Joe Stevens
A bill that would allow teachers to carry a concealed gun on campus and school property is moving through the Tennessee General Assembly. It passed on the Senate floor on Tuesday with 26 votes for and five votes against. On Thursday, it was held on the House’s desk. If passed, this bi...
Although a similar bill was filed last year without passage, Trap Neuter Return proponents have re-introduced a bill this year under the sponsorship of Del. Kelly Convirs-Fowler (D-21). TNR programs, used throughout the Commonwealth, attempt to deal with the overpopulation of feral cats, thos...
“To realise the full potential of the Bill for us as South Africans to build a more inclusive economy, to help create new investment opportunities and to complement what we are doing in other areas, we need to take a number of supportive steps. “These include measures to support the smal...
Marcussen T, Sandve SR, Heier L, Spannagl M, Pfeifer M, International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium, Jakobsen KS, Wulff BBH, Steuernagel B, Mayer KFX, Olsen OA. Ancient hybridizations among the ancestral genomes of bread wheat. Science. 2014; 345(6194):1250092. ...
The fact that Target didn’t show up today tells us all we need to know about how sorry Target is and how committed it is to our privacy. If you are as offended by this as I am, I have a t-shirt for you to wear too.
The first Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) genome assembly published in 2011 was one of the early genome assemblies exclusively based on high-throughput 454 pyrosequencing. Since then, rapid advances in sequencing technologies have led to a multitude of assem
The maize inbred line A188 is an attractive model for elucidation of gene function and improvement due to its high embryogenic capacity and many contrasting traits to the first maize reference genome, B73, and other elite lines. The lack of a genome asse
The maize inbred line A188 is an attractive model for elucidation of gene function and improvement due to its high embryogenic capacity and many contrasting traits to the first maize reference genome, B73, and other elite lines. The lack of a genome assembly of A188 limits its use as a model...
Rep. Henri Brooks, Sen. Roscoe Dixon Lead General Assembly to Enact Bill to Monitor Police Racial ProfilingConfehr, Clint