Fund Aims To Repay Developing Nations For Valuable Genes
...at the Universityof California, Davis, has quietly offered up a modest solution to the problem. Pamela Ronald ,an assistant professor of plant pathology, has initiated a novel mechanismthat pools university and industry resources to compensate nations for valuablegenetic material. It is the first known att...Summer Science: Firefly Babies Advertise Their Bitter Taste, UD Researchers Say
...ed that larvae are also distasteful." So,mice were offered a choice of either a firefly or a mealworm--a delicacy forrodents. As expected, all mice rejected the bitter fireflies, Tallamy says, evenwhen they were still hungry enough to eat more mealworms. Next, the UD researchers tested the ability of mice to...Female Adolescents Need Calcium During 'Window Of Opportunity'
...t an intake of 1,300 milligrams of calcium per day offered maximum bone growth for females ages 12 to 15. "That's important, because the more bone you build up early in life, the more you can use up later in life," Weaver says. Purdue nutritional educator Lisa Jackman, the primary investigator on this resear...Whitaker Awards $6.8 Million For Biomedical Engineering Education
...graduate program in biomedical engineering will be offered jointly with Indiana University. The program unite...ratory and begin staffing it. Support will also be offered for post-doctoral scholars and graduate research assistants. Five new courses and a monthly series o...1998 Declared Year Of The Ocean
...cognition of the many challenges and opportunities offered by the ocean as weenter the 21st century. The ocean affects our weather and climate, provides ahome to fisheries, which are a major food source for the world, and is largelyunexplored in its depths. As the world population and standard of living gr...At Life's Most Sensitive Stage, Embryos Cope With Stress
...into their development; atthat point, the proteins offered some protection from temperatures that rose ashigh as 88 degrees Fahrenheit. For the first day of life, however, the earlyembryos had to depend on the good fortune of a cool day to protect them fromheat shock. "There is a strategic tension between t...Insights Into The Proteasome - A Fascinating Macromolecular Machine For Protein Degradation
...e proteasome from the eubacterium Rhodococcus offered an excellent means to dissect the assembly pathway of the complex. The team of Wolfgang Baumeister isolated and characterized the first bacterial proteasome, and managed to set up a system, which allows to monitor its biogenesis in vitro...Rockefeller University Researchers Hunt For Type 2 Diabetes Susceptibility Genes
...es for the medical tests performed andwill also be offered diabetes information and education. Local participants may come to the Out-Patient Department at The RockefellerUniversity Hospital for the study. Participation of out of state clients canalso be easily arranged. The Rockefeller University Hospital ...Fruits And Vegetables Protect Lungs
...rotective the antioxidant. In fact, beta carotene offered almost no protection for heavy smokers. The antioxidant selenium, however, which is found in meats, fish, cereals, dairy products, and Brazil and some other nuts, was shown to be more protective for smokers than nonsmokers. The antioxidants vitamin...False Security: You Can't Always Believe The Results Of A Genetic Test
... recommended that prospective parents be routinely offered tests to see if they carry mutations that could give their children cystic fibrosis. This was the first time a genetic test had been recommended for the general population (This Week, 26 April 1997, p 12). The new findings, from a team of geneticists...Virginia Tech Offers Biotechnology 2001 Conference for Educators
...onference Registrar at 540-231-5182. Lodging is offered at the hotel on campus or in one of the dormitories. Call the hotel, 540-231-5156, or dorm and dining services, 540-231-4849, by May 26 for reservations....Relatives Of People with Colorectal Polyps Face Increased Risk For Colorectal Cancer
...hat relatives of people with colon polypsshould be offered colonoscopy. "The beauty of it is if you remove the adenomas,you prevent the cancer."...New Medication Means New Choices For Families Dealing With Alzheimers Disease
...nds thatwhen medication for Alzheimer's disease is offered to all patients, familymembers of patients in the early stages of Alzheimer's are the most likely toaccept available treatment. "When dealing with this terrible disease, families are faced with manyextremely difficult decisions. One of those...Wildlife Dying At The Doorsteps Of World's National Parks, Study Says
...eaths were human-related. Otherareas of the world offered similar statistics: humans contributed to an averageof 61 percent of African wild dog deaths in a variety of game reserves and parksthroughout central and southern Africa; and nearly two-thirds of all Indiantiger deaths in Nepal's Royal Chitwan's Nat......r pills in aportable, pocket-sized dispenser, were offered a cash incentive, and had arelationship with an accessible, caring physician. "We need a concerted effort to address these issues and overcome them inorder to allow drug users to receive the same benefits of therapy that othergroups are able ...Harbor Branch Oceanographic Trains Displaced Fishermen And Women In New Careers As Aquafarmers
...ncrease of 100%from the previous year in clam seed offered by the facility based in FortPierce. A new clam hatchery in the Aquaculture Development Park has recently been addedto the existing facilites and is now fully operational. The new facilitydemonstrates the next generation of technology in clam hatche...New Research Shows That Swarms Of Mayflies Are Laying Their Eggs On Roads Rather Than Rivers
... allure. To confirm this, the researchers offered mayflies various surfaces forlaying their eggs, and measured how strongly each one polarised the light itreflected. They found that the insects swarmed more frequently above a shinyblack plastic sheet than other shiny and matt surfaces. According to ...Duke Studies Show U.S. Central Plains Vulnerable To Global Warming
...st climate changes, Duke University ecologistshave offered further evidence that the region will likely undergo drasticecological changes due to 21st-century global warming. In a report prepared for a meeting of the Ecological Society of America(ESA), the Duke scientists said the region responded rea...Soil Variation Important In Natural Plant Communities
...poral Heterogeneitysymposium (1-5 p.m., room 310), offered jointly with the Botanical Society ofAmerica. Virginia Tech forestry faculty member Paul Mou, Jones, and Bob Mitchellof the J.W. Jones Ecological Research Center in Newton Ga., are examiningspatial variation of soil properties in southeast U....Ancient 'Volcanic Winter' Tied To Rapid Genetic Divergence In Humans
... - of the surviving populations. The hypothesis, offered by anthropologist Stanley Ambrose of the Universit... passed through arecent bottleneck, but they never offered explanations for the populationcrash or recovery, nor considered its consequences for modern human d...