Former Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt to speak at Yale Dam Conference
...reliable water supplies. To their detractors, they spell doom and destruction. Nowhere is the debate about dams more intense than in my own country, India." On Sunday, Nov. 5, from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in Sage Hall, discussion will focus on dam building in the developing world, featuring sessions on ...Decoded sea urchin genome shows surprising relationship to man
...o the egg, researchers can determine which letters spell instructions for turning genes on and off. The series of genetic switches leading to the ordered cascade of expression of genes after fertilization in the sea urchin is among the best understood developmental systems among animal models. Now, with th...Study finds oysters can take heat and heavy metals, but not both
...d heavy metal contamination on metabolic chemistry spell trouble for oysters and probably other cold blooded organisms as well. Though the levels of the pollutants have been determined to be tolerable, and oysters have evolved to be able to handle warm water temperatures for a few months, the combination p...Migratory birds: Innocent scapegoats for the dispersal of the H5N1 virus
...es in western Europe in February 2006 after a cold spell on the Black Sea showed that virus can spread through infected wild birds travelling short distances, but no evidence for long distance transmission during seasonal migration has yet been found. The evidence overwhelmingly supports the hypothesis tha...Oregon researchers involved in new Clovis-age impact theory
..., possibly a comet, set off a 1,000-year-long cold spell and wiped out or fragmented the prehistoric Clovis culture and a variety of animal genera across North America almost 13,000 years ago. Driving the theory is a carbon-rich layer of soil that has been found, but not definitively explained, at some 5...Gene discovered for type 1 diabetes in children
... Genomics at Childrens Hospital. The Centers tools spell out a patients genotypethe specific pattern of variations among an individuals 30,000 genes. Established in the summer of 2006, the center is taking on one of the largest genotyping projects in the world, and is the largest one dedicated to genetic a...... Genomics at Childrens Hospital. The Centers tools spell out a patients genotypethe specific pattern of variations among an individuals 30,000 genes. Established in the summer of 2006, the center is taking on one of the largest genotyping projects in the world, and is the largest one dedicated to genetic a...