Plan in Biological News

EMBO pioneers pension plan for internationally mobile postdoctoral researchers

Heidelberg, Germany, 6 August 2009 The European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) announced today the introduction of a new private pension plan for EMBO Fellows. The plan offers a benefit package that optimally suits the needs of highly mobile scientists. Post-doctoral researchers who are...

Continental plan to protect the monarch's migratory journey

This release is available in French and Spanish . Montreal, 27 June 2008Canada, Mexico and the United States are joining forces to protect and conserve the Monarch butterfly, which has become a symbol of North America's shared environment. Although the monarch butterfly ( Danaus plexip...

Nations and conservation groups seek plan to protect 'Ghost of the Himalayas'

Beijing, China (March 6, 2008) Snow leopards the worlds most elusive big cat roam the high mountains across 12 Asian nations, from Afghanistan to Uzbekistan. Representatives from those countries, along with leading big cat experts, are expected in Beijing from March 9 11 to frame a multinati...

New research offers prioritization plan for reducing nutrient pollution in feeder streams

To help resource managers improve the health of coastal waters degraded by nutrient pollution, a group of scientists has developed a framework for prioritizing stream restoration efforts aimed at reducing the amount of nitrogen flowing downstream. The framework, published in the online version of ...

ORNL 'resilience' plan to help Tennessee, Mississippi and South Carolina communities beat disaster

OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Oct. 4, 2007 A new Oak Ridge National Laboratory initiative could help avert disasters in Tennessee, Mississippi and South Carolina and also lead to more information about climate change. The new Community and Regional Resilience Initiative (CARRI) will be implemented in Gulf...

Tigers get a stimulus plan

NEW YORK (February 26, 2009) The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), together with the World Bank and Global Environment Facility (GEF), announced today a commitment of $2.8 million toward tiger conservation across its range. WCS will lead a new project, Tiger Futures, in partnership with othe...

Carnegie Mellon to unveil new sequestration plan

PITTSBURGH Carnegie Mellon University's M. Granger Morgan will unveil a novel "two-stage'' approach for developing new energy technologies that can help society reduce dangerous greenhouse gas emissions and create a cleaner economy during a policy briefing January 9 at 1 p.m. at 1200 New York Ave....

Women double fruit, veggie intake with switch to Mediterranean diet plan

ANN ARBOR, Mich. In a new study led by the University of Michigan Health System, women more than doubled their fruit and vegetable intakes and dramatically increased their consumption of "good" fats when they were counseled by registered dietitians and provided with a list of guidelines on the am...

Wildfires result in loss of forests reserved by Northwest Forest Plan

PORTLAND, Ore. November 6, 2008. Although the Northwest Forest Plan (NWFP) significantly reduced cutting of old-growth forests on federal land, forests in the driest regions are now at greater risk of being lost to wildfire than to logging. A team of federal and university scientists recently comp...

North American environmental commission launches trinational vaquita conservation plan

Mexicali, Mexico, 28 October 2008 In response to the urgent need to save the vaquita porpoise, the governments of Canada, Mexico and the United States asked the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) to formulate a strategy to support Mexico's efforts to recover the world's most-endangere...

LTER unveils a new decadal science plan

The Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network, www.lternet.edu, has released its new Decadal Science Plan, which maps out the Networks science agenda for the next 10 years. Titled Integrative Science for Society and the Environment: A Plan for Research, Education, and Cyberinfrastructure in the...

Birds found to plan for the future

Planning and worrying about the future has always been considered an exclusively human activity, but now at least one species of bird has also been found to plan for tomorrow. The finding also raises the intriguing possibility that, like humans, birds may get anxious about the future. Research publ...

Carbon nanoparticles toxic to adult fruit flies but benign to young

...nanoparticles could accumulate as they are passed up the food chain, Rand said. The researchers have several related experiments in the works. They plan to test fruit flies' response to nanosilver and other nanomaterials with different chemistries, and they will investigate why the adult Drosophila die...

