Environmental quality gains require major policy changes
...uires adopting a new philosophy in both public and private sectors that emphasizes what the World Business Council for Sustainable Development calls "eco-efficiency." Firms attain eco-efficiency by reducing the energy- and material-intensity of goods and services, reducing toxic dispersion, enhancing recycla...Completion of the Drosophila genome sequence
...s only accomplished at an accelerated pace because private industry and government funded public efforts collaborated in a true partnership. The Drosophila Board, representing the community of Drosophila researchers, sincerely thanks Celera Genomics, Inc. and the Drosophila Genome Projects for providi...$1.6 million in new grants to local schools will put more Maryland teens, teachers in research labs
...e Institute's grants programs comprise the largest private initiative to enhance the quality of science education in U.S. history. ...Fruit fly's genome sequence finished in record time: Physical maps are the key to accuracy
...tists,technicians, and students from 20 public and private institutionsin five countries. The collaboration was led by Gerald Rubin of the University ofCalifornia at Berkeley and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute(HHMI), who heads the Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project, and byJ. Craig Venter of Celera Genom......g, Va.) -- A research team representing public and private laboratories is developing a gel that will allow women to discreetly control their fertility and reduce the risk of infection from sexually transmitted diseases. The research was presented at the 219th American Chemical Society (ACS) National Meeting...Chytrid fungus associated with boreal toad deaths in Rocky Mountains
... dying toads were found in a population located on private lands west of Denver in May of 1999 by Colorado Division of Wildlife researchers. USGS pathologists identified chytrid fungus in many of the dead and living toads they examined from that site. Live toads show few clinical signs of the disease, but s...New USGS research shows how land use affects amphibians
...d management of farm ponds for use by contractors, private landowners, and state or federal agencies. Biologists from the U.S. Geological Survey are helping determine why amphibians are disappearing in the U.S. and across the globe. Research by these scientists and others has identified many deadly virus i...Nature's path leads scientists to new antibiotic strategy
...he Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation or WARF, a private not-for-profit organization that manages intellectual property on behalf of UW-Madison faculty and staff....Dietary changes don't prevent recurrent polyps, eight-center study shows
...atients, Cooper's team recruited participants from private practicing gastroenterologists in Forsyth County, Charlotte, Greensboro, Burlington and Statesville. Half the patients were assigned to the dietary group, half to a control group. The diet included five to eight servings of fruits and vegetables a ...Medical imaging shows dinosaur heart more like bird's or mammal's than reptile's
...Carolina State University, Kuzmitz, a physician in private practice, and Hammer, whose company is called Hammer and Hammer Paleotek. Four-chambered hearts deliver completely oxygenated blood to the body, which fuels the relatively fast metabolisms of birds and mammals. In contrast, living reptiles tend to be...Private and public insurance deny few services
...ured patients. Researchers found that although the private sector modestly outperformed the VA on most qualit...n, and the VA improved over time compared with the private sector. 1. ["Utilization Management in a Large Managed Behavioral Health Care Organization," by Ala...Chemical discovered that causes plant tumors
...iversity, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and a private company, will be published Tuesday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. There is no immediate commercial application that's apparent about this discovery, the researchers said, but the unusual capabilities of this group of chemica...By all measurements -- Indiana's forests are growing
...hty-five percent (85%) of these timberlands are in private ownership. Not only have the number of forested acres increased, but also the total number of trees increased to 2 billion. Based on Indiana's population in 1998, there are now 340 trees for each citizen. Since the last statewide inventory was perfo...Warman named to Hughes Institute
... Triangle Park, North Carolina, is an independent, private foundation dedicated to advancing the medical sciences by supporting research and other scientific and educational activities. The fund's current assets are in excess of $700 million and annual grants are approximately $47 million. ...UniStates, Tufts University collaborate on new technology
...irman of UniStates. "Together we plan to work with private industry and government to make consumer and industrial products nearly twice as strong and half as heavy." Owens, who invented this Reflexive Materials Technology ™ (RMT), will explain how the new technology will help improve fuel efficiency,...Spiders get better web sites by rising early
... thousands of individuals. But they need to have private space where each spider can build its own web within the colony," says Rayor. "This is a situation that many social animals -- from colonial seabirds to marine invertebrates -- need to deal with." Colonial spiders are orb-weavers, which means that o...Valuable Arabidopsis data released through unique public-private partership
...scientific programs at NCGR. "When the public and private data are combined, we have a better road map for getting to the actual genes, which is what we all want."...Welch Award honors 2 for unlocking nature's secrets
...tirement in 1992, he first continued research with private funding and currently is writing detailed reports ...dation is one of the oldest and largest sources of private funding for basic research in chemistry. Since its founding in 1954, it has provided more than $411 ......s a constructive model of interactions between the private biotechnology sector and academia. "While the funding for the large-scale acquisition of gene sequences was provided by ImClone Systems Incorporated, a New York-based biotechnology company, we all agreed from the beginning that both the actual seque......hes Medical Institute (HHMI), the nation's largest private supporter of science education from elementary school through postdoctoral studies. Ranging from $700,000 to $1.7 million, the new undergraduate awards are designed to help institutions that grant bachelor's and master's degrees respond to a recent ...