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The Financial
February 17, 2018
By either selectively or uniformly incorporating stable isotopes into proteins, the user is able to significantly reduce the complexity of their spectra. D Labeled Biomolecules, 15N, and deuterium are the most common isotopes incorporated into proteins. Microbial expression systems, cell-free extracts, peptideÃÂ ...
IFLScience
February 17, 2018
Through measuring carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis of the bones, the researchers showed that the Collagua women with elongated distended heads ate a more varied diet, indicating that they were perhaps more privileged. These remains of these women also appeared to have fewer signs ofÃÂ ...
Facts of Week
February 16, 2018
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Isthmus
February 16, 2018
The SIMS — manufactured by Paris-based CAMECA Instruments, which has a factory in Madison — was customized to allow the team to count carbon isotopes. By concentrating an ion beam on targets within the fossils, the team detected the chemical signatures of life that lived 3.5 billion years ago. InitiallyÃÂ ...
Science News
February 15, 2018
Different food sources contain different proportions of carbon and nitrogen isotopes, forms of the elements with different numbers of neutrons. ... This study highlights the power of this amino acid isotope technique to track environmental change through animal tissues, says Seth Newsome, an animalÃÂ ...
The Economist
February 8, 2018
They did this by making sugar molecules that included a rare but non-radioactive isotope of carbon, 13C. Some animals were fed fructose doped with this isotope. Others were fed glucose doped with it. By looking at ... But the isotopes told a different story. When glucose was the doped sugar molecule, 13CÃÂ ...
Laramie Boomerang
February 3, 2018
Carbon 12 and 13 are known as “stable” isotopes, because they do not change, which makes them useful to researchers like Cook. He used ocean water as an example. When water from the ocean evaporates, lighter molecules — containing atoms with relatively low isotope numbers — will be evaporatedÃÂ ...
Earth Touch News
January 22, 2018
What we're interested in is the relative amount of two different carbon isotopes in plankton cells (isotopes are atoms of the same element with slightly different weights). This measurement is useful to us because plankton have different carbon isotope contents across the globe – almost like a chemical postÃÂ ...
MMA Fighting
January 6, 2018
The sample was then run through a carbon-isotope ratio mass spectrometry analysis, which confirmed the presence of a synthetic anabolic agent, per USADA. While this whole process was going on, Penne, 34, actually fought at UFC Nashville on April 22. She lost by unanimous decision to Danielle TaylorÃÂ ...
Retraction Watch (blog)
January 6, 2018
24, 2016, just days after publication, expressing excitement, but suggested the authors should have used carbon dioxide containing only carbon isotopes. This would allow them to trace the atoms through the reaction and ensure the carbon dioxide gas was involved. MacDonnell said he initially dismissedÃÂ ...
Seeker
January 5, 2018
One key was examining carbon isotopes within methane molecules, which are made up of one carbon atom surrounded by four hydrogen atoms. The scientists found that fire emissions produce the largest percentage of heavy carbon isotopes. Microbial emissions have the smallest percentage of theseÃÂ ...
Phys.Org
January 4, 2018
Carbon isotopes in the methane molecules are one clue. Of the three methane sources examined in the new study, emissions from fires contain the largest percentage of heavy carbon isotopes, microbial emissions have the smallest, and fossil fuel emissions are in between. Another clue is ethane, whichÃÂ ...
Ars Technica
January 4, 2018
The first question is simply whether the carbon in the fossils—and the random carbon particles that can be found around them—matches the isotope signature of carbon from living organisms. Biology is somewhat choosy when it comes to isotopes of carbon. The extra neutron in carbon-13 causesÃÂ ...
Big Think (blog)
December 27, 2017
What SIMS does is separate carbon isotopes and determine their ratios. This allows scientists to see what type of microbe a microfossil is. “The difference in carbon isotope ratios correlate with their shapes,” said study co-author John Valley, geoscience professor at Wisconsin University. The ratio ofÃÂ ...
Prince George Citizen
December 27, 2017
The difference in the mass of isotopes for carbon results in segregation of the elements in biochemical processes. Both carbon-13 and carbon-14 do not move through biosynthesis at the same pace as carbon-12. This results in both isotope enrichment by some reactions and isotope depletion for others.
EarthSky
December 26, 2017
Secondary ion mass spectroscopy revealed the ratio of carbon-12 to carbon-13 isotopes in the fossils. The scientists then were able to use this information to determine how the ... The differences in carbon isotope ratios correlate with their shapes. Their C-13-to-C-12 ratios are characteristic of biology andÃÂ ...
Chemistry World
December 20, 2017
A study of some of the oldest fossils on Earth suggests life was already diverse around 3.5 billion years ago. Analysis of the stable carbon isotopes of fossilised microbes from Australia suggests some carried out a primitive form of photosynthesis using hydrogen sulfide, while both methane-producing andÃÂ ...
DutchNews.nl
December 31, 1999
Carbon isotope analysis showed the bone to be 13,500 years old and part of a culture that decorated animal bones with zigzag and herringbone motives. Only three other similarly carved objects have been discovered so far: a horse's jaw in Wales, deer antlers in Northern France and moose antlers inÃÂ ...
The West Australian
December 31, 1999
The Keating government considered imposing a carbon tax that would have slashed Australia's greenhouse gas emissions at a lower cost than the Gillard .... “Studies of the distribution of carbon dioxide concentrations, as well as of carbon isotopes, confirm that these increases are due to human activity.”.
PRI
October 28, 2017
Plants prefer carbon-12 for photosynthesis. Global measurements that compared current levels of carbon isotopes with archived measurements ...
