NASA satellite data provides rapid analysis of Amazon deforestation
...images showing areas of deforestation on the NASA website The Amazon, a vast tropical forest stretching across South America, is so large that if you were to take pictures of the region with optical photographs, it would take about ten years to get a composite image of the area. To make matters worse, it...NIEHS launches website with information for assessing environmental hazards from Hurricane Katrina
A new website with a Global Information System will provide valu... of the National Institutes of Health, created the website to provide the most up-to-date data to public health and safety workers on contaminants in flood wat...FDA approves child-friendly AIDS medicine
A new website with a Global Information System will provide valu... of the National Institutes of Health, created the website to provide the most up-to-date data to public health and safety workers on contaminants in flood wat...DOE's Office of Science sets up program to aid scientists displaced by Hurricane Katrina
...erested individuals should visit the clearinghouse website at www.orau.gov/doeedrelief. Dr. Orbach's letter may be viewed on the Office of Science homepage at www.sc.doe.gov . This program is just one of the Department of Energy's responses to Hurricane Katrina. Additonal information on those responses i...Bacteria in Household Dust May Trigger Asthma Symptoms
...For more information about asthma please visit our website at http://www.niehs.nih.gov/airborne/. For more in...ther environmental health topics, please visit our website at http://www.niehs.nih.gov/. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) ?The Nation's Medical Researc...Solexa and collaborating scientists illuminate the small RNA component of the transcriptome
...leased an enhanced version of our Arabidopsis MPSS website (http://mpss.udel.edu/at) to further facilitate public access and use of these data." "These experiments underscore the importance of studying the entire genome for evidence of small RNA activity. The newly discovered small RNAs that match to genes ...Virtual microscopy project wins educational technology award
Link to the project website The annual Educational Technology Award of the University of Helsinki has this year been granted to the project 'Virtual microscopy as a teaching aid' of the Biomedical Informatics Research Group of the university. The awarded project utilizes adv...Fossil find: 'Godzilla' crocodile had head of a dinosaur, fins like a fish
Editor : See pictures on the National Geographic website Researchers have discovered evidence of an ancient sea creature that would have made Tyrannosaurus rex, think twice before stepping into the ocean. At the southern tip of South America , they found fossils of an entirely new species of ancient cr...'Dating agency' boosts hunt for disease genes
...of Manchester). "Vetted scientists can find on the website both data and materials about a disease. Then, the...g in more collaborators and more data types." The website is at www.dna-network.ac.uk . The UK clinicians in the Network are experts in gut, breast and whit...Source of crucial immune cell in the skin discovered
...gens. The study will appear on Nature Immunology's website this week and will be published in a future issue. A tight network of cells covering the entire body is formed in the skin by a group of cells known as Langerhans cells. These cells ingest antigens present in the skin and transport them to lymph nod...Microbiology text tells stories, offers online resources
... students access to two Web resources. The Microbe website is designed to amplify material covered in the book by providing quick links to additional information and animation and video clips. The organization of the supplementary material corresponds to the chapters in the book, and links are clearly label...Biologists develop genome-wide map of miRNA-mRNA interactions
...s, humans, and flies are available from the PicTar website (pictar.bio.nyu.edu) and are linked to a new graphical network-browsing tool developed in the NYU Center for Comparative Functional Genomics. This allows for exploration of miRNA target predictions in the context of various functional genomic data re...What's shaped like a pear and has 2 genomes? Check the pond
...ion to releasing the sequence data early on TIGR's website ( www.tigr.org/tdb/e2k1/ttg/index.shtml ) and via Genbank, the project also underwrote the creation of a major free community resource: The Tetrahymena Genome Database (TGD; http://ciliate.org/ ), headed by Mike Cherry at Stanford University. The...Some people would give life or limb not to be fat
...e purpose of the study. People found out about the website by attending a conference, reading articles in which one of the authors was interviewed, or by visiting the Rudd Center website. Of those who responded, three percent were underweight, 41 percent were normal weight, 21 percent were overweight, 21 per...Knowledge of dendritic cells branches out
...dvance online publication on the Nature Immunology website on 7 May 2006. ...Handling HPV vaccines and screening: The views of 100 authors
...2006. The full version is available at the Vaccine website ( http://www.elsevier.com/locate/vaccine ). Furthermore, this landmark publication will be available via the HINARI programme, the public-private initiative (launched by the World Health Organization) to bridge the digital divide in health informatio...Renewed dolphin slaughter prompts new campaign
... , to boost measurable support through the group's website petition ( www.actfordolphins.com ) which currently includes over 22,000 signatures, and to convince the Japanese government to end the hunts on ethical grounds. According to the group, the ethical argument for ending the drive is supported by a ...New book uses ABCs to teach children microbiology
... vibrant pages of The Invisible ABCs. A companion website provides deeper understanding for those who seek to learn more about microorganisms. The Invisible ABCs has a list price of $19.95 and can be purchased through ASM Press online at http://estore.asm.org or through other online retailers. ...Hospital-acquired infections -- Inevitable?
...y visiting The American Journal of Medical Quality website at http://ajmq.sagepub.com . ...Experimental cancer drugs counter muscle deterioration seen in muscular dystrophy
...wide by expedited publication at Nature Medicine's website on September 17, 2006. Puri's team discovered that ongoing treatment with the deacetylase inhibitor Trichostatin A, currently under clinical study for breast cancer, restored skeletal muscle mass and prevented the impaired function characteristic o...