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From a Few Wild Ancestors, a Citrus Cornucopia

...hers were either known to be crosses from breeding programs or mutations from a parent tree -- so they wouldn’t differ enough from other accessions to be surveyed. “About 50 of the 400 accessions represent more than 90 percent of the collection’s true diversity,?says Krueger. “That’s just 13 percent of the c...

Traditional models underestimate extinction rates

...--to accurately evaluate risk and enhance recovery programs for at-risk populations. As threats to endangered species continue to mount, biologists will need ever more robust methods to estimate extinction risk. Unfortunately, field biologists typically can't generate the large, high-quality datasets that led...

Rensselaer researchers develop approach that predicts protein separation behavior

...latform for collaborative research and world-class programs and symposia. About Rensselaer Rensselaer Pol... and the humanities and social sciences. Institute programs serve undergraduates, graduate students, and working professionals around the world. Rensselaer facu...

AIDS expert says global strategy needed to combat feminization of HIV/AIDS

... immune responses between women and men. Cultural programs are also needed for reshaping gender roles, such as educating more women about safe-sex practices, use of condoms, lessons on negotiating safe sex, and awareness campaigns about where to seek testing and treatment. Quinn says that women are differen...

Gap-climbing fruit flies reveal components of goal-driven behaviors

...g the control and structure of goal-oriented motor programs in the fruit fly Drosophila. The findings are re... to grasp the other side. In some ways, the motor programs employed by the flies show high similarity to vertebrate motor programs--for example, when a person ...

Laboratory professionals in Africa receive training under AIDS Relief Plan

...rovide laboratory training and quality improvement programs in African countries severely affected by AIDS. The training programs are for medical laboratory professionals in Africa and will continue in 2006 through the President's...

New Scripps Oceanography project to study sediments and ecosystem restoration in Venice lagoon

...l banks Lisa Shaffer, Scripps director of policy programs and international relations, is serving as the project coordinator and managing the external peer-review process for Scripps. ...

High rates of sexually transmitted infections found in young drug users

...lly transmitted infection prevention and treatment programs need to target drug users," said Susan G. Sherman,...ant public health issue. Intervention and outreach programs for young drug users should offer sexually transmitted infection testing and education, as well as p...

Fragment of yellow fever virus may hold key to safer vaccine

... the rise, mostly due to the lapse of immunization programs in high risk areas. More recently, serious and potentially fatal side effects from the vaccine have been reported, mainly in elderly persons in northern Europe. "Yellow fever research was neglected because the vaccine was so effective," ter Meulen s...

Novel compounds show promise as safer, more potent insecticides

...nd provides educational, science policy and career programs in chemistry. Its main offices are in Washington, D.C., and Columbus, Ohio. ...

Field of beams - Novel system uses polarized light pulses to reveal crop health

...s careful to stress that current health protection programs have shown their effectiveness in such situations as the recent SARS outbreak in Southeast Asia. "We are highlighting what 'may happen' if we don't pay careful attention to the inherent assumptions in the models that we fit to data," said Wearing. "...

Inhaling large amounts of salt can cause hypertension

...s careful to stress that current health protection programs have shown their effectiveness in such situations as the recent SARS outbreak in Southeast Asia. "We are highlighting what 'may happen' if we don't pay careful attention to the inherent assumptions in the models that we fit to data," said Wearing. "...

Understanding biases in epidemic models important when making public health predictions

...s careful to stress that current health protection programs have shown their effectiveness in such situations as the recent SARS outbreak in Southeast Asia. "We are highlighting what 'may happen' if we don't pay careful attention to the inherent assumptions in the models that we fit to data," said Wearing. "...

Molecular steps involved in the creation of gene-silencing microRNAs identified

...uthor Shiekhattar is an associate professor in two programs at Wistar, the gene expression and regulation program and molecular and cellular oncogenesis program. Support for the research was provided by the National Institutes of Health, the American Cancer Society, and the Jane Coffin Child Memorial Fund for...

Poaching, logging, and outbreaks of Ebola threaten central African gorillas and chimpanzees

... and experts say $30 million is needed for special programs to save some of mankind's closest relatives from d...of Congo, in May designates 12 areas for emergency programs intended to increase security against illegal hunting, protect great apes and tropical forests from ...

Random gene expression may drive HIV into hiding

...iscount other hypotheses and then created computer programs to model what would happen to the virus under different cellular conditions. Of the 16 models they tested, only one produced results that matched those seen experimentally in the infected cells. In this model, after HIV's RNA enters a host cell, it ...

$5.1 billion would save 6 million children

...ime the global cost of implementing child survival programs could be estimated. The study is published in the June 25, 2005, issue of The Lancet. "Achieving the Millennium Development Goal for child survival is clearly affordable. Protecting child health should be the priority for countries with the highest ...

Determining The Fate Of Cells In The Human Body

...s -- which are outcomes of inappropriate molecular programs due to miscommunication at the cellular level. If we can understand what is going wrong, we may be able to correct these problems before birth," said Dr. Firulli. Co-authors of the study are IU School of Medicine investigators Beth A. Firulli, Dayan...

NYU, Rockefeller researchers find complexity of regulation by microRNA genes

...nctional Genomics, where the focus of the research programs is to combine genomic approaches with developmental genetics and evolution to understand how changes in genomes give rise to the diversity of regulatory mechanisms in animals and plants. ...

Rabies spread speeds up

...d on early detection and high-powered intervention programs - a sensible approach for any infectious disease. ### Citation: Russell CA, Smith DL, Childs JE, Real LA (2005) Predictive spatial dynamics and strategic planning for raccoon rabies emergence in Ohio. PLoS Biol 3(3): e88. ...

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