By analyzing the variations in brightness as the rock tumbled to Earth, along with information culled from fragments collected on the ground, Peter Scheirich of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Ondrejov and colleagues have reconstructed what the asteroid would have looked like up close.
Van Mooy and his colleagues from WHOI, the University of Southern California, University of Hawaii, the Czech Academy of Sciences, the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences, University of Southern Maine, and the Centre d'Oceanologie de Marseille found that cyanobacteria aren't the only class of plankton building phosphorus-free cell membrane lipids.
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena and their colleagues from the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague have developed a new method to quickly and reliably detect metabolites from only a drop of blood.
This agreement, which closely follows the pattern of Senetek's cooperative research and development agreement with the Institute of Experimental Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, opens the door on a whole new group of plant-derived active ingredients for assessment and development by Senetek's Aarhus, Denmark, laboratories and its academic and commercial research partners.
And the scientist who has been the most vociferous advocate for bug breath -- Karel Slama, of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague -- is such an outspoken, flamboyant character (some scientists have called him a "pest") that his work largely has been ignored.
In 1990, he was appointed chairman of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and three years later he was named honorary chairman of the Czech Academy of Sciences.
Senetek's researchers at the University of Aarhus in Denmark also are collaborating with a broad range of academic and government-based research enterprises, including The Institute of Experimental Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, and with the Department of Dermatology, University of California at Irvine, to identify and evaluate additional new biologically active compounds for this high growth field.
