Ray in Biological News

Top biophysics award to Professor Ray Norton

The Australian Society for Biophysics has honoured Professor Ray Norton from WEHI's Structural Biology Division with the prestigious Bob Robertson Award. Conferred annually in Australasia, the award recognises outstanding research contributions to the field of biophysics. Professor Norton's gro...

New hope for fisheries

...ces in a groundbreaking assessment on the status of marine fisheries and ecosystems. The two-year study, led by Boris Worm of Dalhousie University and ray Hilborn of the University of Washington and including an international team of 19 co-authors, shows that steps taken to curb overfishing are beginning...

Global curbs on overfishing are beginning to work

...p, was among an international team of 19 co-authors of a report on a two-year study, led by US scientists Dr Boris Worm of Dalhousie University and Dr ray Hilborn of the University of Washington. The study shows that steps taken to curb overfishing are beginning to succeed in five of the 10 large mari...

121 breeding tigers estimated to be found in Nepal

... Kathmandu, Nepal The first ever overall nation-wide estimate of the tiger population brought a positive ray of hope among conservationists. The figures announced by the Nepal Government's Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation (DNPWC) shows t...

Stuff of stink bombs investigated for role in pregnancy

... is now looking at beneficial effects it has in the body- and the potentially critical role the chemical might have in term and pre-term births. Dr. ray Carson of the Department of Medical and Social Care Education at the University of Leicester presented his research at the First International Confere...

'Science Under Siege'

...e the anti-vaccination movement Other distinguished contributors include Mario Bunge, Martin Gardner, Paul Kurtz, Chris Mooney, Stephen Pinker, ray Hyman, Joe Nickell, and many others. A total of thirty-seven stimulating articles explore science and skeptical inquiry, public controversies, and inv...

Energy-saving method checks refrigerant level in air conditioners

...m, has been led by graduate student Woohyun Kim. Purdue has applied for a patent on the technique, developed in research based at the university's ray W. Herrick Laboratories. Li and Braun created a software algorithm that interprets temperature-sensor data to estimate the amount of refrigerant i...

Scientists sequence genome of the N2-fixing, soil-living bacterium Azotobacter vinelandii

...on and characterization of oxygen-sensitive proteins through the use of genetic approaches to achieve high-level protein expression." According to ray Dixon, project lead in Molecular Biology at the John Innes Centre in the United Kingdom, "The international collaboration created by the Azotobacter g...

Springer launches StemCellGateway.net

...on. The portal promotes our increasingly successful stem cell publishing program, by allowing researchers to access relevant data in one place," said ray Coln, Director of Journal Development at Springer. Dr. Kursad Turksen, editor-in-chief of the journal SCRR , is a researcher at the Ottawa Health...

Immigrant women may be at higher risk of having a baby with a birth defect

... are less likely to use the supplements," St. Michael's Hospital's Dr. Joel ray said. "This information is important for policy makers and health practitio...regnancies or lack of awareness of the benefits of folic acid supplements," ray said. "Immigrant women, especially those from non-Western countries, are le...

AGU journal highlights -- March 25, 2009

...gly with temperature changes in the upper air. Osprey et al. compare cosmic ray muon rates from the Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search (MINOS) under...ween muon rate and upper air temperature raises the possibility that cosmic ray muon data could potentially be useful for calibrating long-term temperature...

New greenhouse gas identified

...ch paper is Jens Mhle of Scripps, and besides Prinn, the co-authors include Jin Huang, a research scientist at MIT's Center for Global Change Science, ray Weiss of Scripps, who co-directs AGAGE with Prinn, and eight others from Scripps, the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom and the Centre for A...

Tall tale of giant stingray circles the globe

...bout four kilometers from the original site by local anglers who work with his team. Researchers immediately released it. The find could mean that the ray population is smaller, or less migratory, than originally believed. The tagging, tracking and sometime recapturing are how biologists estimate abundan...

Termite killer lingers as a potent greenhouse gas

... gases whose emissions are regulated by international treaties. Similar discussions are underway for sulfuryl fluoride. Scripps geochemistry professor ray Weiss and Scripps researchers Peter Salameh and Christina Harth contributed to the nitrogen trifluoride finding as well as the sulfuryl fluoride resea...

