Undiscovered Biological Diversity: A Symposium On Bioprospecting
...(INBio) topromote biodiversity conservation and to learn to use its biodiversity toimprove the quality of human life. At the symposium, Ana Sittenfeld, head of the Bioprospecting Divisionof INBio, will discuss policy and scientific issues that INBio has dealt withover the years. Conservation in C...Surface water not always the answer to Bangladesh arsenic pollution problem
...nd if we can exploit those reasons, perhaps we can learn tore-site wells that don't have high arsenic levels near contaminated wells,eliminating the need to travel long distances for non-polluted water." Much more research, however, remains to be done, even at the most basicscientific level, emphas...Transplanted neural stem cells migrate throughout the abnormal brain, reduce disease symptoms
...e counterparts, says Dr.Snyder. They also need to learn whether the benefits shown in young animalsextend to older animals and whether transplanted cells can overcome ongoingdegenerative disease processes so that they do not become new victims of thatdegeneration. Follow-up research is also needed to bet...Stanford launches interdisciplinary initiative in the biological sciences
...ntally bump into someone in the lab or hallway and learn somethingthat changes the course of your own research.It's an experience many faculty and students share, says James Spudich,professor of biochemistry and developmental biology. "But is there a way to facilitate the accidental coming together of ind...Remarkable results from a new observatory
...llular changes in "real time" will help scientists learn howcells fight off diseases, why some cells fail t... kind of exposure. This is anotherarea we hope to learn more about," said Stokes. Pacific Northwest is one of DOE's nine multiprogram nationallabor...UCSF team identifies gene crucial to blood pressure regulation
...their study. The next step in theirresearch is to learn the factors that cause the skg gene to respond toaldosterone and if this process is affected by gene mutations in patients,according to Pearce....U-M and Israel launch major international cancer study
...people who are most susceptible, it should help us learn how todo a better job preventing colon cancer in all populations." Researchers elected to conduct the study in Israel because three differentethnic populations there have very different risks of colon cancer. Individualsof Ashkenazi Jewish descent h...Biomedical engineers working to help kids with special needs
...into the device. "The graduate students learn a lot, and I learn a lot too," Goldbergsaid. "Each project involves components I've never seen before." Ava ...Protein essential for making steroids turns out to be a "molten globule"
...stry at UCSF todetermine the structure of StAR and learn how it works. Miller credits Bose, a postdoctoral fellow with a background in physicalchemistry, for enlisting help from Baldwin, James and other UCSF experts inprotein spectroscopy to study how the StAR protein is folded into its finalshape. Most ...USGS will re-evaluate its Alaska strategy
...ntial that we take advantage of the opportunity to learn aboutthese complex systems and their interactions now. Global change poses dramaticchallenges to the Alaskan landscape and habitats. The biological resources ofthe Bering Sea and Alaska's coastal areas need further research. Changes toArctic glaci...Common genes form new family tree for animals
...s is that scientists, throughgenetic analysis, may learn something about the genes of an animal for which nofossil exists. Beyond 600 million years ago, the fossil record is skimpy atbest, and scientists have no clue as to what the common ancestor of all animalsactually looked like. "There's no fossil. Fiv...Lizards do really learn to recognize people
...ual andaudio cues don't match up. "We may actually learn something about how theseanimals recognize individuals."...Birds beware! Pinecones armed and dangerous
...prick from its sharp spines. It is interesting to learn thatbirds and other forest creatures face the same dilemma when feeding on the seedsthat these cones harbor. A new study found that pine cones, which bear theprogeny of their parent tree, have evolved highly specialized ways to ward offpredators, en...Threatened marbled murrelet first to be hatched in captivity
...ng, so they've gotthe instinct to feed. They don't learn from their parents and they're not fed bytheir parents once they've fledged, so I think Theo has a good chance ofsurvival," says Cooke. He hasn't decided yet whether to attach a radio transmitter to the bird."We're debating that. My inclinati...Researchers identify new type of potentially fatal tick-borne disease
...ut ehrlichiosis,this finding will help researchers learn more about the disease, itsrelationships to animals and ticks and how people get infected. "The wholeEhrlichia story is rapidly developing, and this is one new chapter about a veryimportant emerging infection," Storch said....H.pylori bacteria and their human hosts
...n, scientists know verylittle about H. pylori. To learn how it coexists for long periods of time withpeople, University of Michigan scientist Denise Kirschner, Ph.D., created amathematical model, based on experimental evidence, of the symbioticrelationship between bacterium and host. Results from the mode...Conference on the chemistry of light will draw international audience to Duke
...describe using very short pulses of laser light to learn more abouttheir properties. Other major speakers will include Vladilen Letokhov, chief of the laserspectroscopy department and laboratory at the Russian Academy of SciencesInstitute of Spectroscopy; Jacek Waluk of the Polish Academy of Scienc...Purdue helps Indiana companies with pollution dilemma
...heamount of spraying needed for the job. They also learn new approaches tospraying in which the individual droplets of styrene are larger, ultimatelyreducing the overall quantity exposed to the air, and, consequently, decreasingemissions, says Jean Hall, a Purdue engineer involved in the work. The ...U-M scientists identify genes that make blood "thicker" and more likely to clot as we get older
...redfor normal blood coagulation. He also hopes to learn why increased coagulationis associated with a healthy old age in some people, but leads to thromboses,strokes and cardiovascular disease in others. "Once we completely understand this very complex system, we should be able todesign new pharmaceutical...