Columbia offers new ecology program in Dominican Republic
... appreciation of the essential nature biodiversity worldwide plays in their daily lives, we will have accomplished our mission." Don Melnick, Executive Director of CERC said "Ted Kheel's timely and generous support has given CERC the opportunity to develop the SEE-U program in a new location, giving students t...Anthropologist predicts major threat to species within 50 years
...e numbers of threatened species at least 7 percent worldwide in the next 20 years and twice that many by the year 2050. In a recent model of the impact human population growth has on biological diversity, Ohio State University anthropologist Jeffrey McKee and his colleagues warn that the United States alone wi...Twice as many predicted genes in 'finished' rice chromosome
...freely available on the internet to all scientists worldwide are expected to help plant scientists develop improved rice strains that are hardier and more productive. The draft sequence also provides an important tool for scientists who focus their research on other cereal crops (including maize, wheat and ba...Dr. Robert Langer, distinguished leader in the field of biomedical engineering, to lecture at NIH
...(2002) selected Langer as one of the 15 innovators worldwide who will reinvent our future. Time Magazine and CNN (2001) named Langer as one of the 100 most important people in America and one of the 18 top people in science or medicine in America. He has served at various times, on 12 boards of directors and...Engineering a solution to waste crisis
...ch domestic waste; secondly, it helps overcome the worldwide depletion of soil quality; thirdly, it reduces emissions of methane the highly aggressive greenhouse gas produced by landfill disposal; and fourthly, it will help save peat beds which are threatened because of their use as a fertiliser." The compos...Consumer education and development of bio-sensitive alternatives can revive the plastics industry
...al of the plastics packaging industry. "The annual worldwide production of plastics stands at 100 million tons, and even developed countries such as the U.S. recycle only about 27 percent of plastic wastes," says Technical Insights Analyst Don Rosato. "Over the last year, countries including Taiwan, Australia,...University of Idaho, Utah State University team first to clone equine
...o-Utah State University research team is the first worldwide to clone a member of the horse family, a mule, acc...e team is the first to succeed among several teams worldwide attempting to clone a member of the horse family. The 2002 preliminary testing showed the method dev...Brookhaven Lab & Battelle collaborate on research that may lead to novel anti-microbial drugs
...ed, "The development of antibiotic resistance is a worldwide medical threat. The goal is to use our business strategy and technology innovation competencies to identify the path forward for delivery of anti-microbial compounds and technologies. Ultimately, the success of this program is based on the enzyme str...Scientists use DNA fragments to trace the migration of modern humans
...rom one another genetically, and that contemporary worldwide populations descend from one or very few of those populations," said Marcus W. Feldman, the Burnet C. and Mildred Finley Wohlford Professor at Stanford and co-author of the study. The small size of our ancestral population may explain why there is so...Even 'non-destructive' fishing can threaten coral reef fish
.... Coral reefs have the greatest diversity of fish worldwide and many species are unique to particular reefs. Prized for their bright colors, coral reef fish are harvested by the hundreds of thousands each year. While non-destructive fishing methods are clearly an improvement over cyanide and dynamite, they ar...Just how many species are there, anyway?
...ed. This could "at last enable ecology to estimate worldwide species diversity," say Michael Rosenzweig, Will T...the correct answer for the total number of species worldwide lies between 2 and 100 million," says Rosenzweig. To help find a way to assess biodiversity in larg...Vanderbilt, Meharry establish new Center for AIDS Research
... associate director. The ultimate solution to the worldwide AIDS epidemic is a vaccine that can prevent HIV infection. Vanderbilt is heavily committed to that effort, too. "While we're working toward that long-term goal, (we need to) keep improving therapy so that (AIDS) really can become a controllable disea...Michigan solar car ready to shine
...pus. Dubbed SpectruM, this year's car is part of a worldwide effort to highlight alternative energy sources and build vehicles that run solely on solar energy. Following a two-year design and racing cycle, SpectruM represents Michigan's seventh entry since joining the sport in 1989. In the last cycle, Michigan...Hemocellular Therapeutics establishes licensing agreement with UNC, ECU
...ken place at that lab. "The Francis Owen lab has a worldwide reputation in the field of coagulation therapeutics. We are extremely fortunate to have researchers affiliated with this lab informing our efforts to bring this technology to health-care settings as rapidly and responsibly as possible," he said. B...Max Planck supports open access to research
...heir institution's research freelyavailable to the worldwide scientific community, and to thetaxpayers that fun...l reports that Germanyis in the top five countries worldwide in terms of both theirsubmissions and publication, along with the USA, the UK andCanada. German scie...Clinical study reports findings of combination therapy with DOXIL
...& Johnson. Since that time, Ortho Biotech and its worldwide affiliates have earned a global reputation for researching, manufacturing and marketing innovative healthcare products that extend and enhance the quality of patients' lives. Ortho Biotech, now headquartered in Bridgewater, New Jersey, is committed ...Greenhouse gas might green up the desert
... Negev research station is the most arid site in a worldwide network (FluxNet) established by scientists to investigate carbon dioxide absorption by plants. The Weizmann team found, to its surprise, that the Yatir forest is a substantial sink (CO2-absorbing site): its absorbing efficiency is similar to that o...UCR scientists modify existing chemical scrubber to environmentally friendly, all-natural filter
...es that 25 to 40 percent of the chemical scrubbers worldwide could be converted to biotrickling filters," said Deshusses, "it would represent a total market of $1-3 billion and would result in net energy and chemical savings of approximately $0.25-2 billion per year."...Johns Hopkins researchers devise methods to evaluate disaster drills
... In the past decade, an estimated 2 billion people worldwide have been affected by disasters, with natural disasters alone causing 666,000 deaths, Green says. The frequency of disasters is increasing, he says, with approximately one disaster a week somewhere in the world requiring major relief activities. Di......any extinctions are occurring worldwide and tie it to the impact of human populations." Part of the problem, he believes, is our short-term orientation. "Human beings have evolved to notice things that are ...