DNA lends scientists a hand, revealing new chemical reactions
...ass. - Scientists have developed a powerful way of mining the chemical universe for new reactions by piggybacking collections of different small organic molecules onto short strands of DNA, which then gives the reactants the opportunity to react by zipping together. Their work draws upon an innovative techn...NPS Pharma and VIMAC Ventures locate at MaRS, a major new research and enterprise center in Toronto
...ther 50 scientists over time. The company has been mining a wealth of research from the Toronto area for many years. VIMAC chose MaRS to expand the firm's North American reach because it provides one of the most dynamic opportunities for investment in biosciences, according to Dana Ono, Managing Director, V......ause habitat is becoming more and more impacted by mining and other human activities. The windswept Altiplano region that spans Bolivia, Peru, Chile and Argentina is recognized as one of the world's most inhospitable regions, with extreme dry weather, blistering sunshine and caustic salt lakes dotting the l...Virginia Center for Coal and Energy Research helps implement global climate change initiative
...n September 2005. Karmis, who is also professor of mining and minerals engineering at Virginia Tech, is project director and has been appointed the Governor of Virginia's alternate on the Southern States Energy Board. In addition, Virginia Tech's team includes Steven Schafrik , research associate at the VCC...Decoding a sulfate-breathing bug
...e spread of toxic metal ions in the environment at mining sites."...World's largest tiger reserve declared in Myanmar
...dentified threats from outside forces such as gold mining and commercial hunting. Wildlife surveys revealed the reserve also contains rich populations of elephants, rare clouded leopards, and endangered gaur, a massive species of wild cattle weighing up to a ton. In addition to its rich wildlife diversity,...Rwanda's primate-rich forests now a national park
...wood cutting, hunting, small-scale agriculture and mining for gold within the reserve. In 1984, WCS conservationists Drs. Amy Vedder and Bill Weber, both of whom worked on the ecology and conservation of Rwanda's world-famous mountain gorillas in Parc National des Volcans, began working in Nyungwe, conducti...Computer scientists develop tool for mining genomic data
...y.'' Koller presented her statistical approach for mining genomic data at a Feb. 14 symposium - ''Machine Learning in the Sciences'' - at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Seattle. Several years ago, before Koller came onto the scene, a new generation of...Money talks: Concern for biodiversity pressed on boardrooms by new breed of fund managers
...iversity among extractive industries (oil and gas, mining and minerals), part of a radically changing global...ic concern about biodiversity are the oil and gas, mining and minerals and utility industries. An oil or gas reserve site typically operates for about 25 year...Araucariaceae of New-Caledonia: endemic species in danger
...l species, brought on by human-induced bush fires, mining and urban expansion is putting their genetic integ...ops also in the evergreen heath-like maquis of the mining areas. Two species are strictly associated with ultramafic substrates (A. lanceolata and A. ovata), ...Soil fungi affect parasitism of foliage-feeding insects
...growth, which determined the attack rate of a leaf mining fly and in turn the rate of parasitism of the fly by a wasp. The results show that there are strong links between species in natural communities, even though those species may be separated in space and time. As the fly is also a pest of glasshouse c...Carnegie Mellon receives $2.5M to develop bio-molecular imaging and information discovery systems
...nt will be used to further develop methods in data mining and pattern recognition, techniques used to discover patterns in data and to classify those patterns. The work will be integrated with efforts at the collaborating institutions to provide a comprehensive set of tools for biological researchers. The ...$9.4 million NSF grant backs UCSB-led effort in bio-image informatics
...ore them (given the sources) and then to perform a mining operation and to bring the results onto the screen," said Manjunath. "We are trying to understand how we can detect the key interesting structures that the expert biologist can do just by looking. So we are developing sophisticated image analysis pa...Data privacy, emergency response, weather prediction to benefit from information technology advances
...fe on Earth; harness automated microscopy and data mining of biological image databases to observe and understand cellular and molecular processes; and simplify the way scientists develop applications for grid computing. "This year's ITR awards demonstrate how fundamental computer science research, combined...UT Southwestern researchers define regions of human genes highly prone to mutation
...ine, and his colleagues made their discovery while mining databases of coding single nucleotide polymorphisms (cSNPs) held by the National Center for Biotechnology Information, the SNP Consortium, the National Cancer Institute and the Institute of Medical Genetics at Cardiff, Wales. Single nucleotide polymo...Nickel, the environment and biodiversity in New Caledonia
...logical conservation and restoration in a tropical mining environment, July 15 to 20, Noumea 2003 This inter...ity of New Caledonia (UNC) in conjunction with the mining industry federation. Its objectives are twofold: to review the current scientific knowledge on the c...The Year of Biodiversity and Conservation
...tant in impoverished countries such as Peru, where mining and population growth are taking a huge toll on biodiversity. Many equatorial areas have been identified as "conservation hotspots" because of their high concentration of biodiversity. Steve Goodman, Field Biologist in the Department of Zoology, li...R&D yields numerous applications for conductive polymers
...ooring and work surfaces, and conducting pipes for mining explosives. New analysis by Technical Insights, a business unit of Frost & Sullivan (www.Technical-Insights.frost.com), on Conductive Polymers, provides valuable insight into the industrial applications of emerging polymer technologies. It identifies......e landscape. The negative environmental impacts of mining for diamonds along the coast and river flood plain...ecific land users such as the agricultural sector, mining companies and communal authorities to help meet conservation objectives identified by the Succulent ...... better predictions of impacts and optimization of mining locations. CONTACT: Paul A. Work, South Carolina Sea Grant Researcher, Georgia Tech Regional Engineering Program, Phone: (912) 644-7753; Email: paul.work@gtrep.gatech.edu Timely Publication from Delaware Sea Grant on Port Security The Delaware S...