Finding frogs with DNA
…of tadpoles), and three ponds where bullfrogs have never been detected.” Each sample was analyzed 3-5 times, giving 9-15 repeats per pond. R. catesbiana DNA was never detected in the…
…of tadpoles), and three ponds where bullfrogs have never been detected.” Each sample was analyzed 3-5 times, giving 9-15 repeats per pond. R. catesbiana DNA was never detected in the…
…Jesse Ausubel will give a talk on “Meat & Potatoes and the American Landscape.” Young reporter Nathaniel Horwitz prepared a good story for the Martha’s Vineyard Times anticipating the talk….
…USA federal government budget deficit. The game has been played more than 150,000 times. It’s fun, more fun than actually reducing the deficit. Try the fantasy version at Budget Hero….
…is the Iowa county where Paul was born. The memoir includes extraordinary accounts of the drought and hard times of the 1930s and development of agricultural research in the U.S….
…The authors conclude the “rare biosphere” is “an ancient and..nearly inexhautible source of genomic innovation..[that] at different times in earth’s history..may have had a profound impact on shaping planetary processes.”…
…including Tisbury Great Pond and Look Pond by Jesse H. Ausubel p.s. The Martha’s Vineyard Gazette ran a good article about Jesse’s talk: As did the Martha’s Vineyard Times: https://www.mvtimes.com/2017/08/02/fishing-for-dna/…
PHE Guest Investigator David Thaler and RU colleague Tom Sakmar publish open access in BMC Infectious Diseases 21, Article #601 (2021) ‘Archiving time series sewage samples as biological records of built…
Award-winning journalist Bob Drogin publishes an excellent feature article about the Census of Marine Life in the Los Angeles Times….
…Israeli Newspaper Ha’aretz. May 8, 2012 Professor Alexander Keynan Dies Keynan, who was first administrator of the institute for Biology at Nes Tziona and a member of the committee atomic…
…the great film Oceans on the 21st and 24th. Good articles about the festival appeared in the Martha’s Vineyard Times and the Vineyard Gazette. In March 2006 we helped with…