'BirdSource' Website For Citizen-Science Data
... Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology is a membership institute for the study, appreciation and conservation of birds worldwide. The Lab maintains programs in academic research, public education and citizen science to foster understanding about nature and the importance of earth's biological diversity. The Lab ...Pharmaceuticals Manufactured In Insect Larvae
...oyce Thompson in Yonkers, N.Y. The purpose of the institute was to find ways to meet the food and health needs of an increasing world population. BTI moved to the Cornell campus in 1978....Scientists Invent Faster Gene Function Identification System
...hnology Institute is abiomedical/genetics research institute funded in part by the Ohio Department ofDevelopment's Thomas Edison Program, a project designed to promote economicdevelopment in Ohio. Co-authors of this new study are Yuefeng Xie, a graduate student inmolecular and cellular biology, and Xia...Hultgren Receives Prestigious Eli Lilly Award
...belFellowship, awarded by the Nobel Committee. The institute is located in theKarolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. And on April 16, the Academy ofScience of St. Louis will give Hultgren the 1998 Innovation Award. The award ispresented to a scientist under age 40 who exhibits great potential andaccomplish...Perkin-Elmer, Dr. J. Craig Venter, And TIGR Announce Formation Of New Genomics Company
...ille, MD is an independent, not-for-profitresearch institute founded in 1992 by Dr. Venter that employs 170 facultyand staff. TIGR has interest in structural, functional and comparative analysisof genome and gene products in viruses, eubacteria, pathogenic bacteria,archaea, and eukaryotes, both plant and anima...Fetal Lead Exposure May Reduce Immunity
...el engine fumes. Studies at the Cornell toxicology institute and the university's veterinary college used Fischer 334 rats, a standard animal model for human cancer studies. The pregnant rats were given drinking water containing lead acetate. The amount of lead was comparable, given the rats' lower body weig...ASU Scientists Join NASA Astrobiology Institute
...r Astrobiology and Information Technology. The new institute will useNext Generation Internet (NGI) and advance...cilitate the development of a variety of "virtual" institute activities to advanceresearch and education in astrobiology. Budget negotiations have not been...HIV Infected Adults In UCSF Study Show Evidence Of Thymus Activity
...epidemiology and biostatistics, the UCSF ARI is an institute without walls thatencompasses all UCSF AIDS programs under a single umbrella. The ARI includes adozen research institutes, a wide range of clinical, behavioral science, andpolicy programs, and nearly 1,000 investigators.......toaction." Working with colleagues at the institute and at the US Naval ResearchLaboratory in Washington DC, Jones has screened 10 species of luminous bacteriafrom fish and marine mammals. One of the most promising is Photobacteriumphosphoreum HE-1a, isolated from the deep-sea fish Paratrachichthys pr...Drunken Fruit Flies Reveal Molecular Pathway Regulating Sensitivity To Alcohol
...enter, whichincludes the Gallo Center, is the only institute in the world using Drosophilaas a system for studying the genetics of alcoholism.The UCSF study was funded by grants from National Institute on Alcohol Abuse andAlcoholism (NIAAA), the Alcoholic Beverage Medical Research Foundation and theMarch of Di...Hopkins Study Shows High Prevalence Of Domestic Violence
...pbell's work has led the Johns Hopkins Hospital to institute adomestic violence screening protocol for its female emergency departmentpatients.......ge of environmental problems." Altogether, the new institute brings together some 50 senior researchers withbac...died by the process-oriented groups. Stair expects institute researchers to be heavy users of Argonne's AdvancedPhoton Source, which is capable of producing the ...Vaccine Technology Takes Center Stage In Rochester
... technology is at the centerpiece of anew research institute - and whose scientists created the vaccinethat has nearly wiped out one form of childhood meningitis thisdecade. More than 150 physicians, public health officials andresearch scientists will discuss everything from recentdiscoveries in biotechno......y and the Hastings Center,a research and education institute for bioethics, will host a conference toexplore the biological, political, and ethical dimensions of this proposal. Theconference will take place October 21-23,1998, starting at 8:00 a.m. The conference will feature keynote addresses by the Museum's......GladstoneInstitutes, a private biomedical research institute affiliated with UCSF andnamed for a prominent real estate developer who died in 1971. His will createda testamentary trust that reflects his long-standing personal interest inmedical education....Major Clinical Findings By California AIDS Team: HIV Does More Than Kill Off T Cells
...ladstone Institutes, a private biomedical research institute affiliatedwith UCSF and named for a prominent real estate developer who died in 1971. Hiswill created a testamentary trust that reflects his long-standing interest inmedical education and research....Vanderbilt University Medical Center Forms Institute For Coffee Studies
...Studies within the VanderbiltAddiction Center. The institute will be dedicated to studying the chemicalnature of coffee, with an initial research focus on how coffee affects the brainand whether coffee can be used to treat depression and to prevent relapse inpatients who have successfully undergone alcoholism ...Growth hormone involved in diabetic kidney disease, study finds
...ventor Wen Chen, a former seniorscientist with the institute now with Clemson University, discovered that byreplacing the amino acid glycine -- number 119 in the chain in animals and 120in humans -- with almost any other amino acid, the growth hormone turns from agrowth hormone agonist, or enhancer, to a growt......-year research program and a two-yearreview by the institute and by outside scientists. For the effort, Congressappropriated $23 million that the electrical industry matched. The industryhad no control over what research was conducted. The funds were administered bythe Department of Energy and a portion was......iversity of FloridaGenetics Institute. The institute may be unknown to some, but the initiative involve...f thevastly different fields of study the genetics institute is bringing together.Consider some of the founding members' disciplines: pediatrics, horticulturalsc...