News conference on plant diseases and issues important to California
... ... ... ... Tomato Yellow Leaf...UCLA's California NanoSystems Institute partners with Abraxis BioScience
... Abraxis BioScience will collaborate with the institute and its team of leading researchers to capitalize on the recent explosion in nanoscience and to chart the future of nanotechnology within biotechnology. Abraxis has agreed to contribute $10 million over 10 years to fund collaborative projects at UCLAs new CNSI building. The...Expert to provide update after 'worst tomato virus' hits California
... In March 2007, the destructive virus was detected in tomato plants and whiteflies from a greenhouse...Plant diseases and issues that are of importance to California's economy and agriculture
Event:... ... ... Leading plant disease experts will provide an update on the followin...Californians urged to help reduce spread of Sudden Oak Death
... Sudden Oak Death is caused by the pathogen Phytophthora ramorum. P. ramorum also mani...Salmon tracking program expands to California
... The hope is to discover more about the distribution of salmon in the ocean so that fisheries managers can make in-season decisions and allow the harvest of healthy stocks while mitigating the harvest of weakened runs. The ultimate goal is to avoid shutting down the entire coastal fishery as happene...Regulating Californian stem cell research, and more
... ... In November 2004, California voters approved $3 billion over 10 years for public funding of stem cell research through the CIRM. In their policy paper in PLoS Medicine, Geoffrey Lomax,...Brown rot shrivels prune production in California
... ... "Brown rot...Disease opened door to invading species in California
... ... The study, published today in P...Altered ocean currents disturb ecosystem off Northern California and Oregon coast
In 2005, a delay in the arrival of a seasonal, nutrient-rich...ocean current off the coast of Northern California and Oregon led...to reduced influx of barnacle and mussel larvae to rocky shores,...researchers report. The coastal ecosystem off Northern California...and Oregon owes its richness to southward winds that move warm...ocean surface water offshore during the spring and summer. The...wa...California scientists find natural way to control spread of destructive Argentine ants
... The preliminary finding, by UCI organic chemist Kenneth Shea, evolutionary biologist Neil Tsutsui and graduate student Robert Sulc, was described today at the 232nd national meeting of the American Chemical Society, the world's lar...University of California, San Diego-led team discovers how we detect sour taste
... The study, featured on the cover of the August 24 issue of the journal Nature, reports that each of the five basic tastes is detected by distinct taste receptors--proteins that detect taste molecules--in dist...Researchers develop flood-tolerant California rice
... ...UCR researchers determine genetic origin of California wild radish
... The discovery is significant because the parental species were replaced by a...single, stable hybrid lineage in less than 100 years, an extremely short...interval in evolution. The researchers attribute th...Ancient raindrops reveal the origins of California's Sierra Nevada range
One of the longest ongoing controversies in Earth science concerns the age of California's Sierra Nevada, the tallest mountain range in the continental United States and site of Yosemite National Park, Lake Tahoe and other scenic wonders.... "The debate falls into two camps," said C. Page Chamberlain, professor of geological and environmental sciences at Stanford University. "One is that the mou...Overfishing puts Southern California kelp forest ecosystems at risk, report scientists
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) Kelp forest ecosystems that span the West Coast from Alaska to Mexico's Baja Peninsula are at greater risk from overfishing than from the effects of run-off from fertilizers or sewage on the shore, say scientists at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The findings have important implications for the design of California's Marine Protected Areas....... In an art...American and Dutch experts to discuss risk of catastrophic levee failure in California
The catastrophic failure of the New Orleans levee system during Hurricane Katrina, and the potential for similar disasters in California and other states, will be the focus of the seventh annual Shah Family Fund Lecture at 7:30 p.m. PDT (10:30 p/m. EDT) Wednesday, May 10, in Stanford University's Kresge Auditorium. The event, which will feature a panel of experts from the United States and the Ne...California researcher to receive prestigious award in biodiversity informatics
The 2006 Ebbe Nielsen Prize has been awarded to John Wieczorek of the University of California, Berkeley....... This annual Prize was established by the GBIF Governing Board to honor the memory of Dr. Ebbe Schmidt Nielsen, who was an inspirational leader in the fields of biosystematics and biodiversity informatics....... This Prize is the only one in the world that is given in the area of biodive...Early California: A killing field
"The wild geese and every species of water fowl darkened the surface of every bay in flocks of millions. When disturbed, they arose to fly. The sound of their wings was like that of distant thunder."... --George Yount, California pioneer, at San Francisco Bay in 1833... ... When explorers and pioneers visited California in the 1700s and early 1800s, they were astonished by the abundance of bird...Leading researchers from Israel and Southern California to present stem cell symposium
