Beyond Mesopotamia: A radical new view of human civilization reported in Science
...ist present. Archaeologists shared findings from dozens of urban centers of approximately the same age that existed between Mesopotamia and the Indus River valley in modern day India and Pakistan. The researchers are just starting to sketch out this new landscape, but its becoming clear that these centers...Forecasting system provides flood warnings to vulnerable residents of Bangladesh
... to floods. Rising waters in recent days have left dozens of people dead and several million marooned or displaced, with the toll likely to mount. The pilot program began this summer with the aim of delivering 1- to 10-day forecasts directly to more than 100,000 people living on floodplains of the Brahmap...Research teams uncover risk genes for multiple sclerosis
... could map genomes and then combine the efforts of dozens of researchers, that we could put all the pieces together. Together, he said, these two papers illustrate how scientific collaboration and the recent breakthroughs in genomic technology, which make it possible to both screen an individuals genetic ...$9 million EPSCoR grant to foster integrated research
...ate. Since its inception, Alaska EPSCoR has funded dozens of new researchers and more than 100 graduate student fellowships, and has facilitated numerous undergraduate research opportunities and public education and outreach projects. Jones said EPSCoR and other federal capacity-building programs have pla...Genetic diversity in honeybee colonies boosts productivity
Why do queen honeybees mate with dozens of males" Does their extreme promiscuity, perhaps, serve a purpose" An answer to this age-old mystery is proposed in the July 20 issue of Science magazine by Cornell scientists: Promiscuous queens, they suggest, produce genetically diverse colonies t...Revolutionary global environment fund announces $50M expansion
...diversity while influencing government policies in dozens of countries. With the new funding, CEPF will expand to the Indochina region of Indo-Burma; the remote Pacific island nations of Micronesia, tropical Polynesia, and Fiji in Polynesia-Micronesia; and the Western Ghats region of southern India. Thes...The Cancer Genome Atlas awards funds for technology development
...Cancer poses a very complex challenge. Each of the dozens of types of cancer likely will have a different genomic profile or set of profiles. We urgently need tools equal to this task, said NHGRI Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., whose institute led the NIH component of the Human Genome Project. One...Desertification: UN experts prescribe global policy overhaul to avoid looming mass migrations
...duction and other public concerns. It highlights dozens of problems and inconsistencies in policy-making today at every level, saying decisions are often taken in isolated sectoral silos, the end results of which, on balance, can be counterproductive. Some forces of globalization, while striving to redu...Ancient retrovirus sheds light on modern pandemic
...reassembled about one-fifth of the virus by taking dozens of PtERV1 sequences and aligning them to create an "ancestral" sequence, teasing out areas of commonality between them. They then used this information to make a partial viral genome. During reconstruction the viral segment was debilitated, enabling ...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- June 13, 2007
...lated with a counterfeit Chinese ingredient killed dozens of people in Panama last November. It is unlikely that counterfeit ingredients could reach prescription medicines sold in the United States because of the high degree of scrutiny that those ingredients receive in China and along their route to the ...Screening approach leads to discovery of gene linked to breast cancer
... thousands of genes at a time enable us to locate dozens or even hundreds of gene abnormalities in cancer cells. The challenge is to winnow this group to find the genes most centrally involved in cancer initiation and maintenance. "In the current study, we used several complementary approaches to identif...University of Washington researchers play leading role in major study of human genome function
... cancer. The UW was a leading institution among dozens that participated in the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) consortium, supported by the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) of the National Institutes of Health. The consortium's initial results are being published in the June 14 iss...University of Manchester researchers reveal clues to new genes behind rheumatoid arthritis
...200 scientists in the field of human genetics from dozens of institutions. For these papers, part of a number of studies due to be published over the next year, the researchers analysed 17,000 DNA samples taken from people in the UK - two thousand patients for each disease and three thousand control samples...Largest ever study of genetics of common diseases published today
...200 scientists in the field of human genetics from dozens of UK institutions. Over two years, they have analysed almost 10 billion pieces of genetic information. "Many of the most common diseases are very complex, part 'nature' and 'nurture', with genes interacting with our environment and lifestyles," sa...Scientists: As rainfall changes, tropical plants may acclimate
...cted to be wetter, some drier. So, at least one of dozens of variables that will change with precipitation changes nutrient uptake might not affect tropical plants. That said, plenty of others could, Schuur said. ...Arming the fight against resistant bacteria
... to sections of the sheet. The finished array has dozens of compounds arranged in a grid of dots, each about the size of a pencil eraser. They subject each array to a battery of tests, simultaneously testing the potency of each of the compounds against various strains of bacteria, including the dreaded...Genes and biomarkers that allow doctors to choose the right therapy for the right patient
...analysis technique can reveal gene markers by the dozens that determine how a patient might respond to certain cancer drugs, according to scientists at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen). The TGen researchers have found 164 genes that are involved in regulating the sensitivity of squamo...AAAS, National School Boards Asso. join in historic effort to improve science, math & tech education
...search organization. Public Agenda has interviewed dozens of board members, superintendents and other Kansas City-area school officials in the opening phase of a three-year collaboration between NSBA and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), funded by the Kauffman Foundation, to he...New OHSU senior care program gets $2.5M boost
...dation will make Care Management Plus available to dozens of rural and urban clinics across the country. "By marrying clinically supported technology and personalized, one-to-one care, Care Management Plus has helped primary care teams enhance care for patients with complex illnesses," said David Dorr, M....Alternative-fuels pioneer receives first-ever $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability
...am in the general energy field, and has supervised dozens of students who share his passion for alternative fuels. Energy is and always has been important, he said. Right now, its the critical issue of our time and a huge determinant of human well-being and prosperity. In the future people will look back ...