$3.5 million from Homeland Security for lie detection in the 21st century
...cers screen people more quickly and confidently at border crossings and ports of entry. The techniques could also bolster security for buildings such as embassies and help law enforcement personnel do more thorough interrogations. "Looking for what we call 'microexpressions' and 'microgestures' associated w...Institute of Medicine news: Quarantine stations at ports of entry
...c health departments and hospitals to customs and border protection agents, agriculture inspectors, and the U.S. departments of State and Homeland Security. Quarantine station personnel and the Division of Global Migration and Quarantine should shift their primary focus from inspecting people and cargo ...Study in Royal Society journal on possiblity of human organ regeneration
...ortation and settlement corridor just north of the border is fragmenting these international grizzly bear populations. Two of the resulting populations are small enough to warrant special conservation consideration as a result of this fragmentation. Contact: Dr MF Proctor, Biological Sciences, University o...El Carmen the first wilderness designation in Latin America
...he Sierra del Carmen, located at the international border between Mexico and the United States, is a spectacular, pristine environment with deep canyons and great walls that connect it to the Rio Grande Wild and Scenic River and the Big Bend National Park. This area is home to more than 500 plant species, 4...New technologies in the fight against terrorism
...tive physical security to explosives detection and border control; and how the Home Office works in partnership with other government departments, academia and particularly industry to meet operational needs. Global terrorism and its effects on R&D Sir John Chisholm, the Executive Chairman of QinetiQ, wi...Woods Hole Research Center scientist part of international initiatives to save the great apes
...-the Virunga Conservation area at the tri-national border of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, and Rwanda, and the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest in Uganda. The situation is no better in Southeast Asia, where industrial logging followed by industrial palm plantations has destroyed extensive track of or...Picky female frogs drive evolution of new species in less than 8,000 years
...rison, they looked at a second contact zone on the border between north and south, where frogs were not isolated from either lineage. "Reinforcement does not appear to occur at the more 'classic' contact between northern and southern lineages, and we speculate that this may be due to gene flow from the exte...Wild birds help to create human flu vaccine
...enza outbreak in Kovsgol Province near the Russian border from the Mongolian Ministry of Food and Agriculture, which conducted preliminary testing from the wild birds. The highly pathogenic avian flu-H5N1 finding was confirmed by the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Southeast Poultry Resea...UF study first to quantify validity of DNA I.D. tool using marine snails
...top the spread of invasive species, Meyer said. "A border guard may come across some eggs or larvae in an orange shipment and wonder if they are from a dangerous fruit fly or something else to be concerned about," he said. For that matter, this ability to detect species in earlier stages of development coul...Smithsonian guide to the biodiverse marine environment of Panama's Bocas del Toro
...vironment in Bocas del Toro Province near Panama's border with Costa Rica. With color photographic guide to marine invertebrates--the volume, edited by Dr. Rachel Collin, director STRI's research station in Bocas--debuts new species and new records for Panama and provides an essential reference for researc...Tumor cells that border normal tissue are told to leave
...ected. "In a tumor, probably 99.99 percent of the border cells are raining out of the edges and dying," Cagan says. "But as oncologists have found, cancer stems from an accumulation of genetic mutations. If one of these wandering cells acquires a second mutation that prevents cell death, it could go on to ...Researchers identify genes in fruitflies that may shed light on human cancer spread
...nes that are preferentially turned on in so-called border cells of the fruitfly ovary that migrate during no...o its membrane surface and back again. "So-called border cell migration shares common characteristics with metastatic cancer cells," says Xuejiao Wang, M.D.,...Albatross study shows regional differences in ocean contamination
...e ongoing use of these chemicals in countries that border the Pacific," Finkelstein said. The biggest current threat to albatross populations in the North Pacific is the longline fishing industry, which kills significant numbers of both black-footed and Laysan albatrosses. But the contaminants measured in ...Ancient DNA provides clues to the evolution of social behavior
...se owls have roosted in two caves near the Chilean border and regurgitated pellets of indigestible fur, bones and teeth while they rest. From these teeth, scientists can determine which rodent species lived in a roughly 3-mile radius of the cave at any given time. Using modern and ancient DNA from tuco-tuco...Damaged Iraq marshes show renewed signs of life
...to part of the last remaining natural marsh on its border with Iraq, reportedly so it can sell the water to Kuwait." Iraq and neighboring countries also must use available water more efficiently and cut waste if they are to protect the long-term health of the marshes, Richardson said. "For example, the cont...Mouse, frog and bird put Snail and Slug to different uses
...est cells are developmental cells that form at the border of the embryonic neural plate (a structure that later develops into the spinal cord and brain) during early embryo formation. In normal vertebrate development, these cells "delaminate," or separate, from the neural plate, migrate throughout the embry...Loosen up, DNA: Leukemia gene changes genetic packaging
...n active area, and sometimes inserting it near the border between the two regions. The team used the gene that controls eye color to check whether a given stretch of DNA was on or not. If the fly's eyes were red, the gene was turned on; if the fly's eyes were white, the gene was turned off. In flies with ...Case Western Reserve University paleontologist discovers South American mammal fossils
...a Honda and Rio Rosario areas of Bolivia, near the border with Argentina. They were found in an area much like the land formations that comprise the Badlands National Park in South Dakota where the earth is soil poor and comprised of silty clays, sand and gravel. The area, located at an altitude of approx...Virus has 'catastrophic' affect on red squirrels, research shows
...ally as it is now threatening to spread across the border to Scotland with severe consequences for red squirrel conservation there. He added: "We are not trying to wipe out the grey squirrel but as conservationists we have a duty to look after the red squirrel as it is a protected, native species. Small...Pollinators help one-third of the world's food crop production
...ds and native plants to grow and prosper along the border of the primary crop, she said. Such non-crop plants, which are currently killed off by herbicides, can sustain a variety of wild bee species when the primary crops are not in bloom. Another change could be to switch from flood irrigation, which dro...