NIH stimulus funding supports Emory biomedical scientists

...cannot control their seizures with drugs. Animal research shows that shutting off a gene called SCN8A can lower susceptibility to seizures. Scientists plan to test a gene-therapy-like technique for shutting off SCN8A in mice, with an eye towards developing similar treatments for humans. The role of mem...

First human gets new antibody aimed at hepatitis C virus

... will test the safety of the antibody and measure its activity in the subjects. This will help us determine the useful dose and other parameters as we plan for the next step in this program, which will be a Phase 2 study in liver transplant patients." HCV attacks the liver and can eventually lead to liv...

Abnormal brain circuits may prevent movement disorder

...istic circuit disorder involving a motor system that is revved up and idling at high speed, making it difficult to integrate the information needed to plan movements and to learn new motor skills. It was not suspected that these otherwise healthy individuals had such difficulties since doctors only saw th...

delSECUR CORPORATION Announces Agreement to Purchase the Intellectual Property Assets of the Corporation

... CEO. Mr. McCormick further stated, "We believe this is a great opportunity for the advancement of the del-ID technology and puts our business plan and mission statement immediately into action without further delay. It is time to bring the del-Id technology to the next level and to test i...

Scientists decoding genomic sequences of H1N1 using isolates from outbreak in Argentina

...demiology, and professor of Neurology and Pathology at Columbia University, plan to completely sequence up to 150 virus specimens from nasopharyngeal swabs ...bers of the broader scientific community will bring new insights. Thus, our plan is to release sequences in draft form so that the vetting process can begin...

A crystal ball for brain cancer?

...tion ahead of time will help doctors personalize therapy for each patient and decrease exposure to side effects," he noted. Pope and his colleagues plan to confirm their findings in a larger study. The team will also test the new method's ability to identify responsive patients prior to surgical remov...

Jet-propelled imaging for an ultrafast light source

...ined come from nanocrystals just a few molecules on a side, with a width of about 100 billionths of a meter (100 nanometers). At SLAC, the researchers plan to steadily reduce the nanocrystal size down to single molecules. The corresponding reduction in scattered intensity will hasten and improve lensl...

Key OSU water research receives national funding

...ike Langston, OWRRI assistant director. "The magnitude of their impact is not well understood. We believe this is an important study to help the state plan for the future." Clarence Watson, associate director of the statewide Oklahoma Agricultural Experiment Station system, said the study is a great ex...

Bioterrorism and disaster preparedness explored in special issue of Medical Decision Making

...best practice guidelines. They made several recommendations, including striking the appropriate balance between simplicity and complexity, designing a plan to evaluate the many uncertainties inherent in disaster response, and good model reporting of the disaster response. "Evaluating the Capability an...

121 breeding tigers estimated to be found in Nepal

...proved and launched the 'Tiger conservation Action plan 2008- 2012'. A comprehensive management plan has been devised in which the target is to increas... 10 per cent within the first 5 year period of the plan implementation. "Tigers can not be saved by the...

Researchers develop 'brain-reading' methods

...nalysis methods we have developed, there are clues that can be detected and pulled out." As part of their continuing research, Hanson and his team plan to develop a system for identifying neural connectivity abnormalities to assist with the study of such mental disorders as attention-deficit hyperacti...

Early rice harvests ease annual famine in Bangladesh

...ernment is now also promoting the adoption of the shorter-duration rice variety and direct seeding as part of a national program and three-year action plan to mitigate monga. "This project demonstrates how effective it is to link government and local nongovernment organizations that work closely with f...

A 'heart healthy' diet and ongoing, moderate physical activity may protect against cognitive decline

...aches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet is often recommended by physicians to people with high blood pressure or pre-hypertension. The DASH diet eating plan has been proven to lower blood pressure in studies sponsored by the National Institutes of Health. High blood pressure is considered a risk factor for...

