Want a side of algae with that? Hawaiian farmers sell seaweed by the seashore
...ve Tucsonan Edward Glenn to Hawaii, what keeps him going back is his life-long interest in marine agronomy. Now, instead of hanging out in the waves, Glenn spends his time on the leeward side of the island of Molokai, working with the local community on sustainable aquaculture projects for the ancient fish...Rare ant may help solve some mysteries of social evolution
...on host species, Leptothorax curvispinosus. "We're going to look at the impact each parasite has on the host," Herbers said, adding that each species will be housed in separate plastic boxes. A filter paper bridge will connect boxes of parasitic ants to boxes of host ants. The researchers will also put the...'Elves' makes protein crystallography easier
... that fail to produce good structural data. "I'm going through about six terabytes of data to look for patterns," Holton said. "I think that the basic problem is the crystal. If I can find a way to reliably establish when the crystal isn't good enough, researchers can focus on making a better crystal rat......nt this will soon become available, but instead of going to Vietnam it will be sent to rich countries to fulfil existing contracts. And researchers who have created vaccines that might save us if the bird flu does start spreading between people are unsure how to proceed without falling foul of patent right...Understanding urinary tract infections
...complex genetic circuitry involved here that we're going to have to start thinking about this like electrical engineers," Hultgren says. "But the more we can understand this network, the better our chances of figuring out ways to interrupt it."...New study finds evolutionary diversification in Hawaiian spiders
...ot in the community first," said Gillespie. "Is it going to be a similar type from another island by immigration, or a different type from the same island by evolutionary change and adaptation?" One of the most interesting outcomes of the study was that the mountain with the highest diversity of spide...Researchers develop model to help control West Nile outbreak
...s. "This virus is endemic and we're probably never going to get rid of it completely unless we say that we're going to kill all the mosquitoes in the world--that's not going to happen," said Wonham. "What this work d...Climate change may threaten more than one million species with extinction
...n strategies that recognize that climate change is going to affect entire ecosystems, and therefore have to prepare effective conservation measures immediately." For this study, CABS at CI worked with the National Botanical Institute of South Africa to model more than 300 plant species in South Africa's Ca...Purdue engineers develop quick, inexpensive method to prototype microchips
...o make and that can be manufactured in any lab are going to speed up the rate of research." Mosier said, "The capability for rapid prototyping and working out design considerations before the manufacturing step is important to any development, from the micro-scale on up. "It's always very difficult to ...New book explains plants, medicine
...erian, for instance --are additive. And if you're going herbal to lose those 15 extra holiday pounds, the book makes clear that you should avoid sparteine-containing herbal treatments for slimming and diabetes control. The authors say that these treatments have been associated with instances of circulator...Science paper: Overharvesting of Brazil nuts leading to fewer trees
...message: If you collect too many seeds, you're not going to have seedlings," said Karen Kainer, who has a joint appointment as an assistant professor with UF's Center for Latin American Studies' tropical conservation and development program and the School of Forest Resources and Conservation. Avecita Chic...'HapMap' scientists provide detailed plans
... intense from a DNA analysis perspective, but it's going to make the next round of studies much easier to d...the sequence information from all these samples is going to require new mathematical and computing methods," says Chakravarti. "So while the sequences and ge...Non-lethal methods can resolve conflicts between bears and humans
...k bear from taking out the backyard bird feeder or going through your garbage? Play the sound of a helicopter, or flash a strobe light, say scientists from the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and other organizations, who tested several non-lethal techniques to minimize conflicts between...Alcoholics with antisocial personality disorder have blunted emotional reactivity
... behavior to avoid such outcomes. So, how are you going to provide treatment to antisocial alcoholics?" Future studies, he added, need to focus on "children who show evidence of behavioral problems but have yet to develop alcohol problems. We also need to understand what impact their environments may ha...Pest control breakthrough from a spider's stomach
... of chemicals, so encouraging natural predators is going to become even more important."...NASA learning to monitor coral reef health from the sky
.... "Instead of taking the top-down approach, we are going from the bottom up to the airplane, and later to satellite-sensing of coral health," Guild said. "Ultimately, we plan to fly 'hyperspectral' instruments,containing many detectors that collect information in the visible light range," Guild expl...American black cherry tree overruns Europe by playing dirty
...eport. "We are told some Dutch school children are going out on field trips into the woods to pull the tree seedlings and saplings out." The research team examined the distribution of black cherry trees in four locations -- the Indiana University Research and Teaching Preserve and Griffy Lake Nature Preser...Expedition will retrace legendary Steinbeck-Ricketts voyage to the Sea of Cortez
... Baja Peninsula. ''There's a lot of great research going on in Mexico, and bringing those scientists on boa...a leg at a time, and exchanging ideas with them is going to be really exciting,'' Gilly says. ''When Gilly invited me to come along, he told me he wanted to ...Genetic info of cloned pigs may help babies before birth
...n IUGR. "We're looking for clinical markers. We're going to study these candidate genes very carefully, with the hope that we can identify clinical markers that the doctors can actually use to predict which patients are susceptible to having a baby with IUGR," he said. "If you happen to know that the woman...With optical 'tweezers,' researchers pinpoint the rhythmic rigidity of cell skeletons
...ly completed a Ph.D. in physics at Harvard, and is going to Stanford to become a research scientist in biophysics....