Burroughs Wellcome Fund Continues Support Of EurekAlert!
...based in Durham, North Carolina, is an independent private foundation established to advance the medical sciences by supporting research and other scientific and educational activities. EurekAlert! offers secured online access for science, medical, health, and technology reporters to pre-publication versions......ly is a member of a consortium of nationallabs and private firms seeking to develop improved methods for convertingglucose to succinic acid, and then separating and cleaning the acid to make itamenable to the more precise catalytic hydrogenation processing technique. Pacific Northwest researchers also are in...Maillinckrodt Medical Licenses Invention For Concentration Of Rhenium Radioisotopes
... is a perfect example of how a partnership between private business and government can lead to something that can benefit thousands of people and improve their quality of life," Knapp said. ORNL, one of DOE's multiprogram research facilities, is managed by Lockheed Martin Energy Research Corporation....Pacific Northwest Staff Win National Awards For Transferring Research To Industry
...for their success in transferringtheir research to private industry. Pacific Northwest received the awards for transferring andcommercializing an advanced soil remediation technology and two innovative software products. Theresa Bergsman, Janet Roberts, Rick Brouns and Doug McKinley transferred theSix-Phase...USGS 1999 Budget Emphasizes Clean Water, Disaster Information, Species And Habitat Research
...decisionmakers at all levels of government and the private sector. Increases include $16.5 million in support of the Administration's Clean Water and WatershedRestoration Initiative for a wide range of water-quality monitoring and watershed assessmentactivities; $15 million for a multi-agency natural disas..."Discovering Biological Diversity" Is AAAS Topic For USGS Manager
...d federal government agencies, including the USGS; private sectororganizations; and other partners around the nation and the world. "Where once it was difficult for people on a singleuniversitystaff to share field work on a day-to-day basis, now we can reach outworldwide," Cotter said....$2 Million Dollar Grant Funds Salton Sea Web Site
...udents collaborated with the federalgovernment and private mining companies to determine areas of conflict betweenenvironmental and mining interests in the San Bernardino National Forest."Our job is to collect the data, organize and analyze it, and then re-distributeit to the people making the decisions. We ...Yale Announces New Biotech Firm
...orpromoting development of Yale discoveries by the private sector. "Asidefrom creating jobs for about 70 people, the four companies are developingtechnologies that have the potential to significantly benefit human healththroughout the world." The firms are developing diagnostic tests for diseases r...Births Of Rare Lemurs At Duke Primate Center
...is supported by the National ScienceFoundation and private donations, houses the world's largest collection ofendangered primates. Duke is also the only university that concentrates onstudying and protecting "prosimians" such as lemurs, lorises and tarsiers Prosimians descended from primitive primat...From The Home Front To The River Front, USGS Updates Water-Quality Information
... to home for rural residents that drink water from private wells: Owners of rural wells in these two basins, part of the Chesapeake Bay watershed, need to ensure their water supplies are safe to drink. The USGS studies found high levels of nitrate and high counts of bacteria in ground water from wells used...Invasive Weeds Pose Major Threat To American Landscape
...hniques for managinginvasive plants on federal and private lands. After noting the lack of adequatesurveys and reliable monitoring data for many of these invaders, the interagencycommittee worked with more than 100 outside authorities to publish a nationalstrategy on the management of invasive plants. S......g governments in the region, donor nations and the private sector, PAI calls on governments to further expand...antial expertise of both non-profit and for-profit private organizations. PAI further recommends that African governments: improve the quality of services b...Biosphere Lessons Can Be Applied To Space, Former Crew Co-Captain Says
...ontieers Inc. and shareholder of Biospheres LLC, a private research anddevelopment firm, was the co-captain of the Biosphere 2 crew and manager ofagriculture and food systems. She has worked on food and agricultural projects in East Africa, Indiaand Puerto Rico. A native of England, she managed and c...DFG To Set Up 32 New Postgraduate Research Groups - First "Virtual Research Group"
...omics'; Heidelberg'Law and economics, new types of private sector cooperation and civil law liability'; University of Hamburg'Pale-ecosystem research and history'; Regensburg'Travel literature and cultural anthropology'; Paderborn Engineering sciences 'Knowledge presentation'; Leipzig 'Interaction of structu...Virginia Tech Offers Biotechnology 2001 Conference for Educators
... programs by scientists from school and public and private laboratories around the country. The registration fee for the conference is $120. This fee includes refreshment breaks, lunch and barbecue on Friday, handouts, lectures and workshops (for high school and community college faculty and subject to wor...University Of Georgia Researchers Help Design Decision Support System For Forest Managers And Owners
...the Forest Service, universities andnon-industrial private firms have been involved in designing NED. "This is real knowledge engineering," said Nute. "We have to work withexperts build a model that reflects what they do. We could start, for instance,with a simple English description of the problems,...Whitaker Foundation To Fund AAAS Science Journalism Awards Through 2001
... DC -- June 2, 1998) -- The Whitaker Foundation, a private nonprofitorganization supporting biomedical research and education, has announced it willcontinue to fund the AAAS Science Journalism Awards through 2001. The Whitaker Foundation has funded the competition since 1995. Since thecompetition's inceptio...Space Grown Insulin Crystals Provide New Data On Diabetes
...e space environment are madeavailable to encourage private industries to exploit the benefits of space-basedresearch to develop new products or services. NASA research has furthered the understanding of many diseases,including AIDS, heart disease, cancer, respiratory syncytial virus, sickle cellanemi...New Strategy Discerns Early Stages Of HIV Infection, Paving Way For Targeted Study And Therapy
...y was conducted by researchers at eight public and private institutions.The new tactic addresses what has been a major obstacle in the study andtreatment of patients with HIV infection: the inability to determine how long aperson has been infected with the virus, particularly in the early stages ofinfection........ Its membership includeshealth care providers in private practice and those who work at publicly-fundedclinics, academic medical centers, and health maintenance organizations....