Experimental Biology 2004 - Translating the Genome
...to make it easy for scientists to step outside the boundaries of their own fields and share information with scientists armed with the viewpoint and tools of entirely different disciplines. Basic scientists who spend their days in the laboratory and clinical researchers who work with patients are able to share...... nature of problems necessarily transcend national boundaries and require global solutions....HHMI commits more than $30 million to help reverse brain drain, beat infectious diseases
...fic talent and encouraging researchers to push the boundaries of science. With its international grants, the Institute applies the same principles to support scientists and science in other countries. "It's important to make this kind of investment in science globally because one never knows where the next gre...Without words, bullfrogs communicate through stutters in their croaks
...attracts females for mating, maintains territorial boundaries with other males, and indicates that the frog is healthy and aggressive. "Some animals have evolved large, complex vocabularies to communicate, while others say a lot with very limited numbers of calls," said Andrea Simmons, professor of psychology,...Promising research: From employment issues to virology
...res and processes of technical systems. Across the boundaries of their individual fields of research, these scientists are searching for methods and approaches with which to specifi-cally influence the production mechanisms in the run-up to the process, thereby improving the result. (Coordinator: Professor Dr.-...51 globally threatened species get new lease on life in the Caucasus
... approach for planning and action across political boundaries that can be obstacles to successful conservation," said Giorgi Sanadiradze, director of the WWF Caucasus Programme. A regional approach involving multiple stakeholders is also vital to effectively address the broader social, economic and policy fact...Volcanic soils yield new clues about the emergence of powerful chiefdoms in Hawaii
...Vitousek explained. "It turns out that, within the boundaries of the system, phosphorus levels are high, but above and below the system, the levels are low." The researchers also measured the concentration of several chemical bases in the soil calcium, magnesium, sodium and potassium. "We found that base condi...Melting ice cap gives urgency to new census of marine life project in Arctic Ocean
...led two to five years in advance. Also, political boundaries complicate access to some areas. In particular, seafloor sampling and imaging "can be a 'hot' issue in regions valued for their underground resources or those known or suspected for dumping of nuclear and other wastes." While sampling the entire Arct...Satellites map volcanic home of Africas endangered gorillas
...ting the parks is difficult because they have long boundaries that run across extremely inaccessible and hardly mapped territory. An ESA-run project called Build Environment for Gorilla (BeGO) has been using Earth Observation resources to chart the region in order to help conservation bodies working in and arou...Report outlines vision and recommendations for microbiology in the 21st Century
...biology must reach across traditional departmental boundaries and become integrated with other disciplines." The science of microbiology should not be confined to microbiology departments in universities. Microbiologists should have positions in other departments such as chemical engineering, earth sciences, ...Family-friendly, flexible and far-reaching
...ip eligibility criteria aim to remove geographical boundaries from applications and promote collaboration in research. Previously movement was only possible between European Molecular Biology Conference (EMBC) member states ( http://www.embo.org/embc/index.html ): Candidates from non-member states can now ap...Spring through fall, cities are greener longer than neighboring rural regions
... effect for the areas studied ripples beyond urban boundaries to create an ecological "footprint" 2.4 times greater than that of urban land use in eastern North America. Their analyses also show that changes in land surface temperatures and when vegetation first becomes green are not significantly related to ur...Dr. Brenda Milner promoted to Companion of the Order of Canada
...mory. She has used advanced technology to push the boundaries of her specialty and continues to broaden our understanding of cognitive learning, language, sensations and emotions. The recipient of prestigious international honours, most recently she was presented with the Award in Neurosciences from the Nationa...British scientists exclude 'maverick' colleagues, says report
...s shown that British scientists operated with firm boundaries between 'inside' and 'outside' and believed that controversial scientists needed to be placed outside the community so as to not gain scientific legitimacy. Swedish scientists were more inclined to ensure that all members 'have their say'. They were ...Restoring sweetgrass to the South Carolina lowcountry
...ps along the second dune line of the beach, in the boundaries between marshes and woods, and in wet savannahs. This "muhly" grass is not to be confused with the true sweet grass (Hierochloe odorata) used by Native American basket makers. Although three other plants -- palm, longleaf pine, and black rush -- are ......al cells running down the embryo's back. After the boundaries of an individual somite have been established, the cells in the border region undergo a transformation, acquiring the polarized structure and properties of epithelial cells. This results in a somite body in which an outer layer of epithelial cells s......ening in many areas of the body, especially at the boundaries of organs and tissues and bone or air cavities such as lungs and sinuses. Here, the large magnet used in NMR generates small magnetic fields that broaden the spectral lines so much that information about those fine details is lost. Wind's slow-spin t...