Arizona researchers to sequence West African rice strain
A $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation will allow University of Arizona researchers to unlock the genetic code of West African cultivated rice and along the way to gain knowledge that could help commercial rice strains to better withstand dwindling resources, a changing climate...Thomas P. Rice Elected to Board of Directors of Par Pharmaceutical Companies, Inc.
WOODCLIFF LAKE, N.J., June 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Par Pharmaceutical Companies, Inc. (NYSE: PRX ) today announced that Thomas P. Rice has been elected to the company's board of directors. Mr. Rice was also appointed to the Audit Committee and the Nominating-Corporate Governance Committee....Golden rice an effective source of vitamin A
HOUSTON (May 13, 2009) The beta-carotene in so-called "Golden Rice" converts to vitamin A in humans, according to researchers at Baylor College of Medicine (www.bcm.edu) and Tufts University in an article that appears in the current issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition . Gol...Public forum at Rice with mayor and county judge marks 6-month Ike anniversary
To mark the six-month anniversary of Hurricane Ike during a free public forum at Rice University March 12, Houston Mayor Bill White and Harris County Judge Ed Emmett will discuss the leadership challenges they had to overcome to guide Houston through the hurricane. "Leadership in Crisis: Guiding H...Fish Oil and Red Yeast Rice Studied for Lowering Blood Cholesterol
ROCHESTER, Minn., July 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A great deal of scientific evidence shows that cholesterol-reducing medications known as statins can help prevent coronary artery disease. Although the safety of these medications has been well documented, as many as 40 percent of patients wh...First Jatropha Genome Completed by Synthetic Genomics Inc. and Asiatic Centre for Genome Technology
...cing and next generation sequencing, has revealed that the jatropha genome is approximately 400 million base pairs in size, similar to the size of the rice genome. The teams are now working on annotating the genome to identify particular genes of interest and to discover genetic variations for use in mark...American Dairy Provides Business Update
...ducers and distributors of premium infant formula, milk powder and soybean, rice and walnut products in China, today provided a business update. The C...ducers and distributors of premium infant formula, milk powder and soybean, rice and walnut products in China. Feihe Dairy is headquartered in Beijing, Chin...March of Dimes Honors Dr. Susan Carlson for Outstanding Work In Maternal-Fetal Nutrition
...g children. Dr Carlson and her collaborators continue to actively study the role of DHA during fetal and neonatal development. Dr. Carlson, the A.J. rice Professor of Nutrition in the Department of Dietetics and Nutrition, Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Kansas Medical Center, and Clinical ...Depolarization-induced suppression of inhibition
...atergic synaptic transmission in the hippocampus. Neuroscience. 106(1):1-4. Herkenham M, Lynn AB, Little MD, Johnson MR, Melvin LS, de Costa BR, rice KC. (1990) Cannabinoid receptor localization in brain. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. Mar;87(5):1932-6. Jo YH, Chen YJ, Chua SC Jr, Talmage DA, Role ...Silicon with afterburners: Process developed at Rice could be boon to electronics manufacturer
Scientists at Rice University and North Carolina State University have found a method of attaching molecules to semiconducting silicon that may help manufacturers reach beyond the current limits of Moore's Law as they make microprocessors both smaller and more powerful. Their findings are publi...Early rice harvests ease annual famine in Bangladesh
Bangladeshi farmers are benefiting from research that allows farmers to harvest rice earlier, giving them more time to grow a second crop to provide desperately needed food and ease hunger during monga -- the hunger months. Monga is a yearly famine that occurs in northwest Bangladesh from Septe...Researchers examine bacterial rice diseases, search for genetic solutions
AMES, Iowa -- As a major food source for much of the world, rice is one of the most important plants on earth. Keeping it safe from disease has become, in part, the task of a group of three researchers from Iowa State University and one from Kansas State University. The researchers are looki...200,000 rice mutants available worldwide for scientific investigation
Blacksburg, Va. Scientists across the world are building an extensive repository of genetically modified rice plants in the hope of understanding the function of the approximately 57,000 genes that make up the genome of Oryza sativa. The International Rice Functional Genomics Consortium recently ...200,000 rice mutants available worldwide for scientific investigation
Blacksburg, Va. Scientists across the world are building an extensive repository of genetically modified rice plants in the hope of understanding the function of the approximately 57,000 genes that make up the genome of Oryza sativa. The International Rice Functional Genomics Consortium recently ...Wii bit of fun at Rice University has serious intent
Why are some people fast learners? Can we teach everybody to be like them? Yes, Wii can. A Rice University research project recently funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) is making use of Nintendo's popular video game technology to codify learning systems in ways that can be used in ...DuPont Partners with Indonesian Center for Rice Research to Advance Hybrid Rice
Partnership Will Increase Productivity to Meet Growing Global Demand Jakarta, Indonesia (PRWEB) March 16, 2009 -- DuPont and the Indonesian Center for Rice Research (ICRR) today announced an agreement that grants DuPont business Pioneer Hi-Bred access to test and ...AV-1011 Bird Repellent to Protect Rice Seed Approved for Use in Louisiana and Missouri
NEW CASTLE, Del., March 12 /PRNewswire/ ---- Arkion(R) Life Sciences has received their first ever Section 18 approvals to market AV-1011 Liquid Rice Seed Treatment in Louisiana and Missouri effective March 6, 2009, through March 6, 2010. The EPA approval means that rice growers in t...DuPont and International Rice Research Institute Partner to Boost Rice Yields
With Yield Growth Rates Under 1 Percent Since 2000, Partnership Will Target Acceleration and Commercialization to Meet Growing Global Demand. Los Banos, Philippines (vocus) March 3, 2009 -- DuPont and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) today announced ...Dow AgroSciences, China National Rice Research Institute Announce Collaboration on Rice Research
INDIANAPOLIS and HANGZHOU, China, Feb. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Dow AgroSciences LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE: DOW ), and the China National Rice Research Institute (CNRRI) of Hangzhou, China, announced today that they have entered into a research agre...Myanmar's Cyclone-Damaged Rice Production Regions Monitored with GIS
Subsequent to Cyclone Nargis, a category 3 tropical storm that struck the low-lying and heavily populated coastline of Myanmar on May 2, 2008, the Foreign Agriculture Service (FAS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) began producing a series of geographic information system (GIS)-based m...Rice microRNA Microarray from LC Sciences
Description:...r comprehensive microRNA Expression Profiling Service. Probe Content The rice microRNA Microarray contains all known rice microRNAs (98 unique mature sequences). The comprehensive probe content is ...Rice Oligo Microarray Kit, 22K from Agilent Technologies
Description:... The rice Oligo Microarray, 22K enables researchers to simultaneously characterize thousands of rice genes associated with biological functions, growth...nces representing estimated coverage of 60% of the rice (japonica) genome focuses on well annotated genes ...