Elephants pick up good vibrations - through their feet
...d experiments with two female Asian elephants at a private training facility near Jefferson, Texas. They placed two microphones outside the elephants` enclosure - one about 30 feet away, the other about 130 feet. The researchers also buried a geophone directly below each microphone to measure underground vi...National Cancer Institute designates Vanderbilt-Ingram a Comprehensive Cancer Center
...nd attracting new funding from both government and private sources. The center currently receives nearly $4.3 million each year as its "core grant" to cover the administrative and other costs of operating a designated center. That grant will be up for renewal in 2003. In addition, the NCI and other fundi...Sequencing the human genome: unraveling the mysteries of health and disease
... The recent announcement from both the public and private sectors on the completion of the human genome sequence has raised hopes of a medical revolution that will lead to major advances in human health. To take full advantage of this momentous scientific achievement will require public confidence that the......e chair of anatomy at UCSF. "Each nerve cell has a private window into the world of smells and a shared windo... nerve cell can get confused, but by comparing the private and shared information, the animal sorts out and distinguishes all possible combinations of odors." ...Officials design Web-based software for managing hazardous chemicals
...read applications at other universities and in the private sector. "The area of chemical supply-chain management is getting a lot of attention nowadays," observes Gibbs. "Studies show that the cost of chemical management by an organization can be up to 10 times higher than the actual purchase cost of the che...Spurred by the worldwide fight against malaria, scientists release parasite genome database
...nt of Defense, international health organizations, private foundations and public funding agencies. Plasmodium falciparum is by far the most complex pathogen genome sequenced to date, requiring extraordinary effort and ingenuity on behalf of the sequencing centers. The sequencing of Plasmodium's roughly ...Drinking Water from Forests and Grasslands: A Synthesis of the Scientific Literature
...c land managers, as well as managers of public and private forests and grasslands, managers of public water supplies, and community groups concerned with drinking water quality. The books structure separates it into chapters by types of land use; but the authors recognize that in most practical situations, e...So just how many genes do we have?
...me were published in February. Both the public and private projects estimated we had just 30,000 to 40,000 ge.... But Craig Venter, head of Celera Genomics, the private rival to the public genome consortium, is standing by the lower estimate. He calls it a "truth serum...The cult - and culture - of anorexia
... They often lived alone, and spenta lot of time in private spaces, like bathrooms and bedrooms." This negation of social relationships manifested itself most startlinglyin people's attitudes to death: it was seen as being desirable, theultimate negation of being sociable. "The best anorexic, people told me, ...Montana drought sends paleontologists to field early for largest project in state's history
...eiggi said of the project that's funded by several private donors. "To my knowledge, it's the largest paleontological field operation, certainly ever in Montana. I don't know any other project in paleontology history that has been this expansive. It's really kind of exciting." The Hell Creek survey began i...Scripps scientists, diving officer receive honors
...mental issues to the media, policy makers, and the private sector. Largier, whose primary research interests include coastal oceanography and ecology, is one of 20 environmental scientists who will participate in this years third annual Leopold Leadership Program. "Each of the 22 new fellows is a talente...Nonprofits, corporations can collaborate to improve environmental management
...able environmental groups, experience dealing with private companies, understanding how private enterprise works and the ability to deliver real value to the company through realistic, cost-effect...Biotechnology promises major advances for U.S. Army
...hat the Army adopt new approaches to work with the private sector, encouraging relationships between government and industry. The report also urges the Army to invest in education, assembling "a cadre of science and technology professionals capable of translating advances in the biosciences into engineering ...LSU Professor Emeritus wins 2001 National Wetlands Award
...tists, conservation organizations, legislators and private citizens. This endeavor does, indeed, honor all of us." Gosselink joined the LSU faculty in 1964 and retired in 1990. He holds the title of Professor Emeritus in both the Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences and in the Coastal Ecology ......rchers from Celera Genomics, a private biotechnology firm, and counterparts from the Human Genome Project, the federally funded effort to map the genome, published their findings in the prestigious journals Science and Nature res...Global consortium announces plans to sequence banana genome
... plant biology, we hope to be able to approach the private sector later from a position of strength," Frison said. "We want to guarantee that any results, such as disease-resistant banana strains, will be made available to small-holder farmers on a royalty-free basis, even if they have commercial applicatio...AAAS urges President Bush to fund stem-cell research
...e amount of stem-cell research taking place in the private sector without public oversight. Public funding, the reports states, would help to ensure that the research is closely monitored and meets ethical standards.......headed by Magnuson and which represents public and private investments, will allow Carolina to be a driving force in determining how the genomics revolution will change the way we treat human diseases, design drugs and grow crops. This collaborative effort includes construction of four new buildings to house...... currently unbridled use of embryos and fetuses by private companies. Please accept my sincere compliments an...isolation of stem cells from embryos or fetuses by private companies. Many companies are rushing to take advantage of the governmental indecision on this matte...... Findings and Recommendations are that "Public and private research on human stemscells derived from all sour...urethat such research, now done exclusively in the private sector with virtually no public oversight, istransparent and monitored in a manner that safeguards t...