Science to restore the nation's ecosystems
...ropower facilities are considering dam removal. We applied models for a 40-year post-dam period and re-estimated the river's water temperatures. Restoration of Western River Ecosystems: Reality or Rigormortis? , Marshall Flug, Fort Collins Science Center (FORT), USGS, Fort Collins, CO, 5:00-7:00pm. Locat...Efforts to clone primates move forward
...ate embryos. It is the first time researchers have applied methods developed in the Seoul laboratory to nonhuman primate eggs. Resulting cloned embryos progressed to the blastocyst stage, a developmental step in which the embryo resembles a hollow, fluid-filled cavity surrounded by a single layer of cells. C...Impulsive behavior may be relict of hunter-gatherer past
...work well for foragers do more harm than good when applied in these situations. "Impulsiveness is considered a big behavior problem for humans," said Stephens. "Some humans do better at binary decisions like 'a little now or a lot later' than others. When psychologists study kids who are good at waiti...Study reveals developing countries with recipe for thriving health biotech industries
...t led to this success, the study found. Cuba has applied for or holds at least 400 patents in the biotechnology field. Although Cuba has had success, limited access to foreign investment in the capitalistic world of biotechnology, the U.S. trade embargo and the inability of Cuban scientists t...NIDCR launches unique initiative on oral biofilm
...e Tabak, NIDCR director. "But metagenomics can be applied to bacterial populations present in caries, in people who smoke, or those treated for cancer. It's a technique that will be extremely beneficial for dental science and offers another example of the rich biology of the oral cavity."...Hudson's Bay Company fur trapping policies set stage for modern environmental struggles
...is unclear if any of this or other strategies were applied in the Pacific Northwest. In the early 1840s, Hudson's Bay Company official Archibald McDonald did propose creating a nature preserve west of Puget Sound to allow the beaver population to recover. The plan was never implemented, but nearly a century...Study shows PET/CT imaging can help diagnose and define occult recurrent cancer
...was obtained, the type of treatment that should be applied could be determined, she said. "This is clinically important, since no treatment could be planned in these patients without the benefit of this combined test," added Israel, who is with the department of nuclear medicine at Rambam Medical Center and ...Cigarette smoking exacerbates alcohol-induced brain damage
...nt." Durazzo noted that frontal-lobe functions are applied in multiple contexts of everyday life. "Therefore, exacerbation of alcohol-induced damage to the tissue of the frontal lobes by chronic cigarette smoking may further compromise recovering alcoholics' ability to successfully execute more challenging ...Femtosecond laser technique opens new opportunities for research on neural regeneration
...function. The project was a collaboration between applied physics researchers at Stanford University led by ...Mehmet Fatih Yanik, a Stanford graduate student in applied physics, who worked with Ben-Yakar to develop the laser nanosurgery setup used in the study. Ben-Yak...JCI table of contents, December 15 2004
...ogrammed to be tumor antigenspecific were directly applied to confined but well-established PC tumors in mice. These mice were "preconditioned" prior to treatment, meaning that they were subjected to low-dose radiation or chemotherapy prior to T cell transfer in order to prevent the body from attacking the n......hysics in 1997 and was appointed as a professor of applied physics at the University of Jena in 1998, at the age of 34, where he has since been the director of the Institute of Applied Physics. Simultaneously he is also the director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering. T...Satellites plus software equal best-ever Mediterranean heat map
...d atmospheric weather forecasting and is now being applied to the oceans. Near real time observational input... two European, one American and one Japanese. Also applied is a technique called 'objective analysis' that minimises cloud effects by interpolating values from...MIT creates new model of cancer syndrome
...ecifically targeted at p53 has the potential to be applied to a wide range of cancers. "The LFS mouse strains, which have been many years in the making, will be extremely valuable in understanding how the common mutations in p53 contribute to tumor formation," said Tyler Jacks, David H. Koch Professor of ...Body's biological clock found to affect cardiac rhythm patterns in healthy adults
...researchers at the Center for Polymer Studies have applied statistical physics methods to investigations of cardiac dynamics, probing for hidden patterns. Previous statistical evaluations of heartbeat fluctuations by Ivanov and others have shown that those of healthy subjects exhibit a self-similar structur...Hospital epidemiologists trace outbreak of organism to commonly used wound care equipment
...ged between patients. Guidelines for its use also applied only to health care workers, not to patients, prior to the outbreak." Since finding the cause of the outbreak at Hopkins, the specific strain of the bacterium involved in the outbreak has not reappeared, even after 11 months of follow-up testing. "...Cells don festive holiday colors
...enetic alterations in the same cells. "They can be applied to single cells, where you want to track different proteins, to different organelles, all the way up to whole animals," he said. Future efforts will aim not only at developing monomeric proteins with new colors, said Tsien, but also working on those ...Immune system contributes to evolution of a new fluorescent protein
...already proven to be smarter than us -- can now be applied to produce a vast array of proteins other than antibodies."...NSTI announces schedule for 8th Annual Nanotech 2005 Conference
... better understanding of how nanotechnology can be applied in various markets. Vertical industry sessions will include Health Sciences, Nano Biotechnology, Cosmetics, Displays and Optics, Electronics, and Telecommunications. The conference provides a multi-industry perspective on corporate R&D as well as t...Ocean colour satellites guide research ship through South Pacific's watery desert
...s promise to improve the quality of the algorithms applied to raw satellites to produce final ocean colour products. Now the cruise has ended, water and phytoplankton samples frozen in liquid nitrogen have been distributed for more detailed study by international laboratories, in particular to carry out an i...NJIT professor discovers new mixing method for microchip-sized labs
...nging the flow rates by simply varying the voltage applied to the electrodes that commonly pump the fluid through a micro-channel. This publication follows other journal articles about similar research using other types of pumping: the Aug. 15, 2004 issue of Analytical Chemistry as well as the May 19, 2003 i...