Virginia Bioinformatics Institute researcher advances fight against sudden oak death disease
...e trunk's circumference and cuts off food supplies coming to the roots from the leaves, eventually killing the roots. Thus, the tree's death begins with the roots, causing the upper tree trunk, bark, limbs and leaves to die from lack of water. The genome sequence of P. ramorum will help researchers develop...UF researcher: New low-carb potato to debut in January
...crop of fresh, low-carb potatoes from Florida this coming January."...Researchers report major advance in gene therapy technique
...rapy in Minneapolis, and a report will appear in a coming issue of Molecular Therapy. The research has exciting near-term implications for muscle and blood vessel disorders in particular. Duchenne's muscular dystrophy, for example, is a genetic disease characterized by a lack of muscle-maintaining protein...Margaret Foti to be honored for significant contributions to cancer care
...ceive this award, which is all the more meaningful coming from ASCO," Foti said. "ASCO is one of our most valued and long-term collaborators in strengthening cancer education and communication. Our close relationship has become increasingly important in this modern era of translational cancer research and...Temple virologist receives NIH grant to continue investigation of HIV dementia complex
... prevent their expansion," he adds. "We're really coming at this from a different angle, in that we're looking at the invasion of these cells into the brain. This approach could lead to looking at different therapies other than conventional anti-retroviral drugs."...Ecological science for a crowded planet
...rding to President-Elect Jerry Melillo. Over the coming months, he and other Governing Board members will further discuss the action plan and will decide which specific actions the Society should immediately implement. These will be announced during ESA's Annual Meeting in August 2004. "I am personally...UC Riverside professor to spend year with US State Department
...welcomed the inaugural class of fellows. "Over the coming year, these five individuals will be our scientific advisors and educators," Powell said in published remarks. "They'll bring fresh ideas and new perspectives to America's foreign policy. But these scientists will also get, I believe, a good deal in ...Mysterious beach closures may be linked to contaminated groundwater, study finds
... that high-radium groundwater from the aquifer was coming to the surface and mixing with low-radium seawater...ne if bacteria and nitrates in the groundwater are coming from the restrooms or another source. ''If there's a broken or leaky sewage pipe, we can flush dye d...Stem cells toward sperm cells and back again
...k on," says Matunis. "So, the stem cells had to be coming from some other cell type within the testis." These testes looked different, too, she says. Ones that had regained stem cells now lacked spermatogonia, and the raspberry-like cluster of stem cells essentially touched the spermatocytes in the research...Embryonic stem cell - based tissue engineering may help repair damaged heart muscle
...into the infracted heart, according to a new study coming out in June in the Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation. In the study, embryonic stem cells were more successful in restoring heart muscle when transplanted within a 3-dimensional matrix into damaged hearts in an animal model of severe infarctio...Technique plucks rapidly evolving genes from a pathogen's genome
...ed to change or pressured to stay the same. "We're coming out with a similar end result - knowing what kinds of evolutionary pressures are on different genes - but we can do it with just a single genome sequence, instead of lining up genes from different genomes and comparing sequences." Fraser works in the...Protein-centric drug development and functional glycomics enrich biopharmaceuticals pipeline
...al trials, few are likely to hit the market in the coming years," says Rao. "Hence, raising the demand for production capacity at least by four times more than the existing capacity. This may be essential to maintain the demand-supply equilibrium." This creates an urgent need for alternate manufacturin...High profile publications in biology and biochemistry on rise at UH
... UH's general research success, the citation power coming out of biology and biochemistry is almost entirely internal to the department. Operating on a philosophy that advocates teamwork and collaboration, UH professors in this field treasure the fact that they will have good colleagues right next door and...U.S. President's budget proposal means 5-year cuts 'well below historic levels'
...ications for the pace of scientific discoveries in coming years," added Al Teich, AAAS's director of science and policy program. Koizumi will present a detailed analysis of the President's FY 2005 budget at the 29th Annual AAAS Science and Technology Policy Forum in Washington, D.C. While the proposed budg...Bye-bye Bio 101: Teach science the way you do science
...'s working. But widespread reform has been slow in coming because many scientists are unaware of data that demonstrate the effectiveness of that approach, the authors of the Science article say. Some feel intimidated by the challenge of learning new teaching methods or fear that focusing on teaching will hu...Clemson dedicates biotech research complex
...ch building, and science and business leaders are coming to learn about what the university and the Upstate have to offer. The keynote speech will be given by one of the nation's leading scientists. On April 22 at 11 a.m., Clemson officially welcomes the world to its Biosystems Research Complex. The uni...The Hunter's Breath tells a story of adventure and discovery in Antarctica
... such an exciting project and the discoveries were coming so quickly, it just seemed like one of those grand adventures that people would appreciate," Williams said. The project's popular appeal was brought home to Williams when she launched a web site for the 2001 expedition, posting weekly r...Mantis shrimp may have swiftest kick in the animal kingdom
... the same stick-and-slip manner of a violin. Since coming to UC Berkeley, Patek has investigated other animals, including the mantis shrimp, Caldwell's main interest. She and her colleagues attempted to videotape the shrimp's feeding strikes, but they found that the animals moved faster than their video sys...New book urges ecologists to think 'outside the helmet'
... drought is the cause of high mosquito populations coming out of wetlands in the following year. This is because some wetlands, which are the home to mosquito larvae, dry during drought years, drastically reducing mosquito predators-- from fish to water beetles--and competitor species such as snails, tadpo......s trapping at 37 percent; with using trailing dogs coming in a distant third at 10 percent. The average spent by the respondents trying to manage and control feral hogs was $1,036. "Many landowners hate the thought of feral hogs on their properties because of crop andranch facility damage, livestock depre...