Unique, all-taxa survey in Costa Rica 'self-destructs.' (All-Taxa Biological Inventory)
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Funding for the All-Taxa Biological Inventory (ATBI) was cancelled in Nov 1996 because the project seemed to benefit science more than the people of Costa Rica. Tropical ecologist Daniel Janzen created the project to catalogue every species in one Costa Rican conservation area.
Publication Name: Science
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8075
Year: 1997
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First global sequencing effort begins
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Federal funding of $12.7 million will allow US genome researchers to contribute to the international effort to sequence the Arabidopsis thaliana genome by 2004. The results of the project should aid plant bioengineering efforts.
Publication Name: Science
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8075
Year: 1996
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Scientists angle for answers
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Researchers have found evidence that natural hormones in women's urine, rather than industrial pollution, is the cause of the hermaphroditic fish that have been found rivers and streams in the US and the UK.
Publication Name: Science
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8075
Year: 1996
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