'Grubby' research promises environmental/economic benefits
...he County, weighed the accumulated manure and took samples to estimate house fly larval populations. Tomberli...e fly larvae. Instead, he resorted to taking small samples and extrapolating estimates for the entire pile. One interesting note: The house fly larvae counts w...Hydrogen and methane provide raw energy for life at 'Lost City'
...graphic Institution's Timothy Shank analyzed water samples "vacuumed" from around the vents. "There aren't a lot of each kind of animal, most are only a centimeter in size and have translucent or invisible shells so it's no wonder we didn't suspect the actual diversity," says Kelley, who was chief scientist ...Stealth worms may improve insect pest control
...meet local pest management goals. Then they gather samples from soil or other habitats for testing in the laboratory. The nematodes are accurately identified and analyzed using traditional morphology (structure and function) techniques and through molecular screening, including PCR (polymerase chain reaction......or how a drug kills bacteria. "In the past, blood samples were taken and the serum concentration of the drug was measured and that number was used to make dosing decisions," said Derendorf, whose work is primarily funded by the pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and Sankyo. "That may not always be the right pl...Man-made wetland's effectiveness similar to natural marsh
...land for two years, collecting and analyzing water samples twice each month. They tested the samples for concentrations of phosphorus, nitrates and several other chemicals. The researchers also gathere...Doctors closer to using gene analysis to help trauma patients
...medical professionals can collect blood and tissue samples from patients, process them at different institutions and get consistent results," said Henry Baker, associate director of the UF Genetics Institute and interim chairman of molecular genetics and microbiology. "For any tool used in clinical medicine,...Norovirus found to cause traveler's diarrhea
...or other countries. The researchers examined stool samples from 34 individuals who experienced traveler's dia...lic Health, noted that 11 Norovirus-positive stool samples also were positive for E. coli, a leading bacterial cause of traveler's diarrhea, thus indicating th...Researchers identify gene that plays major role in age-related blindness disease
... in Science Express, Hoh used DNA taken from blood samples collected for the National Eye Institute-sponsored Age-Related Eye Disease Study (AREDS). The AREDS was designed to learn more about the natural history and risk factors of AMD and cataract and evaluate the effect of high doses of antioxidants and zi...Domesticated pig's wild origin mapped
...er, the study now being published has included DNA samples from wild boars from major parts of its area of habitation. The results have been compared with the DNA profiles of various breeds of domesticated pigs in Europe and Asia. The researchers have analyzed a section of DNA found in the mitochondria. The...Robot-based system developed at Carnegie Mellon detects life in Chile's Atacama desert
...ey contained life. The lichens and bacteria in the samples are growing and awaiting analysis." Waggoner and ...rations. A ground truth team at the site collected samples studied by the rover to bring back for further examination in the lab. On a typical day in the field...Antioxidant blood levels key to MnSOD gene
...in and beta carotene on men's health. Since blood samples collected in 1982 were available from many of the study's participants, the research team decided to review variants for the gene that codes for manganese superoxide dismutatase (MnSOD), an important enzyme that works as an antioxidant in human cells...Men and women: The differences are in the genes
...l samples. Twenty percent were inactivated in some samples and not in others, and 15 percent escaped inactivation in all samples. In addition, many of those from the inactive X that were expressed were only partially expressed. The second laboratory system used other cell lines to compare inactive to active ...... clinical concentration in the world. We have more samples and examples of human disease right on our doorstep than most other centers. We mean to take that information, leverage and run with it. We hope this community will be the first to benefit from these kinds of advances."...Children's Hospital & Research Ctr. at Oakland's DNA library helps to map the sex chromosome
...combinant DNA library has more than 20 million DNA samples that are used in research programs around the world....Highlights of chemical society national meeting in San Diego, March 13-17
...rganically grown lettuce and other leafy vegetable samples were collected from fields and farmers markets in ...higan, Ohio, New York, Quebec and New Jersey. Most samples were collected from areas with no known contamination from munitions or aerospace related industries...Tips from the Journals of the American Society for Microbiology
...er 23 million cases annually. In the study stool samples were collected from 34 patients with traveler's di...irus. The virus was detected in 65 percent of the samples tested, with time spent at travel destinations playing an important role in determining infection fr...Genomic analysis to become tool for studying trauma patients
...croarrays, a genomic analysis technology, to blood samples and skeletal muscle from 34 severely injured patients and 23 healthy individuals. Critically ill patients were studied at the University of Washington, Seattle and the University of Rochester. Healthy patients were studied at Washington University at...Breath may help diagnose infection
...o-investigator Nate Boggs purchased exhaled breath samples from swine housed at a commercial pig farm and analyzed the condensates. "In all animals, immune markers of infection were at or below the limit of detection, indicating that baseline levels of immune markers in uninfected and apparently healthy pop...Treated fabric kills anthrax spores
... of both treated and untreated fabric. The fabric samples were incubated in a chamber with controlled temperature and humidity. After one hour at 37 degrees Celsius and 80 percent humidity, 99 percent of the spores on the treated fabric were killed while spores on the control fabric remained viable. At ro......dings. The discovery several decades ago that tiny samples of ancient atmospheres are entombed in glaciers was an important step, as recognized by the Tyler Prizes given in 1996 to glaciologists Claude Lorius, Willi Dansgaard and Hans Oeschger. It was Thompson who pioneered the study of tropical glaciers at...