Gladstone building honored with San Francisco Business Times award
...ffiliated Gladstone Institutes has a long and rich record of basic research achievements in such areas as cardiovascular disease, immunology, virology and neurodegenerative disorders. The new building provides approximately 200,000 square feet of space for laboratories and offices, and a 150-seat auditorium...Unique library of plant genes germinates, takes root at UNC
...e the massive amounts of data being churned out at record levels from ongoing genome projects," he said. "Creating useful and accessible tools like this is critical to the field. Even if researchers have access to all the genomic data and all the methods necessary to analyze it, it takes a lot of human and ...Shirley Malcom of AAAS named to election reform commission
...ersal access a reality." Malcom has built a broad record of accomplishment and advocacy in her career. She is regarded globally as a leader in efforts to improve science and engineering education and diversity in those fields. In 2003, she received the Public Welfare Medal of the National Academy of Scienc...Society of Nuclear Medicine offers program to meet patients' current, future needs for radionuclides
... The American Medical Association has also gone on record of strongly supporting a national radionuclide production enhancement program. "SNM wants to promote a unified voice for this plan, which when implemented will assure our nation of a stable and secure supply of radionuclides for future generations," ...New insight into brain and speech promises help for learning disabilities
...the timing of these firings can vary markedly. "We record the averaged activity of large numbers of neurons," Kraus explains. "If the neurons are not firing when they should, the response gets blurred." She has found a "jitter" in the brainstem's filter-class response (its response to the linguistic content...Australian kidney researcher applauded
...ighted that Associate Professor Little has a track record of ground-breaking discoveries, but of equal importance is the fact that she has established a company to ensure discoveries made here can be commercialized and translated into better outcomes for patients" concluded Mr Lirette."...Carbon dioxide role in past climate revealed
...ace. They produce chemicals called alkenones that record the sea temperature. When the algae die they sink and become part of the seabed. Therefore, a record of past sea temperatures is stored within the sediments. Sea-surface temperatures were also predict...Update on H2N2 and announcements related to CDC's new organizational structure
...ged to bring cameras to tape the conference or may record CDC video/audio from production panels located in the pressroom or on the parking deck. Parking for satellite trucks is limited and will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis. Please call CDC Media Relations at 404-639-3286 to request a spa...Glaciers from Antarctic peninsula in widespread retreat, Science study says
... 100 satellite images from the Antarctic Peninsula record this glacier retreat. With these photos and satell...ic Survey in Cambridge, UK and her team compiled a record of the behavior of glacier-ice shelves and tidewater glaciers along the coasts of the Antarctic Peni...Live faster, die younger: The shortest-living vertebrate
...k University in Australia have discovered that the record for the shortest life span for a vertebrate animal is held by a tiny coral-reef fish. Living a maximum of just 59 days, the coral-reef pygmy goby Eviota sigillata leads a complex and hectic life. Using the fishes' otoliths (ear stones), which contain...Royal Society study on adaptability of fish to warming oceans
...ment? By combining information about their fossil record and using a molecular clock, we are able to demonstrate that there was a short time interval between about 75 and 55 Ma when a large number of lineages specialising in deposit feeding independently migrated off-shelf. This coincides with a marked inc...Alaskan puzzles, monitoring provide insight about North Pacific salmon runs
...from the Kvichak are similar lakes and rivers with record production. "Our research is directed toward understanding why these runs see such different trends, by looking broadly at different systems subject to the same climate factors and constructing ecosystem conditions going back hundreds of years," Hil...Environmental technologies earn award for PNNL
...om that individually identify each tagged fish and record behavioral data. The information will be used to find new ways to increase salmon survival, avoid impacts on migrating juvenile salmon from activities associated with jetty repair and channel deepening, and aid restoration of critical estuarine habit...A whole lot of shaking goin' on triggers early hatching in red-eyed tree frogs
...s of eggs she had collected, Warkentin was able to record vibrations that occurred when the snakes attacked the eggs. As comparison, she also recorded the vibrations of the clutches caused by tropical rain storms. To determine whether the frog embryos were hatching in response to vibration and not to some ...Killer dinosaurs turned vegetarian
... shifted to plant-eating, but we have virtually no record of those transitions. With Falcarius, we have actual fossil evidence of a major dietary shift, certainly the best example documented among dinosaurs. This little beast is a missing link between small-bodied predatory dinosaurs and the highly speciali...UI researcher studies deafness in fruit flies, humans
...ant electrodes into the antennas of the flies, and record the voltages the receptor cells generate as the flies listen to the love song. By comparing the electrical impulses generated by the normal flies to those generated by myosin VIIA mutant flies, they showed that the myosin VIIA gene is essential for h...Ocean climate predicts elk population in Canadian Rockies
... Andrew Stewart Memorial Prize for his publication record as a grad student. He has authored seven published papers in the past four years. His research on the relationship between NPO values and the elk population in Banff National Park was published this spring in the Journal of Animal Ecology....University of Chicago researchers reveal secrets of snake flight
...ogical Gardens. He positioned two video cameras to record in stereo, enabling the 3-D reconstruction of the head, midpoint and vent coordinates of the snake throughout its trajectory. Socha found that the snake uses its ribs to change its body shape; it flattens from head to vent. The snake takes control of...Evidence of 600-million-year old fungi-algae symbiosis discovered in marine fossils
...land. The discovery also adds to the scarce fossil record of fungi and raises new questions about lichen evolution. Xunlai Yuan, a paleontologist with the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology; Shuhai Xiao, assistant professor of geosciences at Virginia Tech; and Thomas N. Taylor, professor of eco...... concluded that, probably due to the contamination record of the past in that coast, indigenous populations had evolved to select for organisms able to grow and degrade components of crude oil....