Cranfield collaborator receives multi million dollar financing
... the closing of a $29.2 million Series D preferred stock financing with several leading international investors. This brings the total financing into the company up to $46.2 million since its founding in 2001. Pelikan's first product, which is expected to be launched in the spring of 2005, is the Pelikan S...Reduced fish stocks linked to increased bushmeat trade, wildlife declines in W. Africa
...hana's coast, since 1970 along with other regional stock assessments, estimate that fish biomass in nearshore and offshore waters has declined by at least 50 per cent. In the same period, there has been a threefold increase in human populations in the region. "We've suspected this link exists but this is ...Illegal tuna fishing and farming leads to demise of species
...ies (ATRT) confirms that the highly exploited tuna stock may soon be commercially extinct. The report highl.... The authors also mention that a 16,000 short ton stock of tuna fished and farmed in 2003 was still waiting to be sold in Japan before this year's fishing s...Community living causes bacteria to diversify
...om forests challenged with environmental stress to stock market portfolios in uncertain times. Findings from University of Iowa researchers show that even bacteria have learned this important lesson. When disease-causing bacteria assemble into communities known as biofilms, the individual bacteria rapidly ...NIST/EPA study aims at healthy indoor climate
...to define the status of the existing U.S. building stock with respect to indoor air quality, ventilation and occupant perceptions of environmental conditions. NIST's analysis and the original data should be useful for establishing standardized protocols for future indoor air quality studies, examining the ...Scientists rid stem cell culture of key animal cells
...down different developmental pathways. Maintaining stock cultures in their undifferentiated state is critical. The feeder cell dogma now can be overturned, says lead investigator Ren-He Xu, a senior scientist at WiCell, a private, nonprofit research institute. "This work completely gets rid of the need for...Gorilla diet tips -- Have we 'evolved to eat mush'?
... whereas modern humans in the developed world "can stock up on nearly limitless amounts of protein." Renowned paleoanthropologist Bernard Wood of George Washington University, whose lifelong quest to understand our origins included work with the legendary Richard Leakey, said that any sudden, dramatic diet...First ever estimate of cod fishery in 1850s reveals 96% decline on Scotian Shelf
...ional wisdom' as to what constitutes a rebuilt cod stock in a productive marine environment. In recent deb...ne cod stocks, for example, many argued that 1980s stock levels should be considered fully rebuilt. However, "this contradicted the evidence of basic cod bio...Fewer fish discarded after individual transferable quotas offered
...nomic value attached to more accurate and reliable stock assessments." Branch, who earned his doctorate from the UW with funding from the South African National Research Foundation and the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service, is currently conducting marine assessment and management research at the Univ......phic Project. Hammer is a consultant for and holds stock in the company. UA will not generate profits from the project. People who wish to participate in the Genographic Project can buy a kit at $99.95 (plus shipping and handling) from National Geographic. The kit contains a swab to collect cells from the...Migration study finds that sweeping management changes are needed to protect Atlantic bluefin tuna
... to at least two populations of bluefin--a western stock that spawns primarily in the Gulf of Mexico, and an eastern stock that breeds thousands of miles away in the Mediterranean Sea. Tagging data also revealed that wester...Hopeful results from interrupted Alzheimer's vaccine study
... clinical trial. He receives no other funds and no stock or stock options from the sponsors. Other authors of the papers include Elan employees and researchers who ha...Drug lowers inflammatory markers associated with risk for heart attack
...netics Inc. Co-author Gudmundur Thorgeirsson owns stock in Decode genetics. No other authors reported financial disclosures. Editorial: Translating the Human Genome Project Into Prevention of Myocardial Infarction and Stroke - Getting Close? In an accompanying editorial, Christopher J. O'Donnell, M.D., ...Scientists create digital bacteria to forge advances in biomedical research
... software, which researchers developed to simulate stock markets, social behavior and warfare. Argonne's Macal and North contributed their agent-based software expertise to the project. Macal and North operate Argonne's Center for Adaptive Systems Simulation. Cluzel's laboratory began its collaboration wi...Mayan stingless bee keeping: Going, going, gone?
...re as a way of life, but also to build up breeding stock to be re-introduced into the wild where bees play an important role as pollinators," Roubik explains. But beekeeping is fast becoming a global monoculture. Africanized honey bees produce more honey, and therefore are an economically attractive opt...Not all industrial sectors respond the same way to changes and shocks
...However, one economic variable, the decline in the stock market and hence the availability of finance, did have an impact. Only those firms with large cash reserves felt relatively insulated from changing valuations of their businesses. To generate new finance, many biotechnology firms tried to increase re...Woods Hole Research Center plans controlled burn in Amazon rainforest
... combination of a more damaged forest canopy and a stock of larger fuel from trees killed by prior fires make it even more vulnerable to subsequent fires. When humans move into an area and begin clearing forest, they seldom abandon it and move away, so until education can alter their behavior, repeated sou...Stem cells in bone marrow replenish mouse ovaries
... fetal development and thus are born with a finite stock of eggs that declines throughout life. The new report significantly extends earlier work from the same research team reporting the first preliminary evidence that ovaries of mice can be renewed with new eggs in adulthood. The new study suggests an un...Seeing the trees for the forest: WHRC scientists creating National Biomass and Carbon Dataset
...et will serve as an invaluable baseline for carbon stock assessment and flux modeling in the United States....s of actual vegetation height, biomass, and carbon stock using survey data from the U.S. Forest Service and ancillary data sets from the NLCD2001 project, wh...The ups and downs of the stock market reflect investors' balance between greed an...hers randomly designated one of the stocks a "bad" stock more likely to lose money or as a "good" stock that was more likely to make money. The bond was a sa...