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POPSPond Megastore Pond Megastore is America's Largest Pond Plant and Water Lily grower and supplier. Over 200 species are grown and shipped express to your door. Wholesale pricing is available on all plants for nurseries and landscapers. Pond Megastore also offers a full line of pond supplies and fish, tadpoles, and pond snails
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POPSGreen Fluorescent Protein (GFP) -- Making the Invisible Visible The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2008 is shared by Osamu Shimomura, Woods Hole, Martin Chalfie, and Roger Y. Tsien for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein, GFP. The Academy noted that "this protein has become one of the most important tools used in contemporary bioscience. With the aid of GFP, researchers have developed ways to watch processes that were previously invisible, such as the development of nerve cells in the brain or how cancer cells spread."
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"They found that when otters were abundant, eagle prey consisted of predominantly kelp-forest fish and sea otter pups. When the otters were rare, however, the proportion of marine birds in the eagles' diet was much higher. "
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POPSPond scum just may save the world Perhaps the answer to fuel needed to feed the world's energy needs with hastening global warming maybe in your neighborhood pond scum. Bill Gates, Boeing and others have invested millions in research on deriving fuel resources from algae
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POPSPond Megastore Pond Megastore is America's Largest Pond Plant and Water Lily grower and supplier. Over 200 species are grown and shipped express to your door. Wholesale pricing is available on all plants for nurseries and landscapers. Pond Megastore also offers a full line of pond supplies and fish, tadpoles, and pond snails.
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POPSHope Your vehicle may be running on Seawed in the future
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POPSDead Zone in Global Oceans Growing About ten years ago, researchers found that there was a 70 mile dead zone where the Mississippi River empties into the Gulf of Mexico south of New Orleans. At the same time, they found that the delta that helped protect New Orleans from a Katrina level hurricane was also dying. The Mississippi drains 2/3s of the fresh water in the USA. Think about it and vote for someone who can say more than "Drill, Baby Drill and Drill Now!"
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POPSExotic changes may facilitate evolutive processes It is estimated that humans move 7,000 species a day. that may cause some drastic changes, for example: Botulism, is killing tens of thousands of birds around the Great Lakes. Studies indicate that two invasive species triggered the outbreak. The quagga mussel, introduced from Ukraine, filters the water for food, making it clearer. The sunlight that penetrates the lakes allows algae to bloom, and dead algae trigger an explosion of oxygen-consuming bacteria. As the oxygen level drops, the botulism-causing bacteria can multiply. The quagga mussels take up the bacteria, and they in turn are eaten by another invasive species: a fish known as the round goby. When birds eat round gobies, they become infected and die.
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POPSExploding chromosomes fuel research about evolution of genetic storage
Dinoflagellates are stuffed at the core with tightly compacted chromosomes, yet these organisms contain neither histones nor nucleosomes. "What takes care of neutralizing DNA, to allow chromosomes to condense?" Levi-Setti asked. "Most biology books do not tell you." Other scientists had already identified positively charged atoms called cations as neutralizing factors. They found that dinoflagellate chromosomes explode upon the removal of calcium and magnesium cations. Levi-Setti has produced the first images of the distribution of these cations in dinoflagellate chromosomes. These images verify that cations, mainly of calcium and magnesium, neutralize DNA's enormous negative charge, and further suggest a critical role in folding the protein as well. The finding raises questions about the evolution of chromosomes, Rizzo said. "Did dinoflagellates once have histones and then lost them? Or did dinoflagellates never have histones and just 'figured out' a different way to fold lar
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POPSWorld's Oceans: Is it too Late to Save Our Most Precious Resource? See site for more links and info The problem in the Pacific is so severe a humongous plastic-strewn patch floats between California and Hawaii within the North Pacific Gyre. According to the man who first discovered it in 1997, Captain John Moore, this patch is 1 ½ times the size of the contiguous United States and goes to a depth of at least 100 feet. And there is another huge rubbish patch off the coast of Japan. (View a YouTube video of Captain Moore visiting the Pacific garbage patch )
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POPSWorld's Oceans: Is It too Late to Save Our Most Precious Resource? The problem in the Pacific is so severe a humongous plastic-strewn patch floats between California and Hawaii within the North Pacific Gyre. According to the man who first discovered it in 1997, Captain John Moore, this patch is 1 ½ times the size of the contiguous United States and goes to a depth of at least 100 feet. And there is another huge rubbish patch off the coast of Japan.
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