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Singapore scientists elected into National Academy of Sciences

...ience and to make a difference to society." Dr. Copeland said, "This is a true honor for us both. Nancy and I function very much as a team, and we owe our success in the laboratory to each other. We are extremely happy to have been elected, and excited to be helping IMCB build up its capabilities and...

Rumbaugh's theory links positions of Wilson, Skinner

...rger share of his time, Naour pushed the book to the back burner while he contemplated how to present the conversation in a more compelling way. "I owe a huge debt of gratitude to Duane, who helped influence my thinking, and to Great Ape Trust," Naour said. "If I had not encountered Duane at the level...

Parkinson's Disease Foundation awards $300,000 in bridge funding for innovative research projects

...rkinson's disease research. We are not only proud to support some of the talented scientists left in the wake of this event, but also believe that we owe this type of commitment to the nearly one million people in the US living with Parkinson's - people who cannot afford, even in a time of economic unce...

January GEOLOGY media highlights

...ewark, Delaware 19716, USA. Pages 19-22. Research published in Science early in 2008 suggested that the rivers in most of the eastern United States owe their morphology and ongoing processes to the construction of mill dams following European settlement, and their recent demise around the middle of th...

New antibiotic candidates from Braunschweig

... to antibiotics. Today, the scientists publish their results in the distinguished journal "Cell". Antibiotics are an essential tool of medicine. We owe the antibiotics that diseases such as plague, cholera or tuberculosis are a thing of the past, at least in the industrialised world. However, more...

Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics celebrates 10th birthday by presenting major gifts to human health

...e work in." He also emphasised that without the support of the Swiss government and international partners, none of this would be possible, "so we owe a big thanks to them", he added. In addition, Professor Bairoch thanked the Swiss government, international funding agencies and all the scientists...

Explorers marvel at 'Brittlestar City' on seamount in powerful current swirling around Antarctica

...t an underwater summit taller than the worlds tallest building. Its cramped starfish-like inhabitants, tens of millions living arm tip to arm tip, owe their success to the seamounts shape and to the swirling circumpolar current flowing over and around it at roughly four kilometers per hour. It allow...

Ancient reptile rises from Alberta oil sands

...s transported to the Royal Tyrrell Museum, where it was prepared for research observations and exhibit and studied by Druckenmiller and Russell. We owe a lot to the excellent work Syncrude does of salvaging the fossils they find, says Don Brinkman, assistant director of research and collections at the...

Female katydids prefer mates 'cool' in winter and 'hot' in summer

... Katydid (or didnt she?) respond to the mating call of her suitors. According to scientists at the University of Missouri, one species of katydid may owe its ecological success and expanded habitat range to the ability of male katydids to adjust their mating calls to attract females. Males of the kat...

A special issue of the International Journal of Plant Sciences

...t research program in evolutionary biology. This volume is the first to address the study of evolutionary transitions in plants. Flowering plants owe their spectacular diversity to the evolution of their pollination systems, and the first section of the issue, Flowers and Pollination, includes five ...

Why do so many species live in tropical forests and coral reefs?

...om processes; that is, processes in which the fates of hypothetical species owe purely to chance events in birth, death, and immigration rather than to the...nce of species and the development of ecological communities and ecosystems owe more to chance processes, and less to biology, than previously had been ass...

Ocean seep mollusks may share evolutionary history with other deep-sea creatures

...t runoff--all sorts of factors which don't affect animals in the deep sea," Little explained. This makes it difficult to tell whether seep mollusks owe their long evolutionary history to their unique home environment or to their status as deep-sea creatures, he noted. Cold seeps are places where fl...

Plant-derived molecules, genetic manipulation point to future chemoprevention methods

...enoids and the rexinoid LG100268 prevent lung tumors induced by vinyl carbamate in strain A/J mice New synthetic drugs called triterpenoids which owe their origins to plant molecules have demonstrated their effectiveness in slowing the growth of lung cancer tumors, a research team from Dartmouth Uni...

UCR researchers design chip that can improve citrus varieties

...and help sustain the citrus industry locally and worldwide," said Timothy Close , a professor of genetics at UCR and a co-leader of the project. "We owe a special thanks to colleagues in the citrus community: Abhaya Dandekar at UC Davis, Bob Shatters, Jose Chaparro and Greg McCollum at the USDA Horticu...

Understanding the oceans microbes is key to the Earth's future

... Life on Earth may owe its existence to tiny microorganisms living in the oceans, but the effect of human-induced change on the vital services these microbes perform for the...