Scientists to employ Arctic ice and polar bears to protect diversity of world's crops
... from the tropics to the highest latitudes. "This facility will provide a practical means to reestablish crop...lt thoroughly examined the pros and cons of such a facility in this remote Arctic site. The study concluded that under proper conditions, seeds for most major f...Multi-million dollar machines promise bright future for medical research
...isticated equipment offers Centenary researchers a facility with a functional capacity unsurpassed by any other medical research facility in Australia. Flow cytometry uses laser beams and advanced optics and electronics to count, analyse ...NIH launches effort to place more knockout mice in public repositories
...lifornia, Davis; the University of Missouri/Harlan facility in Columbia; the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; and the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine. Depositing mice in centralized repositories ensures ready availability of lines at a reasonable cost, standardizes the animals' health stat...Sandia tool speeds up environmental cleanup, reopening of contaminated facilities
...tamination, complete the clean up, and restore the facility to operation. BROOM improves the efficiency of cleanup operations, minimizes facility downtime, and provides a transparent basis for reopening. The last factor is critical in gaining pub...Origen publishes in Nature a robust and versatile method for creating transgenic chickens
...ion in chicken eggs. Moreover, the overall cost of facility and operations is a fraction of that associated with fermentation methods of manufacture. The ability to readily create transgenic chickens through this technology, and then to scale up production through conventional breeding further adds to the pra...Cincinnati surgeon leads first test of mobile robotic surgery
...deliver and teach medicine. The 3,700-square-foot facility includes an eight-bench teaching lab with advanced audiovisual and telecommunications capabilities--such as international videoconferencing and direct linkages to the operating rooms at University Hospital, UC's primary teaching facility. The center ...Gene therapy protects mice from the effects of whole-body irradiation
...n radiological material--or attack a nuclear power facility to disperse high-dose radiation across a populated area. Experts believe a significant number of the population would die within 30 days of exposure to a high dose of radiation from such an event, which has prompted the federal government to fund eff...Rhesus monkeys in Nepal may provide new alternative for HIV/AIDS research
...as signed in September 2003 and a captive-breeding facility is now under construction. A breeding colony is expected to be established within 12 months. "This program will not harm the natural populations because we will establish the self-sustaining breeding colony with a relatively small number of animals ...'Mercury sponge' technology goes from lab to market
... users with mercury or other toxic metals in their facility waste streams, said Rick Skaggs, PNNL commercialization lead. According to Skaggs, SAMMS can be easily adapted to recover many toxic substances, including toxic metals such as lead, chromium, arsenic, as well as radionuclides. "PNNL is ready to e...How accommodating is our society to women who choose to breastfeed their babies?
...nsurance regulations, difficulty finding a daycare facility close to the mother's workplace, and the devaluation of the cumulative benefits from high rates of breastfeeding exceeding the potential inconvenience of accommodating breastfeeding in the workplace. It should be noted, however, that there are also ...Collaborative study successfully applies neutrons to study hydrogen transfer in biological systems
...nno P. Schoenborn, Ph.D., of the Los Alamos, N.M., facility when it opened its protein crystallography station at the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center in 1997....NIEHS Director unveils new strategic plan for environmental health sciences
...evelop an outpatient clinical research unit at its facility in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. Another major area identified as critical is the need to develop sensitive, quantitative markers to assess levels of environmental exposures at the individual level. One way this will be accomplished is th...Sludge recycling sends antiseptic soap ingredient to agriculture
...lected samples from a large urban sewage treatment facility in the eastern United States. Over a period of wee...vior during treatment. According to the study, the facility was highly effective in removing triclocarban from wastewater. Only about 3 percent of triclocarban ......he University of California, Berkeley, which has a facility housing about 50 hyenas for study purposes. The fellowships are awarded to artists, scholars and scientists for distinguished past achievements and exceptional promise of future accomplishments....HHMI's experiment in changing scientific culture
...MI has created Janelia Farm. When the $500 million facility opens later this year, approximately 230 resident and 100 visiting scientists will work toward two main goals: Identifying the general principles that govern how information is processed by neuronal circuits; and developing imaging technologies and c...Georgia Tech computer program designed to halt pandemics installed in Georgia
...density and road accessibility, the most efficient facility layout, the number of health care professionals needed in certain areas, the number of vaccinations needed and the time it will take to treat patients. RealOpt can be used to prepare for a possible outbreak, as well as for emergency re-assignment of ...Uncovering sex-change secrets of black sea bass
... The converted barn is now an aquaculture research facility for the College of Life Sciences and Agriculture, and home to Berlinsky's latest research. Black sea bass feature prominently on many menus, but wild populations of the fish are in decline and their availability is limited. Because of the high demand...Genentech donates $2.5 million to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
...began in the United States in 1904. The expanded facility will house the archival collections of luminaries from the molecular biology revolution, including Nobel laureates James D. Watson, Sydney Brenner, Barbara McClintock, and Hermann Muller. "Thirty years ago biochemist Herb Boyer and venture capitalist...Mars challenge is protecting humans from long space travel and heavy metal ion bombardment
... positively, he said the U.S. recently activated a facility that will begin to study irradiating biological tissue. Many ways to join the adventure and help solve earthly disease mysteries Pawelczyk assured the students that, "There will be a lot for you to do. For instance, just like experiments on earth wi...Hopkins genetics experts aid efforts to identify hurricane Katrina victims
... initiative based at Hopkins. CIDR is a high-tech facility dedicated to helping scientists at the NIH, Hopkins and elsewhere get a first fix on the regions of the human genetic code containing genes that contribute to complex diseases. "In today's world of blended families and multiple marriages, not all si...