Proteaceae spread by continental drift and transoceanic dispersal
... bird-pollinated group of Proteaceae in Australia, coincides with the estimated age of the Honey-eaters, Australian nectar-feeding birds. Nigel Barker, the first author of the work enthuses this study is the culmination of 11 years of work. I generated much of the data while working with Peter Weston at the ...Bernese Mountain Dogs prone to Borrelia burgdorferi infection
... incidence of B. burgdorferi infection may mean it coincides with glomerulonephritis without being the cause of the disease. The Bernese Mountain Dog is a farm dog and originally came from Berne in Switzerland. The dogs are known for intense breeding and their narrow gene pool, which makes them especially susc...Scientific American launches innovative new version of magazine
...ssue includes new advertisers, and its publication coincides with the announcement of a circulation rate base increase. As part of its cross-platform strategy, the July issue will also include the article, An Earth Without People, which began as a podcast interview on Scientific Americans website with Alan W...Departure to cold water corals and other 'hot spots'
... part of the European HERMES project. This project coincides with the International Polar Year, and aims to contribute to the knowledge on species diversity, structure, function and dynamics of different ecosystems along the coastline of the European continent. The results may help to influence future guidelin...2007 Joint Assembly in Acapulco -- press conference schedule
... Laurentide Ice Sheet 12,900 years ago. The timing coincides with a great die-off of mammoths and other North American megafauna and the onset of a period of cooling in Northern Europe and elswhere known as the Younger Dryas Event. Speakers will discuss numerous lines of evidence contributing to the impact hyp...Seeing the trees for the forest: WHRC scientists creating national biomass and carbon dataset
... the two-year (May 2007-2009) production phase and coincides with the formal receipt of additional funding from NASA's Terrestrial Ecology Program. All NBCD2000 data products will be made available for download on a zone-by-zone basis and free of charge from the Seamless Data Distribution System operated by t...Academy paleontologist and Alaska artist in line for natural history awards
... June 1 during the Academy's annual meeting, which coincides with the Academy members' preview party for the Amazon Voyage exhibit. The meeting and the party, featuring Brazilian music and dancing by Minas, is not open to the general public. The public opening of Amazon Voyage will be Saturday, June 2, at 10 a...US conservation efforts bring more marine turtles to UK
...tings of this species returned in the 1990s, which coincides with the increasing use of turtle excluder devices in shrimp nets in US and Mexican waters. Both species occurred in western parts of the UK and France, including a number of sightings off the coasts of North-West Scotland, Wales, Devon and Cornwall....US conservation efforts bring more marine turtles to UK
...tings of this species returned in the 1990s, which coincides with the increasing use of turtle excluder devices in shrimp nets in US and Mexican waters. Both species occurred in western parts of the UK and France, including a number of sightings off the coasts of North-West Scotland, Wales, Devon and Cornwall....Atlas of Science Literacy completes mapping of science-learning pathways
...es among the teachers." The release of Atlas 2 coincides with new challenges for teachers and a renewed interest in U.S. science education, said NSTA President Linda Froschauer, an eighth-grade teacher in Weston, Conn. Beginning with the 2007-2008 school year, for example, the No Child Left Behind Act will...Pacific Rim researchers to collaborate on distributed bioinformatics analysis of avian flu
...ource sharing. The announcement of the TATRC award coincides with PRAGMA 12, which runs March 20-22 in Bangkok, Thailand. The meeting is hosted by Thailands National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC), and the Thai National Grid Center (TGNC). Five non-U.S. partners have pledged to fund coll...Researchers at IRB Barcelona discover a new mechanism that regulates stem cell division
...gh the centrosomes once they are both in position, coincides perfectly with the orientation in which the stem cell must divide to guarantee the asymmetry of daughter cells. The intracellular asymmetry of two functionally distinct centrosomes is a decisive factor in the regulation of asymmetric stem cell divisi...Leukemia drug turns mini-molecules up, cancer genes down
...icular miRNAs in leukemia cells and that this rise coincides with a fall in activity of two important cancer-causing genes. The three are identified as miRNA-15b, miRNA-16-1 and let-7. Two of these, miRNA-15b and miRNA-16-1, reduce the activity of the Bcl-2 gene, which is over-active in many kinds of cancer. ...Wiley Foundation announces recipients of 6th annual Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences
...ath. The presentation of this sixth annual award coincides with the beginning of the global publisher's year-long bicentennial celebration. Founded in lower Manhattan in 1807, Wiley helped to establish a distinctly American literary tradition by publishing such authors as James Fenimore Cooper, Washington Ir...Method devised for diagnosis of ocular diseases
...one in every two thousand persons and generally it coincides with puberty. Keratoconus does not follow any known geographical cultural or social pattern. Conjunctivochalasis is the relaxation of the bulbar conjunctive capable of creating conjunctive folds over the lower palpebral rim. Progress of the rese...Squirrels winning at outwitting trees' survival strategy
...sons of low food supply.But a population boom that coincides with a seed boom is brilliant. More food means more places for juvenile squirrels to set up shop. "What we've shown is that the squirrels also are playing an adaptive strategy," McAdam said. "They're not just following along; they're making reproduct...454 Life Sciences and Max Planck publish sequence of one million base pairs
... 20 System are 100-200 base pairs in length, which coincides neatly with the length of ancient DNA fragments....New genetic analysis forces re-draw of insect family tree
... Genome issue of the journal Genome Research which coincides with Nature's publication of the honey bee genome sequence (also Thursday 26 October 2006). The results are based on an analysis of the same 185 genes found in the genomes of eight different insect families, which together represent 45 per cent of...Carbon capture, water filtration, other boreal forest ecoservices worth estimated $250 billion/year
..." Anielski says. The goal of the Congress, which coincides with Canada's National Forest Week (Sept. 24-30), is to advance an integrated, multi-disciplinary stewardship of forest resource management an approach that reflects a broad variety of stakeholder concerns and considerations. The theme is "Sustaina...Society of Nuclear Medicine offers free access to Journal of Nuclear Medicine
...ar imaging and therapy," added Sandler. "This move coincides with the society's recent announcement of redefining its core mission 'to improve health care by advancing molecular imaging and therapy,'" he added. "With digital open access, users are free to read, download, copy, distribute and print articles--...