Bipartisan Panel of Industry, NGO and Academic Experts Proposes New Rules for Science in Federal Regulation

...ience for Policy Project (SPP). A project of the Bipartisan Policy Center, spp is co-chaired by former Rep. Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY), past chair of the Ho... Presidential Memorandum on Scientific Integrity. An interim version of the spp report was released in March, and the White House has reviewed that report ...

Voriconazole: A highly potent treatment for fungal infections

...ericin B and voriconazole versus 1763 yeasts isolated from samples obtained from 472 patients. The yeast cultures obtained were predominantly Candida spp . (97.1%), although there were seven genera and 22 species of yeasts in all. The infections the patients were suffering from arose most commonly from ...

Link between Periodontal Bacteria and Heart Disease Established

...ia streptococci spp, P. gingivalis, T. forsythia and T. denticola. Specifically, the findings suggest that T. denticola, T. forsythia and streptococci spp are bacteria in a shared infectious etiology for periodontitis and ACS. "This might be one of several explanations as to why elevated bacteria a...

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Host shift triggers cascading effect on ecosystem, research finds

...y derived apple-infesting race of R. pomonella ." The apple maggot, native to North America, shifted from its ancestral hawthorn host ( Crataegus spp .), to introduced European apples less than 250 years ago. "The two populations," Forbes said, "have since become partially reproductively isolated du...

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New 'near-field' radiation therapy promises relief for overheating laptops

... do not contribute to the field-effect transistor temperature rise," the group wrote in the most recent Nano Letters article. "We have shown that spp thermal coupling increases the effective thermal conductance over the interface between nanotube and [polar substrate] by an order of magnitude." R...

Plasmonic whispering gallery microcavity paves the way to future nanolasers

...s Q factor." In this study, Zhang and his collaborators created a high-Q spp whispering gallery microcavity by coating the surface of a high-Q silica mi...ry plasmonic microcavity allows Q factors of 1,376 in the near infrared for spp modes at room temperature. "This nearly ideal value, which is close to ...

Anavex appoints Dr. Dimitri Goundis to lead Clinical Development

...cines Company (NASDAQ: MDCO ) and Roche (SWX: ROG). He has successfully led the development of several medications currently on the market, including spp 100 (Tekturna/Rasilez), which was licensed by Novartis (NYSE: NVS ) and subsequently approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Europ...

Transformation of Filamentous Fungi by Microprojectile Bombardment

...gi, Curr. Genet., 17 , 97-103 (1990). 2. Bailey, A. M., Mena, G. L. and Herrera-Estrella L., Transformation of four Phytophthora spp by microprojectile bombardment of intact mycelia, Curr. Genet., 23 , 42-46 (1993). 3. Ballance, D. J., Buxton F. P. and Turner, ...

spp in Biological Definition

Genome project

...Saccharomyces cerevisiae Yeast Neurospora crassa A type of mold Arabidopsis thaliana Mustard weed Oryza sativa Rice Triticum spp Wheat Zea mays Maize (or corn) Escherichia coli bacterium E.coli SARS virus Arbacia punctulata the purple-spined sea urchin ...