Science News
October 26, 2017
Carbon has three isotopes — forms of the element with the same number of protons but different masses — but only carbon-14 is radioactive.
Arizona State University
October 20, 2017
To perform their experiments, first, they had to track the carbon fixation through carbon 13 isotopes and a complementary carbon imaging tool ...
Science Daily
October 12, 2017
Concentration of carbon dioxide during an intense period of global warmth ... the same carbon rich in the isotope carbon-12 was released into the atmosphere. ... The ratio of carbon-12 to carbon-13 isotopes in those samples ...
Chemical & Engineering News
October 3, 2017
For those seeking carbon credits for selling or using biofuels, ... fossil fuels apart from biofuels lies in their carbon isotope composition: In fossil fuels, ... to high speeds in order to separate the isotopes by mass and count them.
New Scientist
October 2, 2017
His only evidence for the existence of life is the unusual ratio of carbon isotopes, and this may not be definitive. “There are many ways in which ...
Ars Technica
September 30, 2017
These ancient, metamorphosed rocks contain carbon in the form of the ... providing a disappointing explanation for the carbon isotopes sans critters. ... Secondly, the exact carbon isotope signature varies from one type of ...
MyWebTimes.com
December 31, 1999
"We have also recently worked with the Smithsonian Institute to perform extensive testing of carbon isotopes within her body's cells in an ...
Newsweek
December 31, 1999
... examined the isotope makeup of the bones. They recorded different levels of strontium, lead, oxygen and carbon isotopes in different bones.
LaSalle News Tribune
December 31, 1999
Then Wujek heard about carbon isotope science, a forensic technique developed by the Smithsonian Institute. Carbon isotopes let technicians ...
ThinkProgress
October 3, 2017
One study, published in 2016, used isotopic signatures — the ratio of various carbon isotopes — from monitoring stations around the world toÃÂ ...
Hamilton College News
October 3, 2017
“Water column and sediment stable carbon isotope biogeochemistry of permanently redox stratified Fayetteville Green Lake, New York, U.S.A.”à...
New Scientist
October 3, 2017
His only evidence for the existence of life is the unusual ratio of carbon isotopes, and this may not be definitive. “There are many ways in whichÃÂ ...
Chemical & Engineering News
October 3, 2017
For those seeking carbon credits for selling or using biofuels, ... fossil fuels apart from biofuels lies in their carbon isotope composition: In fossil fuels, ... to high speeds in order to separate the isotopes by mass and count them.
SYFY WIRE (blog)
October 2, 2017
After unearthing 3.95-billion-year-old graphite from rocks at Saglek Block in Labrador, Canada, and analyzing its graphite and carbon isotopes, they found that itÃÂ ...
Live Science
October 2, 2017
The amount of carbon dioxide that humans will have released into ... To calculate those values, Rothman looked at data on carbon isotopes,ÃÂ ...
Ars Technica
October 1, 2017
These ancient, metamorphosed rocks contain carbon in the form of the ... providing a disappointing explanation for the carbon isotopes sans critters. ... Secondly, the exact carbon isotope signature varies from one type ofÃÂ ...
Pocono Record
September 30, 2017
Yet a team of scientists believes that carbon atoms within those ... special about this graphite: It consisted mostly of the isotope carbon 12. Isotopes, often referred to as “flavors” of an element, are distinguished by their weight.
The Australian
September 28, 2017
... in eastern Canada, contains carbon isotopes left by living organisms. ... He said the dominance of the “light” carbon isotope 12C, favoured byÃÂ ...
The Guardian
September 28, 2017
Carbon found in 3.95bn-year-old rocks is remnant of ancient life – researchers ... bore the same carbon isotope ratios that are seen in living organisms. ... But graphite can form with a skewed ratio of carbon isotopes withoutÃÂ ...
Science News (blog)
September 27, 2017
Strontium isotope ratios in an incisor from one D. optatum revealed a ... of the carbon isotopes in its teeth suggests it ate a fairly limited diet.
Seeker
September 21, 2017
Periods during which large percentages of species died off occurred at the same time as big swings in carbon isotopes found in Earth'sÃÂ ...
MIT News
September 20, 2017
He has identified “thresholds of catastrophe” in the carbon cycle that, ... in the relative abundance of two isotopes, carbon-12 and carbon-13.
Phys.Org
September 13, 2017
"Measuring carbon isotopes is an extremely useful technique, but until ... harmless) isotope of carbon that is formed in the upper atmosphere.
Fightful
August 24, 2017
With Carbon-Isotope-Ratio Testing, anything synthetic in your system is likely going to be found, although we know the cheaters are alwaysÃÂ ...
The San Diego Union-Tribune
August 24, 2017
While methane dissipates much faster than carbon dioxide, ... “You can use (the isotopes) to fingerprint where the methane is coming from,”à...
Grain Central (registration) (blog)
August 23, 2017
The lower available water was tracked through carbon isotopes in the plant leaves and in the waxes themselves, tools that are used toÃÂ ...
High Plains Journal
August 23, 2017
He said bulk leaf and leaf wax analyses through carbon isotopes in the plant leaves and waxes yielded broadly similar insights for plant waterÃÂ ...
Scripps Oceanography News
August 23, 2017
Scientists can distinguish it in the laboratory because it lacks a certain chemical form – known as a carbon isotope – that is found in methaneÃÂ ...
International Atomic Energy Agency
August 16, 2017
The carbon-13 sucrose breath test is based on the simple principle that, ... enriched sucrose with synthetic 13C stable isotopes,” said Owino.
New York Times
July 28, 2017
... physics to detect the presence of a rare, heavy isotope of carbon. ... of researchers measures different isotopes in the gases to help identifyÃÂ ...
