New book explains antibiotic resistance for a broad audience
...ced degrees as its audience. We wanted to reach a wider audience, but we didn't want to exclude scientists, especially those who work in areas in which information about antibiotics might not have been part of their training," says Salyers. Revenge of the Microbes has a list price of $29.95 and can be or...Science, AAAS select two for new minority internship
...service of Science . The internship is part of a wider effort by AAAS and the general scientific community to diversify the voices of science news reporting. Since science is a global enterprise that affects everybody, those who cover it should reflect that diversity. "The goal is to expose the interns t...NASA study finds snow melt causes large ocean plant blooms
...ummer. Since 1997, a reduction in snow has led to wider temperature differencesbetween the land and ocean during summer. As a consequence, sea surfacewinds over the Arabian Sea have strengthened leading to more intenseupwelling and more widespread blooms of phytoplankton along the coastsof Somalia, Yemen ...Can money grow on trees? Win-win strategies for 'sustainable bioprospecting'
...oprospecting; Integrate bioprospecting as part of wider health care; Harness bioprospecting collaborations to boost local traditional medicinal knowledge; and Leverage their options in several ongoing international negotiations on access and benefit-sharing. "Without keeping in mind the complexities of ...Innovative collaboration brings Arctic science into the classroom
...ntriguing topics that will engage students and the wider public. This is Dr. Holmes' second year of participating in TREC. During their expedition, Holmes and Clapp will have daily communications with students and the public, using a satellite phone hooked to a laptop computer for internet communications. ...Europe faces brain drain and declining patient care unless cancer research funding is doubled
...es less per person than the USA a funding gap far wider than previously thought; there is insufficient funding for preventative and clinical research, while funding for basic scientific research is proportionately much higher; Europe is weak in its overall support of cancer research, both centrally and ...Researchers call for expanding the repertoire in studying birdsong
...ield to begin singing a different tune and study a wider variety of species. Michael Beecher and Eliot Brenowitz, University of Washington professors of psychology and biology, say that while a great deal of knowledge has been gleaned by studying songbirds over the past three decades, a narrow focus on ju...Novel ultrafast laser detection of cancer cells also may improve understanding of stem cells
...ke leukemia." Naviaux looks forward to examining a wider population of cancer cells to validate the method, combining the resources of his Center with Sandia's laser expertise. A project proposal has been filed with Sandia to support collaborative work between the unique research capabilities of UCSD and ...RNA project to create language for scientists worldwide
...RNA Society meetings and receive feedback from the wider community of researchers. The ontology team will identify all RNA motifs, or repeated patterns, mentioned in the literature or appearing in databases, to agree upon and write a definition for each motif. The consortium's work will be accessible on th...Bugs, even 'bad' ones, can be educationally beneficial, new book says
...stward to Nebraska and Louisiana. Other pests with wider ranges, such as disease-toting mosquitoes, produce-feasting fruit flies and sap-sucking aphids, also are featured. The history of how many insects were spread to the United States also is discussed. For example, in 1869, the gypsy moth (Lymantria dis...Urgent measures needed to retain our lead in pharmaceuticals
...ussion between scientists, decision makers and the wider public." Opportunity for Scotland Meanwhile, Prof. David Porteous, University of Edinburgh, sees an opportunity in"The combination of an unhealthy but stable population of 5 million that is supportive of medical research (and which) favours Scotlan...Georgia Tech research indicates immune complications associated with combination medical devices
...lex combination products so that as they move into wider use, they can be designed to integrate as smoothly as possible into the patient. Babensee's work focuses on strategies for designing biomaterials and devices that can best integrate into the body by controlling host responses. In some combination pro...Grid expectations for networked computing: From global Earth monitoring to black hole detection
...cientific use but was enthusiastically taken up by wider society, emerging Grid and e-collaboration technology is likely to have a huge impact beyond science. Federico Rossi of the company Datamat said he predicted Grid use spreading beyond science to industry in the next few years, as initial 'hype and h...Mapping the underwater world in 3-D
..., mapping the seabed and bringing the results to a wider audience is an important part of our research within the School of Earth, Ocean and Planetary Science. This collaboration will provide visualisation of the seabed for scientists and strategic decision makers for purposes of renewable energy, port op...Chemists create 'Superbowl' molecule; May lead to better health
... than their predecessors and show more promise for wider applications." "I wanted a name for our compounds which acknowledged this and recognized their larger size and shape," says Sherburn. "'Superbowl' was perfect since it conjures up for me at least the image of a sports stadium, which the molecules ...Spleen may be source of versatile stem cells
... splenic cells may be able to differentiate into a wider variety of cells than can adult stem cells from bone marrow, which do not produce Hox11. The researchers also note that the spleen develops from embryonic tissue that is known not only to generate precursors to many types of blood cells, a function ...B-15A iceberg's close encounter monitored by Envisat
... off the end of the ice promontory." Providing a wider Antarctic view The 400-kilometre swath, 150-metre resolution images shown here of B-15A and the Drygalski ice tongue are from ASAR working in Wide Swath Mode (WSM). Envisat also monitors Antarctica in Global Monitoring Mode (GMM), with the same swa...New method simplifies search for genetic changes associated with disease
... make direct genomic selection available to a much wider group of researchers. The approach will further empower the University's BioMed 21 initiative, which is dedicated to harnessing genetic studies and other basic research for improved patient diagnosis and treatment. "This is a major technological brea...University of Chicago researchers discovered that humans are a 'privileged' evolutionary lineage
...evolutionary changes. Lahn also is considering the wider impact of this research. "Are the genes involved in the evolution of the human brain more likely to be linked to diseases of the human brain? What happens when something goes wrong in these genes? Does it create neurological and psychiatric problems ...Hospital epidemiologists trace outbreak of organism to commonly used wound care equipment
...n the operating room, pulsatile lavage has been in wider use since the 1980s. Physical therapists and nurses most commonly perform the procedure, where sterile saline is flushed over a wound. A plastic shield prevents splashing, and another tube is used to suck water containing wound debris into a canist...