning or losing a fight have much higher stress-hormone levels than those who know whether their lots a...New technique answers one of waters basic mysteries
...llionth of a second. It would be the equivalent of waiting the entire age of the universe to see a one-second twitch. Since the team couldnt catch the split by chance, they developed a complex computer simulation that showed how a proton is torn away from a water molecule. The pH is a measure of the number o...First dinosaur found with its body covering intact; displays primitive feathers from head to toe
...he dinosaurs body. This is the specimen weve been waiting for, says Ji Qiang. It makes it indisputable that a body covering similar to feathers was present in non-avian dinosaurs. Because dromaeosaurs are more primitive than birds, this fossil helps make the case that feathers developed before flight. In......ion. About 25 percent of these patients die on the waiting list, in large part because no means of support currently exists. Such devices, which are about two to three years from human testing, would need to be surgically implanted....BresaGen announces Australia's first cloned pig
...year thousands of peoplearound the world die while waiting for organ transplantation. Pigs are apotential source of these organs but the pigs need to be geneticallymodified so that their organs are not rejected by the human immunesystem. Professor Tony d'Apice of St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne said: "Thisc......ealth care. There are many `orphan drugs out there waiting to be developed if only the organisms that produce them could be manipulated, said Westpheling. In addition, the ability to shuffle the genetic pathways for existing drugs may lead to the production of truly new types of compounds for which there is ...Nuclear waste disposal: A safer solution?
...just been completed," Clearfield says. "We are now waiting for a second phase of funding on the project." Clearfield has shown that inorganic materials exchange ions more efficiently than organic materials, and they can better withstand radiation as well. "For applications in nuclear waste and nuclear medic...DNA analysis of salamanders turns up new species under almost every log, UC Berkeley zoologists find
...ess of evolution as well as the many species still waiting to be discovered in out of the way spots and even under our noses. The soil dwelling salamander looks identical to a salamander living in mountain foothills several hundred miles away, but DNA analysis by zoologists at the University of California, B...Russian, PNNL scientists advance US seed production, oil remediation
... percent under controlled conditions. "Rather than waiting 28 days for Kentucky Blue Grass seeds to germinate, that process may take only seven days with Symbiont," Stilson said. Dye Seed has processed and marketed seed-primarily Kentucky Blue Grass-for private and industrial customers since 1949. About 60 p...... to capitalise on DNA copyrighting. "I was kind of waiting for something like this to happen," she says. "I'm surprised it has taken this long." Still, at least DCI's fee includes a personalised plaque. "Our type of clients will want something to hang on the wall and look good," says Crump. But those serio...Science features Fox Chase Cancer Center findings on promotion of organ growth
...er transplant, including many who have been on the waiting list for more than two years, according to the United Network for Organ Sharing....Study: Immunize refugee children early to prevent deadly measles
... Ministry of Health. That meant waiting several weeks before immunizing all children below the age of 4 against eight different childhood diseases, rather than only measles. By not immediately immunizing the children, the Macedon...Hopkins' emergency extended care unit reduces overcrowding
...ion, the daily percentage of patients who tired of waiting and left without being seen dropped from a worriso... in January, has 14 beds, three treatment rooms, a waiting room and a nurses station and was placed in existing hospital space, with renovation costs of approx...Women who drink moderately do not face a longer wait to become pregnant
...evels of alcohol intake are associated with longer waiting times to pregnancy. In women who had never given b...te nor high alcohol intake was related to a longer waiting time to pregnancy. However Mette Juhl, the Danish researcher who headed the study, sounded a caution...New contact-lens materials will revolutionize the industry, UT Southwestern researchers report
...reducing risk for infection that everyone has been waiting for, said Cavanagh. Cavanagh said conventional contact lenses disturb the surface of the cornea, thereby allowing pathogenic bacteria, such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa, to bind to the corneal surface cells and potentially initiate infection. The most s...Scientists prove mature adult cells can be cloned
...ell and T cell were truly mature, functional cells waiting to get activated by a pathogen," explains Hochedlinger. Implications "In normal cloning attempts, it would be too inefficient to use mature adult cells. We were able to produce clones from adult cells because we took the two step approach. I think t...New mouse model enables studies of heart, brain and spinal cord
...iety of these conditional knockouts - rather than waiting for research results from the use of those mice - to facilitate research and collaboration. Dr. Conway's laboratory, which focuses on heart development and congenital defects, will use the new animal model to explore the role of PAX-3, a gene that ......bsters by the truckload, streaming ashore into the waiting arms of astonished fishermen and researchers. Then there was the gourmet's nightmare - the Government-approved lobster traps, which allow almost all their prey to escape, as revealed by researchers using an underwater video camera. And there's Wester...