LOS ANGELES -- Experts in stem cell research and technology from Israel and Southern California will present a symposium on advances in stem cell biology and therapeutics Nov. 16 and 17 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles....... Wednesday's sessions are devoted to academic topics while Thursday's program focuses on corporate participation and investment opportunities that seek to tran...Seal rookeries could provide a reliable food source for endangered California condors, study finds
A team of scientists is proposing that endangered California condors raised in captivity be released near seal and sea lion rookeries so that the birds can once again feast on the carcasses of marine mammals as their ancestors did centuries ago....... The researchers from Stanford University and four other institutions base their conclusion on the feeding behavior of modern and early condors and...UCR environmental scientists propose chemical solution to cleaning California's Salton Sea
RIVERSIDE, Calif. UC Riverside scientists are able to improve water quality by 90 percent in the rivers flowing into the Salton Sea, the largest lake in California, by using two kinds of water-treatment chemicals that remove phosphorus and silt from the river water. ...... The researchers investigated the use of alum, a type of salt that has been used to treat phosphorus-rich lakes for decades. T...California's oak woodlands face a new threat: Climate change
SANTA CRUZ, CA--California's iconic oak woodlands have endured many assaults over the years--they've been cut for fuel, cleared for vineyards and housing developments, and their seedlings face intense grazing pressure and competition from invasive grasses. But the future will bring a new threat--climate change--which could drastically reduce the areas in which oaks can grow. ......Researchers at...California computer scientists double volume of data in NIH biotech repository
High-throughput sequencing of an individual's DNA yields a map of genetic variation which can give clues to the genetic underpinning of human disease. The current technologies collect genotypes, or information from the individual's two chromosomes. Yet many scientists believe that drilling down to the variations between individuals' DNA at the level of each chromosome -- so-called haplotypes --...USC recipient of stem cell training grants from California Institute for Regenerative Medicine
SACRAMENTO, California--The Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California has received a 3-year, $3.16 million stem cell training grant as part of the first round of grants awarded by the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM).... ...The Keck School's grant was called "very thoughtful" by CIRM's Research Funding Working Group and was one of many grants announced...Bird Society to meet at UC Santa Barbara, focus on ivory-billed woodpecker and California condor
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) A public presentation on the appearance of the ivory-billed woodpecker in the forest swamps of Eastern Arkansas will highlight the annual meeting of the American Ornithologists' Union (AOU) to be held at the University of California, Santa Barbara on Tuesday through Saturday, August 23 to 27. The remarkable bird was thought to be extinct for 60 years. ......The plenary ta...California Institute researchers unveil computer graphics innovations at SIGGRAPH
San Diego and Irving, CA, July 28, 2005 Nearly a dozen researchers affiliated with the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) are headed north to Los Angeles to participate in SIGGRAPH 2005. The leading annual conference and expo about computer graphics and interactive techniques takes place July 31 to August 4 at the L.A. Convention Center. This year's e...California researchers help map human genetic variation across populations
San Diego and Berkeley, CA, February 17, 2005 -- Computer scientists at two research centers affiliated with the University of California have teamed with biologists from Perlegen Sciences, Inc., to map key genetic signposts across three human populations. Their study published in the Feb. 18 issue of Science could make widely accessible the analysis of human variation based on whole-genome dat...New species of coral discovered off southern California
(Santa Barbara, Calif.) -- A new species of black coral has been discovered off southern California, including around the Channel Islands, by Milton Love, University of California, Santa Barbara marine researcher, and Mary Yoklavich of NOAA Fisheries. The discovery came during dives by the researchers in "Delta," the submersible. ...The new species, found at depths of approximately 300 to 725 fe...Sardines may prevent toxic gas eruptions off the California and African coasts
Milky, turquoise-colored "dead zones," some as large as the U.S. State of New Jersey, that are appearing repeatedly off the coast of southwest Africa, may be a sign of things to come for other areas of the coastlines of the eastern Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Toxic gas eruptions, bubbling up from the ocean floor, kill sea life, annoy human seaside residents, and may even intensify global warmin...Scientists discover unique microbe in California's largest lake
EUGENE, Ore.--Scientists at the University of Oregon have discovered a form of blue-green algae that lives independently in California's Salton Sea, using near-infrared light for photosynthesis, according to an article published in this week's online edition of the (PNAS)....... is unique because it is able to live on its own," says UO biology professor Michelle Wood. She obtained samples cont...