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Biologists rediscover endangered frog population
...ntly morphed from a tadpole into a froglet, or juvenile frog. "Historically, scientists have had great difficulty breeding frogs in captivity," said jeff Lemm, an animal research coordinator for the San Diego Zoo. "We are excited by this success and cautiously optimistic we will have more eggs soon." ...Results of national assessment of first responder location systems to be announced Aug. 3
...e same session, Ric Plummer, a firefighter with the Berlin, Mass., Fire Department, who served as a consultant to the national evaluation, and Trooper jeff Lenti of the Massachusetts State Police will provide an overview of the real-world challenges that confront developers of indoor location systems. In ...Research network wins approximately £5.7 million to target human and animal diseases in Africa
...shal the best science expertise to the study of infectious diseases in the endemic setting and to identify new and emerging diseases early". Professor jeff Waage, Director of LIDC, said "LIDC's member institutions are excited at the prospect of building a 'one health' platform for research and training w...Healing wounds with lasers, vehicles that drive themselves, other cutting-edge optics
...the mirrors; a century ago Albert Einstein demonstrated the relation between fluctuations ("Brownian motion") brought about by thermal energy. H. jeff Kimble of Caltech will describe a new effort to counteract thermal noise and improve the sensitivity of interferometers. He and his colleagues argue t...Scripps studies offer new picture of Lake Tahoe's earthquake potential
... led by a team of Scripps researchers including Graham Kent, Neal Driscoll, jeff Babcock and Alistair Harding, collected new data on earthquake history alon...ng a large tsunami wave," said Kent, a research geophysicist at Scripps. jeff Dingler, lead author on a paper in the April online issue of Geological So...Wetlands likely source of methane from ancient warming event
... taken place with only a 30 percent increase of atmospheric carbon dioxide. The research team, overseen by Scripps geoscientist and study co-author jeff Severinghaus, collected what may be the largest ice samples ever for a climate change study. The researchers cut away 15 tons of ice from a site calle...Nine Additional Virginia Law Enforcement Agencies Deploy BIO-key(R) and DaPro Systems Solution
...icipated events. Company Contact: BIO-key International, Inc. Bud Yanak 732-359-1113 Investor Contact: DaProSystems jeff Lewis 888.377.4427 jefflewis@daprosystems.com ...Nine Additional Virginia Law Enforcement Agencies Deploy BIO-key(R) and DaPro Systems Solution
...icipated events. Company Contact: BIO-key International, Inc. Bud Yanak 732-359-1113 Investor Contact: DaProSystems jeff Lewis 888.377.4427 jefflewis@daprosystems.com ...UniPixel Announces Availability of Opcuity(TM) Finger Print Resistant Film Test Samples
... Public Relations Consultant Phone: 925-336-9592 E-mail: stacey@savvypublicrelations.net Uni-Pixel Inc. Opcuity(TM) FPR Samples: jeff Tomz Product Manager Phone: 281-825-4500 E-mail: jeff.tomz@unipixel.com ...Pest management specialist Charles Summers wins prestigious Woodworth Award
...He teams with plant pathologist Jim Stapleton and vegetable crop specialist jeff Mitchell, both based at Kearney. "In the mid-1990s, Dr. Stapleton and I ...tefly could be managed using plastic reflective mulches," Summers said "Dr. jeff Mitchell later joined our team. We evaluated a wide variety of crops as wel...Venter, Somerville and Church highlight DOE/JGI genomics of energy and environment meeting
...ng Cameron Currie, University of Wisconsin, Evolution of Ancient Agriculture in Ants Ashlee Earl, Harvard University, Bacillus subtilus Diversity jeff Dangl, U. North Carolina, Plant Genomics Roadmap Joe Ecker, Salk Institute, Arabidopsis Epigenetics Jonathan Eisen, UC Davis, Genomic Encyclopedia o...Live webcasting of global engineering summit
..., Princeton University; Annie Anton, professor, North Carolina State University; Robert Langer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology bioengineer; and jeff Hawkins, co-founder of Numenta. In the NAE report, an international panel of technology scholars identified 14 critical barriers to a sustainable w...Duke forum to address global engineering problems
...h care, national security, and education and learning. Participants will include Robert Langer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology bioengineer, and jeff Hawkins, founder of the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience. The summit is jointly hosted by Duke University, the University of Southern ...Biodiversity itself begets a species cascade, researchers say
...ential speciation in nature." "Clues can be found right before us as we sit on our deck chairs barbecuing and drinking pop," principal investigator jeff Feder told Science . "All we have to do is open our eyes and we can see new life forms coming into being in that scraggly old apple tree in our backy...Researchers observe evolution chain reaction
