Yale's Micalizio receives Eli Lilly Award for Organic Chemistry
...s screened. "We aim to shape the process by making collections of complex molecules easier to synthesize," he said. Micalizio is defining new ways to accomplish "convergent synthesis" in which simple carbon skeletons are fused to make molecules that are more complex. His approach is to develop methods for lin...Toward more effective paleolgenetic analysis
...mostly carry out such studies on samples stored in collections or in museums. However, there was no reason to sup...ever, the rate is a mere 18% for fossil bones from collections which have been washed, dried and stored. A large part, on average 85%, of the genetic material pres...Researchers barcode DNA of Venice museum's vast fungi collection
...s. Furthermore, in our philosophy, natural science collections are public goods that everybody belonging to the scientific community should be able to take advantage of."...LSU professor discovers new species
...tin. "Natural history museums and their invaluable collections are critical in that they allow scientists to examine known biodiversity in order to determine a species is new." He and Das examined specimens from a slew of museums around the world. Natural history collections, such as the more than 80,000 specim...Extreme life, marine style highlights 2006 ocean census
...n, Australian, and New Zealand waters. Analysis of collections from biodiversity hotspots, the deep sea, and other unexplored regions is on track to double the number of known zooplankton species Charting distribution New and continuously improving techniques also let scientists collect and tag creature...A human taste for rarity spells disaster for endangered species
... precipitate the anthropogenic Allee effect. Hobby collections of the sort Watson allegedly gave his life for top their list. Overhunting for food and feathers pushed the great auk (Pinguinus impennis)--a flightless, now-extinct bird that laid only one egg a year--to the brink of extinction. But it was likely sc...Neanderthal genome sequencing yields surprising results and opens a new door to future studies
...ifacts that are available in hard to access museum collections and field sites. Plus, the new techniques we have developed will have useful applications across a range of genomics efforts related to DOE's energy and environment missions" In the summer of 1856, a partial skeleton of a hominid was found at the F...Unraveling where chimp and human brains diverge
...the UCLA team used data from DNA microarrays vast collections of tiny DNA spots -- to map the activity of virtually every gene in the genome simultaneously. By comparing gene activity in different areas of the brain, the team identified gene networks that correlated to specific brain regions. Then they compar...Museum-fueled global study shows you can't judge biodiversity by its bird
...ssistant curator of mammalogy and ornithology. The collections underscore, she said, the richness of scientific d...e said. "Most people never see the actual research collections in natural history museums and those collections are the heart of natural history museums. Some of t...Researchers publish largest genome-wide study of prostate cancer in African American men
...es this study represent one of the most impressive collections of prostate cancer families from any ethnic group, it demonstrates the importance of setting up a network of principal investigators who are close to the community under study." The paper's first author, Agnes B. Baffoe-Bonnie, MD, MPH, PhD, who is...National Institutes of Health to map genomic changes of lung, brain and ovarian cancers
...elected because of the availability of biospecimen collections that met TCGA's strict scientific, technical, and ...l of the RFI was to identify candidate biospecimen collections that employed the highest level of ethical, technical, biologic, pathologic, and bioinformatics stan...Smithsonian offers new tropical biodiversity data and tools on the Web
...sts STRI databases for tropical insects, herbarium collections and digital images. Beginning in late 2006, STRI will become the coordinating institution for the ecosystems thematic network of the IABIN - a regional initiative designed to connect biodiversity databases throughout the Americas and the Caribbea...Ancient raptors likely feasted on early man, study suggests
...ng time," he said. "There are other primate fossil collections around the world that may deserve a second look for evidence of wounds inflicted by raptors."...Case Western Reserve University paleontologist discovers South American mammal fossils
...the new species with specimens in the paleontology collections at the American Museum of Natural History, the Florida Museum of Natural History, the Museo de La Plata (Argentina), and The Field Museum in Chicago where he spent much of his time during his doctoral studies in organismal biology and anatomy at the ...New paradigm will help identify leads for drug discovery
...new paradigm for profiling every compound in large collections of chemicals. Traditional high-throughput screening measures the biological activity of chemical compounds at just one concentration. In contrast, the new approach, called quantitative high-throughput screening, or qHTS, tests the biological activity...Deadly cone snails liven up Philadelphia Shell Show, Oct. 7-8
...azil, South Africa and the U.S. will display their collections and offer a variety of items for sale. There will be free shells for children and the chance to meet SpongeBob SquarePants from Nickelodeon. Academy scientists will give behind-the-scenes tours of the museum's world-renowned Malacology Collection an...Scientists to employ Arctic ice and polar bears to protect diversity of world's crops
...rld's food supply through conserving critical seed collections around the world, from the tropics to the highest ...rieties. Yet agriculture worldwide relies on these collections of crop species and their wild relatives. They are vital to the development of new varieties, withou...Butterfly farming to help save rain forest
...utterfly farms and other institutions that exhibit collections of live butterflies. Each individual butterfly pupa that they can ship to one of these customers can be worth between 2 and 5 UK pounds. The creation of a sustainable butterfly farming business would help preserve the local rain forest in two ways. F...First comprehensive literature-derived database of yeast interactions
...ns and protein interactions than all previous data collections combined. Mike Tyers from the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute of Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, Canada and colleagues from other institutions in Canada and the USA, read over 30,000 publications on S. cerevisiae and recorded over 22,000 protein......posed to conduct from Masirah Island thrice-weekly collections of surface temperature, phytoplankton and zooplankton during onset of the SW Monsoon, starting what could be a sustained, expanded observing effort that would have great value to Oman and to oceanographers worldwide. There are few long-term observing...