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Input Needed from the Research Community to Choose Standard Measures for Genomics Research
As part of a collaborative effort to better understand the relationships among genetics, environment, health and disease, RTI International seeks expertise from the scientific community to help establish a standard...
First 'Molecular Snapshot' Of A Virulence Factor On Bacterial Surface
Scientists have captured a view of proteins during translocation across the bacterial outer membrane, for the first time. This "molecular snapshot" may enlighten scientists to the process of protein secretion...
University Director's Project Earns ENERGY GLOBE Award
An Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) administrator's novel scheme for replenishing forests in the Republic of Armenia while simultaneously fighting poverty in the former Soviet Union, is one of the...
Fish Scales From Norway Show Ocean Fate Of Atlantic Salmon
Since 1983, sports fishermen from the Drammen River in Norway have been saving the scales of Atlantic salmon, caught as they return from years at sea to spawn in fresh...
Nurses' union opposes moving staff between hospitals
The P.E.I nurses union says it's against a provincial plan to move nursing staff between Island hospitals in order to fill a staffing shortage.
Quake-Hit Panda Center May Move to Safer Ground
With bamboo supplies closed off due to landslides, Chinese officials are considering moving the rare animals to another location.
Australia's Long Drought Withering Wheat, Rice Supplies
Forced to reduce exports as harvests fail, Australia's farmers—and their buyers around the world—suffer. Part of Global Food Crisis: A Special News Series.
Evidence of a Bose glass state?
"In nano-sized systems many physical properties are greatly altered from those of macroscopic-sized systems. Therefore, study of nano-sized systems, in general, is very important in developing fundamental physics," Keiya Shirahama...
How to make a science out of drug discovery
Canada really needs a national drug development niche, Stephen Strauss writes
UM Amherst researchers to upgrade safety and performance of rocket fuel
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have received a $1 million grant from the U. S. Department of Defence to boost the safety and performance of fuel used in...