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It's electric: Cows show promise as powerplants

... findings on August 31 in Washington, D.C., at the national meeting of the American Chemical Society. Christy and Rismani-Yazdi conducted the work with Ohio State colleagues Olli Tuovinen, a professor of microbiology, and Burk Dehority, a professor of animal sciences. The researchers extracted rumen fluid fr...

ORNL, UC Berkeley unravel real-world clues to Earth's mysteries

...that can develop novel approaches and solutions to national challenges." Hettich said their results would not have been possible without the collaboration with UC Berkeley, where Jill Banfield is an expert in natural microbial communities. Banfield, a professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Pol...

Researcher gets NSF grant to create mutant maize lines

...lture's Maize Genetics Cooperative Stock Center, a national clearinghouse where scientists will be able to obtain the seeds for their experiments. "A good chunk of this project is developing a community resource," Brutnell says. By providing these lines to the community, researchers with a wide range of inte...

Novel compounds show promise as safer, more potent insecticides

...y. They described their studies today at the 230th national meeting of the American Chemical Society, the world’s largest scientific society. Many of the most widely used insecticides today act on only a handful of exploited targets, including the organophosphates, which block acetylcholinesterase, an enzyme...

Going To Extremes To Improve Human Health

...igator Award (his second since 2000) and a similar national honor conferred in 2000 by the American College of Sports Medicine. In addition to their well-established research programs, Halliwill and Minson share a strong commitment to training future researchers in environmental physiology. Currently, about ...

Siberian tigers hang tough

...with full political support from both regional and national governmental bodies of the Russian Federation, as well as financial and technical support from the international conservation community." The project was funded not only by Russia's Ministry of Natural Resources, but by a host of international organi...

Aptamer-based Biosensor screens Air Force personnel and equipment

... a new technology developed by the Air Force and a national laboratory. Personnel will use the biosensor system to collect and isolate samples, detect and identify agents, and assess the seriousness of the threat. "The system will provide an increased capability for Air Force Special Operations personnel to...

Researchers track down cause of a disfiguring bone disorder

...team from Lawrence Livermore and Lawrence Berkeley national laboratories, the Novartis Institutes for BioMedic...ermore National Laboratory has a mission to ensure national security and to apply science and technology to the important issues of our time. Lawrence Livermore...

Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: Many of 2 billion dryland dwellers at risk as land degrades

...ves for drylands populations should become part of national strategies to combat desertification and poverty reduction. The greatest vulnerability is ascribed to sub-Saharan and Central Asian drylands. For example, in three key regions of Africa--the Sahel, the Horn of Africa, and Southeast Africa--severe dr...

Expanding forests darken the outlook for butterflies, study shows

...ing--likely due to global warming--and, outside of national parks, forest fires are usually suppressed. These ...lowed to burn. "They do prescribed burning in the national parks for general maintenance, but they also do it to increase the meadow areas, which animals such ...

Crisis in African fish supplies looms, experts warn Africa leaders

... Africa's fish trade at every level. Regional and national research, technology transfer and policy developme...tial to grow. Regional cooperation and appropriate national policies can provide a major market stimulus and reinforce national and regional food security. 5....

Leptin-signaling Protein Maintains Normal Body Weight And Energy Balance In Mice

... Africa's fish trade at every level. Regional and national research, technology transfer and policy developme...tial to grow. Regional cooperation and appropriate national policies can provide a major market stimulus and reinforce national and regional food security. 5....

Beauty queens urge girls not to sacrifice their bones

...place in Asia. Some 200 delegates from IOF member national osteoporosis societies in more than 50 countries are expected to attend. "It is particularly important that we are meeting in Bangkok because the number of people suffering from osteoporosis is growing fastest in the Asian region," noted IOF Chief E...

South Africa still debating how to tackle HIV/AIDS when 5 million are infected

A national conference in South Africa was dominated this week by the continuing debate over HIV/AIDS drugs. Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang repeated yet again that drugs were not the only way to fight HIV/AIDS, and that eating habits were also importan...

Team of international scientists departs today to discover the unknown in China's Himalayan region

...P data have contributed to the creation of several national parks throughout the world. CI's RAP program deploys expert teams of international and host-country scientists to conduct rapid inventories of the species of animals and plants in areas that are poorly known but potentially important biodiversity c...

Clear rules needed to govern deep sea bioprospecting: UNU

...abed ecosystems lie in international waters beyond national jurisdiction with no international rules. And no state has yet adopted measures addressing bioprospecting undertaken by its nationals in international waters. The UNU-IAS report identifies shortcomings in UNCLOS, the Convention on Biological Diversi...

A Father’s Day Gift: Free DNA Paternity Testing

...abed ecosystems lie in international waters beyond national jurisdiction with no international rules. And no state has yet adopted measures addressing bioprospecting undertaken by its nationals in international waters. The UNU-IAS report identifies shortcomings in UNCLOS, the Convention on Biological Diversi...

Hospitalizations because of chicken pox down dramatically since implementation of vaccine

...e the cost-effectiveness dramatically. Second, the national varicella vaccine recommendation prompted states to measure and react to varicella as a reportable vaccine-preventable illness. The costs of such monitoring and of responding to outbreaks of varicella (e.g., in day care or school settings) may be sub...

From a Few Wild Ancestors, a Citrus Cornucopia

...inct. The project was no small feat. According to national program leader Peter Bretting, who has programmatic leadership responsibilities for all ARS germplasm collections, the set of genetic data they generated was one of the largest ever compiled of its kind. “Now,?says research leader and plant patholog...

Progress on HIV/AIDS significant but insufficient

...rt from the need for governments to increase their national budgets, it was necessary to ensure that commitmen...Recommendations included redoubling efforts at the national level and stepping up programmes for children at risk, including by eliminating the cost of schoolin...

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