Breeding success by delving into the honey bee sex gene
A research team led by University of Michigan evolutionary biologist Jianzhi "George" Zhang, has uncovered evolutionary //facts about a gene called csd, which is a sex determiner in honey bees. These novel inputs can indeed be ploughed back into formulation of improved methods to breed honeybees, w...Indian Americans Compete for the Prestigious Spelling Bee Contest
More than 10 million American children get 'spellbound' in local contests every year with 275 of the best spellers, including many an Indian American, making it// to the finals of the prestigious Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington. The two-day finals began Wednesday. With the be...Vaxine Wins Line Honours With World's First Human Swine Flu Vaccine
...ducts in clinical trials include vaccines for seasonal and pandemic influenza (including 2009 H1N1 swine flu), Japanese encephalitis, hepatitis B, and bee sting allergy. ...Kids May 'Learn' to Tolerate Food Allergens
... SUNDAY, July 5 (HealthDay News) -- Doctors have long used allergy shots to desensitize children and adults to environmental allergens such as bee stings, pollen, mold and dust mites. Now researchers are trying to apply that theory to food allergies, through processes called oral immunotherapy...Climate Change Could Sting Allergy, Asthma Sufferers
...d even expanding the areas where insects flourish, putting more people with bee allergies at greater risk, experts say. "Climate change will cause impac...cently seen a 620 percent increase in the number of people seeking care for bee stings. Although Alaska's experience may be more dramatic than the rest ...7 Top Rated Immune Support Products from Swanson Vitamins
...us the boost we need when we begin to feel under the weather." 4. bee Propolis (also known as "bee glue") has long been valued for its...nerals, and bioflavonoids that help reinforce the immune system. Terr gives bee Propolis an overall rating of 5 out of 5 and says, "I like the flavor....Shamir Optical Industry Ltd. Appoints Amos Netzer as New Chief Executive Officer
...tough Ltd. He currently serves as a board member of Palram Industry Ltd., SZP Ltd., Al Baad Ltd., and as the chairman of the board of directors of Bio bee Ltd., and Polyrit Ltd. He holds a B.Sc. degree in industry and administrative engineering from the Technion Institute in Haifa and an MS degree in pub...'Honey bee health' of concern at Western Apicultural Society conference
Honey bee specialists and native pollinator experts will address the 31st annual Western Apicultural Society (WAS) Conference, set Aug. 17-20 in Healdsburg, Sonoma County. The main conference sessions will take place in the Dry Creek Inn and Krug Event Center, 198 Dry Creek Road. "The conf...Live-in domestics: Mites as maids in tropical rainforest sweat bee nests
Mites not only inhabit the dust bunnies under the bed, they also occupy the nests of tropical sweat bees where they keep fungi in check. Bees and their young are healthier when mites live-in, report researchers from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama and the University of Texas ...A cure for honey bee colony collapse?
For the first time, scientists have isolated the parasite Nosema ceranae (Microsporidia) from professional apiaries suffering from honey bee colony depopulation syndrome. They then went on to treat the infection with complete success. In a study published in the new journal from the Society f...Springer bee expert Juergen Tautz wins prize for public communication
Juergen Tautz will receive a special discretionary prize as part of the 2008 European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) Award for Communication in the Life Sciences. The award was made in recognition of Tautz's long-term public communication activity on a single organism using all available m...Pesticide build-up could lead to poor honey bee health
Honey bees industriously bring pollen and nectar to the hive, but along with the bounty comes a wide variety of pesticides, according to Penn State researchers. Add the outside assault to the pesticides already in the waxy structure of the hive, and bee researchers see a problem difficult to evalu...New bee checklist lets scientists link important information about all bee species
In time for National Pollinator Week, June 22 through June 28, biologists have completed an online effort to compile a world checklist of bees. They have identified nearly 19,500 bee species worldwide, about 2,000 more than previously estimated. There is a current crisis known as "colony collapse ...For honey bee queens, multiple mating makes a difference
The success of the reign of a honey bee queen appears to be determined to a large degree by the number of times she mates with drone bees. That is what research by scientists in the Department of Entomology and W.M. Keck Center for Behavioral Biology at North Carolina State University suggests...Flight of the bumble (and honey) bee
CARBONDALE, ILInsects such as honeybees and bumble bees are predictable in the way they move among flowers, typically moving directly from one flower to an adjacent cluster of flowers in the same row of plants. The bees' flight paths have a direct affect on their ability to hunt for pollen and gen...Honey bee invaders exploit the genetic resources of their predecessors
Like any species that aspires to rule the world, the honey bee, Apis mellifera, invades new territories in repeated assaults. A new study demonstrates that when these honey bees arrive in a place that has already been invaded, the newcomers benefit from the genetic endowment of their predecessors....New Report Just Published: World Endoscopy Systems Market Report
...stralia) -Optomic Espana SA (Spain) -Papapostolou (Greece) -PEE bee GmbH (Germany) -PEE bee India (India) -Pentax Corporation (Japan) -Pentax Medical Company (...Nutrition 21 Appoints Pam McWilliams, Vice President - General Manager of Direct Response
... Propeller Consulting. Prior to that Mrs. McWilliams served for 21 years at bee Alive, Inc., a direct marketing health and beauty company, most recently as...ent. Beginning as a three-person operation, Mrs. McWilliams helped grow the bee Alive organization to 150 employees while achieving millions in annual sale...New nanoscale process created by UCSB scientists will help computers run faster and more efficiently
... form of lithography." When this technique has been tried before, the molecules spontaneously self assembled into hexagonal arrays; they look like bee hives. But since industry uses parallel lines on a square or rectangular grid, the hexagonal arrays have limited application. "In this article, we...Engineers whip up the first long-lived nanoscale bubbles
...cky Joseph Professor of Engineering and Applied Mathematics and associate dean for applied physical sciences and engineering, was in the audience when bee projected an image of a micrometer-size bubble with a distinctive polygonal geometry. The bubble surface appeared to be faceted with regular pentagona...Californian stem-cell efforts get new rules, attract lawsuits
...ficant stock in or serve on the boards of biotech companies, the Sacramento bee reported. They won't have to relinquish stock or their positions, but emplo...fornian publications Stem cell panel OKs anti-conflict rules Sacramento bee (subscription) Court action has thrown state plans to issue bonds for re...Voice-changing software could make you a troll online
... Middleton, WI Screaming bee LLC , a local company that makes voice software, has released a voice-changing program that gamers could use to better slip into their characters' rol...Users help software company morph in new directions
...or awhile after the company was acquired by Sony Digital Networks Division . He moved on to DNASTAR for a couple of years, and started Screaming bee with Shawn Pourchot, now company president, after developing some prototypes for voice-changing software. He did not launch the business in Madison be...