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...hormone- 1 (GnRH-1) neurons begin life with a long trek from their birthplace in the nasal placode along olfactory nerve tracts to their permanent home in the hypothalamus. This week, Giacobini et al. make a case for the cytokine hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) as a guidance molecule for these neurons. Nas...Yale's Strobel named 'million-dollar professor' for science teaching innovation
...tructural analysis. Spring break will be a working trek to a rain forest -- the Amazon and New Zealand among the possible locations -- to collect local branches and twigs with their associated microbes. Upon return students will spend a rigorous summer session classifying their finds -- true "unknowns" --...Scientists in dogged pursuit of snow research embark on Arctic trek
...how much snow blankets the Earth. This NASA-funded trek is one leg of a multi-sponsor five-year Go North! expedition made up of multiple dogsled treks that will explore the Arctic in pursuit of environmental samples and observations. Seven explorers, including scientists and teachers, will mush from Circ...WHSRN announces three new international sites
...n Sandpiper make the annual 20,000-mile, roundtrip trek from Alaska to Argentina. The new sites are: Rio Gallegos, Argentina--a large estuary with mud flats and marshes on the Rio Gallegos, owned by the municipality of Rio Gallegos on one shore and the Province of Santa Cruz on the other; Llano de la So...... between February and July 2002, with each 25-mile trek taking only 15 hours. Such behavior is called "streaking" because the elephants "are essentially going as fast as they can," Cerling says. "They spend their time in one area, and suddenly make this dash across the country and spend a long time in ano...8th World Wilderness Congress begins next month
... Fay, who gained international renown for his 1999 trek through Central Africa, will offer the first report on his latest expedition by light aircraft across the entire African continent. His recently completed aerial survey from Johannesburg, South Africa through close to 50 countries and ending in no...Founding fathers & mothers: How many crossed the land bridge?
...ic estimate of how many ancients made that ice age trek across the long-lost land bridge from Asia to become the first Native Americans. Jody Hey, a professor of genetics at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, has developed a computational method that uses genetic information to create models of...8th World Wilderness Congress announced
... Fay, who gained international renown for his 1999 trek through Central Africa, will offer the first report on his latest expedition by light aircraft across the entire African continent Money A team of economists assess the exact worth of wilderness The agenda, subject to change, is as follows: Sept...'Free-for-all' illegal logging of mahogany in Peruvian parks, says Duke-based monitoring group
...rrent director of ParksWatch Peru, made the jungle trek from September 16 to October 15, 2004. The trip was funded by an anonymous donor, Fagan said in an interview. "Until our investigation, the only people who knew what was going on in this remote region were the loggers and drug traffickers and a relat......ons of any species, with a survival-of-the-fittest trek that can take them thousands of miles from Canada to Central Mexico. A new Emory University study has found that these journeys may be the key to maintaining healthy monarch populations at a time when habitat loss and other environmental issues could...