NOAA bans commercial harvesting of krill

...in the three to 200-mile confines of the EEZ. The krill prohibition was adopted as Amendment 12 to the Coastal Pelagic Species Fishery Management plan (FMP), which was developed by the Pacific Fishery Management Council (PFMC) under the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act. The k...

Happier, healthier, more productive hens on omega-3?

... free range systems without incurring a welfare cost in terms of increased bone breakage. Also by studying the mechanisms of improved bone strength we plan to demonstrate how this may help human patients suffering from osteoporosis." ...

Ozone, nitrogen change the way rising CO2 affects Earth's water

... for some areas and more water available for human consumption and farming. Either way, water resource managers need more accurate runoff estimates to plan better for the changes." Felzer and colleagues from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge and the Marine Biology Laboratory ...

Springer launches SpringerImages

...que value by providing students, researchers, professors and librarians with a single comprehensive resource for scientific images. In the future, we plan to partner with additional sources to expand the image collection." ...

Report shows the power of US cities to mitigate climate change and steps they need to take to adapt

... government owned buildings, converting fleets to hybrids, and beginning to plan for the long-term impacts of climate change. However, as the scale of the ... example, the City of Chicago has developed a comprehensive risk management plan including 39 adaptation tactics such as implementing a needs assessment to ...

First cGMP feeder-independent pluripotent stem cell banks released for distribution

...nks, allowing them the opportunity to seamlessly advance their programs from research through clinical application. In the future, WiCell and the WCBF plan to make available a wide variety of other cGMP lines, including lines produced from newly derived, fully compliant human ES cells and induced pluripot...

U Alberta researcher in same group as Darwin and Hawking

...any programs to advise and assist scientists and government policy makers, as well as promote understanding science by the general public. I certainly plan to participate in some of these activities as a new fellow of the Royal Society." Vederas joined the University of Alberta in 1977. He obtained a b...

Nursery programs for corals receive TLC from NOAA this Independence Day

...olds approximately 500 fragments, and nursery fragments have already been used to restore four reefs where staghorn corals were depleted. The proposed plan includes expansion of fragment stocks (up to 4,000 fragments at this site) and the restoration of eight additional reefs over the next three years. ...

New trigger for chronic inflammation in rheumatoid arthritis discovered

...h rheumatoid arthritis and added tenascin-C. After the tenascin-C was added, the cells produced more molecules that cause inflammation. The authors plan to work out the precise mechanism by which tenascin-C increases these levels of inflammatory molecules in the human joint and try to find ways to inhi...

West Coast needs more research on fisheries, marine science, climate change

...a Grant program to develop this report. The Sea Grant effort is endorsed by all three West Coast governors, and the new reports aligns with the Action plan of the West Coast Governors' Agreement on Ocean Health. "California is eager to have this report and to focus on the next step, which is prioritizi...

Tummy troubles -- gastrin key in bacterial-induced stomach cancer

...ed with Helicobacter pylori ." In future studies, Dr. Wang and colleagues plan to study "host factors other than gastrin [that] are also important for H... modulated by gastrin, that link inflammation and cancer. In addition, they plan to study the role of other non- Helicobacter bacteria that colonize the st...

Measuring intellectual disability

... smaller (premutation) alleles can also involve developmental delays and/or autism spectrum disorders." In future studies, Dr. Hagerman and colleagues plan to explore "further large scale studies to recognize the value of the measurement and how FMRP influences the multitude of phenotypes associated with...

American Chemical Society's Weekly Presspac -- June 17, 2009

...tists launched the study to understand the frequency and concentration of pesticide residues that might be found in U.S. homes. EPA and HUD scientists plan to further investigate these findings and the study's questionnaire results to explore the relationships between pesticide concentrations found in hom...

Green tea may affect prostate cancer progression

...on with Columbia University in New York City, the researchers are currently conducting a comparable trial among patients with breast cancer. They also plan to conduct further studies to identify the factors that could explain why some patients responded more dramatically to Polyphenon E than others. Carde...