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Impacts Of Climate Change On Lakes

ScienceDaily  Wed, 10/22/2008 - 23:45

Climate change will have different effects on lakes in warmer and colder regions of the globe. This is the conclusion reached by Japanese and German researchers following studies of very deep caldera lakes in Japan.


 

Impacts of climate change on lakes

EurekAlert! - Chemistry, Physics and Materials Sciences  Mon, 10/20/2008 - 23:00

(Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres) Climate change will have different effects on lakes in warmer and colder regions of the globe.

This is the conclusion reached by Japanese and German researchers following studies of very deep caldera lakes in Japan.

Scientists from Hokkaido University, the Hokkaido Institute of Environmental Sciences, Kagoshima University and the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research compared current measurements with measurements taken 70 years ago.


 

Revolutionary technique could reduce lifelong drugs for transpla...

EurekAlert! - Chemistry, Physics and Materials Sciences  Mon, 08/04/2008 - 23:00

(Wiley-Blackwell) German researchers have made an exciting break-through that could improve the lives of transplant patients, by reducing the drugs they need to take to prevent organ rejection.

The ground-breaking technique, which uses tailor-made regulatory cells, is reported in a series of papers in the August issue of Transplant International.


 

Tunguska Catastrophe: Evidence Of Acid Rain Supports Meteorite T...

ScienceDaily  Fri, 07/18/2008 - 10:45

The Tunguska catastrophe in 1908 evidently led to high levels of acid rain. This is the conclusion reached by Russian, Italian and German researchers based on the results of analyses of peat profiles taken from the disaster region.

In peat samples corresponded to 1908 permafrost boundary they found significantly higher levels of the heavy nitrogen and carbon isotopes 15N and 13C.


 

Tunguska catastrophe: Evidence of acid rain supports meteorite t...

EurekAlert! - Chemistry, Physics and Materials Sciences  Mon, 07/14/2008 - 23:00

(Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres) The Tunguska catastrophe in 1908 evidently led to high levels of acid rain.

This is the conclusion reached by Russian, Italian and German researchers based on the results of analyses of peat profiles taken from the disaster region.

In peat samples corresponded to 1908 permafrost boundary they found significantly higher levels of the heavy nitrogen and carbon isotopes 15N and 13C.


 

Stem Cells At Root Of Antlers' Branching

ScienceDaily  Thu, 05/01/2008 - 14:45

German researchers have found that deer antler growth and regeneration might be reduced to a stem cell-based process.

Their results strongly support the view that the growth of primary antlers as well as the annual process of antler regeneration depend on the periodic activation of mesenchymal stem cells.