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Hybrid grass may prove to be valuable fuel source

...the Turfgrass Program in the department of natural resources and environmental sciences. Because Miscanthus is sterile, cuttings of Miscanthus rhizomes must be used to create new plants. Now in their third year, the three 33-by-33 feet Miscanthus plots at the intersection of South First Street and Airport Roa...

Public collections of DNA and RNA sequence reach 100 gigabases

...s from at least 200,000 different organisms, these resources have anticipated the needs of molecular biologists and addressed them - often in the face of a serious lack of resources." David Lipman, Director of the National Center for Biotechnology Information, adds: "Today's nucleotide sequence databases allo...

Bacteria are key to 'green' plastics, drugs

...hemical industry. Green technologies use renewable resources like agricultural crops rather than non-renewable fossil fuels, and they produce less waste. "Succinate is a high-priority chemical that the U.S. Department of Energy has targeted for biosynthesis," said process co-developer George Bennett, professo...

Why are coyotes getting more aggressive?

..." says Paul Curtis, associate professor of natural resources at Cornell University. He notes that in the past two decades, several dozen attacks on humans have been reported in California. Coyotes, which are closely related to dogs and wolves, are ubiquitous in North America, but they rarely have been a dange...

TGen awarded $7.1 million to accelerate brain disease research

...int institutes. The consortium combines technology resources from TGen, Duke University in Durham, NC, and the University of California in Los Angeles. Because of the consortium's success and an expanding need for consortium services in neuroscience, a fourth research center, Yale University in New Haven, Conn...

Researchers develop new method for facile identification of proteins in bacterial cells

...Dr. Halden. "Instead of spending a lot of time and resources on eliminating the background noise to find the signal, our method increases the signal upfront so that it stands out above the background noise. By forcing an up-regulation of enzyme expression in the bacterium of interest, our target can be identif...

Malaria killing a million a year

...ria control programmes and even those with limited resources and a heavy malaria burden now have a better opportunity to gain ground against this disease," WHO Director-General Lee Jong-wook said in Geneva. The report estimates that 350 million to 500 million people worldwide contract malaria per year, up som...

Fragile US vaccine system needs improvement despite dramatic gains in health over past century

...healthcare providers need to be fairly reimbursed, resources should be available to monitor vaccine effectiveness and safety, and loopholes need to be closed in the vaccine injury compensation program. Incentives should be available to encourage the development of new vaccines, from basic research to manufactu...

Scientists discover global pattern of big fish diversity in open oceans

...h in the long term and the ability of these living resources to rebound from environmental changes. Open Ocean Hotspots Coral reefs have long been known for their rich diversity of fish and invertebrates, but examining the diversity of highly mobile fish in the open ocean has been elusive. Using the only glo...

UN pours polio vaccine into Yemen amid outbreak

...d rapidly. While these events strain the financial resources of the global eradication effort, they do not threaten its ultimate success," UNICEF said. The Global Polio Eradication Initiative, formed by WHO, UNICEF, Rotary International and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, needed $50 million...

UN: World in big ecological mess

...Only by valuing all our precious natural and human resources can we hope to build a sustainable future," Secretary General Kofi Annan said in a message launching the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) Synthesis Report compiled by 1,300 scientists in 95 countries. "The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment is an un...

$5.1 billion would save 6 million children

...ion children could be saved if $5.1 billion in new resources for preventive and therapeutic interventions were ...ase costs since building hospitals and other fixed resources isn't necessary. It is our hope that policymakers, donors and governments will use our price estimat...

Tsunami-damaged coral reefs should be left to recover naturally, say scientists

...most cases these would not be a good use of scarce resources and could actually harm surviving reefs. We need to find a long-term, sustainable solution for restoration. "We're advocating a cleaning up of the debris in the majority of cases, so as to allow natural recovery processes to take place. Coral reefs h...

Amazon symposium to address large-scale conservation

... prospects for large-scale conservation of natural resources in the Amazon Basin. This region has entered a new era of natural resource destruction as the principle industries driving deforestation (cattle ranching and soybean farming) are strengthened by expanding world markets for open-range beef and grain....

Searching the depths of the straits of Florida for disease cures

...hensive review of the nation's management of ocean resources in over 30 years. It calls for sweeping changes in ocean policy including dramatic increases in ocean science funding and restructuring of government agencies that manage ocean resources. "Governor Bush's response to the report was by far one of the...

Experiment station researchers to explore genome of disease-fighting fungus

...ey said. Ebbole said their research will "provide resources for the entire scientific community," noting all of the analysis will be shared with other scientists to further other projects. "Texas A&M researchers will have priority in annotating the sequence and publishing the findings," Ebbole said. The...

UCLA study assesses cost-effectiveness of Hepatitis B drugs

...l be preferred in health care systems with limited resources and is especially cost-effective with "e-antigen negative" patients, which is a more serious type of hepatitis B. "We found that the newer, more 'sexy' drugs are too expensive and better to use only after other first line therapies have failed," sai...

Internet viruses help ecologists control invasive species

...dings are important because they allow the limited resources available to control invasive species to be targeted at points on the network where they will have most impact. "Outbound vector traffic from hubs with large flows to non-invaded destinations should be targeted for management efforts to restrict the ...

Radio-tracking associated with 'dramatic shift' in water vole sex ratio

...s, which predicts that mothers with access to poor resources will produce offspring of the sex most likely to disperse and therefore reduce local competition for resources. "Radio-collars clearly have the potential to cause some stress to water voles, and it is possible that this might stimulate sex-ratio adj...

Nature provides inspiration for important new adhesive

...ogy. The new wood adhesives are made from natural resources such as soy flour and lignin. They may replace the formaldehyde-based wood adhesives currently used to make some wood composite products such as plywood, oriented strand board, particle board, and laminated veneer lumber products - all major componen...

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