World Wildlife Fund warns against iron dumping experiment near the Galapagos Islands
...ildlife Funds concern extends beyond the impact on individual species and extends to the changes that this dumping may cause in the interaction of species, affecting the entire ecosystem, said Dr. Sallie Chisholm, microbiologist, MIT and board member, World Wildlife Fund. Theres a real risk that this experiment...Psychiatric Genomics Center established at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
...y as many patients as possible at the level of the individual base pairs of DNA. The new Center at CSHL will allow world-renowned geneticists and molecular biologists to apply the most powerful technology and to access appropriately selected DNA samples. We are confident that our investment in CSHLs mission...ORNL-led team wins DOE bioenergy center
...a in Cambridge, Mass. The team also includes seven individual researchers from across the country. ORNLs Martin Keller will serve as director for the center. ORNL Director Jeff Wadsworth said the DOE project will be a critical part of Americas efforts over the next decade to develop alternatives to fossil fue...UGA scientists receive $20M in federal bioenergy initiative
...a in Cambridge, Mass. The team also includes seven individual researchers from across the country. The Center will be based at ORNL in Oak Ridge, Tenn. UGA and its Complex Carbohydrate Research Center (CCRC) will be an anchor facility for the BESC. UGA has a tremendous team of scientists with a true colla...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- June 20, 2007
...worlds largest scientific society. Please cite the individual journal, or the American Chemical Society, as the source of this information. ACS NEWS SERVICE June 20, 2007 Weekly PressPac ALL CONTENT IS FOR IMMEDIATE USE EXCEPT ARTICLE #5 (EMBARGOED FOR 9 A.M., EASTERN TIME, June 25, 2007) PressPac Arc...Kansas, Missouri School Board members to explore improvements in science-related education
...d into a preliminary action plan tailored to their individual districts. Among the speakers: Jo Ellen Roseman, director of AAASs pioneering Project 2061 science literacy initiative; Joseph S. Villani, NSBAs deputy executive director; Will Friedman, director of Public Agendas Center for Advances in Public Enga...WPI professor to represent American Mathematical Society at exhibition on science funding
...s and lower medical costs. With more than 28,000 individual members and 550 institutional members in the United States and abroad, AMS seeks to promote mathematical research and its applications, strengthen mathematical education, and foster awareness of mathematics and its connections to other disciplines an...Antarctic icebergs -- Hotspots of ocean life
...ried out the most comprehensive study ever done of individual icebergs and their immediate environment, taking a wide array of measurements physical, biological and chemical, and using satellite images provided by NASA. At the same time, the wealth of data brought new challenges in how to manage this avalan...Invertebrate immune systems are anything but simple, conference finds
...use immune systems, if left unchecked, can harm an individual by mistakenly attacking cells in the body. In humans, the failure of the body to recognise itself results in autoimmune diseases. For example, Crohns disease is the failure of the body to recognize intestinal cells, resulting in an immune respo...St. Jude shows gene test not needed if cancer drug given in low doses
...esign effective and safe irinotecan treatments for individual children....Turn-ons and turn-offs for neurons
... Heidelberg have therefore systematically examined individual components of the Tet systems and delineated the necessary conditions for reversible control of gene expression in neurons. In the June 20th issue of the online, open-access journal PLoS ONE, they report that genes which had been inactive in neuron...Innovative subsea separation technology wins 2007 EUREKA environmental award
...ich may comprise of oil, gas, water and sand, into individual constituents.By installing a full field subsea separation facility, Statoil expects to improve the Tordis fields recovery factor from 49 to 55%, explains Rune Mode Ramberg, Statoils subsea processing discipline adviser. Along with other upgrades to t...Fever after smallpox vaccination tied to individual genetic variations
...ox vaccination. Their finding is the first to link individual differences written into the genetic code with a vaccine-related complication albeit a mild one. Most of the eight genetic alterations the scientists identified increased the likelihood of fever after smallpox vaccination. A few, however, reduced ...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- June 13, 2007
...orld's largest scientific society. Please cite the individual journal, or the American Chemical Society, as the source of this information. ACS NEWS SERVICE: June 13, 2007Weekly PressPac: ALL CONTENT IS FOR IMMEDIATE USE EXCEPT ARTICLE #5 (EMBARGOED FOR 9 A.M., EASTERN TIME, June 18, 2007) PressPac Archive...Researchers discover 'acquired' DNA key to certain bacterial infection
...the process. We still dont know what most of the individual genes do, he said, and none of the DNA sequences match those in known databases. The researchers did discover that one of the genes provides coding for a protein that targets action in the host cell, which may help the bacterium survive in the macr......ed in detail scientists can identify locations in individual mice where the jumping genes have carried pieces of loxP DNA. Then, they can select a mouse with loxP on both sides of the large piece of DNA they want to mutate and study. If the jumping gene carrying loxP hops into the middle of a gene, then the...University of Colorado invention may allow thirsty crops to signal farmers
...nsists of an integrated-circuit chip that clips to individual plant leaves and collects and stores information, ...ers. The computers, for example, could instruct individual pivot irrigation systems used widely on Colorado's eastern plains to dispense set amounts of water t...Louisiana Tech researchers help find new sub-atomic particle
...ey need in order to develop accurate models of how individual quarks are bound together into larger particles such as protons and neutrons."...Exploring the dark matter of the genome
...the genome. We're pretty good at understanding how individual genes work, but we don't understand, for example, how the large-scale structure of genomes affects cellular processes. We hear too much about the 'post-genomic era' -- it's underappreciated that we don't understand the genome yet." Celniker agrees...UCR biologists unravel the genetic secrets of black widow spider silk
...just one type of the seven different silks that an individual spider produces are used by spiders as the structural foundation of their webs and to support their body weight as they move about. The dragline silk of black widows is one of the strongest and toughest spider silks identified thus far. ...