Human filariasis, caused by various species of insect-transmitted parasitic nematodes, affects more than 120 million persons in Africa, South America, and Southeast Asia, and includes elephantiasis and river blindness. In…
…analyzed using DNA barcoding about 120 of 200 cockroaches collected by colleagues, friends, and family, or mailed in by citizen scientists around the country (including specimens from Australia and Spain)….
…sequences. The results were compared to a V6 hypervariable region database, which contains about 40,000 unique V6 sequences extracted from the nearly 120,000 published bacterial rRNA gene sequences. A small…
Where did petroleum come from? How did it form? When? These are the first few questions the great scientist Dmitri Mendeleev asked in the chapter “On the origins of petroleum”…
Zoonotic viruses are like introduced species–most perish, a few cause localized outbreaks, and a tiny fraction spread widely. Unfortunately, the tiny fraction have ruinous potential. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), a…
…Mapping and Visualization Team, and Synthesis Group multiplied the value of everyone else\u2019s work. The Scientific Steering Committee and Secretariat managed an effort of enormous complexity with endless energy, wisdom,…
…off-site facilities. The law also requires EPA to compile these reports into an annual inventory of releases and transfers and make the inventory available in a computerized database. This compilation…
The new film of Jacques Perrin and Galatee Productions, The Seasons, is scheduled for release 27 January 2016. A 1-minute promotional segment is available at https://vimeo.com/133827355 See also https://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm_gen_cfilm=228541.html The…
…2010. The song, video and its creators are explained at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqed3WFYDGo also at https://vimeo.com/17662204 The recording was played at the London Grand Finale of the CoML in October 2010. The…
…magazine. Elga Daifa published on article about the Leonardo DNA Project in the Greek edition of People magazine: https://www.peoplegreece.com/article/spazontas-ton-kodika-tou-dna-tou-leonardo-da-vinci-nees-apokalipsis-gia-ton-efevreti-ke-zografo-enigma/ Sarah Cascone writes about the project in ArtNet news Cracking the…