First Planned Release Of Captive Lemurs In Madagascar Wilds Expected In Fall
...In one notable example, actor-producer John Cleese donated the proceedsfrom the London premier of his comedy film Fierce Creatures , whichfeatured captive lemurs in addition to its human cast. Other MFG members include: Aktiengesellschaft Zoologischer in Koln, Germany;Baltimore Zoo; Brookfield (Ill.) Zoo; ...Gene Locus Found For Essential Tremor Disorder
...hout the collaborationof concerned individuals who donated their time and blood for genetic studies." The NINDS, one of the National Institutes of Health located in Bethesda,Maryland, is the nation?s leading supporter of research on the brain and nervoussystem and a lead agency for the Congressionally design...Duke Lemurs Are Released In Madagascar
...In one notable example, actor-producer John Cleese donated the proceedsfrom the London premier of his comedy film Fierce Creatures, which featuredcaptive lemurs in addition to its human cast. Other MFG members include: Aktiengesellschaft Zoologischer in Koln, Germany;Baltimore Zoo; Brookfield (Ill.) Zoo; Ci...NASA Using Space Incubator To Understand Breast Cancer
... a cell repository from noncancerous breast tissue donated by a young woman carrying a single defective ATM gene. The debilitating syndrome ataxia-telangiectasia (A-T) results when both of the two ATM genes normally present in the body become defective. These A-T individuals have about a 100-fold increased r...Wisconsin Scientists Culture Elusive Embryonic Stem Cells
...ool'sdepartment of obstetrics and gynecology, were donated specifically for thisproject with the informed, written consent of the patients. Thomson's team established five independent cell lines and has been able to growthem indefinitely in culture. They have observed the cells to differentiate intothe thre...New Technology Turns French Fry Oil Into Diesel Fuel
...nosar's research was done with used french fry oil donated bythe J.R. Simplot Co. For Simplot and other food processors, the large volumes ofused vegetable oils is a real liability. Transporting the oil to landfills or"yellow oil" markets is expensive, so the prospect of turning a waste productinto fuel to ...Baby Grain Bins Help Purdue Researchers Tackle Big Problems
...tion and Research Center a reality. CTB Brock Bins donated themini-bins. Farm Fans of Indianapolis contributed a new continuous flow dryer.Other companies provided fans, computer hardware and software. The bins, built in parallel rows of eight, have catwalks that provide easyaccess to the stored grain. P...Aging Vehicle Fleet Polluting The Air
...le tests in its newdynamometer lab, which is being donated to Georgia Tech this spring by AtlantaGas Light Company. There, researchers determine when and why vehicles releasehigh and low amounts of emissions. This detailed information complements theless detailed data gathered in remote sensing studies. Rese...Researchers Find Protein Abnormality Associated With Alzheimer's Disease
...h were performed on post-mortem brain tissue donated to the Brown University Brain Bank. The study was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health....Discovery of new bird species in China, oldest beak shows evolution complexity
...f a lake innortheast China's Liaoning Province and donated it to the Beijing institute. Itis a smaller but close relative of Confuciusornis sanctus, another crow-likebird of the same age the researchers found and reported in Nature in 1995. Because hundreds of specimens of C. sanctus now have been fo...When is a pollinator not a pollinator? Tales from an insect crime scene...
... The researchers found that highly-robbed flowers donated and received fewer dyeparticles. This meant that less pollen transfer was occurring among those plantswhich were visited often by nectar robbers. "The most probable explanation for the reduced fitness of nectar-robbed scarletgilia is that these plan...Two-for-one special: industrial enzymes and food
...harmaceuticals is much safer and cheaper thanusing donated blood or mammalian cells to treathemophiliacs or wounds. See related news release at /www.pnl.gov/news/news.htm......chnology (HRT) announced Monday (today)that it has donated patent and other intellectual property rights for its aramidcut resistant fiber technology to Clemson University's Center for AdvancedEngineering Fibers and Films (CAEFF). The donation is valued at $12 million. Hoechst developed the technolo...Electronic dental anesthesia helps allay needle injection pain
...hildren." The 3M company donated the EDA device. Wilson co-authored the study with Luz de LourdesMolina, a dentist in Reno, Nev.; James Preisch, an assistantclinical professor of pediatric dentistry at Ohio ..."Remote control research" a first for the U of L and National Research Council
...ematics and Computer Science Department generously donated a computer work station which was used in my lab to link with the remote NMR workstation, and Jeff Oliver of Information Technology worked on establishing fast and secure links over the internet." At the NRC node, Dr. Jarrell loaded the NMR samples, ...The genetics of aging: New study says cell division errors may be the common link
...studied gene regulation in actively dividing cells donated from young, middle and old age patients and those with progeria, a rare genetic disorder characterized by accelerated aging. The authors note that 61 of more than 6000 genes studied showed consistent changes more than two fold from young to middle a...UNC-CH bus brings mobile lab, high-tech science focus to underserved N.C. schools
...ss Internet access via satellite, laptop computers donated by IBM Corp., gel electrophoresis apparatus for separating proteins and DNA, a thermocycler for polymerase chain reaction experiments and incubators. Other items include spectrophotometers for finding the quantity of protein in a solution, a special ...Fox Chase Cancer Center molecular biologist named V Foundation Scholar
...rch 13th through the 26th, Papa John's restaurants donated $1 for every "Works" pizza sold in participating restaurants in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. The donations contributed to Dominique Broccoli's V Foundation award. Broccoli's research focuses on telomeres which are associated with ce...New fertility technique to help women have own genetic baby from donor egg
...atment technique may one day help some women using donated eggs to have a baby that would carry nearly all he...their 'clean' method of using the cytoplasm of the donated egg and transferring the patient's nucleus overcomes potential problems that could arise from accide...Discovery of fossil mollusks in Alaska links histories of Arctic Ocean and Isthmus of Panama
...aska in the 1970's, not knowing what they were and donated them to the California Academy of Sciences, where I recognized them 25 years later," Marincovich said. "I was going through the collections with another topic in mind when I saw them and had my 'Eureka moment,' when I knew they were the first databl...