Transgenic Rice Plants Resist Insects, Drought And Salt Damage
...agues "have made a significant contribution toward meeting world food requirements by demonstrating that biotechnology can be used to enhance the rice plant's ability to defend itself against pests and stresses, without the use of expensive and sometimes detrimental inputs such as pesticides." Development of...Humble Pocket Gophers Shed Light On The Genetic Fortitude Of Cheetahs
...ayan and Crooks will present their work at a joint meeting of the Ecological Society of America and the Society for Conservation Biology, August 10-14 in Providence, Rhode Island. They also published a synopsis of their findings in the June 13 issue of the journal Nature. Scientists led by geneticist Stephen...Virginia Tech Researchers Receive Patent For Rapid Virus Detection Technology
... presented at the American Societyfor Microbiology meeting in May, 1995....Changing Continental Runoff Patterns Could Change Ocean Circulation
... Bice told attendees today (Oct. 29) at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in Denver. Researchers using the general circulation models have not previously considered continental runoff. The reason that continental runoff can change ocean circulation patterns is that the fresh ...NCAR Scientist Models Earth's Climate and Vegetation Patterns At Last Glacial Peak
...d his work on Wednesday, October 30, at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in Denver. These models present a world blanketed by massive ice sheets over Canada and Eurasia, with tundra covering much of Europe and North America as the Sahara Desert crept southward toward central Africa. Ra...An Equal Opportunity Extinction? Cincinnati Geologists Find Global Impact from Permian Die
...UC, willreport Wednesday,Oct. 30 during the annual meeting of the Geological Society ofAmerica that the Late Permian mass extinction was global in itsextent and hit all marine areas with roughly the same effect. Traditionally, geologists believed that tropical areas andhigh-diversity marine environments such......lk to be given on Thursday, Oct. 31, at the annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in Denver, Doris Sloan and Andrew N. Cohen of the University of California at Berkeley, and Mary McGann of the U.S. Geological Survey in Menlo Park, Calif., report the introduction of a single-celled amoeba-like o......d at the American Association for Cancer Research meeting in Toronto in March....Medicinal Leech May Offer Clues To Neural Regeneration
... of the study were presented Nov. 21 at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. "Our study shows that NOS in the leech is activated at the site of injury within minutes after axons are severed, and it remains active well beyond 48 hours after the injury," Sahley says. Axons are the long "arms" of...Scientists Identify Gene For Sexual Behavior In Male Flies
...sserman. The labs joined forces at aninternational meeting when he and Baker realized that each of theirgroups had half the essential information needed to clone and understandthe role of the fru gene. "We had a map, and they knew where thecrucial point in the map was," Wasserman said. "To go on and unders...Methane Deep In Ocean Crust Could Feed Chemical-Hungry Microorganisms
... poster at this week's American Geological Society meeting in San Francisco saying that a significant reservoir of methane and hydrocarbons may be found in rock beneath the seafloor. Such a large food source bolsters speculation about how pervasive these life forms might be. Kelley has been studying the s...'BirdSource' Website For Citizen-Science Data
... today (Feb. 14) with demonstrations at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Seattle. Like a fledgling bird testing its wings, BirdSource is beginning modestly. About 500 "penguins" (online bird-watching guinea pigs) from the 10,000-member citizen-science p...Eating After Exertion May Be A Key To Speeding Body's Recovery
...he AmericanSociety for Nutritional Sciences annual meeting in New Orleans. Healthy adults consumed nothing or a cereal with oat, wheat or corn meal90 minutes before a 90-minute low-level cycling exercise followed by a competitive5-mile ride. Those who had eaten reported less fatigue and less hunger afterthe...Fund Aims To Repay Developing Nations For Valuable Genes
...ng. While attending a 1996 Rockefeller Foundation meeting on intellectualproperty rights, Ronald struck up a conversation with John Barton, the GeorgeE. Osborne Professor of Law at Stanford University. Barton had been workingfor years in the area of international environmental law, with a particularinterest...Pets Provide Physiological Benefits For Women Living Alone
...owed some benefit for younger women, at the annual meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society. The study was conducted over six months and involved 100 women who lived alone. Half were in their mid-20s, the other half were in their early 70s. Twenty-five women in each group had a dog or cat to whic...Purdue Study Aims To Boost MRI Capabilities
...of Health, will be reported April 16 at the annual meeting of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance Medicine in Vancouver, British Columbia. Bourland and Purdue electrical engineering Professor John Nyenhuis have studied the safety of MRI technology for more than eight years. Much of their early wo...Virus May Be Linked To Obesity -- Early Findings Hint At Relationship
...s Mon., April 7,at the Experimental Biology annual meeting in New Orleans. An assistantresearch scientist in the UW Medical School department of medicine,Dhurandhar conducted the research with UW Medical School Professor ofMedicine and Nutritional Sciences Dr. Richard Atkinson. Between 80 and 90 mil...Purdue Researchers Prod Plants To Clean Up Pollution
...udge. According to findings reported at the annual meeting of the British Society of Animal Science, cadmium levels in the sheep livers were high enough to cause concern but probably not high enough to cause serious health problems for people who ate the contaminated organ meat. According to the World Health...Project Shows Native Bacteria Can Destroy Widespread Pollutant In Groundwater
...ject, report in a at the American Chemical Society meeting in San Francisco this week. Working with him on the project are: Mark Goltz, associate professor at the Air Force Institute of Technology, graduate student Jason Allan, post-doctoral student Mark Dolan and Gary Hopkins, a science and engineering ass...Children With AD/HD Have Significant Functional Disabilities Related to Attention Deficit
... the study were presented here today at the annual meeting of the Society for Pediatric Research. Using a standard developed at UB for use by the developmental- and rehabilitation- medicine community to assess a patient's needs for rehabilitation services, the researchers determined that most of the 43 ...