Inhibiting proteins may prevent cartilage breakdown in arthritis patients

...re altered and inflammation is triggered, leading to pain. In the MU study, ray examined the interaction between the proteins AP-1 and SAF-1 and found that... at how and why MMP-1 is activated, particularly in the disease condition," ray said. "Once we understand how this gene is activated, we can design drugs t...

Federal scientists recognized for contributions to knowledge of bird ecology and habitat

...): Status and Trends of Northern Spotted Owl Populations and Habitat. Other partners who will be recognized at the awards ceremony with Forsman are ray Davis, Umpqua National Forest; Jon Martin, Tongass National Forest (formerly with Region 6 of the Forest Service); Shawne Mohoric, Region 6, Forest Se...

January GEOLOGY media highlights

.... The physical mechanism that underpins the geomagnetic-climate link is provided by the cosmic-ray-climate theory, which suggests that galactic cosmic ray (GCR) particles entering the atmosphere influence the formation of low-altitude clouds and, in turn, climate. The geomagnetic field shields the Earth ...

Golf course: Playing fields, wildlife sanctuaries or both

...ouri study. "There are more than 17,000 golf courses in the United States, and approximately 70 percent of that land is not used for playing," said ray Semlitsch, Curators' Professor of Biology in the MU College of Arts and Science. "These managed green spaces aren't surrogates for protected land and ...

Moving new technologies from the lab to the marketplace

...sorbing heat, allowing visible light to pass through the polymer thus opening up an array of new civilian and military applications. They include heat ray shielding laminated glass or film, plasma display grade filters, heat-retaining and heat-accumulating fibers, and liquid crystal display devices. ...

Oklahoma EPSCoR receives $20 million for biofuels research

...ew theme area, "Building Oklahoma's Leadership Role in Cellulosic Bioenergy." Specifically, the funding supports a collaborative project led by Dr. ray Huhnke, director of the Biobased Products and Energy Center at Oklahoma State University; Dr. Lance Lobban, director of the School of Chemical, Biolog...

Small satellite takes on large thunderstorms

...d Anne-Marie Schmoltner, head of NSF's Atmospheric Sciences Division's Lower Atmosphere Research Section. "Identifying the source of terrestrial gamma ray flashes would be a great step toward fully understanding the physics behind lightning and its effect on the Earth's atmosphere." To accomplish these g...

Potent greenhouse gas more prevalent in atmosphere than previously assumed

... researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego. Using new analytical techniques, a team led by Scripps geochemistry professor ray Weiss made the first atmospheric measurements of nitrogen trifluoride (NF3), which is thousands of times more effective at warming the atmosphere than...

Sandia, SES win Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Innovator Award

...nit consists of 82 mirrors formed in a dish shape to focus the light to an intense beam. The solar dish generates electricity by focusing the sun's ray onto a receiver, which transmits the heat energy to a Stirling engine. The engine is a sealed system filled with hydrogen. As the gas heats and cools,...

Turning freshwater farm ponds into crab farms

...ine the best set of circumstances for raising crab: population density, food rations, and habitat structure in ponds. This past July, Eggleston and ray Harris, NC State director of cooperative extension for Carteret County, had the opportunity for a large-scale test when they stocked a 10-acre lake wi...

US Senate confirms Clemson University engineering Dean Esin Gulari to National Science Board

...re re-nominated to serve a second term: Barry Barish, professor of physics emeritus and director, LIGO Laboratory, California Institute of Technology; ray Bowen, president emeritus, Texas A&M University; and Douglas Randall, professor and Thomas Jefferson Fellow, University of Missouri, Columbia. ...

New study offers solution to global fisheries collapse

...ut this paper is they have made an attempt to find all the fisheries in the world that have used dedicated access and evaluate the consequences," says ray Hilborn, a leading fisheries scientist at the University of Washington who was not involved in the study. "The field has now moved beyond listing fail...

