New Forest Owners Prefer Enjoying Their Land Over Working It
...oximately 55 percent of the nation's timber supply provided byprivate landowners, 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 is a decrease in the average size of aprivate owner's land holding. Survey ...Chinese And US Scientists Identify The World's Oldest Flowering Plant
...seeds that were preserved in the fossil. The seeds provided solid proof that this was, indeed, a flowering plant. "If we hadn't gotten a seed out of this thing, we couldn't say what we're saying," Dilcher said. Because only part of the plant was fossilized much of its appearance remains a mystery. "We don't...Fall Meeting: Updated Press Conference Schedule
...staurant, for speedier service. (Box lunch on bus provided by AGU; dinner is no-host.) This event will be held rain or shine. Return to Moscone Center and major downtown hotels approximately 8:00-9:00 PM. If you are already signed up, you should have received an e-mail with the detailed itinerary. If you did...UCSF Study Finds No Association Between Hair Dye And Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
...ic techniques. Epidemiological studies have provided conflicting reports regarding theassociation between hair color use and cancer, Holly said. While earlylaboratory animal studies found that many hair color products were carcinogenicto varying degrees, subsequent research on hair color components fou......ton University, St. Louis. Funding for thework was provided by the National Institutes of Health. The University of Pennsylvania Medical Center's sponsored research andtraining ranks third in the United States based on grant support from theNational Institutes of Health, the primary funder of biomedic...New Evidence Points To Role For Free Radicals In Alzheimer's Disease
...boratory medicine at Penn. Funding for the workwas provided by the National Institutes of Health. The University of Pennsylvania Medical Center's sponsored research andtraining ranks third in the United States based on grant support from theNational Institutes of Health, the primary funder of biomedic...UC Scientists Search For Alternatives For Methyl Bromide
...uried drip irrigation in five-gallon containers provided better weed control than top irrigation. For more information contact Wilen at (619) 694-2846, cawilen@ucdavis.edu . Tip by John Stumbos, (530) 754-9554, jdstumbos@ucdavis.edu . Alternate Irrigation Practices could Save Pear Orchards Oak r......'ll haveeverything but the kitchen sink." Services provided by the new glovebox will include electrical power,...t side of the rack will be filled with experiments provided by NASA'sSpace Product Development Program which is working with industry to developcommercial appli...International Genome Team Deciphers Genetic Instructions For A Complete Animal
...t worked eight years tocomplete the job. "We have provided biologists with a powerful new tool toexperiment with and learn how genomes function. We'll be able to ask-andanswer-questions we could never even think about before." John Sulston, who led the Medical Research Council group at the Sanger Centre,sai...Elementary Students Mapping Virginia Wildlife
... needed. VirginiaTech's Museum of Natural History provided bird specimens to help the childrenlearn to identify different species. College of Forestry and Wildlife Resources students are continuing tohelp with classroom instruction on wildlife mapping and lead the fieldexpedition groups. The first...Science Announces Top Ten Research Advances Of 1998
...ng universe, twointernational teams of astronomers provided a glimpse into the destiny of theuniverse when the...ecular Mimicry: This year two teams of researchers provided the firstevidence of a link between autoimmune disorders and infections such as Lymedisease or herpe...Leibniz Prize Winners 1999 - Most Highly Endowed German Promotional Prize For Ten Scientists
...mentwill receive DM 1.5 million. The funds will be provided for research workconducted over a period of five y...heLeibniz Prize which is financed by special funds provided by the Federal andstate governments. About 180 proposals had been submitted by scientific higher edu...Wistar Institute Professor Named First Koprowski Professor
...t and William Levy,and The Wistar Institute, which provided matching funds. Designed to honor outstanding scientists at The Wistar Institute, the endowedprofessorship is named for Dr. Hilary Koprowski, an eminent virologist andimmunologist who was Wistar's Director from 1957 until 1991. "I recruited Dr. Tri...AHA Issues Scientific Statement On Infective Endocarditis
...eart to detect infection. Previous AHA statements provided guidelines for preventing endocarditis andtreating the more common forms. The new guidelines, however, includeinformation about treating some of the more unusual causes of IE such asLegionella, a bacteria that can develop in individuals who have pro...Gene Therapy Incorporates Molecular Rheostat For Controlled, Long-Term Drug Delivery
...nklin Cerasoli Jr., PhD. Support for the study was provided by theNational Institutes of Health, ARIAD Pharmaceuticals, and Genovo Inc....Changes In Resting Energy Expenditure After Weight Loss In Obese African American And White Women
...ck than white women in the U.S. Oneexplanation is provided in this study showing that Black women on reducing diets lost less weight while burning less resting energy than white women....Groundwater Remediation: New Tool Offers Improvement
...ns that aresignificantly less expensive than those provided by traditional designapproaches. "In previous approaches where optimization has been used for remediationsystem design, cleanup goals were specified as static constraints," he says."This project will involve the direct incorporation of risk a...Center Set Up To Evaluate Evidence Of Chemical Threats To Human Reproduction
...ndria, VA 22314-2808. Oversight will be provided through the NTP Board of ScientificCounselors, a chartered peer review group of scientific experts primarily fromoutside government.......) has identifiedthe major parts of this system and provided important pieces in the puzzle ofhow plant cells communicate with each other. Plant cells need to communicate with one another to coordinate development ofthe plant as a whole. For decades, scientists have known that plants move auxinfrom its site of...Wolf Prize In Medicine Awarded To Kandel, Columbia's Pioneer Of Memory Research
...ail's learning could change thatcircuit. The work provided the first evidence that learning and memory involvechanges in the strength of synapses, connections between nerves, and thatlearning could be traced as a specific series of biological signals. Professor Kandel went on to find that long-term m...