Expedition will retrace legendary Steinbeck-Ricketts voyage to the Sea of Cortez
...Dad liked the idea [of going to Mexico]. There was money rolling in for John. Dad didn't have any money at all, so it worked out well with him. He wanted to travel anyway. He always wanted to travel.'' ...Congress allocates funding for horseshoe crab research center
...ves Rick Boucher and Frank Wolf of Virginia. The money is allocated to Virginia Tech but research will be a collaboration including federal and state governments as well as non-governmental organizations. The HCRC was established in October 2001 to provide information that will lead to better managem...Major mutations, not many small changes, might lead way to new species
...keyflowers and questions of how species arise. The money is part of the new Frontiers in Integrative Biological Research program ....Some re-established elk herds lack genetic diversity of ancestors
...uccessful reintroduction program. "If the time and money it takes to release an animal are going to be well-spent, then money should also be set aside for some post-release monitoring of the herd," she said. "That's probably o...IU fruit fly scientists capture $20 million grant
...FlyBase has been approved. Some $3 million of that money will come directly to IUB, which houses FlyBase, the most comprehensive database of Drosophila (fruit fly) information available to scientists. The exact amount of the five-year grant is not yet known because the budget for the U.S. Department of Hea...Three genes linked to psoriasis susceptibility identified on chromosome 17
...l Psoriasis Tissue Bank and opened it in 1994 with money donated by Foundation members. This tissue bank, built with blood samples from hundreds of families with psoriasis, provided the raw material that the Bowcock team analyzed in its ground-breaking discovery. "The financial and physical contributions o...A realistic way to save rainforests
...appointments and spend a few months each year. The money came from the National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation and U.S. Department of Agriculture. The results were published in October's issue of the Ecological Society of America journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. The repo...NSF grant to ORNL is big step toward national cyberinfrastructure
...eived another $35 million. The ORNL award includes money to create a new TeraGrid hub in Atlanta, which will bring the number of TeraGrid hubs nationwide to three, joining existing hubs in Chicago and Los Angeles. The hubs are connected by high-speed optical links in multiples of 10 gigabits (10 billion bi...Study calls for cheaper antitoxins for plant poisoning in less-developed countries
...ife gained; a further reduction to $103 would save money for every life gained. Michael Eddleston comments: "There is presently a worldwide effort to develop and make available affordable drugs for tropical diseases; however, this effort seems to be passing by poisoning and envenoming. Treatments for poiso......spending any more. The answer is simple: shift the money that was spent on controlling the foxes to restoring the island's habitat. "Such efforts may actually allow for species co-existence," say the researchers....University of Chicago scientist wins prestigious Balzan Prize
... of her father, Eugenio Balzan, decided to use the money to honor his memory. Eugenio Balzan was a leading Italian journalist, managing director and shareholder of the daily newspaper Corriere della Sera. He died in 1953 in Switzerland after having left Italy in the 1930s in opposition to the fascist press...Worlds protected areas suffer from $2.5 billion annual shortfall
...r CABS at CI. "For $23 billion, significantly less money than Americans spend on soft drinks alone each year, we can save a large number of the places that house the greatest diversity of life on Earth. And for a fraction of that, just $1.5 billion a year, we could take the vital step of making sure that b...Platelet refrigeration method may ease shortages for transfusions, researchers report in Science
...ood banking industry loses a significant amount of money by throwing these bags of platelets away," Hoffmeister said. Chilling the platelets helps lengthen their storage period, but these platelets die quickly once they are transfused into the body. Using mice and human platelets in test tubes, Hoffmeister...Smallpox vaccination grinds to halt
...ew have been vaccinated, but that so much time and money has been spent on the vaccination programme. It argues that this should have been spent on more important defensive measures such as disease surveillance and response plans. "There are many things more important than vaccinating people," says Brian ...Threatened juvenile salmon get scientific assistance
...oved scientific data to ensure that we're spending money on solutions for fish passage that will work to provide long-term benefits to our environment," said Peterson. A transportation consortium that includes the states of California, Oregon, Washington and Alaska, and the Federal Highway Administration p...Nominations sought for professorship by the American Association for Cancer Research
...atory, they were determined that NFCR should raise money to support innovative and untried ideas of the best minds, and to facilitate collaboration among different disciplines. "The AACR-NFCR Professorship, in honor of Franklin and Tamara Salisbury, isan excellent example of how the AACR can unite with lik...Anthrax research might provide more time for treatment
...in Troy, N.Y., have been awarded new federal grant money to develop experimental compounds that may someday extend the period during which a person exposed to anthrax can be treated successfully. Ravi Kane, assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering at Rensselaer has been awarded a grant of...Purdue developing less costly model for studying human disease
...cess in zebrafish would require much less time and money for researching gene function. "The big problem in producing knockouts in species other than the mouse has been that it's been impossible to keep stem cells viable so that they contribute to the germ line, or eggs and sperm," Collodi said. "Now we h...First West Coast baby born using frozen egg technique
...ng all this fall apart. They had invested a lot of money -- and emotions." Early that March afternoon they froze all the eggs they extracted. In late June Jennifer's cycle was synchronized to receive the embryos. The eggs were thawed and the surviving eggs were fertilized using intracytoplasmic sperm i......ng all this fall apart. They had invested a lot of money -- and emotions." Early that March afternoon they froze all the eggs they extracted. In late June Jennifer's cycle was synchronized to receive the embryos. The eggs were thawed and the surviving eggs were fertilized using intracytoplasmic sperm i...