Sea change: Skeletons of ancient corals different from today's
... as vitamins -- several times a week. Ries credits his experiments with leading to "two very important discoveries about corals." First, the skeletons of the corals cultivated in the ancient seawaters had a different mineral composition from those grown in modern seawater. Those in the so-calle...Key molecule in plant photo-protection identified
...d the mechanism was an energy transfer." Fleming credits calculations performed on the supercomputers at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), under the leadership of Martin Head-Gordon, as an important factor in his group's determination that the mechanism behind energy quench...Mitsubishi offsets carbon footprint through investment in Madagascar's rain forest
...onservation Carbon" emissions reductions or carbon credits associated with the carbon sequestered in the regi.... Currently, investments in these types of carbon credits remain voluntary because avoided carbon emissions resulting from reduction in deforestation rates ar...The AIUM celebrates 50 years at the 2005 AIUM Annual convention and preconvention
...ible to earn up to 7 credits. An additional 11 CME credits are available, if you arrive at the convention early and attend courses at the Preconvention Program, June 1819. There, you can design your own program by choosing 1 or 2 of the following continuing education options: Diagnostic Ultrasound Principles...Field Museum gives prestigious Parker/Gentry Award to eminent New World ornithologist
...or of ornithologist Eugene Wiseman, who Dr. Stiles credits with encouraging his career in tropical ornithology. In 1997, Dr. Stiles won the Alexander F. Skutch Medal for Excellence in Neotropical Ornithology. Dr. Skutch studied birds in Central America for more than 70 years. He and Dr. Stiles co-authored A...... for up to 14.5 hours or 1.45 continuing education credits (CEUs) for pharmacists, through Extension Services in Pharmacy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Pharmacy, which is accredited by ACPE. (ACPE numbers: 073-999-079-L04 through 073-999-05-081-L04). Pharmacists must complete a program eva...'Achilles' heel' of the herpes virus possibly found
...ith human herpes virus. For these studies, Fuller credits the persistence of research team members in working with the genomic library and culture of human and pig cells, especially U-M doctorate graduate Aleida Perez and postdoctoral fellows Qingxue Li and Pilar Perez-Romero. Perez-Romero is first author o...UK entomology research article published in new issue of Science
...he principal investigator on this published study, credits the work of his colleagues, Xi, formerly a post-doctoral appointment at Kentucky who just recently was hired at Johns Hopkins University, and Khoo, who is a current doctorate student in entomology at UK. Dobson, who teaches classes in medical entomol...Baylor Human Genome Sequence Center key player in mapping human genetic variation
...re than 250,000 genotypes in a single day." Gibbs credits Yu and Dr. John Belmont, BCM professor of Molecular and Human Genetics, with taking lead roles in the HapMap project. Along with Drs. David Nelson, George Weinstock and other members of the BCM faculty and staff in the sequencing center, they comple...Scientists identify molecular structure of key viral protein
...ation of each atom within the structure. Jardetzky credits the very high intensity X-rays for enabling the researchers to image the structure at 2.85 angstroms. (An angstrom is one ten-billionth of a meter, or about one-hundred-millionth of an inch.) This resolution was critical for an accurate picture of ho...Argonne researchers contribute 1000th structure
...structural biology beamline since 1998. Joachimiak credits the high productivity, quality and efficiency to the powerful X-rays beams at the APS and advances in technology, automation and software. "They allow us to deliver the greatest detail to scientists, and to do it quickly and efficiently," he said. "...Learning to love bacteria: Stanford scientist highlights bugs' benefits
...ly in individuals demands further research. Falkow credits his colleagues for providing the fodder for his essay....Wetland banking yields low return on urban interests
...s and the land development projects that purchased credits from them to satisfy the mitigation requirements. ...s. For example, authorities could charge a fee for credits purchased from banks that are far away and use the fees to fund public acquisition of urban wetlands...Scientific group endorses radical plan to save rainforests
...from industrial nations, who could purchase carbon credits to help them meet their emissions targets under the Kyoto Protocol or other international climate agreements. "It's as close to a win-win situation as one sees these days," said ATBC president Dr William Laurance, a biologist with the Smithsonian T...Conservation offers financial rewards for cattle ranchers, study finds
...greement. In this scenario, the rancher would sell credits on the Chicago Climate Exchange to companies that ... that without government subsidies, selling carbon credits actually results in a net loss of income for the rancher, who would end up losing $488 per acre thro...Retired FSU professor captures a 'living fossil' on video
...e after photographing and videotaping it. Redfield credits Treesucon, a renowned biologist and birder, with coordinating the logistics of the expedition that culminated in the successful capture of the animal on May 17 near the Laotian village of Doy....Witonsky honored with Pfizer award for work with EPM disease in horses
...that her greatest work is still "yet to come." She credits her collaborators, who include Lindsay; Robert Gogal Jr., associate professor, immunology, Edward Via Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine; Robert Duncan Jr., associate professor, pathology, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Pathobiology; Y...DOE to invest $250 million in new bioenergy centers
...nergy security. In addition to the production tax credits for renewable energy, including wind, in the Energy Policy Act, President Bush's Advanced Energy Initiative significantly increases the government's investment in research and development to bring more affordable renewable energy to market. The Adva...Burroughs Wellcome Fund to support Project Suc-SEED at CIIT Centers for Health Research
...ngineering major at Hampton University in Virginia credits her success to Project SEED. Ms. Watson was a student at Chapel Hill High School and had an interest in science when she applied to enter the Project SEED program. She says she excelled under the close mentorship and high expectations. The exposur...'Telomere' expert Carol Greider shares 2006 Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research
...physicist at the University of California. Greider credits her parents for her decision to go into science, and her father for influencing her attitude about academic science: "My father would talk about academic freedom and the importance of liking what you do. He would say, 'You can do whatever you want, b...