New comprehensive textbook on companion animals fills need
...the folks involved in compiling it," he said. Each chapter on the various animals included in the book covers biology and behavior, husbandry, common diseases and zooneses. There are sections on companion animal health, toxicological hazards, diagnostic techniques, therapeutic approaches, feeding and nutrit...New textbook introduces students to the foundations, applications of nanotechnology
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... Clinical Microbiology and as a section editor and chapter editor of ASM Press's Manual of Clinical Microbiology. A graduate of Northwestern University with a B.A. in biology, Forbes received her Ph.D. in medical microbiology and immunology from the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in Okla...Solving the mystery of the dancer mice, and cleft lip too
...ms and is now faculty adviser to a medical student chapter of the group. This Sunday, May 2, at 10 a.m., students in the School of Medicine & Dentistry are holding a 5K run in Genesee Valley Park as a fundraiser for Operation Smile....Chestnut trees to spread across landscape again, says Purdue scientist
...ation Center at Purdue and director of the Indiana chapter of the American Chestnut Foundation, studies how well American chestnut trees grow in plantations, research essential to future reintroduction plans. He also is developing a blight-resistant hybrid to be used in future planting projects. In a pap...Out-of-balance ecosystems play role in demise of amphibian populations
...hed in 2003 and another that will appear as a book chapter this year -- dramatically refine the data on paras... Illinois cricket frogs will appear this year as a chapter of "The Status and Conservation of United States Amphibians," a book edited by Michael Lannoo of the...JCI table of contents, February 2, 2004
...ess, and mitochondrial function: another worrisome chapter on the effects of organic nitratesAUTHOR CONTACT: John D. Parker Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Phone: (416) 586-4794 Fax: (416) 586-8413 E-mail: jdp@ca.inter.net View the PDF of this commentary at: https://www.the-jci.org/press/2...Protein data bank opens new era with broader support
...he National Science Foundation announced today.The chapter opens following a new international agreementannounced last month to pool and coordinate the deposit ofmolecular structure data globally. Mary Clutter, assistant director for NSF's Directorate forBiological Sciences, said, "The Protein Data Bank is ...Three genes linked to psoriasis susceptibility identified on chromosome 17
..."This is an exciting breakthrough that opens a new chapter in our quest to unlock the secrets of psoriasis," said Gail Zimmerman, president and CEO of the National Psoriasis Foundation. "We are clearly making great progress in understanding the complex genetic underpinnings of this often debilitating disease...Setting the evolutionary record straight
...ched in the middle of the second volume is a whole chapter on the selection theory. It supplements an earlier discovery of a similar account in an unpublished manuscript by Hutton, the Elements of Agriculture. In the Nature article, Professor Pearson explains how Hutton's experiments in animal and plant bree...Baboon fathers really do care about their kids
...nds the project. It is, Brockmann said, the latest chapter in an ongoing 31-year study that has followed six generations from 11 baboon troops, representing more than 1,000 individuals. By developing innovative, non-invasive ways to collect hormonal and genetic data, and by developing a shared database of be...Born shy, always shy? Temperamental differences may last throughout life, brain study suggests
...ience," he said. The Science study is the latest chapter in a long-term study of child development. Jerome Kagan of Harvard University (also a co-author on the current study) and colleagues initially categorized a large group of children, around age two, as inhibited or uninhibited. Schwartz's team then st...$2.48 million to advance research on multiple sclerosis
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...these three research teams have thus written a new chapter in our understanding of gene control, and are arguably among the most significant biomedical research papers published in 2001." In studies of the worm, C. elegans, for example, Rosalind C. Lee and Victor Ambros of Dartmouth were able to clone and ve......ovulation. The current work is actually the second chapter of a story that started several years ago when Michael A. Miller, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow in Greenstein's laboratory, began searching for the signal that lets worm eggs know it's time to mature and be ovulated. In most animals, including worms a...Newer methods added, scope expanded in new Methods of Soil Analysis Book
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