Restoring Farm Land To Natural Wetlands Key To Stemming Flood
...esweren't always there," he said, which led him to wonder what land usesthe systems of levees had replaced. Subsequent research prompted by thatquestion revealed a deep history, which, Schneider said, is not well-known.He chronicled that history in "Enclosing the Floodplain: Resource Conflicton the Illinois...Study Shows Hereditary Legacy Of Radiation Exposure
...."If you mess around with that, you can't help but wonder if these changeswill turn out to be cancerous or impair reproduction." Wiley's work was funded by the NationalInstitutes of Health ....Human Breast Milk Contains Obesity Hormone
...mponent to obesity. The animal studies cause us to wonder if milk-borne leptin may play a role, too." Another possibility is that leptin is important for the lactating mother and not important for the infant. Research has found that leptin levels in mothers are elevated during the pregnancy, and that it...MIT Biologists Identify Aging Mechanism
...chers'enthusiasm for the work, with an overtone of wonder at its broad implicationsand precise beauty. "It is remarkable that this mechanism of aging in mother yeast cells isso simple at a molecular level," the biologists wrote. "It is conceivable thatinhibitors of this (aging) process can be found ...Ant Pheromone May Aid Alzheimer's Patients
...2-millivolt potential differences are created. No wonder theirbatteries never seem to run down. -30-...Major Wolf Die-Off Recorded On Isle Royale
... survived to this winter. That leads biologists to wonder ifperhaps canine parvovirus is again present in the population. "We plan tolive-capture some of the wolves this spring and take some blood samples to seeif that's the case," said Peterson. Major funding for the Isle Royale study is provided b...Fish Farmers Must Learn Zebra Mussel Prevention From A To Z
...d on industrial and municipal water users, it's no wonder aquaculture managers are wondering when it's their turn. Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant aquaculture specialist LaDon Swann says "Anytime now." The fingernail-sized mussel's ability to thrive in U.S. waters, its remarkable proclivity for proliferation, an...HIV Infected Adults In UCSF Study Show Evidence Of Thymus Activity
...ncreases in their numbers of T cells. "We began to wonder where the T cells ofHIV infected people on anti-retroviral therapy were coming from," said McCune."Were the lone T cell survivors multiplying or were new ones being produced? Itwas time to ask the question: 'Can the thymus work in HIV-infected adults...Duke Study Helps Explain How Cells Divvy Up Genes During Reproduction
...N.C. -- For centuries, scientists have watched in wonder at themicroscopic world of the cell. In many ways a self-contained world, it runs muchas a tiny metropolis with production plants, energy generators, and transportsystems to move its products around efficiently. Now researchers are beginningto sort o...Gap Widening Between Genetic And Behavioral Research
...e ever more important biological breakthroughs and wonder therapies. "Discoveries in molecular biology," Anderson writes, "often lead, eitherimplicitly or explicitly, to more reductionist explanations for health andbehavior, with the accompanying unidirectional views of causation (i.e.,'upward' fro...Bleached Coral Could Be Environment Warning
...denly die fromopportunistic infections, we have to wonder what has changed in theirenvironment," says C. Drew Harvell, associate professor of ecology at Cornell. Harvell organized a session,"Diseases of the Ocean: A New EnvironmentalChallenge," at the annual meeting of the American Association for theAdva...Vanderbilt University Medical Center Forms Institute For Coffee Studies
...quite high concentrations incoffee, so you have to wonder what they do. We think it's important to findout," said David M. Lovinger, professor of Molecular Physiology and Biophysicsand Pharmacology. Lovinger serves as associate director of Basic Research forthe Addiction Center and the Institute for Coffee ...Researchers Identify Molecular Site That Is Key To HIV's Ability To Infect Cells Of Brain, Colon
...eceptors, likeCXCR4 or CCR3. "A lot of companies wonder if drugs that block CCR5 will cause tissue-specificviruses to switch co-receptors and become resistant. Our study suggests theymay not," said Chan. "All the viruses in the brain and colon that we studied use CCR5 as the mainmode of entry. We belie...A Fresh Look At Love And War Between The Sexes
...the purpose of sexis established," she notes, "you wonder why in so many species, there are twosexes, instead of 13 as there are in some slime molds." The reason, biologistsconclude, relates to the survival value of anisogamy. For small gametes, the best possible reproductive strategy is clearly to getther...Coastal Birds "Feel" Their Prey Under The Sand
...tones and shellfish in the sand. It istherefore no wonder that they never look for food in areas where the sandcontains stones, no matter how much shellfish could be found there.......of her aunts succumbto breast cancer, and began to wonder if there might be a genetic susceptibilityto the disease within her family. "I gradually became proactive about educating myself about cancer," said Marcia,who underwent a lumpectomy, lymph node surgery, radiation and chemotherapy in1997. Initially s...A Mother's Love? New UD Theory Explains Why Good Insect Moms Risk Death To Save Their Only Children
...eby avoiding any child-care costs. Bug dads Ever wonder how many insect fathers pitch in with child-care? Not many, Tallamysays: "Paternal care occurs only among three families of true bugs"( Hemiptera ). After all, male insects have no way of knowing whether theyfathered a particular clutch, and they can...In Animal Groups, Scientists See Patterns That Could Predict The Future
...oups too small or too unfamiliar tosurvive. People wonder how massive flocks of passenger pigeons could ever havebecome extinct, Parrish says. As flocks got smaller, social interactions betweenthe birds broke down. Hundreds or even thousands of birds were simply too few toform the flock sizes needed for the...Genetically engineered organisms: Hazardous or beneficial
...Organisms (GEOs) elicits responses of bothfear and wonder from the public. Some fear the possible consequences of geneticengineering, while others are amazed at the power of its potential. On Sunday, August 8, 1999 the Ecological Society of America will discuss thetopic of GEOs during a symposium entitl...Protecting the rice bowl: Chromosomal mapping of the rice blast fungus
...es many a community's foodsupply. So it is little wonder researchers are teaming up against the riceblast fungus, Magnaporthe grisea, a widespread pathogen capable of devastatingrice yields and causing regional food shortages. In the August issue of GenomeResearch, Heng Zhu, Ralph Dean and colleagues (Cle...