Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute sign agreement...
Blacksburg, Va., USA and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 2, 2006, The Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBI) at Virginia Tech and the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ) today signed an agreement to accelerate the development of new health products and technologies. The initial three-year agreement is intended to facilitate the development of drugs, vaccines, diagnostics and other technologies that...Eighteen researchers selected as 2006 Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellows
Eighteen environmental researchers have been awarded Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellowships for 2006. Fellows receive intensive communication and leadership training to help them deliver scientific information more effectively to policymakers, the media, business leaders and the public....... Based at Stanford University's Woods Institute for the Environment, the Aldo Leopold Leadership Program each...Aldo Leopold leadership program moves to Stanford University and awards new fellowships for 2005
The Aldo Leopold Leadership Program, which trains academic environmental scientists to communicate effectively to non-scientists, has relocated to Stanford University. The program had been based at the New England Aquarium in Boston before joining the Stanford Institute for the Environment earlier this year....... Debbie Drake Dunne, former director of government relations for the Nature Conserva...A new reference standard from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) may help genetics labs develop improved methods of searching for a mutant needle in a DNA haystack.... ...A single DNA molecule carrying part of a person's genetic code is a chain of basic chemical units called nucleotides. The number of nucleotides can range from about 16,500 in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) to s...