Call for greater involvement of developing world scientists in fight against AIDS
...f the disease. Against this background, and on the eve of AIDS 2004, the XV International AIDS Conference in Bangkok, Thailand, the Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) and the African Academy of Sciences (AAS) have issued a Joint statement on HIV/AIDS in the developing world, calling for greater invol...... Named Civilization (or at least Americay): On the eve of St. Patrick's Day, it's easy to see the influence of the Irish on American place names. And it's apparent. According to the USGS Geographic Names Information System ( http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnis/web_query.gnis_web_query_form ) the Irish were...6th Annual Symposium on Biomaterial Science
...ration, Branchburg, NJ What: On October 16, the eve of the 6th New Jersey Symposium on Biomaterials Science, five industrial scientists will share case histories of their companies' collaborations with academic researchers and university technology transfer officers. The companies presenting are Cord...It pays to save: Science study shows huge economic benefits from conserving wild nature
...that global ecosystem loss is slowing down. On the eve of the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, natural systems are changing from their intact state at a rate of 1.2 percent per year, or 11.4 percent in the decade since the last sustainable development summit in Rio de Janeiro. "Pe...European experts slam new Italian fertility proposals
...ext few months for final approval. Speaking on the eve of the annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology, ESHRE chairman Professor Hans Evers said: "We are so concerned at the implications that we discussed them today at our executive committee meeting. "Cryopreservati...Microbe genes help scientists reconstruct animal origins
...als use today were indeed already available on the eve of animal evolution. "We're starting to get a glimpse of the genetic tool kit we have in common. In choanoflagellates, we've found genes that heretofore were believed to exist only in animals. It's a confirmation of the idea that the genes come firs...Primitive microbe offers model for evolution of animals
...-- a common ancestor that may have appeared on the eve of animal evolution," said Carroll. Also, he said,... right organism to understand what happened on the eve of animal evolution," said Carroll. "Thus, we believe we can discover in this organism more elements...Unleashing GMO's into the environment
ON THE eve of a major conference on the safety of genetically modified food and crops, two research teams have put forward their vision of how scientists can ensure that transgenic plants and animals don't run riot when released into the environment. "At th...Science and Amersham Pharmacia Biotech award Young Scientist Prize
...ing for cures to cancer and other diseases. On the eve of the completion of the Human Genome Project, Velculescu's work anticipates the next millennium's scientific challenge--to discover the function of the thousands of genes in the human body that will be sequenced in this global effort. His winning es...Fossil Eggshells Hold Clues To Major Animal Extinctions As Reported In Science
... megafaunal fossils at what seems to have been the eve of theirexistence--younger deposits contain no trace of the extinct megafauna, onlyfossilized eggshells of the still-living emu. "We're starting to be able to puttogether a composite picture of the fossils in this age group," Miller said....