Scientists find evidence of catastrophic sand avalanches, sea level changes in Gulf of Mexico
...t deposits are formed." The expedition scientists plan to obtain detailed measurements of changes in sediment and fluid properties to enable prediction of the mechanics of catastrophic underwater flows known as turbidity currents. These currents are akin to underwater avalanches and carry large amounts o...... showed that the Dunaliella enzyme shares a basic plan with its distant relatives, but with a few obvious differences. The most striking of these is in the electrical charges on the proteins' surfaces: Charges on the salt-tolerant enzyme are uniformly negative (though not as intensely negative as those i...Microchip saves rare turtle from soup-pot
...sts from around the region met to devise an action plan specifically to protect this mangrove turtle. "I hope that we can see more of this type of positive cooperation between regional governments", adds Hendrie. "This case involves one very important turtle, and is an excellent opportunity to build up...Bitter or sweet? The same taste bud can tell the difference
...e how either taste affected individual cells (they plan to do that next), Herness thinks that CCK may override NPY during a bitter sensation, while NPY may override CCK during a sweet sensation. Sour and salty the two other dominant tastes seem to work in totally different ways than sweet and bitter, He...New lead reported in tumor angiogenesis
...e jagged1 expression," said Wang. "That's what we plan to study next." The article is titled, "Crosstalk between tumor and endothelial cells promotes tumor angiogenesis by MAPK activation of Notch signaling." The article was published in the July issue of Cancer Cell, and its authors are: Qinghua Zeng,...Children born with extremely low-birth-weight have considerable health and educational needs
...eds of recent surviving ELBW children is needed to plan for the medical and educational services that they will require at school age. Maureen Hack, M.B., Ch.B., of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, and colleagues conducted a comprehensive examination of health outcomes at age 8 years in a grou...Combination therapy leads to partial recovery from spinal cord injury in rats
... modifications to the transplanted cells, and they plan to test similar techniques that start with undifferentiated embryonic stem (ES) cells instead of glial-restricted precursor cells. ES cells would be better for human studies than glial-restricted precursors because ES cells can be more readily obtai...NASA develops a 'nugget' to search for life in space
... John Keller, and Scott Owens, all from NASA GSFC, plan to conduct experiments this summer at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) using one of NIST's neutron-beam lines. By focusing neutrons into various samples (one of which is a meteorite), they hope to make a three-dimensional ima...Major new UNC-based drinking water study suggests pregnancy fears may be overstated
...all negative results, he and his colleagues do not plan to make policy recommendations to water managers and municipalities, he said. If possible, future comparable studies ought to include methods for determining actual exposures to purification byproducts more accurately. "We also looked at exposure to ...Penn researchers discover key to how SARS virus infects cells
...ed a few compounds, including MDL28170, which they plan to test in animals for SARS inhibition. "We're now searching for other viruses that also use this cleaving mechanism for activating their proteins," says Bates. "If there are a number of other viruses that do that, and we have some preliminary eviden...Independent researchers confirm the existence of ivory-billed woodpecker
...han one individual Ivory-bill. Cornell researchers plan to release the recordings at a meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union in Santa Barbara, California at the end of the month. Prum and colleagues had prepared a manuscript critical of the original reports to the journal PLoS Biology. In that man...Researchers find Amchitka seafood safe for now
....S. Fish and Wildlife Service) had to agree on the plan developed by CRESP. And that plan specifically called for involvement of affected groups in the study. "It was the most rewarding an...Happy and passive means more productive animals
...ed for only a few generations. Muir's new breeding plan avoids the problems of inbreeding. Because animal well-being is an important factor in livestock breeding and because animals need to be housed in groups, not only can selecting for less aggressive animals increase productivity of individual animals,...The relationship between lawns and allergies and asthma
... these aerobiological tests, Colbaugh and Williams plan to study other landscape materials, such as compost piles and mulching materials. This summer, interns have explored the abilities of inorganic and organic mulching materials to support the growth of Alternaria. "Preliminary experiments have shown s...Other highlights in the August 3 JNCI
...f the test with fecal DNA was 90%. The authors now plan to use their assay in prospective studies designed to determine optimal biomarkers for colon cancer detection. In an editorial, Dean E. Brenner, M.D., of the University of Michigan Cancer Center in Ann Arbor, and Gad Rennert, M.D., Ph.D., of the Clal......arpton, UA president's professor of remote sensing plan to create the first Web site of georeferenced avian influenza data. "We knew about (bird) flu because Kevin Winker has been talking about flu for years," said George Happ, Director of the IDeA Networks for Biomedical Research Excellence (INBRE) at UA...Changes in technique can reduce radiation dose in CT examination
...are performed before a regular CT scan, usually to plan for the examination. The radiation dose in a surve...f, for example, the survey CT scan is used only to plan for the examination, high-quality survey CT images may not be needed. In these cases we suggest tha...Restoring the 'Garden of Eden'
...ossi (New Eden Team, Italy) will discuss an action plan being developed to restore the Mesopotamian marshes. Najah Hussain and colleagues from the College of Science and Agriculture in Iraq will relay how fish are faring in their presentation, "The restoration status of the biota in marshes in souther...Global Climate and Energy Project awards five research grants totaling more than $11 million
... a portfolio of technical areas. The GCEP sponsors plan to fund additional programs at Stanford and other universities and institutions around the world. GCEP is conducting assessments of advanced coal and advanced transportation technologies to identify technical barriers and opportunities for research t......and trad. It's a pretty sophisticated model and we plan to make it available as a research tool on the World Wide Web." Discovery: new species of moon jellyfish The researchers also discovered that there are far more species of moon jellyfish than previously thought. "We identified 16 species of moon ...