Worm farmers wriggle into US market
... at Newcastle University in the UK, has launched a subsidiary at Franklin, Maine. Stocks and quality of 'wild' w...capital for a large-scale expansion programme. The subsidiary aims to build up annual production to 150 metric tons of ragworms (known as sandworms in the USA) -...Mantis shrimp fluoresce to enhance signaling in the dim ocean depths
... markets through a company he founded, NightSea, a subsidiary of Physical Sciences Inc. Mazel said that coral and squid and mantis shrimp aren't the only marine creatures that fluoresce: bristleworms, anemones and the occasional shrimp and fish also emit light, though probably not as a functional part of behavi...Researchers find key gene in production of egg and sperm
... and Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc., a DuPont subsidiary and the world's leading developer and supplier of advanced plant genetics, reported their findings in the Jan. 2 issue of Science. The goal of meiosis is to produce gametes - sperm or egg cells - with half the normal number of chromosomes, so that t...Maxygen subsidiary Verdia announces discovery and improvement of glyphosate tolerance gene
... Calif. May 20, 2004 Verdia Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Maxygen, Inc. (Nasdaq: MAXY), announced today t...ioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of DuPont (NYSE: DD). The report details the use of Maxygen's MolecularBreeding TM directed evolut...National Corn Growers Association announces valuable maize genome data now available to scientists
... today. Ceres, Inc., Monsanto Company, and DuPont subsidiary Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc., have transfer...nology.com Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc., a subsidiary of DuPont, is the world's leading source of customized solutions for farmers, livestock producers, a...For imitative parrots, wagging tongues may be key to vocalization
...s, so important in humans, was believed to be only subsidiary in birds, although it has been proposed that parrots, with their fleshy, highly movable tongue, might form an exception. In the new study, researchers Gabril Beckers, Brian Nelson, and Roderick Suthers from Indiana University show that tongue movemen...Study explores gene transfer to modify underlying course of Alzheimer's disease
...egene, Inc., based in San Diego, (a minority owned subsidiary of Cell Genesys, Inc.) the developer and manufacturer of CERE-110, is funding the study. Neurosurgery is required to precisely inject the drug into the nucleus basalis of Meynert on both sides of the brain. Dr. Roy Bakay, a Rush neurosurgeon and m...