Study provides first-ever look at combined causes of North Atlantic and Arctic Ocean freshening
...rces analyzed matched the amount and rate at which fresh water accumulated in the North Atlantic during much of the period from 1965 through 1995. "This synthesis allows us to judge which freshwater sources are the largest, but more importantly shows how the significance of different sources have changed...Remote island provides clues on population growth, environmental degradation
...e University of Oregon's Douglas Kennett, has shed fresh new light on Rapa, especially on what life may have been like for as many as 1,500 to 2,000 people who lived there before the arrival of European explorers. Kennett's team, which included researchers from three institutions, reported in the June is...Scientists explore how complex organs develop from a simple bud
...erentiation are written by top scientists offering fresh ideas and pertinent background information to readers interested in anything from molecular to cellular and developmental biology....Animal physiology conference sheds light on human physiology
...1 in Virginia Beach, Virginia. There are plenty of fresh and interesting story lines you can develop, breaking away from the cookie cutter stories that everybody else is covering. Comparative physiology is the study of all kinds of animals, finding general principles that may apply to humans, too. Working...High-throughput oncogene mutation detection in human cancers by mass spectrometry-based genotyping
...d oncogenes. The test involves taking a sample of fresh or frozen tumor, amplifying its DNA, and then searching for 250 known mutations in 17 oncogenes. (These include members of the ras, EGFR, pi3 and c-kit kinase families, among others.) To check performance of the genotyping, the research team tested ...Field Museum gives Parker/Gentry Award to missionary turned biologist, Jos 'Pepe' Alvarez
...lvarez. "The Amazon holds one-fifth of the world's fresh water (not frozen), as well as millions of species, many of which remain undiscovered by science," he said. "All of this could disappear in the next few decades if we don't help to preserve the Amazon. "The Amazon is the responsibility of the entir...What animals can tell us about hemorrhage, organ transplants and aging
...aking place at the conference. There are plenty of fresh and interesting story lines you can develop by going through the program or by calling The American Physiological Society. Go to http://www.the-aps.org/meetings/aps/vabeach/index.htm and click on "Week at a glance" for the full Comparative Physio...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- Sept. 20, 2006
...noxide (CO) to keep packaged meat looking pink and fresh almost indefinitely, scientists are reporting that...ced plastic film kept beef steaks looking pink and fresh for 14 days under conditions found in supermarkets. That represents an increase in average display ...Research could lead to dramatic improvement in scanning for serious diseases
...g with current technology, so our task is to bring fresh thinking to this problem. We will be adapting several technologies that have been developed in other fields of science and engineering and applying them to electron spin resonance imaging for the first time."...Researchers develop technologies to devour food pathogens
...chlorine dioxide gas to kill pathogens on produce, fresh fruits and vegetables. This would be a large step up from current technologies, which mainly involve washing and scrubbing, and cannot completely rid a product of a pathogen like E. coli, said Richard Linton, a professor of food science. "We can use...Algae provide new clues to cancer
...ze and growth. In nature, the organism is found in fresh and brackish water and in all kinds of soil. Its close relatives have adapted to the harsh conditions found in underwater thermal vents and even to life under the Antarctic ice shelf. In the lab, C. reinhardtii has been used to investigate agricultur...A salinity study in the Mobile Delta region
...way is the reduction of water exchange between the fresh water in the lower reaches of Mobile-Tensaw Delta, and the saltier waters of the Gulf of Mexico. If true, this barrier may have created persistent low salinity conditions that local conservationists believe have provided refuge for an exotic species...Special chip provides better picture of salmon health
... smoltification, which enable them to live in both fresh and salt water. Assessing their health and performance is very difficult as conventional measures used in other animals, such as temperature, blood protein levels and general demeanour, are not relevant or are difficult to assess in fish. Farmers a...New titles focus on food safety: Fresh produce and tracking contamination
...tand the issues associated with microorganisms and fresh produce. Edited by Karl R. Matthews of Rutgers Un...y examines key issues of microbiological safety of fresh produce, from production to consumption, and focuses on the unique challenges the specialists encoun...Scientists find lamprey a 'living fossil'
...rate rivers and coastal seas. Some species live in fresh water for their entire lives, but most are anadromous, hatching in fresh water, migrating to the ocean to grow and mature, and migrating back to fresh water to spawn and rep...Two national diabetes-related initiatives coordinated by MCG bioinformatics expert
...ond round of funding for the consortium, it took a fresh approach with each investigator proposing two new models and turning them over to a husbandry core for development. "Once created, the models will be sent back to the investigators who will be in charge of understanding the pathology of the complicat...Leading scientists elected to EMBO ranks
...tists to the EMBO community. I look forward to the fresh input they will bring to the organisation." EMBO has over 1,200 members in Europe and more than 70 associate members worldwide. 43 are Nobel laureates and many more recipients of other prestigious awards. EMBO Members provide scientific input to t...UCLA engineers develop revolutionary nanotech water desalination membrane
...h, over-consumption and pollution of the available fresh water supply make desalination and water reuse eve...use we realize that not only are we running out of fresh water, but the current technology is limited, we lack implementation experience and we are running o...RNA map provides first comprehensive understanding of alternative splicing
...ow be able to approach a number of diseases with a fresh start." Finally, Darnell's work has shown that Nova is expressed in certain types of cancer cells. Cancer cells operate by dysregulating gene expression, and Darnell believes that further studies are needed to determine whether Nova is a cause of d...Remote latrine reconfirms the presence of Essene sect at Qumran
...nically, that sounds like a good idea, if you have fresh running water, but there is no running water at Qumran, only runoff which was collected during the three months of winter rains. They enter the cisterns where everyone else has been, with all the bacteria they've brought in with them, floating around...