On the floor of the sea: USGS biologists search for rare, white abalone
..., a determined group of university, government and private biologistsis setting out in a two-person submersible to cruise the ocean floor in searchof the rare marine snail. In all, the team will make more than 50 dives tosearch for the abalone around Santa Catalina, San Clemente and Anacapa Islandsand on Cor...A 'Juliet' is found for the rare lemur Romeo
...er is supported by the National ScienceFoundation, private donations and Duke University. Prosimians, or "submonkeys," are descended from primates that also wereancestors to the anthropoids, a suborder that includes monkeys, apes and humans.Thus, studying prosimians can yield insights into the early ...PricewaterhouseCooper's forecasts health care in 2010
...to research efforts by theHuman Genome Project and private industry. Respondents to HealthCast 2010 saidthat ...privatization movement as moreindividuals purchase private insurance and opt out of government health systems.In addition, the HealthCast 2010 survey showed th...Lemur 'Juliet' may be new subspecies; no mate for 'Romeo'
...r is supported by the National Science Foundation, private donations and Duke University. ...China now leads world in sulfur emissions, study shows
... Trends and Analysis (CAPITA), the world's largest private library of air pollution statistics, at Washington University in St. Louis. He published the analysis in the 1999 fall issue of Atmospheric Environment. Co-authors are Janja D. Husar, Ph.D., research associate in CAPITA, and Allen S. Lefohn, Ph.D.,...New Cosumnes River research partnership announced
...he research program include the state, federal and private partners in the Cosumnes River Preserve, the East Bay Metropolitan Utility District and local landowners. "In this new project, the Cosumnes watershed will serve as an extraordinary natural laboratory and classroom," said Jeffrey Mount, chair of ge...Genetic extremism overstates risks
...is underway at OSU and many other universities and private industries, Strauss said, including both laboratory and field studies. The first products of gene research in agriculture are already on grocery store shelves, and new applications of this science in forestry will be ready for commercial use once som...West Nile Virus may be new deadly strain, USGS tells Congress
... seaboard. Several federal and state agencies and private groups are searching for stored human and animal specimens that were collected prior to 1999 in order to test them for the presence of West Nile virus. These specimens are also being tested for antibodies to determine if the virus was present in the...Howard Hughes Medical Institute awards $92 million in research support to U.S. medical schools
...continue to lead the way." The 22 public and 19 private medical schools that will receive the grants are listed below:......te awarded a total of $92 million to 41 public and private medicalschools. Individual awards ranged from $1.6 million to $4 million to be paid over a four year period. The University's award will be used to enhance the efforts of the Biological Sciences Division inimmunology and structural biology. "We h...Scientists figure out how cells' tiniest motors work
...Research along these lines is already under way in private biomedical labs. Using four different techniques to visualize and measure changes in the motor's shape, theresearchers showed that a small region of the protein called the "neck linker" thrusts forward whenpowered by ATP, the chemical that serves as...UF study shows newborn kittens have shot at survival thanks to immune-boosting treatment
... study is complete, the kittens are adopted out to private homes after spay/neuter surgery and complete vaccinations. "We have many left who still need homes," Levy said....Research highlights from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
...Northwest more than $7,000 each month now can help private companies save money. Until recently, it was common for chemical inventories to be tracked by several staff members in a variety of locations and forms - from spreadsheets to hard copies - making them difficult to track or share. The software, call...Register now for the 2000 AAAS Annual Meeting
...room housing copies of speakers' presentations and private interview rooms. Newsroom registration will open Thursday, February 17, at 8:00 a.m. Look for the full schedule of news briefings on EurekAlert!, www.eurekalert.org , in early February, or call 202-326-6440 for a copy. OTHER ITEMS OF NOTE The In...New institute formed to distribute human stem cells
...onsin Alumni Research Foundation has established a private subsidiary whose primary purpose will be to distri...d use of the cells are held exclusively by WARF, a private not-for-profit corporation that manages intellectual property in the interest of the university. Ste......es.Topics for future forums include mental health, private sector response to theHIV pandemic, and the economics of HIV vaccines. The Institute for Global Health was established in May, 1999, by UC SanFrancisco and UC Berkeley, in close collaboration with Stanford University, andwith leading corporations and...Today's Science for America's Tomorrow: the USGS FY 2001 Budget
...cal and tribal governments, state governments, the private sector, academia and others to advance the capacity of communities to create and use spatially referenced data. The proposal, which includes a $25 million community matching grant component, will also expand the National Spatial Data Infrastructure a...Scientists identify natural chemical that causes blinding blood vessel growth
...opathy of Prematurity and Related Diseases; and by private donors. The study's other authors were Hiroaki Ozaki, Man Seong So, Keiko Ozaki, Haruhiko Yamada, Eri Yamada and Naoyuke Okamoto of Hopkins; and Francesco Hofmann and Jeanette M. Wood of Novartis. Campochiaro is a consultant to CIBA Vision Corp. Th...UWs new Cell Systems Initiative welcomes Immunex collaboration
...ach to facilitating cooperation among academic and private industry collaborators," Williams said. "And we're excited to be investing and participating in this initiative. The science platform will serve to enhance our ongoing research and drug discovery programs at Immunex and give us insight into new tec...Time important in transporting critically injured to trauma centers
...he most critically injured patients transported by private means arrived at Los Angeles County (LAC) + USC Me... death rates twice as high as those transported by private means (28.2 percent vs. 17.9 percent). Results of the current study -- the first to look at the non...