Restoring sweetgrass to the South Carolina lowcountry
Coiled baskets made from sweetgrass have been an important source of income for the Gullah community around Charleston, South Carolina for over a century. Descendants of West African slaves, Gullah artisans now find a comfortable livelihood threatened by dwindling supplies of the native grass they have long used to make baskets. ......In 2002, the USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station (S...Forest preservation work turns to Carolina hemlock
More than two decades ago, forestry researchers at North Carolina State University began the important work of conserving the genetic stock of Mexican and Central American coniferous forests by collecting seeds from stands of trees, and preserving genetic diversity through stockpiles of seeds stored at NC State and conservation plantings grown at other locations around the world....... Known as t...Virginia Tech and North Carolina State University to run Forest Nutrition Research Cooperative
Blacksburg, Va. -- Virginia Tech's department of forestry in the College of Natural Resources and the department of forestry at North Carolina State University have formed a partnership to jointly run the Forest Nutrition Research Cooperative. Thomas Fox, associate professor of forestry at Virginia Tech', and H. Lee Allen, professor of forestry from NCSU, are co-directors. ... ...The Forest Nut...North Carolina chemist receives award for developing new process to make HIV drug
Chemist Brian L. Bray, Ph.D., of Trimeris, Inc., in Durham, N.C., will be honored September 24 by the worlds largest scientific society for developing an innovative way to make large quantities of a complex drug used to fight HIV. He will receive one of four 2001 Industrial Innovation Awards at the American Chemical Societys Southeast regional meeting in Savannah, Ga.... ...The innovative process...University of North Carolina chemist wins national award for natural products research
Chemist Michael T. Crimmins of Durham, N.C., will be honored August 28 by the worlds largest scientific society for developing laboratory methods to make molecules from nature that exhibit anti-tumor activity and other potentially useful properties. He will receive the 2001 Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award from the American Chemical Society at its national meeting in Chicago....... Crimmins research...WASHINGTON, D.C., June 25 - A Louisiana researcher and companies in Washington, Pennsylvania and North Carolina were honored here today by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for using creative chemistry to improve the environment.... ...The Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge awards have been presented annually since 1996 to recognize businesses and individuals who have discovered innova...Report: auto accidents involving deer still increasing across North Carolina
. CHAPEL HILL - Automobile accidents involving deer across North Carolina increased from 11,503 in 1998 to 12,233 last year, according to a new University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill study. . Deer caused 5.6 percent of all reported N.C. driving accidents in 1999, up from 5.4 percent the previous year, the analysis of all N.C. motor vehicle crash records showed. Reported mishaps involv...Carolina scientists the first to identify and purify liver stem cells
. A milestone for future liver regeneration via cellular .therapy . CHAPEL HILL - After studies spanning more than a decade, .scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have .become the first to identify and purify hepatic stem cells, .progenitor cells capable of regenerating liver and bile duct tissue. . The accomplishment marks a milestone for future liver .regeneration th...USGS finds West Nile Virus in North Carolina crow
. . Scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey in Madison, Wisc., confirmed today that a dead crow, found in Chatham County, N.C., near the town of Moncure died of the West Nile Virus. The finding marks the farthest south the virus has been identified. Moncure is about 40 miles southwest of Raleigh.. . North Carolina health officials announced the finding on Friday, October 20, 2000. Th...... CHAPEL HILL - A tumor-suppressor gene involved in breast and ovarian...cancer susceptibility plays a central role in one of the body's most important...mechanisms for repairing DNA when that genetic material becomes damaged,...University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers have discovered. ... Using specially altered mouse embryo cells deficient in the gene BRCA1,...th...Detective Work Uncovers New Tick-Borne Disease In North Carolina And The Southeast
DURHAM, N.C. -- Kathryn Kirkland spent two years in the woods of North.Carolina on the trail of an elusive, blood-sucking pest, dubbed Lone Star,.that left rashes on the skin of its victims and anxiety in their minds. . But due to her slick detective work on ticks, Kirkland has determined.that people who live in the southeastern states aren't contracting Lyme.Disease, as was suspected, but somet...