$62-million partnership to revolutionize ocean research
...lable to scientists." Traditional methods of ocean exploration use ships to study the oceans over short periods of time, offering glimpses of what is going on beneath the waves. The NEPTUNE Project will provide information and images from the ocean depths 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for the next 30 years ...The American Geological Institute's Distinguished Service Award to be presented to Edward C. Roy Jr.
...., who advanced the use of geophysics in petroleum exploration and in geologic research worldwide. Recipients of this award are measured against his exemplary career....Dartmouth study advances prion disease research
...biochemistry and of medicine, opens new avenues of exploration for diagnosis and treatment of a perplexing group of neurodegenerative disorders called prion diseases. Prions lack RNA or DNA, the nucleic acids that contain genetic information to replicate. No one knows what spurs conversion of a normal prion prot...Launch of Ariadna to boost advanced space research in Europe
...l research into fundamental physical phenomena and exploration of their technological implications in subjects such as gravitational physics and quantum mechanics. Advanced power systems: Research looking beyond photovoltaic systems (solar cells) into power systems for future space missions. This includes inv...Rutgers targets Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan with $3.5 million from NIH
...sts accompanying Raskin on this major biodiversity exploration designed to improve human health, protect natural resources and benefit the economies of the host countries. Rutgers' International Cooperative Biodiversity Groups (ICBG) Central Asia Program is rooted in existing collaborations with scientists in Uz...National Science Foundation announces $14M planetary biodiversity inventory awards
...y have the potential to transform how biodiversity exploration is done and will train a new generation of experts, complement existing research programs and make thousands of species newly available for scientific study," said Quentin Wheeler, director of NSF's division of environmental biology, which funds the ...Exploring oil rigs and an ancient shoreline in the Gulf Of Mexico for new disease cures
... as to document the Gulf's rich biodiversity. This exploration will focus on hard bottom areas of the Gulf seafloor. These include pinnacles of Lophelia coral that jut up to 500 feet from the sea floor in some areas, coldwater seeps where oil and gas bubble up from the bottom to support unique organisms, and sin...Fishing for photos of rare or unknown deep-sea creatures with an electronic jellyfish lure
...cientific deficiency stems from not only a lack of exploration and study of the oceans, but also from less than ideal traditional research methods. Deep-towed nets can shred animals like jellyfish or damage captured animals to the point that their natural behaviors cannot be observed in the lab. Manned submersib...UT Southwestern gets new cryo-electron microscope
...ern is an unprecedented opportunity for scientific exploration in such areas as basic cell biology, cellular aging and death, Alzheimer's disease, spinal-cord injuries, cancer, diabetes, obesity and cholesterol metabolism. Specifically, scientists can learn how viruses like herpes simplex virus type I (which cau...Energy companies, conservation groups issue biodiversity recommendations for oil & gas development
...e entire lifecycle of oil and gas operations, from exploration to decommissioning. The report and supporting pro...grating biodiversity conservation into oil and gas exploration and production and gas processing activities, the Energy and Biodiversity Initiative report makes tw...Researchers identify key molecular signal in plant pollination
...ance signal represents only the beginning of their exploration of the pollen-tube guidance control machinery. For example, she said, to gain further insight into the machinery, the researchers are analyzing other mutants affecting pollen tube growth, as well as the reproductive metabolic changes in the tissues a...NASA biotechnology activities enhancing quality of life
...v For information about NASA and commercial space exploration on the Internet, visit: http://www.nasa.gov For information about the Space Product Development Program, visit: http://www.spd.nasa.gov For information about the BIO 2003 Conference, visit: http://bio.org/events/2003 To download photographs to ac...UC Riverside research featured on the cover of JALA
...velopment of novel biomedical microdevices and the exploration of engineering principles in the field of bio-photonics and bio-MEMS. Other co-authors of the UC Riverside papers in the April, 2003, issue of JALA are Cengiz Ozkan, Shalini Prasad, Mo Yang and Xuan Zhang. Vladimir Parpura and Yingchun Ni of the dep...First soybeans grown in space similar to Earth-grown crops
...rever it is." DuPont has a rich tradition of space exploration initiatives, dating to NASA's origination 33 years ago. For example, when Neil Armstrong walked on the moon in 1969, his spacesuit included 25 separate layers 23 of those layers were DuPont materials. In 1984, Pioneer corn seeds were on board a Ch...Science Picks-Leads, Feeds and Story Seeds (June 2003)
... and their moons and to plan and conduct planetary exploration missions. In the process, USGS has produced an amazing collection of images, maps, and animations that are just out of this world! Check it out at http://astrogeology.usgs.gov. A.B. Wade, abwade@usgs.gov , 703-648-4460. STORY SEEDS Independence...Scientists develop new RNAi knockdown technology
... alternative to traditional mouse knockouts in the exploration of gene function....Scientists discover key gene in artery formation
...uthors expect to be a valuable tool in the further exploration of this developmental pathway. "I think an important implication of this work is that the signals that drive this process appear to be the same in fish and mammals. For that reason we think it is likely that what we learn about zebrafish blood vesse...Pattern recognition method zeroes in on genes that regulate cell's genetic machinery
...oup has developed the GeneXPress visualization and exploration tool, freely available on the web. "Knowing the control mechanism for gene clusters is crucial for understanding how cells respond to internal and external signals," said team member David Botstein, a professor of genetics at Stanford. "This new comp...Obesity prevention program aimed at second graders
...pologist occurred. A field trip allowed the active exploration of interactive exhibits at the Hall of Life in the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. Baseline and year-end assessments were obtained through measuring body mass index (BMI), waist circumference, health and science (nutrition, food and physical ac...Carnegie Mellon, NASA to develop robot illustrating how to seek life on distant planets
...n. "We'll operate under the constraints of Martian exploration in order to better develop procedures for seeking ...e rover and assess the validity of astrobiological exploration strategies that will be used in the 2004 and 2005 field campaigns and on future missions to search f...