How roots control plant shoots
...s send signals to shoots, which include everything above ground: stems, leaves, flowers and fruits. But lit...ey have to be able to sense their environment both above ground and below ground, and then respond to changes in the environment." "They can't just walk aw...Experts present new research on hot topics in aging at GSA's annual meeting in Washington, DC
...e. Date and Time TBA The sessions listed above are just a sampling of what to expect at the 57th Annual Scientific Meeting of The Gerontological Society of America, the national organization of professionals in the field of aging. ...World's top theoretical physicists converge to consider 'future of physics'
... pattern of the tiered seats. On the second floor above the auditorium is a large semicircular room for gr... outside exterior wall, thereby enabling a balcony above and a first-floor exit in a large semicircularshaped expanse of glass below. In order to...Award-winning INEEL probe to help safely monitor hazardous waste sites
...ought they were safely isolated in layers of earth above the aquifer. Potential sites for GEOPS include mine tailings, earthen dams, abandoned and active landfills, nuclear power plants, fuel processing and storage facilities, old industrial sites, and underground storage tanks, Jones says. The INEEL team...Biomedical engineers at case develop first sliver-sized sensor to monitor glucose levels
...pplications since the skin would heal very quickly above it and after that no track infection can occur. The associate professor of biomedical engineering and researcher at the Case School of Engineering has developed for the first time a "sliver-sensor" a fully functional, minimally invasive, microscop...Three years of Proba, the 'smart' satellite that runs itself
...1096 days in space. In polar orbit 600 kilometres above the Earth, each month Proba acquires around 300 images of about 60 separate sites. To date the spacecraft has provided more than 10 000 images from its two onboard imaging instruments: the Compact High Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (CHRIS) and the ...VYTORIN (TM) superior again to Lipitor at lowering LDL (bad) cholesterol
...9 years of age with an LDL cholesterol level at or above drug treatment thresholds established by the NCEP ATP III who were deemed eligible if they met the following criteria: established coronary heart disease (CHD) or CHD risk equivalent, or two or more risk factors conferring a 10-year risk for CHD gr...Bristol scientists find key to unlock body's own cancer defence
... of new blood vessels required for tumours to grow above one millimetre. They have also found that this form of VEGF is generally found in many normal parts of the body, including the prostate, but not in prostate cancer, and have established how this form of VEGF works on blood vessels. The identification...Scientists find acid rain an unlikely ally in the battle against a greenhouse gas
...at wetland emissions of methane will begin to rise above those occurring before industrial sulfate pollution began. In order to determine how the acid rain interacts with methane in wetlands, lead author of the study, Dr. Vincent Gauci of Open University, United Kingdom and his colleagues took to the fiel...Elevated inflammatory enzyme, Lp-PLA2, significantly linked to ischemic stroke
...2 can be an independent and significant warning -- above and beyond standard risk factors -- identifying individuals with an increased risk of stroke. Lp-PLA2 may prove to be a useful independent diagnostic measure, and ongoing research is evaluating whether Lp-PLA2 is an important therapeutic target to r...Genetic variant linked to weakened heart pumping
...actions. Cardiologists consider normal any reading above 55, which means 55 percent of the blood in the chamber was pumped out, Donahue said. Patients without diabetes in the study had an average ejection fraction of 53, compared to 50 for those with one allele and 42 for those with two alleles. Diabetic p...Old riverbed keeps chemicals from entering Ohio River
...he said. The river deposited sand and gravel above the aquifer more than 10,000 years ago, before the rivers path shifted almost a mile to the east, explained Svitana. He found that the dry riverbed is still linked to the present-day Ohio River by old channels filled with sand and gravel that l...More mobility for researchers in Europe
...urces is an existing grant. This principle applies above all to the Individual Grants Scheme, but also to coordinated programmes as long as it is compatible in each individual case with the overall project. If possible, the project should have at least another six months to run. If the project has not yet...Illegal tuna fishing and farming leads to demise of species
...ces in the Mediterranean. "Current catches are far above the ICCAT quotas," said Tom Grasso, director of WWF-US Marine Conservation Policy. "WWF has consistently documented poor management of this overexploited stock, reporting widespread violations of ICCAT rules." According to the ATRT report, the amount...Dinosaurs in bullet-proof vests
...ther, with the fibres at right angles to the layer above and below them. 'The armour was thereby endowed with great strength in all directions,' Torsten Scheyer stresses. Today's composite materials are based on the same principle, which are used to make the rotor blades for wind farms or bullet-proof vest...Heart responds to fasting by remodeling vital energy-producing components
...urce of energy for many types of cells, peaks high above its normal level in heart muscle cells. "The rise of triglyceride isn't easily explained by nutritional conditions, because after feeding resumes, the heart shouldn't need to increase its levels of fats. It's as if the heart retains a memory of depri...Census of Marine Life - Discoveries and Highlights 2004: Scientists add 4m+ records, 13,000 species
...t the locations of marine species found in, on and above the seabed, from microscopic plankton to whales, recorded over the past few hundred years. Also included in the database are the date and depth for each record. Large patches of blue show where no samples at any depth have been recorded. ...Study: Pigeons can sense the Earth's magnetic field; ability might allow them to return home
...n a magnetic field was present -- induced by coils above and below their chamber -- the birds could be conditioned to climb the correct platform up to 75 percent of the time, which is significantly more often than they would by chance alone. Once the pigeons were trained to respond to magnetic field...NJIT physicists expect new super lens to reveal first light by early 2006
... The chromosphere is the first layer of atmosphere above the sun's surface layer. The new telescope will also allow Goode and his staff to continue their ground-breaking research about earthshine, the faint illumination of the dark part of the moon by sunlight reflected from the earth. In the May...Say goodbye to Rudolph and other reindeer if global warming continues
...mined the fossil record left in Grotte XVI, a cave above the Ceou River in the Dordogne region of France. The cave, which was occupied by both Neandertal and later Cro-Magnon people, has a very well-dated archaeological sequence from about 40,000 to 12,000 years ago. The sequence actually extends to abou...