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New book explains antibiotic resistance for a broad audience

...rounding the issue of antibiotic resistance. A new book from ASM Press, Revenge of the Microbes: How Bacte...f Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who co-authored the book with Dixie Whitt of the same university. "It was this ambivalence and confusion that motivated us to...

Bugs, even 'bad' ones, can be educationally beneficial, new book says

...om bad bugs, according to Gilbert Waldbauer, whose book "Insights From Insects: What Bad Bugs Can Teach Us...s methods that people use to get rid of pests. The book is written for a general audience. "Many basic biological concepts such as evolution and genetics c...

To sea or not to sea: When it comes to salmon sex, size sometimes doesn't matter

...eir detriment," he writes in the conclusion of his book published by University Press. "However, if we write salmon off as incapable of recovery and so justify actions and inactions that harm them, we will turn our pessimism into their reality, and that would be unforgivable." ...

The evolutionary triumph of flower power

...led recall of the flowers, booklet decorations and book entries. Flower power again triumphed: Those who received the most and the earliest flowers demonstrated the best memory. "Flowers have been ignored for the most part in the literature on plants and people," McGuire says. "Perhaps they have been ove...

Scientists journey to southern Africa to unravel the secret world of elephant communication

...n the size scale." O'Connell-Rodwell is writing a book on seismic communication in elephants that is scheduled to be published in 2006. Meanwhile, she and her colleagues continue to analyze the results of the 2004 experiment and plan to gather new data when they return to Mushara waterhole in May 2005. T...

50-year-old Mystery Solved: Protein Tags Regulate Key Ion Channel

...ersity of Chicago. "This adds a new chapter to the book of how cells control ion channel function: reversible peptide linkage." Ion channels are in every cell in the human body. They are tightly controlled tunnels through the membrane barriers that hold in the cell's contents, separating the cell from th...

Biodiversity hotspots identify conservation priorities

The new book Hotspots Revisited identifies 34 regions worldwide...s who participated in the hotspots reanalysis. The book can be purchased from www.conservation.org . ...

Wiley announces publication of Databasing the Brain

... 2005; $135.00; Paper; 0-471-30921-4) is the first book to comprehensively cover neuroinformatics, from re...research. Extensively illustrated throughout, this book discusses the state-of-the-art informatic tools and models and how they are being applied to clinica...

New research indicates a 'troubled' greenhouse is brewing

...rity on paleosols (ancient soils) and is writing a book about healing the global greenhouse. His textbook, "Soils of the Past: An Introduction to Paleopedology," is widely used on college and university campuses. At the UO since 1981, his research is funded by the National Science Foundation. ...

New Technique for Tracking Gene Regulators

... research. “It’s as if we have in our hands agiant book of life, but we are barely beginning to learn how to readit.?“Our technique gives us a new way to index the code, to find the placeswhere regulators act ?where the on/off switches are that determinewhich genes are at work in different types of cells ...

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