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Tsunami + 1 year: Reviving exhausted fisheries should trump replacing boats, gear, experts say

...vestigate the costs, constraints and benefits of a national vessel registration system to ensure that fishing capacity is monitored and controlled appropriately; Based on available science, establish a ceiling on the overall number of vessels that can operate in each region, with maximum numbers set for each...

University of Arizona plant scientists to unravel maize genome

...ur exceptionally competitive position inattracting national funding for key areas such as genomics -- an invaluableasset for Arizona's developing bioindustry." Wing's team will take advantage of the state-of-the-art genomics facilities in the Thomas W. Keating Building, the future home of BIO5, scheduled fo...

Grid bridges 4,800 miles for molecular repositories

...s in such diverse fields as medicine, environment, national security and energy. "There is an immediate scientific need for the BioSimGrid," affirmed T. P. Straatsma, lead researcher at PNNL. "It will enable molecular scientists to collaborate in a far more sophisticated way than we've been able to ever befo...

Penn Surgeons Use Completely Robotic Surgery to Successfully Treat Prostate Cancer

...vasive, high-tech treatment. David I. Lee, M.D., a national expert in robotic surgery, was recruited to Penn and named Chief of the Division of Urology at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, where the robotic prostate program is based. There are many factors that make robotics an...

Scientists learn to predict protein-stabilizing ability of small molecules

...vasive, high-tech treatment. David I. Lee, M.D., a national expert in robotic surgery, was recruited to Penn and named Chief of the Division of Urology at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, where the robotic prostate program is based. There are many factors that make robotics an...

New book highlights world's borderless conservation areas

...bal focus on protecting Earth's ecosystems across national boundariesNature knows no borders, according to a ...ing important wilderness areas intact, even across national borders. Stunningly illustrated, the book represents the work of 50 conservationists, scientists, ...

Genetic analysis of Asian elephants in India reveals some surprises

...er protections provided by wildlife sanctuaries or national parks. Moreover, India is projected to overtake China as the world's most populous country by 2030, a fact that almost certain to bring about increased competition for space between humans and elephants. Still, Melnick and his colleagues are confide...

Sahara's edge studied from ground, air and space to improve water management

... but also a non-renewable one - distributed across national boundaries - which requires careful management to ...tly by DLR and the Aquifer project team, including national remote sensing institutes in the SASS countries ?most prominently Tunisia's Centre National de Téléd...

From one cell, many possible cures

... Center for Gene Therapy at Tulane University as a national distributor of these cells to researchers," he said. "The center is the source of the stem cells we use. "All of their donors are adults between the ages of 19 and 49. Essentially, each donor undergoes a medical procedure in which a small amount of ...

Lateral thinking produces first map of gene transmission

... 000 hours of computing. The scientists used the national supercomputing facility of the Australian Partnership in Advanced Computing. ...

Some good news for the world's poor

...0-year period by IRRI and its many partners in the national agricultural research and extension systems of Asi...ck of agricultural research investment at both the national and international levels," he warns. "The budget of the International Rice Research Institute has al...

New study pinpoints epicenters of Earth's imminent extinctions

... an urgent global priority involving everyone from national governments to local communities, the study's authors state. The United States ranks among the ten countries with the most sites. These include Torrey Pines in California, a cave in West Virginia, a pond in Mississippi, and six sites in Hawaii. The ...

Pretreating rogue cancer cells with aspirin cripples their resistance to targeted therapy

... an urgent global priority involving everyone from national governments to local communities, the study's authors state. The United States ranks among the ten countries with the most sites. These include Torrey Pines in California, a cave in West Virginia, a pond in Mississippi, and six sites in Hawaii. The ...

HIV-infected adults in Botswana respond positively to ARV therapy public treatment program

...t program led to the development of the Botswana's national program and provided the first clinical outcomes data among ARV-treated adults in Botswana. "These results underscore the importance of monitoring not only clinical outcomes, but also ARV drug tolerability and toxicity as well," said William Wester,...

New Therapeutic Target Identified In Inherited Brain Tumor Disorder

...t program led to the development of the Botswana's national program and provided the first clinical outcomes data among ARV-treated adults in Botswana. "These results underscore the importance of monitoring not only clinical outcomes, but also ARV drug tolerability and toxicity as well," said William Wester,...

Largest computational biology simulation mimics life’s most essential nanomachine

...t program led to the development of the Botswana's national program and provided the first clinical outcomes data among ARV-treated adults in Botswana. "These results underscore the importance of monitoring not only clinical outcomes, but also ARV drug tolerability and toxicity as well," said William Wester,...

Wild birds help to create human flu vaccine

...affected by the disease. "The collaboration of national and international agencies and groups in Mongolia ... with pandemic potential." Working in tandem with national and international health agencies, congressional leaders have introduced legislation aimed at fillin...

GROWing the next generation of water recycling plants

...ing can be used twice before being placed into the national wastewater management system. "We had to carefully choose which semi-aquatic plants to use. One of the most successful is water mint, whose roots have disinfectant qualities," says Professor David Butler, who oversees the project at Imperial College...

Argonne researchers confirm lead in Beethoven's illness

...ir. Argonne's Advanced Photon Source is a premier national research facility providing X-rays to more than 5000 scientists from around the world. "Our users bring with them ideas for new discoveries in nearly every scientific discipline," said Murray Gibson, Argonne associate laboratory director for scientif...

T-rays: New imaging technology spotlighted by American Chemical Society

...iation, was the focus of a recent symposium at the national meeting of the American Chemical Society. The ses...re than 100 meters -- an essential improvement for national security applications such as remote sensing of explosives. In conjunction with NASA, THz imaging ha...

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