Divers

Microbial Diversity in Ground and Surface Water Analyzed by Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis Using the DCode System

Bernd Eschweiler and Beate Kilb, Institute for Water Research, Schwerte, Germany Introduction Bacterial diversity in environmental samples is usually determined by a characterization of isolated strains. A problem for the analysis and characterization of microbial communities is the inability to culture...

Debate over `intelligent design' is a not-so-wise diversion from science education

- The day an archeologist finds a fossil cat or dog in Precambrian rock is the day Charles Darwin's evolution theory is disproved. But that hasn't happened. In fact, the Earth's fossil records tell a consistent scientific story through the ages: Today's living species descended -- with modification -- from common ancestors that lived in our anci...

Analysis of Bacterial Assemblage Genetic Diversity in Environmental Samples Using the DCode System

Derek Cody and Laura G. Leff, Department of Biological Sciences, Kent StateUniversity, Kent, Ohio Assessing bacterial genetic diversity in natural environments is problematic because of difficulties in culturing native bacteria and the large number of species that may be encountered. The morpho...

Monitoring Bacterial Genetic Diversity in a Freshwater Lake Using TTGE and DNA Sequence Analysis

School of Biological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK Microbial ecology is now firmly focused on the genotypic analysis of naturally-occurring assemblages as facilitated by the development of molecular biological techniques t...

Obstructionists block network routing diversity

Making network infrastructure more reliable in this post 9/11 era should be everyone's goal, whether they are part of the government, a network carrier, or a business with mission-critical network needs. This endeavor should transcend any petty competitive issue. Having the best network infrastructure globally is a matter of national defense as well as strategic nat...

Global information firm reaches diverse markets

"There is information about location everywhere," said Rooney, founder and president of Earth Information Technologies, Corp.<...

Diversity still an elusive goal in IT, other tech fields

Former Harvard president Lawrence H. Summers created a firestorm last year when he suggested that female under-representation in math and science fields might be the result of intrinsic aptitude differences between men and women. While that comment may be only part of the reason Summers is the former president of Harvard, it focused the spotlight on the need for more diversity in science and tech...

Biodiversity threatened as forests become 'islands' of green, UW professor says

America's national forests are beginning to resemble "islands" of green wilderness, increasingly trapped by an expanding sea of new houses, a UW-Madison forestry researcher reports at the 90th annual Ecological Society of America (ESA) meeting in Montreal, Canada. The widening circle of development around forests such as the Cleveland National Forest in Southern California is serving to...

Inacom targets diversity programs as Milwaukee expansion drives growth

Benson has run Inacom since its beginning in 1984. But until now sh...