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Arctic expedition will investigate alien-like glacier

...amhnait Gleeson from the University Colorado, on a project sponsored by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, will be taking part in the study to determine if it will be worthwhile testing spacecraft and remote-control rover equipment on the glacier in the future. "These are exciting times for planetary explora...

Adult stem cell research at UB targets damaged hearts

...rapeutic applications." The second phase of the project will involve injecting the stem cells into swine with hibernating myocardium. The researchers will track the cells' progress, evaluate their feasibility, and determine if cells engineering for enhanced survival, blood vessel regeneration and "homin...

Dominant meerkats render rivals infertile

...d at the Kuruman River Reserve, South Africa. The project is a decade-old initiative led by Professor Tim Clutton-Brock FRS, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, in collaboration with the University of Pretoria. A study earlier this year by Dr Young and Professor Clutton-Brock reported that subo...

Wild meerkats school their young

...d at the Kuruman River Reserve, South Africa. The project is a decade-old initiative by Professor Tim Clutton-Brock FRS in collaboration with the University of Pretoria. A study earlier this year by Dr Andrew Young and Professor Clutton-Brock reported that dominant female meerkats kill and eat their rival'...

What's nature worth? New computer models tell all

...Institute for Ecological Economics have launched a project to solve a central problem that this young science...ice," Costanza said. And finally, next year, the project will put out its results through an interactive website--perhaps a bit like Google Earth for ecosyst...

Even when faint, ovary scent draws sperm cells

...ocedure in male infertility," Jacobson said. The project is a collaboration between research groups led by Jacobson and IUB Distinguished Professor of Chemistry Milos V. Novotny. Their work led to the development of a "flow-through" device, a sort of liquid treadmill for sperm cells, which allows researche...

A new look at the state of the oceans

...y of Lisbon in Portugal. The long term goal of the project is the networking of all data bases and their integration into the existing World Data Centre for Marine Environmental Sciences (WDC-MARE). This data centre represents a virtual institute and is administered by the Alfred Wegener Institute and the Ce...

Computational analysis shows that plant hormones often go it alone

...f a multinational effort known as the AtGenExpress project cataloguing gene expression in the model plant Ara...-array data for Arabidopsis. Participants in the project send results from their lab's microarray analysis of Arabidopsis genes to a publicly available datab...

New light microscope sharpens scientists' focus

...on group at Janelia Farm. Hess collaborated on the project with colleague Eric Betzig, who is now a group leader at Janelia Farm. The assembly and underlying conceptual work on the microscope were personally funded with $25,000 each from Hess and Betzig. Later, both were supported by the Howard Hughes Medica...

Even a little cooling helps after cardiac arrest

...d many types of birds." The goal of the Sea Grant project is to establish a baseline snail-trematode count in marshes, particularly those slated for restoration. By comparing worm statistics before and after a restoration project, which could include activities such as digging channels or removing non-nativ...

How healthy is that marsh? Biologists count parasites

...d many types of birds." The goal of the Sea Grant project is to establish a baseline snail-trematode count in marshes, particularly those slated for restoration. By comparing worm statistics before and after a restoration project, which could include activities such as digging channels or removing non-nativ...

Pollution threatens coral health by preventing lesions from healing, UCF study shows

...owth and algal blooms. Coral samples in Fauth's project were analyzed at Haereticus Environmental Laboratory in Amherst, Va. "We're doing the same thing as a medical examiner," Fauth said. "It's possible that corals are being stressed by pollution, and we're trying to find out what stresses them and ho...

Researchers seek to solve mystery of natural HIV control

...troller Collaborative Study. Walker discussed the project in a media briefing today at the 16th International AIDS Conference in Toronto. Most people infected with HIV cannot control replication of the virus with their immune systems alone. Unless antiviral medications are used, the virus continues to r...

NHGRI announces latest sequencing targets

... Also selected in the latest round is a project to sequence up to 50 strains of the yeast Saccharo...nd animals) shared a single-celled ancestor. This project targets ten of the earliest branches of animals and fungi along with some of their single-celled rel...

The vicious cycle of rainforest destruction

...he health of our planet. A new £1.6m international project involving researchers from the Leeds Earth and Biosphere Institute is looking at the impact of global warming on these sensitive areas. The researchers think we may be at the start of a vicious cycle, where global warming causes the rainforests to s...

Deep-water discovery

...orida's "Florida Oceans Initiative" is the primary project funder. "The reef raises important issues and questions," said Dr. Mark Grasmueck, a Rosenstiel School professor. "How a reef like this sustains itself without sunlight, without obvious energy and nourishment--it's a unique ecosystem. I find mysel...

Wild bees and the flowers they pollinate are disappearing together

...ppearing too. Dr Bill Kunin, coordinator of the project at the University of Leeds explained: "We looked at plant changes as an afterthought, and were surprised to see how strong the trends were. When we contacted our Dutch colleagues, we found out that they had begun spotting similar shifts in their wil...

Montreal researchers identify defects of immune cells

...to conventional antifungal therapies. The research project was carried out jointly by Dr. Louis de Repentigny, Director of the Medical Mycology Laboratory and Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the Faculty of Medicine of Université de Montréal, and at CHU Sainte-Justine, and Dr. Pa...

DOE JGI finishes 100th microbial genome

...nts, and animals. The 100th microbial genome, a project originally proposed by Dr. Kevin Sowers of the Center of Marine Biotechnology at the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute (UMBI), is Methanosarcina barkeri fusaro, a methane-producing organism that exploits a unique metabolic pathway to do ...

It's all in the genes

...ch grant from the National Science Foundation. The project includes scientists from a multitude of discipline... all the skills to do this." "This is an exciting project with global impact, drawing on the expertise of geneticists, ecologists, molecular biologists, bioge...

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