UC Davis is partner in new $125 million federal bioenergy research center
...other products. Research is also conducted onplant harvesting systems and crop processing, transportation andstorage. The DOE JBEI Approach The Joint BioEnergy Institute researchers will tackle key scientificproblems that currently hinder the cost-effective conversion oflignocellulose into biofuels and o...Rove beetles act as warning signs for clear-cutting consequences
...ctually have a lot to tell us about the effects of harvesting on forests species. Rove beetles can be used as indicators of clear-cut harvesting and regeneration practices and can be used as an example as to how species react to harvesting. It h...Dartmouth professor makes case for ethically universal stem cell lines
...ealized because of the ongoing ethical debate over harvesting hESCs, a process called deriving hESC lines. Additionally, its a politically charged issue in the U.S. because it involves federal funding for research. A recently published paper by Dartmouth Professor Ronald M. Green examines the moral questions ...Prehistoric remains reveal a drastic shift in northern fur seal ecology
...nd many other species were decimated by commercial harvesting long before scientists were able to study them first hand. "What we consider natural for a species may not have been its natural state prior to human disturbance," he added. The disappearance of northern fur seals from some temperate regions coinci...Christian Paradis announces $4 million for renewable energies
...total methane production in Canada. The biomethane harvesting project will result in reducing greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to 135,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide per year. The grant, administered by Natural Resources Canada, will cover the costs associated with installing underground pipelines, constructi...How to manage forests in hurricane impact zones
... by controlling stand structure, and by dispersing harvesting and thinning operations. The authors simulated the potential damage to 9 theoretical stands of pine trees, looking at how each would react to hurricane wind speeds, to make recommendations for different situations. "Our simple simulation of stem b...ConocoPhillips establishes $22.5M biofuels research program at Iowa State
...ill emphasize crop improvement and production, the harvesting and transportation of biomass and the impacts of biofuels on economic policy and rural sociology. According to Brown, the details of specific projects have yet to be determined. He estimates the research program will involve 10 faculty members plus...Gene hunters, patent prospectors leave indigenous communities in Pacific feeling besieged, betrayed
...ernment, according to the book. "Researchers are harvesting and patenting the Pacific region's genetic resources by simply gathering and taking ownership over almost everything in their path," says Aroha Mead, Senior Lecturer at Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand, and co-editor of the book, Pacific ...DOE JGI releases enhanced Genome Data Management System IMG 2.1 marking 2-year anniversary
...e data to enable strategies for such challenges as harvesting the potential of carbon-neutral bioenergy sources and coping with global climate change. The Integrated Microbial Genomes (IMG) data management system developed by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI) addresses this chall...Genome sequencing reveals key to viable ethanol production
...all the energy spent fertilizing, maintaining, and harvesting a crop like corn. Conversely, deriving ethanol from plant materials such as the corn stalks and wood chips is challenging because the plants cellulose is a very tough substance to break down, making for an inefficient process. Wus technique may prove...A frenzy of fruit fly methods featured in Cold Spring Harbor Protocols
...Other articles published today include methods for harvesting and analyzing fly embryos, as well as protocols for characterizing proteins from a variety of sources. These publications join in a growing library of high-quality methods from Cold Spring Harbor Protocols . For a complete list of freely accessible ......nstead of gasoline. But without proper management, harvesting corn stalks also can reduce the amount of organic matter in the soil, which reduces the fertility of the soil over time. "We need to carefully consider and intelligently manage the entire ethanol production system for long-term sustainability not ...Investigating the trochus 'El Dorado'
... locals knowledge of the species were making their harvesting practices unsustainable. "The Nggela people have a tradition of harvesting trochus during a certain time in the lunar cycle when they are easier to find. However, while they i...New hope for regenerative medicine
...S cells are not derived from viable embryos, their harvesting and use sidesteps many of the ethical concerns that plague traditional ES cell therapies. However, uniparental ES cell research faces the biological hurdle of genomic imprinting, in which specific gene expression patterns are dictated by the parental...Shedding new light on proteorhodopsin
...d the Physics Department of UC Berkeley (UCB). "By harvesting light, proteorhodopsin enables bacterial cells to supplement respiration as a cellular energy source. This ability to withstand oxygen deprivation probably explains why so many ocean bacteria express proteorhodopsin." Liphardt said that the solar p...MIT 'microsieve' could aid study of diseases
...gical sample. This allows continuous isolation and harvesting of subsets of biomolecules that researchers want to study. And that increases the probability of detecting even the smallest number of molecules in the sample. "With this technology we can isolate interesting proteins faster and more efficiently. ...Duke geologist's book assails unrealistic mathematical models
...ative models of total allowable catch to determine harvesting levels. "According to these models, the Grand Banks should still be full of fish," they write. In its assessments of the unfinished Yucca Mountain high-level nuclear waste site in Nevada, the U.S. government has used a "pyramid" of hundreds of quan...Beavers helping frogs, toads survive
...sts might occur, such as areas designated for tree harvesting and landscapes with high road densities," Stevens noted. Beaver may prove useful as a surrogate species in helping conserve frogs and toads in other remote parts of Canada's boreal forest and western North America....Frankincense trees overexploited for Christmas scent
...should include rest periods when there is no resin harvesting to allow the trees to recover," they say. Although the impact of tapping trees for other crops, such as latex and pine resin, has been studied in plantations, this is the first study to show quantitatively the fragile relationship between the extra...... surrogate, cholera toxin, and other biothreats by harvesting antibodies from a library of over a billion different sdAbs engineered in the laboratory, which bypasses the need for injecting llamas with those substances. "The delivery speed and the sdAb protein characteristics of small size, ruggedness, and abil...