Fruit-Eating Birds Discovered Crucial To Rainforest Survival
...n Whitney, who led the seed dispersal studies as a graduate student atSan Francisco State. "But this research ...rly Holbrook, Donald Stauffer, BrittaHardesty, all graduate students at SFSU, and V. Thomas Parker, professor ofbiology at SFSU. The research is funded by th......Lineberger Comprehensive CancerCenter, authors are graduate student Lori Gowen, technicians Anna V. Avrutskayaand Anne M. Latour and Dr. Beverly H. Koller, research assistant professor ofmedicine. Leadon said his laboratory has studied transcription-coupled repair formore than a decade. In that proces...Chemical Reaction Believed To Support Underground Microbes Is Now Unlikely
... Lovley andcollaborators Robert Anderson, U. Mass. graduate student, and Francis Chapelle,a hydrologist at the U.S. Geological Survey in South Carolina, suggest that themicroorganisms are probably living on organic matter associated with the rock,not hydrogen. This is similar to the way that microorganisms g......ing technologist, a woman scientist, and a Purdue graduate who for family reasons had never left Purdue after receiving her Ph.D." Geneticist Zhengdao Chen and technician Adam Brainard, members of Ho's research group, also contributed to the development of the yeast. In 1993, Amoco Corp. licensed...New Environmental Monitoring System To Reduce Costs And Improve Efficiency
...tlanta-based PhotonicSensor Systems Inc., a recent graduate of Georgia Tech's AdvancedTechnology Development Center, a business incubator for high-techcompanies. Photonic Sensor Systems is also a member of the Department ofDefense (DOD) funded E-SMART research team, and GTRI is itssubcontractor for the projec......or ofinternal medicine; cell and molecular biology graduate student Hai Wu; andinternal medicine researcher scientists Caroline Humphries and John Shelton.Williams also holds the James T. Willerson, M.D., Distinguished Chair inCardiovascular Diseases. Grants from the Dallas Sweetheart Ball and the National In...Better Golf Course Chemical Management Possible With "Kturf" Website
...ed had leachedbelow the turf root zone. Starrett's graduate research was supported by the green section of the UnitedStates Golf Association. He now has a five-year $118,000 grant from them toinvestigate nutrient runoff from a new championship golf course, Colbert Hills,being developed in Manhattan, Kan. Prep...Study Demonstrates High Conservation Potential Of Logged Rainforest
...cades." Since 1994, Cannon has been a Duke graduate student pursuing a Ph.D. insystematics, an older academic field of plant and animal classification that hasrecently been revitalized by the tools of molecular biology....Secrets Of The S.O.S Repair Service
... Institute's Biological Chemistry Department, with graduate students Nina Reuven and Guy Tomer, reconstructed ...world's foremost enters of scientific research and graduate study. Its 2,500 scientists, students, technicians, and engineers pursue basic research in the ques...Bioreactor Grows Cells That Produce Possible Anti-Cancer Protein
...mally use to culture cells. Yang and two of his graduate students, Chunnuan Chen and Yu Liang Huang, presented the results of this work August 26 at the 216th national meeting of the American Chemical Society in Boston. The FBB contains a forest of microscopic polyester fibers that anchor li...UV Skin Damage In A Different Light
...n D. Simon (who is now at Duke University), andhis graduate student Kerry Hanson (who is now a postdoctoral fellow at theUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). The sun's harmful rays come in two flavors: ultraviolet A and ultraviolet B. Evidence mounts that ultraviolet A and B both play a role in causi...New Device Brightens Recycling Efforts
... teacher and a better manager of resources for my graduate students." Purdue undergraduates also have benefited from the university's connection with SpectraCode. Last semester, chemistry major Andrew Parker of Largo, Fla., conducted an undergraduate research project at SpectraCode to develop a new ...Computer Simulation To Predict Forest Fires
... in geology at Cornell, and Gleb Morein, a Cornell graduate student, built their computer model of forest fires and analyzed data sets from a number of forests and wildfires from around the world, including Yellowstone National Park. Until 1972 Yellowstone had a policy of suppressing forest fires. This re...Researchers Grow Healthy Human Placental Cells For Drug Research
...cs and gynecology at Ohio State, and Teng Ma, a graduate student in chemical engineering, grew the placental cells artificially using a new technique developed in cooperation with Shang-Tian Yang, professor of chemical engineering. “The placenta is very important for the health of the fe...40 Percent Of Deaths Are Environmental
...ase-ecology analysis was performed by a team of 11 graduate student researchers who gathered data from a variety of sources, such as the World Health Organization (WHO) and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as well as previous studies at Cornell and other universities. Their findings...Zinc In Sludge From Spanish Reservoir Break Equals Mine's Annual Output, Researchers Find
...nt, in Palisades, N.Y.,and Zanna Chase, a Columbia graduate student, measured the amount of zinc inwater and sediments in the rivers downstream from the Los Frailes mine earlylast May. They concluded that the sludge released from the retaining pond mayhave contained as much as 120,000 tons of zinc, comparabl...New Studies Shed Light On Facial Features Of Popular Dinosaurs
...nted at the Utah conferenceinclude Michael Papp, a graduate student in geological sciences, and JaycSedlmayr, a graduate student in biological sciences, both at Ohio University. Cutline for artist's rendering: Drawing by ...Virginia Tech Scientists Studying Cells From Extreme Environments
...l involve a diverse range of researchers including graduate andundergraduate students who will be trained in the new developing area offunctional genomics. Potts says that, as part of the project, they plan todevelop a system in which robotics will be used to automate the techniques theyare developing.......cologicalServices in British Columbia and is now a graduate student in biology at UCSC,and Daniel Doak, Pepper-Giberson Associate Professor of Environmental Studies atUCSC....UCSF Finding Offers Insight Into Way Genes Regulate Aging And Life Span
...s, Javier Apfeld, a Howard Hughes MedicalInstitute graduate student in Kenyon's lab, and Kenyon conducted what is knownas a "mosaic" analysis, in which they diminished or eliminated daf-2 activity ina wide variety of cell subtypes and observed whether the alteration prompted acorresponding change in the mutat...