USC receives first round of stem cell training funds
...de available until last week. CIRM announced this morning that it has raised enough money to fund the first year of the program with future funding expected once ongoing litigation has been settled. Funding for the grants came from six California philanthropic organizations, which purchased $14 million of B...72 new members chosen by Academy
...s in original research. The election was held this morning during the business session of the 143rd annual meeting of the Academy. "Election to the Academy is considered one of the highest honors in American science and engineering," said Ralph Cicerone, who became president of the Academy in 2005. Barbara ...Whale bubble nets, saxophone sounds, ultrasonic laser
...es will be performed in their entirety on Thursday morning (4aAAa) and repeated on Thursday afternoon (4pAAa) of the meeting. Also of note are sessions on surround sound (2aAAa and 2pAAa) featuring presentations by Grammy winnners George Massenburg (Billy Joel, Linda Ronstadt) and Bob Ludwig (Mariah Carey, D...Healthy fruits, vegetables highlight joint medical, agricultural research meet in Texas
...ve W., College Station. The public is invited. The morning includes the release of "Citrus Health Benefits," a collection of research papers published by the American Chemical Society. Patil said that in addition to the scientific reports, each chapter provides "a summary in lay terms" about what the finding......the night before to ensure they can take the early morning ferry. BACKGROUND: The Dry Tortugas, a remote area about 70 miles west of Key West, is known for its extensive coral reefs, fish, sharks, lobsters, and other marine life. In 2000, the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary was allowed to set aside no...Springer joins Katrina relief effort with eBooks donation worth more than $1 million
...nce, technology and medicine book publishers, this morning announced a donation of eBooks to seven of the city's universities. Springer announced the donation, valued at more than $1 million, at the American Library Association conference in New Orleans. The institutions of higher learning that will bene...Media advisory: International mercury conference coming to Madison Aug. 6-11
... receive an advance copy of the declaration on the morning of Aug. 11, prior to the press conference. Reporters who cannot attend in person are invited to access the declaration online and participate via conference call. E-mail media@mercury2006.org to receive telephone call-in information for the news co...Spineless tales provide strong backbone to human brain research
... cortex," Tublitz said in his presentation Tuesday morning in Sydney (5 p.m. Monday Pacific Standard Time) at the Association of Pacific Rim Universities' Brain & Mind Research Symposium. "There is a similar mapping of the cuttlefish brain onto the body as in the homunculus of the human motor cortex. Once we...Psst! Coffee drinkers: Fruit flies have something to tell you about caffeine
...rosophila flitting past your bananas to slurp your morning java anytime soon," says Craig Montell, Ph.D., a professor of biological chemistry in the Institute of Basic Biomedical Sciences at Hopkins. "The bottom line is that our mutant flies willingly drink caffeine-laced liquids and foods because they can't......s presents a genetic basis for understanding human morning lark behavior. Dr. Achim Kramer (Charit Universita...th go to sleep and wake up very early. "Being a morning lark or a night owl is something encoded in people's genes and we here made substantial progress to ......Kent Student Center. The format will include four morning speakers and multiple afternoon sessions, including break-out workshops intended for public health employees and first-responders, as well as local teachers. Feature presentations include: "Grassroots Response: Enabling Individual and Community Act...'Failed' experiment yields a biocontrol agent that doesn't trigger antibiotic resistance
...tural and Life Sciences. His inspiration came one morning in 1999 when he was puzzling over a failed experiment. A researcher in his lab had been trying to insert two different mutations into an ordinary bacterial plasmid - a routine task for the experienced scientist - but every attempt failed to produce ...Symposium at Yale to honor Mary Helen Goldsmith and auxin research
...cellular and developmental biology at Yale. The morning session includes talks by Gus Speth, dean of the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and Gordon Geballe, associate dean of that school, whose topic is, "Undergraduate Education in Environment: Yale and Beyond." Robert Cleland, professor eme...Researchers find that bumblebees' flower choice matters
...he kinds of potted plants that are dropped in each morning and the density of each species in the plot. On any given day, Flanagan will trim the plants so that each has the same number of flowers on it. Then she tracks one bee at a time, calling out its exact foraging sequence by number to her undergraduate...Adults who go to bed lonely get stress hormone boost next morning
...elmed, then along comes a boost of hormones in the morning to give you the energy you need to meet the demand...fellow at the Institute for Policy Research. The morning cortisol boost could help adults who went to bed with troubled or overwhelming feelings go out in th...Study suggests morning pollution pall for Manchester commuters
...est daily dose of harmful traffic fumes during the morning rush hour. A team from the Centre for Atmospheric...icles stay trapped near to ground level during the morning rush hour. Researchers have observed that in the middle of the day, warm bubbles of air rise up fro...If I can't remember this morning where I put my car keys last night, it's due to my memory failing me again. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg have been investigating how memories might be consolidated. Their new study offers the hitherto stro...Blame our evolutionary risk of cancer on body mass
...l task. "At one point I was woken up at two in the morning by a guy on a cell phone hunting pest beavers in Montezuma," says Gorbunova. "I'm still trying to wake up and this voice says, 'I hear you're looking for beavers.' " For over a year, Gorbunova collected deceased rodents from around the world and had ...Identification of carbon dioxide receptors in insects may help fight infectious disease
Mosquitoes dont mind morning breath. They use the carbon dioxide people exhale as a way to identify a potential food source. But when they bite, they can pass on a number of dangerous infectious diseases, such as malaria, yellow fever, and West Nile encephalitis. Now, reporting ...... were any differences between the typical duetting morning song and that delivered in response to a predator. They noted subtle differences between the two songs, particularly in the early stages (first ten notes) of the song, which would be important in the case of predator encounters. Songs usually begun...