Potential for enhanced sequestration of carbon in soils supports evaluations
...mparisons are also called for. Post and colleagues state that "If agricultural soil sequestration is to play a role in the endeavor to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, it is important both to determine that soil sequestration practices are competitive, low-cost means of offsetting greenhouse gas emissions ...Circulation of 'disaster myths' in Haiti could hinder appropriate disposal of bodies
...curate, there have been some reports which wrongly state that dead bodies can cause epidemics. 'Fear that dead bodies cause epidemics in the surviving population has led to measures such as burial in mass graves without proper identification of the victims', comments Oliver Morgan, a researcher at the Lond...Veterinary Memorial Fund transforms grief into promise
...he way it links community veterinarians around the state with college researchers in a way that directly serves animals and their owners, Schurig noted. When a companion animal passes away, financial donations are made to the fund. The dean of the VMRCVM then sends a letter of condolence announcing ...Far more men than women favor routine paternity testing at birth
...o were completed by 78 adults outside a Washington state driver's licensing office and at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Four different versions of the survey were used. For one version, 170 people were asked only one question: whether hospitals should routinely include paternity testing f...16 APS exercise research highlights, from reduced flu mortality to proteomics & obesity
...uscle side population cells in an undifferentiated state and available on demand for muscle regeneration. 13.4 Bente Klarlund Pedersen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) The biological role of the myokine IL-6.Muscle-derived IL-6 fulfils the criteria of an overriding exercise factor and such classes of...March of Dimes statement on newborn screening report
...education about newborn screening. March of Dimes state chapters and their partners work closely with governors, state legislators, and health departments to improve state newborn screening programs. The March of Dime...Poplar DNA code cracked -- a step in combating global warming?
...rom the banks of the Nisqually River in Washington state (USA). The researchers needed just over two years to determine the 520 million base pairs, distributed among 19 chromosomes. By comparing the genomes of these two model organisms - Populus and Arabidopsis - scientists such as Yves Van de Peer and Pi...$7.5 Million grant to Yale researchers for role of viruses in cancer
...n their ability to persist in patients in a latent state for many years, are the focus of George Miller, M.D., John Enders Professor of Pediatrics and professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and Epidemiology and Public Health . His laboratory is analyzing molecular events that maintain thes...AAAS expert panel calls for voter-system research and reform
...on. As electiontechnology has developed, local and state electionofficials have become more powerful and their jobshave become more complex, requiring that theyoversee a complex array of technology and an armyof often inexperienced poll workers. The panelsuggested research into the impact on privacy andsec......an Health. The symposium will focus on the current state of genomics as it relates to milk research, the processes of lactation, the tools of genomics and an overview of the milk genome project. The goal of the symposium is to produce a guiding document for the milk genome project, which is an internation...Health of world's sea lions the focus of Wakefield Symposium
...niversity of Alaska Fairbanks and a host of Alaska state and federal agencies. Researchers from Argentina, Australia, Canada, Chile, Ecuador, England, Germany, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Russia, Uruguay, and the United States will deliver presentations on topics including life history, physiological...US investment firm gives away Rhode Island-sized lands in Chile
...ze of the land (approximately equal in size to the state of Rhode Island), the ecosystems it contains and their importance to conservation on a global scale. A Tradition Of Local Commitment Since the early 1960s, WCS has been committed to conserving wildlife and wild lands of the Southern Cone of South...K-State, other universities to study how climate affects plant evolution
...ly, but also should be a real benefit for both our state and our country," said Ron Trewyn, K-State's vice provost for research. Led by evolutionary ecologist Johanna Schmitt of Brown University, the team includes molecular biologists, evolutionary geneticists, plant modelers and computer scientists. Sci...Hardy buoys: Texas A&M project predicts oil spill movements
...in cleanup costs. "But the important thing is that state officials realized the true value of these buoys,"...e and important these buoys can be. They serve the state of Texas very well."...Two Virginia Tech energy-related inventions win R&D 100 awards
...d materials science to bring the technology to the state of commercialization." Six oil-field sensor technologies are now licensed to Tubel Technologies of The Woodlands, Texas ( www.tubeltechnologies.com )....Israeli scientists reveal the plan of a key cellular machine
...iew the spliceosome units in as close to a natural state as possible. From thousands of images, each at a slightly different angle, a composite 3-D structure of the spliceosome was built up. The revealed structure has two distinct, unequal halves surrounding a tunnel. The larger part appears to contain p...Study by Israeli scientists provides insight on DNA code
...iew the spliceosome units in as close to a natural state as possible. From thousands of images, each at a slightly different angle, a composite 3-D structure of the spliceosome was built up. The revealed structure has two distinct, unequal halves surrounding a tunnel. The larger part appears to contain p...Serotonin metabolites in mollusks suggest pathways for human therapies
... serotonin metabolites are related to a behavioral state in marine mollusks," Sweedler said. "What we do not know is whether serotonin sulfate causes the behavior or whether the behavior causes the elevation of serotonin sulfate."...Snakehead in your inbox? Welcome to the nonindigenous Aquatic Species Alert System
... know how many new species have been found in your state in the past six months, or where the latest sighti... group, and species. If the species is new to the state the alert is sent to anyone who signed up for that state. Those who signed up for alerts on a speci......ths between 580nm and 600nm reveal the oxygenation state of the blood vessels in the eye, telling doctors which areas are healthy and which might be diseased. Dr. Andrew Harvey, one of the supervisors of the project said: "So far, we've used this technique to take images of the retina in healthy subjects,...