Houston minority graduation rises in sciences, engineering as result of UH-led alliance
...sion for phase II to serve as a national model and resource for other academic institutions. Currently, the University of Houston leads the consortium of six universities and two community colleges in the H-LSAMP, consisting of UH, Texas Southern University, UH-Downtown, UH-Victoria, Rice University, Texas S...NIH awards $18.2m to The Burnham Institute to develop Center on Proteolytic Pathways
...lected The Burnham Institute to develop a national resource for medical researchers to be known as the "Center on Proteolytic Pathways". A team directed by The Burnham's Jeffrey Smith, Ph.D., will receive $18.2 million over the next five years to develop this unique research hub. The Center will consolidate...New Arizona State center brings science to policy on issues of water resources and urban growth
...fe and growth in the desert "DCDC will be a vital resource to study the rich history and impact of water management on the growth of Phoenix and the Valley, and it will help us better understand how we manage growth and sustainability of a dynamic and thriving region in the U.S.," said Charles Redman, co-dir...USAID, Conservation International & Starbucks launch Conservation Coffee Alliance in Central America
...s goals. The long-term objective is to broaden the resource base available to support small-scale coffee farmers and biodiversity conservation and enhance the ability to drive meaningful and measurable changes within the coffee industry. "One of Starbucks highest priorities is working with farmers and their...'Gene chips' research in cotton could lead to superior variety
...collectively develop a high-quality DNA microarray resource that is open and accessible to the cotton community. The microarrays will eventually include all favorable genes from cotton researchers so they can be used in cotton breeding and field applications. "This project represents a clear e...'Smart antibiotics' may result from UCLA research
...ial agents. This could provide us with a renewable resource of smart antibiotics for treating bacterial diseases," said Miller, a member of both UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine and the UCLA College. "It's a bit ironic that viruses can be used to cure bacterial diseases," said Asher Hodes, a UCLA gra...Scientists discover potential new way to control drug-resistant bacteria
...ial agents. This could provide us with a renewable resource of smart antibiotics for treating bacterial diseases." Dr. Miller says that he and his team are continuing to study this genetic mechanism to learn more about its biochemical properties and to determine whether higher forms of life have similar...The book opens on the first tree genome
... sequence will provide researchers with a critical resource to develop faster growing trees, trees that produc... Centre, collected an expressed sequence tag (EST) resource necessary for accurate gene prediction. The total investment in the Swedish Populus program exceeds ...Environmental issues center of Inland Northwest Research Alliance 4th Annual Symposium
...r. The fourth annual symposium highlighted natural resource issues that are part of every day debates in the Pacific Northwest. Other topics included national and international research conducted in the areas of environmental science and subsurface science as they relate to the areas of energy, nuclear and na...Information system to help scientists analyze mechanisms of social behavior
...k Information Systems (CANIS) Laboratory, a campus resource for new information systems. "Worries abound over the ethical implications of genetic determinism," he said. "The goal of BeeSpace is to help forge a deeper understanding of the relationship between genes and behavior that transcends nature-nurture....Gene expression in liver tumors and patient prognosis
...ced an extremely large data set that is a valuable resource for many kinds of studies. "Lee et al. focused on unsupervised clustering and prognosis, but there are numerous other important questions that could be approached with further analysis of their comprehensive data sets," writes Locker. "Mos...ConocoPhillips & Conservation International launch 'Biodiversity Action Plan' in Venezuela
...best operational practices and supporting improved resource management; Development of improved practices...the AquaRAP and workshop not only promote improved resource management and conservation efforts in the Corocoro concession, but in other areas in the Gulf of Pa...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, September 2004
...4399; cabagewh@ornl.gov ] ENERGY -- An untapped resource . . . Natural methane hydrate deposits offer a potentially vast source of energy, greatly surpassing all known fossil fuel resources, but many questions and challenges remain before these deposits can be tapped. Clathrate hydrates, which consist o...Virginia Tech researchers to release findings on Smith River Project
...ity to develop an enviable greenway and attractive resource that will bring revenue to the area because of the unique and rare opportunity for high quality trout fishing in this locality," said Orth....Pacific Northwest National Laboratory gets $10 million from NIH to build virtual lung
...rded more than $10 million to establish a national resource center for proteomics research. ( http:// www.pnl.gov/news/2003/03-37.htm .)...Better living through urban ecology
...we look ahead to concerns about protecting natural resource sustainability, the critical role of BES research cannot be overstated." People are a major component of urban ecology and BES works to forge strong bonds with Baltimore residents, leaders and governmental agencies. Renewed funding will aid outreach ...Improving crops without genetic modification natural variation holds the key
...Natural biodiversity is an unexploited sustainable resource that can enrich the genetic basis of cultivated plants," they explain in the report. First Gur and Zamir identified genomic regions in wild tomato species that affect yield, by creating a population of hybrid crosses of a wild tomato species and a c...Illustrated guidebook published for Chinese biomedical scientists and students
...ok, which we are confident will be a very valuable resource for scientists from China and Taiwan. The Director of the Beijing Genomics Institute, Huanming Yang, describes it as a wonderful tool for learning gene technology. And we are fortunate to have partnered with a leading Chinese publisher, Science Pres...Restoring sweetgrass to the South Carolina lowcountry
...lves opens up more possibilities for managing this resource in the future."......illa, M.D., Ph.D., Professor at ECLAMC, a genetic resource facility in Brazil, as well as to a collaboration between Andrew Lidral, D.D.S., Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Orthodontics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, and Mauricio Arcos-Burgos, M.D., Ph.D., at the University of Antioquia, Medellin, ...