The Electric Power Research
The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) celebrated the 90th birthday of EPRI founder Chauncey Starr with a seminar on the prospects for a North American continental supergrid for electricity transmission,…
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New places to find DNA
…many museum specimens that might be used. For example, the American Museum of Natural History Icthyology Department collection includes over 35,000 fish skeletons as compared to about 2,500 tissue samples…
Update-Cardiovascular vs. Cancer
…contributer to the steady decline in cardiovascular deaths since 1965 and the more recent flattening of cancer-deaths. For example, epidemiologists associated with the American Cancer Society recently reported a 30%…
Lounsbery Political Attitudes
The Richard Lounsbery Foundation sponsored a new survey of political attitudes of American professors by Neil Gross (Harvard) and Solon Simmons (George Mason U.). Jesse offered opening remarks on behalf…
DNA helps reveal bat diets
…the 127,000 reference sequences of North American arthropods in BOLD database www.barcodinglife.org at the time of the study. Test sequences with >/=99% identity to reference sequence(s) and without equivalent similarity…
East Coast eDNA researchers
Our environmental DNA discovery of unusual fish is featured in the American Fisheries Society blog. The post highlights the growing complement of East Coast eDNA researchers, including our NOAA colleague…
Lizard mitochondria converge on snakes–why?
In 2 june 2009 Proc Natl Acad Sci USA researchers from 5 American universities report on convergent molecular evolution among agamid lizards and snakes. In constructing a nuclear and mitochondrial…
ANSI Standards for DNA Barcodes
DNA barcoding gains another level of community acceptance–the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) will publish “Species-Level Identification of Animal Cells through Mitochondrial Cytochrome c Oxidase Subunit 1 (CO1) DNA Barcodes”…
Leishmaniasis: DNA helps ID vectors, parasite, control agent
…a South American species not previously reported in Panama. Finally, using the same set of DNA extracts, the researchers tested for Wolbachia, a rickettsial intracellular insect parasite and candidate biological…
How to make an indentification machine
Successful automation often involves machines that carry out tasks differently than persons. For example, a Coulter counter (developed by Wallace H. Coulter, an American engineer), analyzes blood cells by electrical…