Rice, first crop plant to be sequenced, may help fight world hunger, Science authors say
...rious other uses, he added. The indica sequence, accessible at GenBank, and the japonica sequence, accessible through Syngenta and in escrow with Science , will help scientists further genomics research and, u...Amazonian devastation: Common sense quantified to predict disaster
... south-easterly areas of the basin, which are most accessible to major population centers and where large-scale cattle ranching and slash-and-burn farming are most easily implemented." Under the auspices of its Avana Brazil (Advance Brazil) program, the Brazilian government intends to invest over US$40 billion ...Vessel reporting a weak link in national strategy to stem the flow of alien organisms to the U.S.
...inghouse data and biennial report are now publicly accessible at http://invasions.si.edu/whats.htm. Ships' ballast water, used to maintain stability, is a leading mechanism for the unwanted transfer of non-native marine- and freshwater species throughout the world. Decades of research indicate that ballast wa...Infrared antenna for nano-size mapping of crystal vibrations
...ly called, a light-matter interaction that is only accessible when the investigation uses nanoscopic probing. Practical applications of the phonon resonance rest on either the high signal level or the narrowness of the resonance, or both. In a mixed-crystal sample any individual component is expected to show up...Bioinformatics: The quest for new drugs finds significant profits
...s developed by different companies must be equally accessible to the most crucial component of computational biology: the researcher," says Austin. Researchers need bioinformatics tools that allow them to easily analyze and interpret data. This may be accomplished either by integrating a number of independent a...New initiative will assess disease control priorities in developing countries
...ions of the work in progress; online, universally accessible DCPP working papers and other publications, available at www.nih.gov/fic/dcpp ; demographic, epidemiologic, and econometric information and materials to increase the capacity of developing countries to determine national priorities; the second vol...After massive experiment, results favor wildlife corridors
...alized extinction if the habitat fragments are not accessible for reproduction or recolonization.Finding support for this seemingly simple theory, however, is more difficult than might appear, said Doug Levey, a UF professor of zoology and one of the study's authors. Previous studies have shown that wild areas...UCSF begins distributing the first of its two embryonic stem cell lines
...lls must complete the materials transfer agreement accessible at the UCSF web site http://escells.ucsf.edu/ and send a payment of $5,000, which partially covers the costs of preparing and shipping the cells. The team will prepare the second cell line it derived, HSF-1, for distribution in the next year. Scien...Parasite, mosquito genomes complete malaria picture
... both teams had been disseminated through publicly accessible databases. For example, P. falciparum genes were identified that allow the parasite to avoid detection by human immune response cells. Other genes involved in parasite metabolism have no counterparts in humans. Inhibitors of those genes' products cou...Researchers identify candidate vaccine for Sjgren syndrome
...attacked by autoimmunity (the exocrine glands) are accessible to study, unlike the pancreas in diabetes, for example." Dr. Dosch's research group collaborated with Dr. Arthur Bookman, a rheumatologist at Toronto Western Hospital, to compare the autoimmune response to the ICA69 protein in the mouse model to hum...Scientists decode mosquito/malaria parasite genomes
...omes. The mosquito genome is now freely and easily accessible through the efforts of Ewan Birney's group on the Internet at the homepage of the Ensembl genome database project, http://www.ensembl.org. Ensembl is a collaborative project of the European Bioinformatics Institute in the UK (EBI, a branch of EMBL) a...Funding for global protein database
...icly funded project, UniProt's data will be freely accessible and will be released in a timely manner. A new web site will be created for UniProt and the web address will be: www.uniprot.org . NHGRI is one of the 27 institutes and centers at the NIH, which is an agency of the Department of Health and Human Se...Wonderfest science festival returns to Stanford Nov. 2-3
...iatt said the festival is designed to make science accessible by ''presenting provocative science questions in dialogue form - a form which reflects the exciting and contentious way that real scientists work.'' Wonderfest schedule The festival will begin at 9 a.m. Saturday with the WonderCup Challenge, an eve...Paleontological data better than expected
...ts from various institutions, to create a central, accessible database. "It is the largest effort within the pal...logy community to integrate scientific information accessible in the fossil record," says Kowalewski. Kowalewski's group is one of several working groups that de...Field Museum plays key role in massive project to map Tree of Life
... evolutionary relationships. The data will be made accessible to other researchers and the general public through a website with progress reports and interactive educational tools. The impact of this project on science and society will be far reaching, says Hackett, a principal investigator on Early Bird: "Bird...The mouse genome and the measure of man
... more difficult to pin down, will now be much more accessible to the tools of the molecular geneticist. Understanding the Mouse. The mouse genome sequence will also open new paths of scientific endeavor aimed at understanding how the mouse genome directs the biology of this mammal. Scientists will no longer ...NIH study shows MRI provides faster, more accurate way to diagnose heart attacks
...nal and more precise information than is currently accessible from other imaging methods, such as echocardiography, coronary angiography, and positron emission tomography," added Dr. Robert S. Balaban, scientific director of the NHLBI Laboratory Research Program, and a co-author of the paper. "MRI technology co......rnell. "Observing them with such detail was hardly accessible until this experiment." The Webb group's report on watching individual molecules at work, "Zero-Mode Waveguides for Single-Molecule Analysis at High Concentrations," appears in the latest issue of the journal Science (Jan. 31, 2003). The article, w...