News Backgrounder: Duke Primate Center Successfully Fosters Mysterious Aye-Ayes
...he NationalScience Foundation, Duke University and private donations. For more information, see the center's web site at http://www.duke.edu/web/primate/ ....ESA Corporate Award Goes To Precious Woods Ltd.
...ts at universities,government agencies, and in the private sector. This is the eighth time ESA has given a Corporate Award. Past award recipientsinclude Envirogen, Inc. for its innovative environmental technologies forremediation and pollution prevention, Tampa Electric Company with WetlandsResearch, Inc., ......artnership agreement with other federal, state and private agencies to form a GIS in Public Health Task Force. This task force is charged with developing a report by August 1999 that presents the status of GIS programs and activities within the partner organizations, makes recommendations about how to meet ...Wistar Scientists Locate Genes Involved In Mammalian Tissue Regeneration
...aroldand Leila Y. Mathers Charitable Foundation, a private foundation based in MountKisco, New York. Recently, she received additional funding from the NationalInstitute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The Wistar Institute, established in 1892, was the first independent medicalresearch facility in the U...Fetuses Destined For Abortion May Be Used To Test Gene Therapy
...rs. "We wanted to leavetime for lots of public and private discussions," he says. Anderson pioneered human gene therapy in 1990, when he treated childrenwith a hereditary disorder called severe combined immune deficiency (SCID),caused by the lack of an enzyme vital for the development of the immune s...NSF teams with DOE to fund Environmental Molecular Science Institutes
... DOE's national laboratories, the universities and private industriesprovides researchers with the opportunity to capitalize on some of the excellentscientific facilities and unique expertise available at the nationallaboratories." Each EMSI will provide a unique program for academic scientists ande......e that make up the J. David GladstoneInstitutes, a private biomedical research institute affiliated with UCSF andnamed for a prominent real estate developer who died in 1971. His will createda testamentary trust that reflects his long-standing personal interest inmedical education....AAAS Annual Meeting And Science Innovation Exposition
...m equipped with Internet access and computers, and private interview rooms. Newsroom registration will open on Thursday, January 21, at 8 a.m. The hours of operation are as follows: Thursday, January 21: 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday, January 22: 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Saturday, January 23: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, ...Viral Vector Delivers Dystophin Gene To Mouse Muscle
...of Health, the Muscular DystrophyAssociation and a private foundation established by a Birmingham, Mich., couple,Chip and Betsy Erwin, to support the U-M research program....New Forest Owners Prefer Enjoying Their Land Over Working It
...roperty for fun instead of farming. Non-industrial private landowners own more than 50 percent of the forestl...ners, Jacobson said Florida's 7.2 million acres of private forests are importantsuppliers of wood in an $8 billion industry. Another trend in forest ownership ...Increase In Number Of Diesel Cars Is Counterproductive For Environmental Goals
...Reino Abrahamsson. 15 per cent of newly registered private cars in August this year were diesels.At the beginning of thenineties, the proportion of newly registered cars that were diesels was only 1per cent. For further information, please contact: Reino Abrahamsson, +46 8 698 1196. E-mail: reino.abrahamsso...AAAS Announces The Winners Of Its Science Journalism Awards
...n 1945, are sponsored bythe Whitaker Foundation, a private nonprofit organization dedicated tosupporting research and training in biomedical engineering. AAAS, the world's largest federation of scientists from a variety ofdisciplines, works to advance science for human well-being through its projects,progra...Wildlife Conservation Society Receives $700,000 Grant From Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
...al landuse and planning; educate and train public, private and civic decision-makersabout strategies to protect natural systems and counteract urban sprawl; andbroaden public knowledge and participation in promising approaches to ecosystemprotection. "Our grant to the Wildlife Conservation Society reflects...Virginia Tech Research Looks At The 'Human Dimensions' Of The Forest
... to the community. It wascondemned and taken from private hands years ago. Now it is changing from remoteAppalachia to a place of tourism and retirees as people head there for thequality of life. Mount Rogers is also an example of local initiative applying the nationalresearch agenda to improve the quality ...Biotech Creates New Solutions And New Problems
...nology tools and techniques, are being patented by private andpublic research entities. At the same time, a series of mergers and acquisitionsin the agrochemical and seed industries has led to increasing dominance by asmall number of corporations in these fields. Such industrywide changes signal aprofound sh...Major Clinical Findings By California AIDS Team: HIV Does More Than Kill Off T Cells
...e that make up the J.David Gladstone Institutes, a private biomedical research institute affiliatedwith UCSF and named for a prominent real estate developer who died in 1971. Hiswill created a testamentary trust that reflects his long-standing interest inmedical education and research.......ave been collaborating for many years. The group's private industrypartner is Xenova Discovery Limited of Berkshire, England, a pharmaceuticalcompany with interest in finding novel and useful compounds from plants. Alsoinvolved is the Wales Institute of Grasslands and Environmental Research, whichwill collab......ineering of food from the perspectives ofacademia, private industry, consumers and the federal government. Alan B.Bennett, UC Davis associate dean and a specialist in tomato genes, describes thelatest developments in genetic engineering of fruit, while Davis professor JamesMurray summarizes genetic enhanceme......iststrategies andmeasures. For example, public and private partnerships may be needed to make andstockpileprotective vaccines or curative drugs, which are either non-existent or indangerously shortsupply. Accordingly, a model of "first response" to a terrorist incidentinvolving a biologicalagent must focus...... The David and Lucile Packard Foundation is a private familyfoundation established in 1964. It provides grants in several major programareas, including science, population, conservation, arts and children andcommunity....