...emergence of a new species of fruit fly--and the sequential development of a new species of wasp--in the February 6 issue of the journal Science . jeff Feder, a University of Notre Dame biologist, and his colleagues say the introduction of apples to America almost 400 years ago ultimately may have cha...Neural mapping paints a haphazard picture of odor receptors
...m individual to individual, but followed a chemotopic order where cells handling similar odor responses are near each other," says Markus Meister, the jeff C. Tarr Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology in Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences. "Here we show that the layout is actually very precise ...New insights into a leading poultry disease and its risks to human health
... chemical letters that make up the plasmid, called pAPEC-1. The multidisciplinary effort involved expertise from several ASU researchers, including jeff Touchman, a School of Life Science Professor specializing in bioinformatics. It also utilized MEGA4, a software program developed by the Biodesign col...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- Jan. 7, 2009
...topic is scheduled for the January 12 issue of Chemical & Engineering News , ACS' weekly newsmagazine. In the article, C&EN senior correspondent jeff Johnson notes that the U.S. Department of Energy's nuclear weapons complex currently includes some 37,000 weapons staff, almost half of them employed ...2009 DOE INCITE projects allocated at ORNL
..., William Nevins of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and C. S. Chang of New York University, which received 20 million processor hours each, and jeff Candy of General Atomics and Fred Jaeger of ORNL, which received 2 million processor hours each. Teams led by Jacqueline Chen of Sandia National La...New research shows how gene function drives natural selection in important class of genetic elements
..., the chemical bases that make up strands of DNA.) "The lab of Professor jeff Bennetzen at UGA discovered that this class of mobile DNA comprises more th...just published in the online version of the journal Genome Research , were jeff Bennetzen, in whose genetics lab Baucom is a research associate; and James ......n mutation to normal histology and function. This advancement may lead to novel therapies for muscular dystrophy. Microscopic Race for New Cures jeff Price, M.D., Ph.D. has created a next generation robotic microscope which can be used for high-throughput cellular image analysis to discover new pote...
ORNL supercomputer simulation wins prize for fastest-running science application
...gn of its DCA++ code to maximize speed without sacrificing accuracy, the team was able to boost performance tenfold with the help of John Levesque and jeff Larkin of Cray Inc. Jaguar was recently upgraded to a peak performance of 1.64 petaflops, making it the world's first petaflop system dedicated to ...... apiculturists Steve Sheppard of Washington State University, Pullman, and Marla Spivak of the University of Minnesota, St. Paul; and USDA scientists jeff Pettis and Judy Chenn of Beltsville, Md. The scientists obtained permits from the USDA's Animal Plant Health Inspection Service to import semen for...
Resveratrol, red wine compound linked to health, also found in dark chocolate and cocoa
... a highly complex natural food which contains in excess of seven hundred naturally occurring compounds, with many more yet to be discovered," explains jeff Hurst, the lead chemist on the project. "For years, flavanols, a different class of compounds in chocolate, received most of the attention, but these ...UC San Diego bioengineers fill holes in science of cellular self-organization
...attention. We focused, therefore, on the structure and dynamics of a growing two-dimensional colony of non-motile bacteria." His fellow researcher, jeff Hasty, at the Institute for Nonlinear Science and UC San Diego's Department of Bioengineering, said the team's work provides a multiscale description ...Study finds genetic variant plays role in cleft lip
... how much and when the critical IRF6 protein is made. The finding involved the lab of University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine faculty member jeff Murray in collaboration with the University of Iowa lab of Frederick Domann, Ph.D., and adjunct faculty member Brian Schutte, Ph.D. Other investigator...Entomological Society of America names 2008 award winners
...at have received numerous awards and recognitions. jeff has been presenting the recommendations derived fr...authored or co-authored 27 extension publications. jeff has also shown excellence as a teaching assistant ...l, bird, and insect behavior in northern Tanzania. jeff incorporated several arthropod experiences into th...Recovery efforts not enough for critically endangered Asian vulture
