Transgenic plants remove more selenium from polluted soil than wild plants, new tests show
Berkeley -- In the first field trial of plants genetically tweaked to absorb more...e six-week trial to see if they could replicate in field conditions the results of prior studies in laboratory greenhouses. Those previous tests showed that ...NJIT professor receives NSF CAREER award for emergency response research
...udents in the Newark area to introduce them to the field of emergency response. "Newark is an appropriate place to reach out to local students since the area has been so intimately connected to the 2001 World Trade Center attack," he said. To unify these research and education activities, Mendonca will ...Bayou blues: Working to save the US from the worst potential oil, gas and fishing crisis
... are losing a piece of land the size of a football field every 35 minutes. All of this is part of an inter...oadcasts and Internet technology scientists in the field are linked with classrooms and educational institutions to allow students to interact with the JASON...NJIT hosts Spring Career Fair: Employers expected to increase hiring...
...ing majors has improved, college enrollment in the field is still down. "Despite a tremendous increase in c...w years for people to realize that job growth in a field has gone from low to high, and this is the case with computing engineering." Participating compani...Six research units given the go-ahead
...ingen, will study extreme climatic situations in a field experiment. Two locations in the Fichtelgebirge mountain chain in south-east Germany, between Bayreuth and the Czech border, give the soil scientists, hydrologists, microbiologists and plant ecologists a unique research environment and the opportunit...Wiley announces publication of Databasing the Brain
...t scientific challenges of our time. The emerging field of neuroinformatics integrates neuroscience with informatics to create unique databases and analytical tools for the large variety of neuroscience data types, applying them to brain research and linking them with databases within neuroscience and oth...Field-cricket study shows that when it comes to competition, sperm quality matters
...the viability of their sperm. Using the Australian field cricket as the study's subject, the researchers showed that the proportion of live sperm in a male's ejaculate determines that male's paternity success. Furthermore, when two males competed for fertilizing the ova of a female, the researchers were ab...Physics team puts new twist on spin hall effect
...ough a conductor in a magnetic field. The magnetic field deflects the moving charges to the sides of the conductor, resulting in an observable Hall voltage. The spin Hall effect was first predicted in 1971. Here the moving electrons, which carry with them a tiny magnet called the "spin," collide with impu...Removing prions that cause mad cow in humans from blood
...ration is the global leader in the rapidly growing field of filtration, separations and purification. Pall's business is organized around two broad markets: Life Sciences and Industrial. The Company provides leading-edge products to meet the demanding needs of customers in biotechnology, pharmaceutical, tr...New monkey species name to be auctioned
...ure references, including scientific publications, field guides, and other publications, that mention the new species.Madidi National Park, established in 1995, contains a stunning array of habitat types from lowland forests to alpine meadows surrounded by glaciers all in an area about the size of New Je...Falling canopy ants glide home
...or on BCI [the Smithsonian's Barro Colorado Island field station in Panama] in 1998 while working on a cano...ite bedsheet. Additional experiments at Yanoviak's field sites in Costa Rica and near Iquitos, in Peru, where he currently works collecting mosquitos for the...JCI Table of Contents, March 1, 2005
... cell death. The work will be of interest in the field of kidney diseases and therapeutics. TITLE: Endocytic delivery of lipocalin-siderophore-iron complex rescues the kidney from ischemia-reperfusion injury AUTHOR CONTACT:Barasch, Jonathan Columbia University, New York, NY USA Phone : (212) 305-...William C. Aird, MD, receives Established Investigator Award from American Heart Association
...tal importance of this area of research within the field of medicine." A graduate of The University of Western Ontario Medical School, Aird completed residencies at St. Michael's Hospital and Toronto General Hospital, teaching hospitals of the University of Toronto. Before joining BIDMC in 1996, he held bo...UCSD discovery may help extend life of natural pesticide
...perate to engage this intoxication program? If the field can figure this out, it might allow for the engineering of toxins that can utilize either type of receptor alternatively, such that host resistance would require the mutation of both receptor types. This means that resistance would be exponentially l...National Academies advisory: Feb. 15 program for African-American History Month
...us on the achievements of African-Americans in the field of education. The program also will include the unveiling of new additions to the Academies' portrait collection of African-Americans who have made significant contributions to science, engineering, and medicine. THIS YEAR'S PORTRAIT HONOREES are...Alcohol's effects on gene expression in the central nervous system
...pplied to brain function are just beginning in the field of alcoholism. Several years ago, it was impossible to analyze more than a handful of these genes, however, microarray technology has changed that." Symposium speakers at the June 2004 Research Society on Alcoholism meeting in Vancouver, B.C. presen...Study links Ebola outbreaks to animal carcasses
...isk that can be avoided," said Dr. William Karesh, field veterinarian for the Wildlife Conservation Society and a co-author on the paper. "What we need now is improved awareness of this risk in communities where bushmeat is still a source of sustenance and continued monitoring of wildlife in the region. We...APS, PMN launch online soybean rust center
... Forage and Grazinglands--an image database, three field trials publications, a plant science database of more than 4,000 fact sheets and other web-based resources, and a monthly newsletter. PMN also offers continuing education units to Certified Crop Advisers through its education and training center....Researchers turn to brainpower to beat dementia
...l be the most powerful approach to studies in this field ever adopted. The study of 2,500 elderly people over 20 years has created the second largest DNA archive in the world the Dyne Steele DNA bank and is unique in that it assessed volunteers for changes in cognitive function. "Combining this study wit......ce Laureates: R. Duncan Luce, of UC Irvine, in the field of behavioral or social sciences; and John M. Prausnitz, UC Berkeley, in engineering....