Landmark gene agreement announced by Samoan government and UC Berkeley for anti-AIDS drug Prostratin
... informed consent of the chief's council from each village to assist in the research in return for a share of the Prostratin gene proceeds. Dr. Gaugau Tavana, a Samoan educator from the National Tropical Botanical Garden, presented a Samoan-language PowerPoint presentation on genetic engineering in each vill...Landmark agreement between Samoa and UC Berkeley could help search for AIDS cure
... informed consent of the chief's council from each village to assist in the research in return for a share of the Prostratin gene proceeds. Dr. Gaugau Tavana, a Samoan educator from the National Tropical Botanical Garden, presented a Samoan-language PowerPoint presentation on genetic engineering in each vill...Genes expose secrets of sex on the side
...ity, wherein women tended to move from their natal village to their husbands' village. If anything, men...n every port could have done it. Or it may be that village women snuck out for trysts with tall, dark strangers. Either way, Y chromosomes got around. ...Herpes tool allows researchers to customize Alzheimer's vaccine
...d Security, other federal agencies not to mention village and city police, county sheriffs, state police, security guards at airports, Federal marshals on airplanes, and so on. If a known terrorist is known to be on board a jet over the Pacific, asking police in thousands of towns around the nation to set u...Earstones tell fishes' tale of early life in the Colorado River estuary
.... "San Felipe used to be just an ephemeral fishing village for totoaba," Rowell said. "They used to ship them...l Golfo de Santa Clara, Mexico, the little fishing village at the mouth of the Colorado. Obtaining totoaba otoliths was trickier. Scripps Institute of Oceanogr...Chronic respiratory symptoms prevalent among Alaska natives
...ctive cough was nearly three times as prevalent in village students than students living in town. Conversely, students living in town were more than two times as likely to suffer from asthma and asthma-like symptoms than students in villages. Overall, students with respiratory symptoms were more likely tha...World's oldest modern hummingbirds described in Science
...four-centimeter-long skeletons, unearthed near the village of Frauenweiler in southern Germany, provides a glimpse into the lives of birds that died near a sea that dried up long ago. Scientists have recovered other land birds as well as marine birds, turtles, large sharks, bats and many plants from the same...Mexican farmers effectively cultivate phenotypic diversity in maize
...eity between the maize populations within the same village and, more surprisingly, between distant villages. This means that the local varieties possess a common genetic base. The diversity observed in characters of direct pertinence to farmers would consequently be the result of the latter's personal decisi...Oldest known evidence of cat taming found in Cyprus, researchers report in Science
...d the burial in Shillourokambos, a large Neolithic village inhabited between 8,300 and 7,000 B.C., which has been excavated under the direction of Jean Guilaine of the Collge de France. The researchers found a human grave containing a variety of polished stones, tools, jewelry and other items believed to be...Oil exploitation in Ecuador's Amazon basin produces a 'public health emergency'
...nificantly higher rates of cancer among males in a village located in an oil-producing area. Another study, carried out in 2000, examined the differences in cancer rates over the period of 1985 to 1998 in the Ecuadorian Amazon and found a significantly higher overall incidence of cancers in both men and wome...Desert science center aims to bridge rift between Jordan and Israel
...transformed into a thriving science and technology village dedicated to studying the unique ecology of the Dead Sea region. The high-tech center will symbolically straddle the border so that half of the facility is in Israel and half is in Jordan. Government officials, academicians and business leaders from ...'Homegrown' relief for victims of arsenic poisoning in South Asia
...97, his system has been installed in more than 100 village drinking wells near the cities of Howrah and Calcutta in West Bengal. Arsenic levels in the filtered wells have plummeted from toxic rates of 100 to 500 parts per billion, SenGupta says, to well below the 50-ppb maximum permitted by the Indian govern...Expedition will retrace legendary Steinbeck-Ricketts voyage to the Sea of Cortez
...parts conducting field studies in the Baja fishing village of Santa Rosalia worry that a similar problem could lead to the collapse of the jumbo Humboldt squid population - now the third largest fishery in Mexico by tonnage, behind tuna and sardines, and fourth in value. When Steinbeck and Ricketts sailed ...Pesticide delays sexual maturation
...strawberries. Researchers evaluated 117 boys in a village where endosulfan has been aerially sprayed for mor...than 20 years and 90 comparable boys from a nearby village with no such exposure history. For each group, the researchers performed physical examinations and r......d and on Monday three firemen were killed near the village of Grimaud, just to the right of the lowest charred area of woodland. Earlier in the week the blaze was being fanned by strong coastal winds but these have calmed in more recent days. This new Riviera fire is the latest in what has been a disastrous...Popular Science announces second annual 'Brilliant 10:' the country's top young scientists
...oked to the battery of her dusty Land Rover near a village in the Ngorongoro district of Tanzania. From the genes of living people, she divines the story of human origins. Victor Velculescu, 33, John Hopkins University, for his work in the field of genomics. Velculescu's maverick approach is ushering in a n...17-year study confirms that lead in the soil descends slowly
... a heavily forested, undeveloped mountain near the village of Huntington, Vt. They took soil samples at the site, which is about 200 hundred yards off of a popular hiking trail at an elevation of about 3,300 feet, and brought them to the lab at Dartmouth for analysis. "We found that the lead 207 applied in 1...160,000-year-old fossilized skulls from Ethiopia are oldest modern humans
...humans, or Homo sapiens. The skulls, dug up near a village called Herto, fill a major gap in the human fossil record, an era at the dawn of modern humans when the facial features and brain cases we recognize today as human first appeared. The fossils date precisely from the time when biologists using genes t...Eating bats linked to neurological disease
... many of Guam's Chamorro people up to a third per village -- suffered a devastating neurological disease. A ...e-foot wing span, are served at Chamorro weddings, village fiestas and religious events. The preparation is simple: wash and boil whole, and then eat the entir...... loss. The team has 40 professional members (plus village staff) in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Philippines, Portugal, U.K., and U.S.A. Project Seahorse has also managed projects in South Africa and Vietnam, and collaborates with colleagues in many more countries. It is based in Vancouver, Canada, at the ...