Scientists Identify Retrovirus-Like Components In Corn Genome
.... "If these retrovirus agents are there, but don't succeed in making the plants sick, there's a possibility that maize has developed a mechanism to defeat them in some way." His group now is initiating studies to determine whether any of these mobile DNA segments are in fact fragments of infectious retroviru...Rice Names Matthews Dean Of Natural Sciences
... Rice." The selection of Matthews to succeed Kinsey came after an extensive search by a committee chaired by Rudolph, professor of biochemistry and cell biology at Rice. "We had a good number of outside applicants," Rudolph said, "and four pe...UD Education News: HHMI Award Supports Undergraduate Discovery
... independently. They won't be able to hold jobs or succeed ingraduate school if they don't know how to find answers." HHMI award at work Over the next four years, the $1.6 million HHMI grant will support: (1)interdisciplinary research projects by undergraduates, including minoritystudents; (2) outreach eff...New Worlds Of Order, Argentine Ants Succeed By Outnumbering The Competition
... to either search for food or fight, andcould only succeed at one task by sacrificing the potential success of theother. In contrast, the Argentine ants were not subject to this trade-off. "These findings imply that Argentine ants secure a majority of available foodresources where they come into contact...Researchers Find Genetic Connection To Cigarette Smoking
...some point in their lives,only 20 percent actually succeed in quitting, say researchers. In theirarticle, "A Genetic Association for Cigarette Smoking Behavior," Dean H.Hamer, Ph.D., of the National Cancer Institute and colleagues found fromexamining 1,107 nonsmokers, current smokers and former smokers that ...Managing For Deer, Moose, Elk, Wolves -- And People
...bout what is being tested and how the policy might succeed or fail. And although it is often discussed in reference toelk management, the policy was actually employed as a multifaceted attempt torestore a kind of ecological equity to management of Yellowstone's plant andanimal communities. In the opinion o...Researchers Find Fas Ligand Is Important In Blinding Disease
...plain why the vast majority of corneal transplants succeed evenwithout anti-rejection drugs. In the lab, he also has found FasL in other partsof the eye. "It's very interesting," he explained. "Fas ligand is located in all ofthe areas where there's the potential for interaction between the eye and th...UF Researcher: Athletes Likely To Have Symptoms Of Eating Disorders
...rders stem from qualitiesthat also drive people to succeed in sports competition, such asperfectionism, compulsiveness, self-motivation and high achievementexpectations. "This is a very prevalent problem in athletics," said Marie Chafe, theexecutive director of the Altamonte Springs-based International Assoc...Unprecedented View Of RNA Structure Captured
...hatit was a horrendous problem, and even if we did succeed in creating a model,there would be no way to tell if we were right." A collaboration with a group from the National Institutes of Health also failedbecause the data from nuclear magnetic resonance experiments could not beinterpreted for an RNA of the...New study establishes when pregnancy starts
...nite, hesaid. Many fertilized eggs, however, never succeed in clinging to the uterinewall where they can grow into an embryo, fetus and, eventually, a baby. "This is the first really concrete information we have about whenpregnancy starts in humans - how long after fertilization does pregnancy begin,...Natural repellant in Spanish cedar leaves could help tropical forests
...us. Ifplantation-raised timber production does not succeed already endangered primaryforests are threatened even further, the scientists note. "The four compounds we identified are new to science," said Philip C. Stevenson,Ph.D., natural product chemist at the Jodrell Laboratory of the Royal BotanicGardens a...USGS studies wildfire ecology in the western United States
...urning, highly successful in some forests, may not succeed in other habitats. The challenge for managers seeking to restore more normal fire dynamics to a particular region is indeed, as Allen observes, to know something about fire: how fire has historically affected the local system, and how it functio...... from gaining the knowledge and skills they needto succeed in a world that relies increasingly on science and technology, saidthe American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in a resolutionpassed by its Board of Directors that condemns the decision. The Kansas rulingwill also make it more dif...SPIRE seeks to boost young scientists' job prospects, minority science education
... are not receiving the broad training they need to succeed in today's complex, competitive science community,...y usually are not exposed to many skills needed to succeed in the professional community. Pharmaceutical research and development organizations and other high...Peter H. Raven voted president-elect of AAAS
...t university's Museum of Comparative Zoology, will succeed M. R. C. Greenwood, Ph.D., chancellor of the University of California at Santa Cruz, as chair....New Orleans ... the new Atlantis?
... is sufficiently intact for restoration efforts to succeed in managing the problem. They, along with other University of New Orleans scientists, continue to work in close concert with state and federal agencies to create, evaluate, and monitor restoration strategies and coastal management solutions. There wo......against inflammatory gout, may succeed by destabilizing the microtubules, thereby releasing more Smad proteins and enhancing the TGF-beta pathway. "We've shown that the functions of the TGF-beta pathway and t...Team finds cell gene that helps viruses multiply
...cal RNA virus has a half-a-dozen genes, and to succeed in life it needs to commandeer resources from the host cell it infects. "By using some of the cell's machinery, viruses can copy their genomes and make viral proteins to be assembled into new virus particles which, in turn, go on ...Chemical discovered that causes plant tumors
...duces the chance that the pea weevil will actually succeed in infesting a pea."It's pretty obvious this is a natural defense mechanism that the pea plants have developed, and for purposes of survival in nature, it works pretty well," said Robert Doss, a plant physiologist with the USDA Agricultural Research ...UNC-CH researchers to study social effects of N.C. hurricane
...s in the future, said Dr. Kenneth Bollen, who will succeed Reed as director in July. "The response of our faculty and graduate students to this event has been impressive," Bollen said. "The institute is funding work ranging from Geographic Information System (GIS) assessments of flood damage to oral history...