In this study, we identified 53 aberrantly hypermethylated DNA sequences in adult T-cell leukemia (ATL) cells using methylated CpG island amplification/representational difference analysis method. We also observed a proportionate increase in the methylation density of these regions with disease progression. Seven genes, which were expressed in normal T cells, but suppressed in ATL cells, were i...

Low-level Radiation Harmed Humans Near Three Mile Island Wing et al. (1) analyze data from the area nearest the Three Mile Island nuclear installation, showing elevated cancer incidence rates 5 years after the 1979 accident. Wing et al. refute earlier assumptions that lowlevel radioactive emissions from the accident were too minute to produce observable effects (2). The critical analysis by Win...

Birds follow the “island rule”, under which small-bodied forms tend to get larger on islands and large-bodied forms tend to get smaller. The traditional explanation for larger island relatives of small-bodied forms is based on ecological release on islands: islands support relatively few species, interspecific competition thus is weak, selection therefore favors niche expansion and ecological g...

Uranium-series analysis of the coral Allopora californica Verrill from the 2nd, 32-m Eel Point terrace on San Clemente Island, California, has yielded an age of 127,000 k 7,000 yr. The Eel Point terrace is thus correlative with numerous terrace localities on the southern California mainland, with coral reefs on Barbados and New Guinea dated about 120,000 yr, and with substage 5e of the marine o...

The total solar eclipse of 21 August 2017 was unique in that the path totality swept across high spatial and temporal resolution QuantumWeather® mesonet very near city St. Louis Missouri. Thus, meteorological response to complicated by urban heat island. Temperature changes up 4 °C were observed network. Composite meteograms for rural, suburban, stations displayed significant differences temper...

The theory of Battisti and Clarke (1982) to calculate analytically barotropic tidal currents across 'smooth' continental margin topography is shown to be valid near shore on 'nonsmooth' continental shelves. The theory includes longshore gradients and friction and produces formulae easily evaluated with coastal sea level data. The tidal currents across three such shelves (West Florida, south of ...