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UCSB scientists probe sea floor venting to gain understanding of early life on Earth

...hly conscious of the importance of microbes in the grand scheme of things," said Haymon. "Indeed, they are the greatest biomass on the planet. They are strongly implicated as the earliest life here and perhaps elsewhere." The direct linkages between life and planetary processes on the volcanically active,...

Microbial forensics: The next great forensic challenge

...dibility. and reliability for addressing this next grand forensic challenge." Murch will present the paper, "Biothreat agent forensics: Seeking attribution using an adaptive, integrated approach (ComSci 6)," at 11:30 a.m. Monday, March 14, in Convention Center room 25C. The topic is also addressed in an ...

Solutions that reduce death of marine life reeled in by International Smart Gear Competition

...and, in turn, it's dependent on our actions," said grand prize winner Steve Beverly, fisheries development ...nal panel of expert judges unanimously awarded the grand prize and $25,000 to Beverly, an American working in New Caledonia and a former high school biology ...

Energy management in cells may hold key to cancer defense

... '05, a co-author of the study. "Students are the grand integrators of collaboration," he said, noting that Hurley traveled to other labs in the US to complete this study. Other co-authors of the study are Kristin Anderson and Anthony Means from Duke University and Bruce Kemp from The St. Vincent's Inst...

Asleep in the deep: Model helps assess ocean-injection strategy for combating greenhouse effect

...the atmosphere, defeating the purpose of the whole grand scheme. Even worse, if the liquid-to-gas conversion happens suddenly, the gas can bubble up in a plume and erupt---a potential hazard. Small-scale ocean experiments have been done to investigate how the carbon dioxide (CO2) actually would behave, b...

MIT chemist discovers secret behind nature's medicines

...ally slip inside and bind to the iron, without the grand theatrics chemists had anticipated. After the iron and the chloride bind, the protein closes down around the active site, effectively pulling the trigger on the gun. "We were surprised," Drennan said. "The change in activity required for an enzyme t...

UW-Madison engineers squeeze secrets from proteins

...ed strings of amino acids has long been one of the grand challenges of biology. A common belief holds that the more proteins are confined by their environment, the more stable - or less likely to unfold - they become. Now, as reported on the cover of the March issue of Biophysical Journal, a team of chem...

Leave it to salmon to leave no stone unturned

...can smother them. But consider the efforts of the grand dames of the salmon world, the female chinook ?or king ?salmon. The largest females are more than a yard long and tip the scales at 45 pounds or more. The biggest nests are nearly a foot and a half deep and extend up to 17 square yards –about the siz...

American scientist's research of life's first cells

...ing her stay in Stockholm. Irene Chen received the grand prize for her essay, "The Emergence of Cells Durin... of their careers. Some 54 regional winners and 12 grand prize winners have so far received the award, honoring exceptional thesis work in the field of molec...

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