Energy department selects 3 Bioenergy Research Centers for $375 million in federal funding
...ivate companies. All three Centers are located in geographically distinct areas and will use different plants both for laboratory research and for improving feedstock crops. The mission of the Bioenergy Research Centers will lie at the frontier between basic and applied science, and will maintain a focus on bi...UN issues analysis of global investors' sustainable energy 'gold rush'
...Renewable energy investment is almost evenly split geographically between United States and Europe. U.S. companies receive more technology and private investment (with high profile investment interest shown in biofuels during 2006 by entrepreneurs such as Vinod Khosla, Bill Gates and Richard Branson). Europes pub...Study of unexplained respiratory infections leads researchers to new virus
...ia and St. Louis, suggesting that the virus may be geographically widespread. There are early suggestions that the virus may be a secondary infection more likely to invade when hosts already are dealing with another infectious agent. Polyoma viruses previously have been named after the initials of the patient in w...New impetus through networking
...r development of research by means of coordinated, geographically distributed funding in novel areas. Priority Programmes generally run for a period of six years. The new Priority Programmes: The role of ubiquitin-like protein modifications (UbF) in cells will be investigated in a project called "The Regulat...AIBS honors outstanding contributions to the biological sciences
...ion of plant reproductive systems, the genetics of geographically structured populations, and the application of basic biological principles to conservation problems. He has served as Chair of the Board of Directors for the Connecticut State Museum of Natural History, Vice-Chair for Science and Stewardship of The ...Do you need sex to be a species?
...what caused them to evolve independently? Are they geographically isolated populations that evolved under neutral selection, or did they evolve into ecologically discrete species as a result of divergent selection pressures on trophi morphology? If bdelloids have experienced divergent selection, the researchers exp...New mathematical model to add rigor to studies of disease genetics and evolution
...r, which his model predicts is not enough time for geographically separated populations to have evolved completely unique sets of hotspots. To Calabrese, one of the most exciting applications of his model is how it might inform the discussion of the "hotspot paradox." A confusing aspect of hotspot origination,...Global ocean sampling expedition
...a pilot study in the Sargasso Sea. The result is a geographically diverse environmental genomic dataset of 6.3 billion base pairstwice the size of the human genome. The first paper and accompanying poster by Douglas B. Rusch and colleagues describe the immense amount of microbial diversity in the seas, and discu...Paper challenges 1491 Amazonian population theories
...ical areas." Bush says the evidence comes from a geographically diverse area: threedistricts, each with 3 (in two cases) or four lakes. "In each we have one lake occupied and used, and the others little usedor not used at all," he says. "So this is a total of 10 lakes thatprovide three separate instances -- one...DNA analysis reveals rapid population shift among Pleistocene cave bears
...ned DNA samples from 29 cave bear teeth from three geographically close caves in the Ach Valley, near the Danube River in modern-day southern Germany. Twenty of the teeth ultimately provided useful mitochondrial DNA sequence (mitochondrial DNA is especially useful for tracking population changes). The findings indi...New bird, bat species revealed by extensive DNA barcode studies
...bird species, criticized at the time as too narrow geographically and taxonomically to prove that bird species can be reliably distinguished through DNA. "Now with the vast majority -- 93 to 94 percent -- of birds on the continent barcoded it's hard to argue that barcoding might work for the easy stuff but miss t...New gene uncovered for late-onset Alzheimer's
... ago these two groups may have been genetically or geographically linked. Seeking Pathogenesis of SORL1 & Attributable Risk of SORL1 Variants "Now that we know that variants in SORL1 are associated with late-onset Alzheimer's disease and we know the specific regions of the gene involved, our next step is to det...Genetic map offers new tool for malaria research
...or connecting parasite genes with traits that vary geographically and bolster malaria's foothold in many parts of the world. "Genomic tools have largely been applied to first-world diseases up to now. This project underscores the power and importance of applying them to the devastating diseases of the developing ...Global warming increases species extinctions worldwide
...ies are going extinct and/or shifting their ranges geographically as their original habitats become inhospitable. The studies reviewed by Parmesan reveal this trend will continue. "Some species that are adapted to a wide array of environments--globally common, or what we call weedy or urban species--will be most ...Research linking Ashkenazi Jews and breast cancer genes beset by problems
...c mutations can take hold and spread within small, geographically isolated populations, such as a group living alone...on an island. Although Ashkenazi Jews were never geographically isolated, Rothman said that "researchers made persecution--the pogroms and massacres in Jewish histo...New study warns against linking ethnic identity to breast cancer genes
...c mutations can take hold and spread within small, geographically isolated populations, such as a group living alone... an island. Although Ashkenazi Jews were never geographically isolated, Rothman said that "researchers made persecution--the pogroms and massacres in Jewish histo...Out of Africa: Scientists uncover history of honey bee
...ions resulted in two European populations that are geographically close, but genetically quite different," Whitfield said. "In fact, the two European populations are more related to honey bees in Africa than to each other." To explore the movements of bee populations, the researchers used simple variations in DNA c...Insect predation sheds light on food web recovery after the dinosaur extinction
... can now test for its generality. "Temporally and geographically isolated occurrences of severely unbalanced food webs may be a widespread feature of ecological recovery from mass extinction, resulting from instability, incumbency and opportunism in drastically simplified ecological landscapes," say the authors....On the track of tiny larvae, a new model elucidates connections in marine ecology
...nts facilitate normal biological connections among geographically separate populations. Although tiny larvae are impossible to follow directly, advances in modeling ocean currents have made it possible to predict larval movements. However, until now it has remained difficult to test these movement predictions in th...Discovery of genetic mutation in Florida beach mice suggests extinct mammoth had light and dark fur
... used the mice as a textbook example of how small, geographically isolated populations could adapt to their new environments and diverge into distinct subspecies. Known to scientists as Peromyscus polionotus, mice living on the mainland have dark coats, which help them blend in with the vegetation and avoid thei...