FBI unveils science of anthrax investigation

... They have worked for almost seven years in secret. Most people did not know that the work in ray Goehner's materials characterization department at Sandia National Laboratories was contributing important information to the FBI's investigation of l...

New grants will support research in the sustainable built environment

...ildings and urban areas. "Buildings consume about 40 percent of the energy and about 70 percent of the electricity in industrialized society," said ray Levitt, a professor of civil and environmental engineering and a senior fellow at the Woods Institute. "Because the built environment has such a big i...

Scientists announce top 10 new species, issue SOS

...online at species.asu.edu . Among the top 10 picks is an ornate sleeper ray Electrolux addisoni whose name reflects the vigorous sucking action displayed on the videotape of the feeding ray from the east coast of South Africa that may rival a well-known electrical ...

Over 50 percent of oceanic shark species threatened with extinction

...members. The experts determined that 16 out of the 21 oceanic shark and ray species that are caught in high seas fisheries are at heightened risk of ex...the monitoring of fisheries taking sharks and rays Invest in shark and ray research and population assessment Minimize incidental catch (bycatch)...

Scientists decipher fruit tree genome for the first time

...ics of the University of Granada, is part of the team made up by more than 85 scientists who have participated in this research supervised by doctors ray Ming (University of Illinois), Andrew H. Paterson (University of Georgia) and Maqsudul Alam (University of Hawaii). Papaya is a very important...

First analysis of platypus genome may impact disease prevention

...igious researchers. Batzer and his team at LSUs Batzer Laboratories along with Arian Smit from the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle and David ray from West Virginia University in Morgantown, W. Va. developed a very specific aspect of the project decoding mobile DNA elements, often called jumpi...

New technique determines the number of fat cells remains constant in all body types

...ture, the scientists used the pulse of radiocarbon to analyze fat cell turnover in humans. Radiocarbon or carbon-14 is naturally produced by cosmic ray interactions with air and is present at low levels in the atmosphere and food. Its concentration remained relatively constant during the past 4,000 ye...

National Inventors Hall of Fame welcomes 2008 inductees

...ller (1902-1994), Gerald Pearson (1905-1987), Daryl Chapin (1906-1995), Silicon solar cell Clarence Kelly Johnson (1910-1990), Fighter aircraft ray McIntire (1918-1996), Styrofoam brand foam Malcom McLean (1913-2001), Containerized shipping Harold McMaster (1916-2003), Tempered glass Davi...

First draft of transgenic papaya genome yields many fruits

...), rice, poplar and grape. One of the implications of this study is, on a larger scale, to understand the genome evolution of angiosperms, said ray Ming, a University of Illinois professor of plant biology and co-lead author on the study. The new findings indicate that the papaya genome took a...

Biogas production is all in the mixing

...han and colleague developed a unique mutiple-particle, computer-automated radioactive particle tracking system, computational fluid dynamics and gamma ray computed tomography to see where and under what conditions biochemical stagnant or dead zones occurred. They also analyzed mixing systems, hydrodynam...

Wisconsin researchers describe how digits grow

...rrent graduate student, wanted to know precisely which cells in the digital ray give rise to phalanges and which molecular events determine the number, siz...r studies showed that a specific region of mesenchymal cells in the digital ray receive the interdigital signal, and that BMP receptor signaling in this re...

Amphibians respond behaviorally to impact of clear cutting

...try and the survival of amphibians. Everyone jumped to the conclusion that the frogs and salamanders were dying after a clearcut had occurred, said ray Semlitsch, professor of biological sciences in the MU College of Arts and Science. Anecdotal data accumulated through the years indicated there were p...

Salamanders, headwater streams critical in food chain

... COLUMBIA, Mo. University of Missouri scientist ray Semlitsch studies creatures most people dont ever see. These creatures are active only at night and thrive in the shallow, cool, wet surroundings of h...

New research reveals shark superhighways and hotspots

... participated with other shark experts in a workshop to evaluate the threatened status of oceanic sharks. They identified eleven open-ocean shark and ray species that now qualify for the IUCN's Red List of Threatened Species, which includes species listed as Critically Endangered, Endangered, and Vulner...