Jane Goodall to receive 2003 Environmental Citizen Award
...n has changed the way scientists and nonscientists alike view the natural world by helping them recognize its enormous complexity and diversity and by demonstrating its importance for their everyday lives. He is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, and a recipient of the National Medal of Science and the Cra...Failures in primate cloning may signal impossibility of human reproductive cloning
...productive cloning of primates nonhuman and human alike impossible, a team of researchers from the Pittsburgh Development Center reports in this week's issue of the journal Science. Basic molecular obstacles were observed that blocked normal cell development despite using four different techniques of nuc...New species of earliest-known salamanders found in China
...million years, they look alike. In fact, they look alike in great detail the bones in their wrists are the same, the way their skulls are formed intricate details are the same, he said. At the same time, their limbs and heads have served as a model of how variation arises during evolution. One of the gre...Drug delivery leaps biotech hurdles
...s well as malignant ones, researchers and patients alike hope that it will become easier to target these drugs directly to the tumor, sparing healthy tissues. New analysis by Technical Insights, a business unit of Frost & Sullivan (www.Technical-Insights.frost.com), Drug Delivery, reveals that over 300 com...Research on lentiviruses to continue at Ohio State
...atments for humans and animals alike against many deadly viral diseases." "The fact that these two highly knowledgeable and experienced faculty have stepped forward to continue this project demonstrates the university's dedica...Scientists discover gene in human egg that may be necessary for female fertility
... by the human and mouse Mater genes are 53 percent alike and share a number of similar features. "These structural similarities between species suggest that the protein produced by the Mater gene may have a similar function in the mouse and human," the researchers wrote. "We propose that a similar human M...K-State professors make discovery in pesticide-resistant bugs
...enbugs. AChE is an enzyme that humans and insects alike need for their nervous systems to work correctly. Organophosphates kill insects by blocking the enzyme until their nervous systems do not function properly. Genes are the DNA fragments directing the production of proteins or enzymes. Insects usually...Megavitamins may help treat many genetic diseases, could tune up everyone's metabolism
...w.KmMutants.org - where scientists and lay people alike can share information about megavitamins and illness. Provided physicians use safe dosages, "there is potentially much benefit and possibly little harm in trying high-dose nutrient therapy because of the nominal cost, ease of application and low leve...Electrodes and nanoprobes signal new DNA detection method
...containing the target. Perfect and partial matches alike bind to the oligonucleotides on the slides surface. The gold nanoparticle probes, each covered with 200 oligonucleotide strands, latch on to these pairings. The probes are then amplified using modified photographic developing solution. Each gold nano......orests just 50 kilometers apart in Panama are less alike than forests 1,400 kilometers apart in the western Amazon. As a result of such high landscape variation, parts of Panama have as many or even more tree species than parts of Amazonia. Ecologists have a technical term for landscape variation in fo...Studying plant adaptation to arctic helps understand the 'steps of wisdom of life'
...iod. In this ancient world, plants were much more alike because they grew in tropical forests. As the continents shuffled around, the plants had to change or die. Schecklers hypothesis is that plants have been adapting ever since there have been plants. "If we know the paleo-ecology of the ancient world,...Initiative considers changing face of biology
...ders of that effort have noted that all humans are alike in 99.9 percent of their DNA, and they have said that proves that race has no meaning. Yet, the genome has produced new fields such as pharmacogenomics, which is working to produce ethnically and racially targeted pharmaceuticals....New model of staph drug resistance implicates unlikely protein
...esistant infections in rich and developing nations alike are threatening to make once treatable diseases incurable." The development of new antibiotics along with the modification of old ones is of utmost importance....Widespread 'superbug' is expert at acquiring drug-resistance
...esistant infections in rich and developing nations alike are threatening to make once treatable diseases incurable." This chilling announcement fits most accurately Staphylococcus aureus, the number one cause of potentially life-threatening hospital-borne infections in the United States and all over the wo...Scientists share multidisciplinary discoveries at 'Earth System Processes'
... what intrigues physical and biological scientists alike is why the rise and why at ~2 ga?" remarked Janet Siefert, co-chair for this session. Siefert is a molecular evolutionist at Rice University in Houston, Texas. "We know with increasing certainty from geologic biomarkers, fossils, and molecular phylog...Gene chips accurately diagnose four complex childhood cancers
...y can be difficult to tell apart because they look alike under the microscope; their similar appearance can lead to misdiagnosis and improper treatment. Gene chip technology, on the other hand, analyzes the pattern of activity of thousands of genes inside any cell type, including cancer cells. This approac...Major fossil find reveals Asian origins of salamanders
...million years, they look alike. In fact, they look alike in great detail--the bones in their wrists are the same, the way their skulls are formed--intricate details are the same," said Shubin. At the same time, their limbs and heads have served as a model of how variation arises during evolution. One of......the X chromosome. "Scientists and non-scientists alike are comfortable thinking about the Y chromosome as a specialist in male characteristics. By default, weve traditionally thought of the X chromosome as sexually neutral or as a specialist in female characteristics. Our findings indicate that the X chr......sts noted earlier that all ganglion cells were not alike and that they fired off different information to the brain, though the details were hazy. Part of the reason is that the axons from the bipolar cells synapse with or touch the dendrites of the ganglion cells in a tangled region (the inner plexiform l......ences are not subtle, most creatures are very much alike in their genetic codes. Humans and chimpanzees differ by less than 1 percent in their genes. "For example, on the surface it would appear that cows and humans are very different," Woodson says. "Yet, when one examines the genes that make up a cow, ge...