ATCC plant-virus collection threatened

Article Abstract:

Plant biologists warn that cost-cutting measures in the planned move of the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) from Maryland to Manassus, VA, could jeopardize its diverse plant virus collection. The ATCC dismissed the collection's curator and plans to share a greenhouse rather than build one.

Finance, Libraries, Microbiological research, Plant viruses, American Type Culture Collection

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Biodiversity is a boon to ecosystems, not species

Article Abstract:

Ecologist David Tilman reports evidence that biodiversity benefits ecosystems as a whole, but that populations of individual species are much less stable in diverse systems than in simple ones, and may become extinct altogether.

Research, Biological diversity, Biodiversity, Biotic communities, Tilman, David

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New meetings tackle the knowledge conundrum

Article Abstract:

Meetings such as the National Academy of Sciences' annual Frontiers of Science Symposium are held to enable top scientists from diverse disciplines to share their research and discoveries with one another.

Planning, Conferences, meetings and seminars, Scientists, National Academy of Sciences, Intellectual cooperation

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