Is climate change likely to increase disease in corals?
...al cover as an additional variable of interest. To quantify temperature fluctuations, the researchers used a high resolution dataset on ocean surface temperature provided by the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association and the University of Miami. They used the dataset to calculate w eekly s...Study confirms the risk of exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke outdoors
...t 10 sites near the Stanford campus. "We wanted to quantify the potential level of exposure to outdoor tobacco smoke that could occur in everyday settings," Klepeis said. "To do this, we used five different, state-of-the-art instruments to measure secondhand smoke at parks, open-air cafes, sidewalks and outdo...Lab-on-a-chip device from Berkeley Lab to speed proteomics research
...ctrum can then be used to identify the protein and quantify its presence in a sample. The most popular technique today for ionizing a proteins constituents for mass spectrometry is to liquefy the protein and send it through electrically charged capillaries a technique known as electrospray ionization. One of...Many couples choose to donate surplus embryos for stem cell research
...ses. However, that study was primarily designed to quantify the number of frozen embryos via questionnaires sent to couples before or shortly after their IVF cycles. In the current study, the couples, who had undergone IVF at least 3 years earlier, were presented with four options for the fate of their surp...Asymmetry due to perfect balance
...ment and maintenance of cortical polarity - and to quantify their respective roles," says Wedlich-Soldner. Apa...ys Wedlich-Soldner. "It enabled us to describe and quantify the roles of these three important mechanisms for the first time on a systemic level and with the he...Cancer tip -- Nanoparticles can damage DNA, increase cancer risk
...le-cell gel electrophoresis assay (Comet assay) to quantify breaks in single and double stranded DNA. The team chose these particular nanoparticle types because they are commonly used commercially in electronics, textiles and sporting goods and easy to work with in the laboratory setting. "We observed ...Marine scientists monitor longest mammal migration
...t this was the first time we were actually able to quantify this on a global scale, and relate it to these long distance migrations" said Rasmussen. Researchers conducted the survey by identifying individual humpback whales on their wintering area off Central America, and then comparing these with whales i...Delayed breeding is not necessarily costly to lifetime reproductive success
...umed cost. Few studies, however, have attempted to quantify the cost itself. Moreover, it has been generally assumed that males and females are similarly affected by a delayed start to breeding. In the new work on green woodhoopoes (Phoeniculus purpureus), a cooperatively breeding bird species, Amanda Hawn ...Preventing and treating lung cancer -- ESMO explores collaboration to fight cancer on all fronts
...hemoprevention. "All of these help to identify and quantify cancer risk in individuals and family, ethnic, and racial groups. This is the main reason why cancer can truly be fought on all fronts and by all those who are touched in some way by this disease!" "The ESMO International Symposium on Chest Tumors ...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, March 2007
...or litter, sources. By doing so, they were able to quantify the proportion of dissolved organic carbon that originated from decomposing fresh litter. Dissolved organic carbon has an important role in the soil carbon cycle as it represents a key transport pathway for carbon in solution to move from forest floo......ished in the journal Chemical Reviews, attempts to quantify over 60 years of research, reviewing a vast array of science that brings into question the Earths natural ability to rebound from the increase in inorganic carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and oceans. Dr. Frank Millero, professor of marine and atmo......ffected species in other major cities. "We will quantify heat islands on the small scales that pertain to organisms, initially in Indianapolis and later in other major cities throughout the world," said Weng, an Associate Professor of Geography and Director of Indiana State's Center for Urban and Environme...Fruit flies may pave way to new treatments for age-related heart disease
...ers created new methods to dissect the hearts, and quantify heart contractility and other functions by using a movie camera to capture flys cardiac activity. "We started with Nick Reeves and James Posakony at UCSD, who originally made the mutant KCNQ fly for a different purpose. We then studied these mutan...ICSU and WMO launch the largest polar research program in 50 years
...ironmental status of the polar regions Change: to quantify and understand past and present environmental and social change in the polar regions, and to improve projections of future change Global linkage: to advance our understanding, on all scales, of the links and interactions between polar regions and th...AGU Journal highlights -- February 23, 2007
...rocesses at this and other volcanoes and thus help quantify volcanic hazards. Title: Renewed ground uplift at Campi Flegrei caldera (Italy): New insight on magmatic processes and forecast. Authors:C. Troise, G. De Natale, F. Pingue, F. Obrizzo, P. De Martino, U. Tammaro, and E. Boschi: Instituto Nazionale...Shedding new light on proteorhodopsin
...of lighting, the Berkeley researchers were able to quantify the coupling between light-driven and respiratory proton currents. At the highest azide concentrations, the average cell velocity increased 70-percent upon green light illumination. In the control study, normal E. coli cells, which do not not expres...Radiation degrades nuclear waste-containing materials faster than expected
...NMR was not in the thinking. NMR has enabled us to quantify and look at changes in the crystal structure as the radiation damage progresses. "This method adds a valuable new perspective to research on radioactive waste forms. It has also raised the question: 'How adequate is our understanding of the long-te...Study: Living coral reefs provide better protection from tsunami waves
...is team's work will give scientists the ability to quantify how much any given reef will benefit its particula...f what variables are important, but if you want to quantify the effectiveness of a barrier reef around a particular island, you'd want to model that island dire...Satellite radar gauges water levels in Louisiana wetlands
... "These kinds of observations could one day help quantify the depletion or rise of water level in wetlands. In this first study, we were mainly just trying to show that the technique works," Lee said. Wetlands pose two challenges to radar altimeter studies, he explained. Wetland plants diffuse the radar s...Sandia research to focus on early detection of harmful algal blooms
...nsive reagents or animal testing, or are unable to quantify toxins - critical information for managing shellfish beds. The technologies under development at Sandia would eliminate these problems. "Today's standard detection methods, frankly, are too slow and labor-intensive," said Lane. "By the time the proc...