USAID, Conservation International & Starbucks launch Conservation Coffee Alliance in Central America
... forces and business interests to help improve the lives of rural people and the environment worldwide." Building upon the success of the six-year partnership between Starbucks and CI, the Alliance uses a field-to-cup approach to community-level conservation that includes all aspects of producing, processi...Hidden diversity: DNA 'barcoding' reveals a common butterfly is actually 10 different species
...al but take comfort in the notion that the species lives on elsewhere. Well, what if that extinct animal was the only example of a genetically distinct species, hiding inside a morphology similar to the surviving species?" Janzen and his colleagues report their findings in the Sept. 29 issue of the Procee...Bronfenbrenner book sums up human development
... childhood policies, programs and practices on the lives of America's children and families," adds Evelyn Moore, president of the National Black Child Development Institute. "In the unfolding of his theory, we find evidence that what, when and how we do our work does make a critical difference in the devel...Researchers ID chlorophyll-regulating gene
...tified a critical gene for plants that start their lives as seeds buried in soil. They say the burial of seeds was an adaptation that likely helped plants spread from humid, wet climates to drier, hostile environments. In a study published in the Sept. 24 issue of the journal Science, the researchers de...Joslin Diabetes Center honors brothers living 70-plus years with type 1 diabetes
...Cleveland and Gerald Cleveland have led remarkable lives despite the challenges that diabetes poses," said George L. King, M.D., director of research at Joslin Diabetes Center in Boston. "To put their accomplishments into perspective, the Cleveland brothers developed diabetes shortly after the discovery o...Experimental drug shown to block mutant protein causing blood disease
...nd Brigham and Women's Hospital have prolonged the lives of mice with a rare blood disorder by using an experimental drug that blocks signals promoting runaway growth of blood cells. The researchers also tested the drug, PKC412, in a patient with the hard-to-treat disease, called Myeloproliferative Disease...Information system to help scientists analyze mechanisms of social behavior
...ed scale on the relationship between genes and how lives are carried out in an animal society," said principal investigator Bruce Schatz, professor of library and information science. "We will take a fresh look at the fundamental problem of the mechanism of behavior, whether behavior is caused by nature or...Proteins show promise for mosquito control
... Malaria is the biggest killer, claiming a million lives a year. The two main approaches to future mosquito control, as Lan sees it, are genetic and chemical. In the genetic approach, she says, researchers are working on ways to modify the malaria mosquito so that it cannot transmit disease, but it can s...'Defensive' action by influenza viruses demonstrated by Hebrew university researcher
...th from infectious diseases, claiming about 40,000 lives annually, mostly among the elderly. In his research, Arkin, of the Department of Biological Chemistry at the Hebrew University's Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, has demonstrated how flu viruses counteract the symmetrel drug. Assisting him in h...Winner of 2004 EMBO Science Writing Prize announced
...teria. English-born, Matthew Bottomley currently lives and works in Rome, Italy. His research at the Istituto di Ricerche di Biologia Molecolare focuses on biophysical studies of protein structures involved in chromatin structure or transcription. The young researcher's first post-doctoral position at EM...Study of flu patients reveals virus outsmarting key drug
...ew lines of defense for a disease that claims many lives each year and that, in a pandemic, is among the wo... of 1918 was a global tragedy, claiming 21 million lives - more than died in battle in World War I. One billion people - nearly half of the earth's populatio...Tiny collars fitted on youngest-ever tiger cubs
...es will give researchers crucial insights into the lives of tiger cubs in the Russian Far East and ways of improving the survival and reproduction of the largest of the cat species. "Through radio telemetry, we've learned a great deal about the needs of Siberian tigers, animals so elusive that few field re...Two warbler species find the West isn't big enough for both of them
...ird species known as the Townsend's warbler, which lives in the damp Douglas fir forests of Western North America, has been steadily displacing its more timid sister species, the hermit warbler, for thousands of years. New research suggests that substantially higher levels of androgens specifically the h...JGI announces community sequencing program portfolio
...ne include: The complex bacterial community that lives under the skin of the gutless marine worm Olavius algarvensis and provide the energy source for the host. Staphylococcus aureus a food-borne pathogen that is implicated in thousands of infections in the U.S. alone. Sequencing of an antibiotic resi...Jefferson Lab detector technology aids development of cystic fibrosis therapy
...ients from food. Current treatments are prolonging lives but haven't conquered the disease; most patients eventually succumb to lung disease....Excess levels of nitrogen, phosphorus linked to deformed frogs
...team to create deformed frogs. The adult parasite lives in birds, laying its eggs inside the bird; the eggs then get excreted as waste in a pond or wetland; the young parasite has evolved to seek out a ramshorn snail and invades the snail, staying inside for up to 20 days when it sheds out and embeds itse...8 environmental stewards win $900,000 in biodiversity awards
...by the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, lives also in Madagascar, where he has been cited as doing more to study the fauna than any other living person. Goodman has often risked his personal safety to complete natural history collections, but he also has conducted conservation biology and field ...Study: Mothers turn fearless when peptide level drops
... makes sense that mothers would lay down their own lives to protect their offspring, especially if it means the parents' genes will be passed down to the next generation, says Gammie. But he adds that despite all the observations and the theories explaining why mothers display this behavior - commonly know...LA BioMed Medical/Research Briefs, July/August 2004
...al times over during the following decade and save lives along the way. Mr. Trevett is available to speak the merits of the stem cell initiative. To contact him, telephone or e-mail the Communications Office at 310-222-2820 or df@issuesmangement.com . Ethnic Breast Cancer? New research provides more e...Spring through fall, cities are greener longer than neighboring rural regions
...t, like many urban-dwelling humans, urban greenery lives at a more intense pace, getting as much as a seven-day jump-start on spring and up to eight additional days before winter dormancy than vegetation in surrounding rural areas. This happens largely because the asphalt, steel, exhaust, and other envir...