Scripps marine research physiologist pioneer to receive lifetime achievement award
...s for studying the dive behavior of Weddell seals, returning so frequently he has a mountain in Antarctica named after him. Kooyman learned that if he led the docile animals to pre-drilled ice holes, the seals would return to the same hole after their dives, making them effective models for study of diving ph...Increased dampness causes vegetation change
...ximum chance of the original characteristic plants returning in the nutrient-poor, wet dune valleys....Seafloor creatures destroyed by ice action during ice ages
...animals were retreating to the deep ocean and then returning to recolonise Antartica's shelf seas. Clues to how these two very different communities could have achieved this may lie in the animals' DNA. Sven Thatje continued: 'Our work means that the text books will need to be rewritten. Our next task is to re...Queen's contraception awareness program among world's top five
...also come from older people dealing with issues of returning to the dating scene after longstanding relationships have ended. The Contraception Awareness Program provides workshops and resources for doctors on communication skills in assessing patient needs and helping to avoid unsafe sexual behaviour, particu...Satellite technology allows scientists to track warm sharks in cold polar seas
...ing after pink, coho and other varieties of salmon returning to spawn. From 2002 to 2004, the scientists tagged 51 female salmon sharks. For comparison, co-author David Holts, a biologist with NMFS, led the researchers to the Southern California coast, where 31 blue sharks were outfitted with SPOT and PAT tags...Photos reveal first tool usage in wild gorillas
... she moved some 10 meters out into the pool before returning to shore and her wailing infant. Then another female gorilla named Efi used a detached trunk to support herself with one hand while digging for herbs with the other. As she moved from location to location, she used the stick for one last job,...Scientists get first glimpse at how plants, most animals repair UV-damaged DNA
...nated electron stays inside the damage site before returning to the photolyase molecule. Scientists believe that all placental mammals lost the ability to make this enzyme some 170 million years ago, said Zhong, an assistant professor of physics and adjunct assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry at ...Deep-sea exploration beneath Katrina's wake
...tists from Harbor Branch and other institutions is returning to port this Sunday with new tales from the deep after completing their second annual Deep Scope expedition. The group has discovered a mysterious visual capability in a deep-sea crab; captured new video of a large, recently discovered squid species;...Human muscle-derived stem cells effective in animal models of incontinence
...revented periurethral muscle atrophy. They will be returning to the lab to identify exactly how these cells work to regenerate muscle. Clinical trials using muscle-derived cell therapy for incontinence have recently begun in Toronto. Urinary incontinence affects 13 million Americans. Those with stress urinary...UCLA discovery prevents cell abnormality leading to progeria
...rteries. UCLA's next step will be to test whether returning the shape of the nuclei to normal stops development of progeria in mice. AUTHORS: Dr. Stephen Young, professor of cardiology; and Loren Fong, Ph.D., assistant professor of cardiology; David Geffen School of Medicine ...VIB signs cooperation agreement for the development of a new, universal flu vaccine
... flu viruses is possible, not only against viruses returning yearly, but even against future epidemics. Through our cooperation with Acambis we can continue the development of this promising vaccine.' Cooperation between VIB and Acambis Professor Walter Fiers and his team carried out the research on which th...Census of Marine Life explorers surprised by diversity, density of Arctic creatures
...orms from the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic oceans, returning them in centrifuge-like fashion. At the same time, because of the great depths and cold, particularly in the benthos, some things may just sit endemically in parts of the Southern Ocean. Seeded with a $525,000 grant, announced today by the New...Divergent life history shapes gene expression in brains of salmon
...h male salmon spend several years in oceans before returning to freshwater to reproduce, may actually result from active inhibition of development into a sneaker. Previous studies have found that the proportion of sneakers in various salmon populations varies wildly; it appears that males that grow fastest ear...Industrial contaminants spread by seabirds in High Arctic, new Canadian study shows
... feed in the ocean but then come back to land, are returning not only with food for their young but with contaminants as well. The contaminants accumulate in their bodies and are released on land." The study took place at Cape Vera on northern Devon Island in the Canadian High Arctic, far from industrial and a...Self-correcting embryos could be an ethically acceptable source of embryonic stem cells
...y embryos with abnormal chromosomes are capable of returning to normal when grown in culture in the laboratory, according to new research presented to the 21st annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology today (Monday 20 June). While such embryos are not capable of developing...World Ocean Day: How satellites safeguard our waters
... has a dampening affect on the water it floats on, returning less signal backscatter to show up blacker in a radar image. Radar surveillance of accidental oil spills has shown its worth repeatedly, notably during the Prestige tanker accident off Spain's Galician coast in November 2002. An Envisat image reveal...Loyola researchers discover congestive heart failure biological marker
...able to pump adequate amounts of blood. When blood returning from the body to the heart is not pumped fast enough, it starts to back up into the lungs. CHF symptoms include shortness of breath, swollen legs, swollen liver and fatigue, which could also be signs of other conditions. Some CHF may go undetected fo...Protein prevents detrimental immune effects of bacterial sepsis
... and 6 hours after LPS administration, with levels returning to normal by 24 hours. Higher levels of markers of inflammation, and of organ injury, were measured in annexin 1 deficient animals. Altogether, these findings implied that the protective effects of the annexin 1 pathway were activated in the first ...Precise timing enabled pig-to-rat transplants to cure diabetes
... replace the missing rat insulin with pig insulin, returning the rats' blood glucose to normal levels. "The absence of a need for immune suppression after transplanting from one species to another was such an unexpected and encouraging discovery that we wanted to find out more about why that worked and under...Tsunami-damaged coral reefs should be left to recover naturally, say scientists
...he damage was mainly caused by the backwash waves returning to the sea that sucked back debris from the shore such as trees, cars, sediment and parts of buildings, which broke and overturned corals. The group recommend that, in most cases, simply removing the debris from the reefs would be sufficient to allo...