When 40 climate experts huddled in a small conference room near Washington, D.C., last September, all eyes were on an atmospheric scientist named Jennifer Francis. Three years ago, Francis proposed that the warming Arctic is changing weather patterns i…
The Digital PCR Revolution
“Like finding a needle in a haystack” is an overused expression, but when it comes to some biological scavenger hunts, it fits…..For Andrzej Pietrzykowski, assistant professor of animal sciences at Rutgers University, who studies the molecular and genetic bases of alcoholism, dPCR’s precision is particularly beneficial. Many of the changes he sees are less than twofold and thus difficult to discern by qPCR. That difference is readily detected digitally, he says.
Marine Creatures Migrations Determined by Climate After All
Scientists had long assumed warming oceans would generally drive species’ geographical ranges toward higher latitudes. But some studies have found just the opposite, says Malin Pinsky, a marine ecologist at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, in New Jer…
Research Into Deep-Sea Biodiversity and Chip-Making Processes Earns Japan Prizes
Conventional wisdom held that the deep-seafloor was pretty much bereft of life at the time marine biologist J. Frederick Grassle rode the Alvin submersible to examine newly discovered hydrothermal vents near the Galapagos Islands in 1979…Grassle, now…
