Incentives for US farmers reduce water waste
...ers, the once-vast but now diminishing underground repositories of water that are tapped by wells for agricultural irrigation and drinking water. "Given that many aquifers are being over-drafted, government efforts are needed to limit the pumping to sustainable withdrawal levels . . . Integrated water resource ma...Public collections of DNA and RNA sequence reach 100 gigabases
The world's three leading public repositories for DNA and RNA sequence information have reached 100 gigabases [100,000,000,000 bases; the 'letters' of the genetic code] of sequence. Thanks to their data exchange policy, which has paved the way for the global exchange of many types of biological ...Public collections of DNA & RNA sequence data reach 100 gigabases
For nearly 20 years, the three leading public repositories for DNA and RNA sequence data have collaborated to...oduced by institutions around the world. The three repositories have now reached a significant milestone by collecting and disseminating 100 gigabases of sequence d...Researchers to gain wider access to knockout mice
... (ES) cells, will be delivered to NIH-funded mouse repositories that supply mice to universities, medical schools ...st in obtaining a certain knockout mouse line, the repositories will send them live mice, frozen embryos, sperm, and/or ES cells, so they can study the mice in thei...Setting the standard for computer models of life
...rkup language, www.sbml.org ) and to build public repositories so we can share them (e.g. www.ebi.ac.uk/biomodel...M's creators include representatives of four major repositories for models (BioModels Database, CellML Model Repository, DOQCS and SigPath), all of which are now in...Stanford/Packard scientist's data-mining technique strikes genetic gold
...der the avalanche of data inundating international repositories each year unless scientists come up with a way to better classify their experiments and results. "Libraries figured out a long time ago how to classify items using the Dewey decimal and other systems," said Butte, who estimates that the contents of t...Marine scientists going down for the count
...ests of the sea because they are highly threatened repositories of extraordinary biodiversity, but little is known about the ocean's diversity as compared to its terrestrial counterpart. Dr. Nancy Knowlton of Scripps Oceanography, CReefs lead principal investigator, said, "We don't even know to the nearest order ...Soil-bound prions that cause CWD remain infectious
...est that certain soil types serve as natural prion repositories in the wild. As animals regularly consume soil to meet their mineral needs, it's possible that prion-laden soil particles contribute to the transmission of prion disease such as CWD among animals. CWD is a fatal, incurable condition that belongs to a...ACS News Service weekly press package -- June 5, 2006
...& Technology If plutonium escapes from underground repositories like the one proposed for Yucca Mountain in Nevada, there is substantially less risk that it would contaminate underground water supplies than previously thought, according to a study scheduled for the June 15 issue of Environmental Science & Technol...NIH launches effort to place more knockout mice in public repositories
...h (NIH) today awarded $800,000 to two public mouse repositories to acquire genetically engineered mouse lines not ...arch Resources (NCRR) supports a network of public repositories that archive and distribute mouse strains. The network includes the Mutant Mouse Regional Resource C...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, August 2006
...wells and deep saline aquifers may hold promise as repositories for atmospheric carbon dioxide, according to a team of researchers whose study is published in Geology. For their experiment, Yousif Kharaka of the U.S. Geological Survey, Dave Cole of ORNL's Chemical Sciences Division and colleagues injected 1,600 t...NIH launches Knockout Mouse Project
...ice with the award of $800,000 to two public mouse repositories for the acquisition of existing knockout mouse lines that are not yet widely accessible to researchers. The award recipients were the Mutant Mouse Regional Resource Centers at UC Davis and the University of Missouri/Harlan in Columbia, both supported...First Biodiversity Census of coral reef ecosystems in the NW Hawaiian Islands
...eles County. Coral reefs are highly threatened repositories of extraordinary biodiversity and therefore have been called "the rainforests of the sea", but little is known about the ocean's diversity as compared to its terrestrial counterpart. According to Dr. Nancy Knowlton of Scripps Institution of Ocean...NSF awards UGA $4.1 million grant to study so-called 'jumping genes' in maize
...e Maize Genome Sequencing Project and to long-term repositories such as the Maize Genome Database. "The scientific goals of this project and the familiarity of maize also provide outstanding opportunities for student training and for connections between the research community and the broader public," said Wess...New study warns against linking ethnic identity to breast cancer genes
...ion, and scientific institutions had created large repositories of genetic samples that could then be screened for the genetic mutations associated with breast cancer--but only in Ashkenazi Jews. "The science of breast cancer genetics has been marked by methodological inconsistency in how researchers defined ...Research linking Ashkenazi Jews and breast cancer genes beset by problems
...ion, and scientific institutions had created large repositories of genetic samples that could then be screened for other mutations including those associated with breast cancer--but only in Ashkenazi Jews. "The science of breast cancer genetics has been marked by methodological inconsistency in how researchers ......entists were able to combine the potential of both repositories with the intellectual and financial resources of previously competing research teams that they were able to make the connections represented in these studies. For studying these complex genetic diseases, where were looking at many genes contribut...