...irds to the captive colonies, located in Pakistan and India, is crucial, but political and logistical barriers are hampering efforts, says lead author jeff A. Johnson. The study was published online August 15 in the journal Biological Conservation . With a seven-foot wingspan, the oriental white-ba...USGS news: August science picks
...ocky Mountains and the interior western United States. For more information, visit http://nrmsc.usgs.gov/science/feature/wildlife_climate or contact jeff Kershner at 406-994-5304 or jkershner@usgs.gov . The First Step Home? Salmon's Journey Back to Upper Klamath Lake Young Chinook Salmon shoul...New planning grants to fund research on freshwater issues
...oods Institute invited Stanford researchers to submit proposals for freshwater planning grants to an evaluation committee chaired by Woods Co-Director jeff Koseff, a professor of civil and environmental engineering. In July, the committee awarded the following five projects a total of $312,520 over the ne...Big-brained animals evolve faster
...bility, suggesting that possessing a large brain might have facilitated the evolutionary diversification of some avian lineages. Over 20 years ago, jeff Wyles, Allan Wilson, and Joseph Kunkel proposed that big brains might favor adaptive evolutionary diversification in animals by facilitating the behav...UGA gets $2.5 million in grants to study plants to make biofuels
...d Environmental Sciences and the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences. Steven Knapp, CAES professor and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar, jeff Dean and Joe Nairn, UGA researchers, Mark Davis, DOE researcher, and Laura Marek, USDA researcher, received $1.2 million to study the genomics of sun...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, July 2008
...e work is the result of the Coupled End-to-End Demonstration Project for the Department of Energy's Global Nuclear Energy Partnership. Program Manager jeff Binder of the Nuclear Science and Technology Division said conventional reprocessing methods pull plutonium separately from the spent-fuel mix of acti...UCLA researchers clarify function of glucose transport molecule
...each year. The solution of the SGLT structure will accelerate development of new drugs designed to treat patients with diabetes and cancer. Led by jeff Abramson and Ernest Wright of the UCLA Department of Physiology, the research team produced an "atomic snap shot" of an SGLT protein. Using a special...Food scientists confirm commercial product effectively kills bacteria in vegetable washwater
...of Food Science in August and is currently available at http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/toc/jfds/0/0 . University of Idaho Extension food scientist jeff Kronenberg said the researchers chose potatoes for their study because their dirt-laden washwater poses the greatest challenge to products designed to...'Women in Science' fellowship to fund postdoc's study of deep-sea methane
...s a "post-doc" in the oceanography department. There, she assists Professor jeff Chanton, with his research while also pursuing her own, and helps train gra...rought Lapham back to her undergraduate alma mater? "I first worked for jeff Chanton as an undergraduate here in the '90s, and then, like now, I was alw...... Investor Relations Inquiries: Chantal Eshghipour 650-802-7740 investorrelations@cic.com MXI Security North America News Media Contact: jeff Fishburn OnPR for MXI Security Direct: 503.802.4408 Mobile: 503.799.1988 Email: jefff@onpr.com ...
Researchers discover gene for branchio-oculo-facial syndrome
...missense mutations clustered in the basic region of the DNA-binding domain of the TFAP2A gene in 4 sporadic BOFS patients. According to lead author jeff Milunsky, MD, director of clinical genetics, associate director of the Center for Human Genetics, and an associate professor of pediatrics, genetics a......ing statements. Company Contact information Media Contact: Joe Noel Voice: 925-922-2560 jnoel@emerginggrow.com Investor Relations: jeff Salzwedel Voice: 503-722-7300 jeff@sfcinc.com ...
Corporate Safe Specialists Smart Safes Capture Evidence in Robbery and Theft
..., the store manager of the Sonic in Starke, Florida opened the store's safe after closing hours to find all bills deposited were missing. She notified jeff Moreland, District Manager of the McCans Sonic Group, as required by procedure. Mr. Moreland notified law enforcement and asked Ms. Lan to remain on t...Other TagsVirginiaVirginiaInhalingInvitrogenGreenGreenGreenGreenGreenResearcherResearcherResearcherResearcherAnthraxAnthraxEvolutionEvolutionEvolutionEvolutionEvolutionEvolutionInvasiveInvasiveInvasiveMotorMotorMotorOther Contentsliverliverliverliverliverliverliverliverliverliverfamiliesfamiliesfamiliesfamiliesfamiliesfamiliesfamiliesgenegenegenegenegenegenegenegenegenegenelistlistlistlistlistlistlistlistlistpotentiationpotentiationtermtermtermtermtermtermtermtermtermtermlonglonglonglonglonglonglonglonglonglonglocuslocuslocuslocuslocuslocus
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