Saudi Arabia's KAUST names WHOI first research partner
...d coastal hydrography and circulation project will establish a suite of observational and modeling activities that will provide the first comprehensive description of the physical oceanography in the Red Sea. This research also will support studies of coral reef ecology and provide a baseline for long-term...... findings should be a boost to companies hoping to establish themselves in this emerging field. Two researchers working at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Iowa State University set out to compare the capital and operating costs of generating fuel from starch and cellulose-containing materials. ...Biologist traces coconut's history through DNA
...nut was critical for humans to be able to voyage, establish trade routes, and colonize lands in the Pacific Rim, coastal India, Africa and South America. Our preliminary DNA sequence data show genetic variation within the coconut, and this is key to delineating historical relationships among different po...Not all embryonic stem cell lines are created equal
...chnique that induced the newly produced neurons to establish synapses with one another. Synapses are the critical junctions between neurons where much of the signaling and communication between neural cells occurs. Through functional analyses of these neurons, Sun, Sdhof and their colleagues found that the two...Human knowledge is based upon directed connectivity between brain areas
...tted between specialized brain areas that together establish a dynamic cortical network. This finding is reported in the latest issue of the scientific journal PLoS ONE published on August 1st, 2007 [ http://www.plosone.org/doi/pone.0000684 ]. Fruit or vegetable, insect or bird, familiar or unfamiliar hum...Census of Marine Life historians detail collapse of bluefin tuna population off northern Europe
... Abundant fish allowed recreational fishermen to establish the Scandinavian Tuna Club, which arranged bluefin tournaments in the straits between Denmark and Sweden until the early 1960s. The authors say the fish was a top predator in the North Atlantic ecosystem, feeding largely on herring and mackerel, sq...Smithsonian Fragmentation Project threatened by Amazon Colonization Plan
...ages a large expanse of central Amazonia, plans to establish colonization projects both inside the study area a...t in Washington, D.C., who conceived and helped to establish the fragmentation project more than 25 years ago. In fact, the results of the science were doing cou...Call for EU to launch major project to map out all our proteins
...he ESF workshop has prepared the ground by helping establish the collaborative framework for Europe to participate fully in the great proteomics initiative, and now it is up to the EU to provide the funding. The workshop Model Organism Proteomics, which was one of the series of events organised by the ESF Ex...Camera-shy deer caught for first time
...ety, which has been contracted by the WMPA to help establish a biodiversity monitoring program to evaluate the effectiveness of its conservation efforts. Mr. Sangthong Southammakoth, Executive Director of the WMPA, said We are very excited about these photos. They show the global significance of the Nakai-N...Breast cancer and hormone therapy -- A looking-glass mirror?
... figures on HT use and breast cancer incidence and establish a mirror glass equation: the more postmenopausal hormone use, the more breast cancer, and vice versa. But human biology is far too complicated and the pathophysiology of breast cancer is far too complex to adopt such a mechanistic approach, as the au...Purdue-IU researchers explore new method for early disease diagnosis
... with the Indiana University School of Medicine to establish a technique that provides a new approach for detecting a number of genetic disorders found in infants and young children. Daniel Raftery, a Purdue professor of analytical and physical chemistry, and his collaborators used a simple chemical reaction...Bull's-eye -- Programs targeting math, science teacher shortage may get boost
...to receive NMSI funding over a five-year period to establish their own successful math and science teacher-training programs. UH already has a head start with its teachHOUSTON teacher-preparation program that is modeled after the successful UTeach format and is the pilot program for future replications out...Philadelphia ecologist receives top Mongolia honor
...rown. Drawing from these, we are moving forward to establish an Asia Center at the Academy. The Academy, the oldest natural history museum in the Americas, also has conducted field surveys of fish, aquatic insects and rotifers (microscopic animals) in Mongolian waters that have yielded previously unknown speci...Scientists follow familiar TRAIL to new cancer therapy
... expression of Mcl-1 and cIAP2. These results also establish the clinical potential for combining TRAIL or other death receptor agonists with an orally bioavailable, low-toxicity multikinase inhibitor, sorafenib/Nexavar, thus providing an exciting approach for attacking cancers that harbor defective intrinsic ...Complementary therapy for infertile women may reduce chances of pregnancy
... case it would be important for future research to establish whether CATs achieve this goal more effectively than conventional psychological therapies. So far, research shows that psychological therapies are more effective in achieving stress reduction. But women may be reluctant to ask for this because o...Common environmental chemicals in diet affect fetal ovarian development
...cotland, UK, said that this research would help to establish the importance of the effect of environmental chem...n this issue, said Dr Fowler. If we can definitely establish that environmental chemicals are important in triggering these diseases, then we might be able to pr...The Cancer Genome Atlas awards funds for technology development
...iospecimen Core Resource. The pilot project will establish a publicly available integrated database that individual researchers can use to study the genomic changes of specific cancers to develop new targets for a new generation of drugs and diagnostics. TCGA data will be made available through public databa...Military bases can benefit by addressing sprawl issues and biodiversity
...mental organizations, like conservation groups, to establish buffer areas near training and testing areas. Buffering partners can share the costs of acquiring property interests from willing sellers or participate in land easements, where current property owners keep the land but sell the development rights...Psychiatric Genomics Center established at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
...s in its history from Theodore and Vada Stanley to establish the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Genomics on its...crucial for early diagnosis and prognosis, and may establish a path forward for prevention or treatment of disease progression. The Center will leverage a powerf...UC Davis is partner in new $125 million federal bioenergy research center
...of Energy announced this morning. The funds will establish and support the partnership of threenational laboratories and three research universities in NorthernCalifornia, including UC Davis, to be known as the federal EnergyDepartment's Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI, pronounced "jay-bay"). Research at t...