One way to assess the microbial community structure in an environment is to use a ‘fingerprinting’ technique, like T-RFLP or ARISA, to interrogate the ’species’ living there as determined from their 16S rRNA genes or some functional gene like amoA. Here’s an example of a T-RFLP electropherogram from sea ice:

You can see that most of [...]

I just bought an aluminum macbook5,1 and successfully installed kubuntu 8.10 intrepid ibex onto it.
Mostly, I used this wiki page: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBook Aluminum
and this forum thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=947947
UPDATE 2009-01-08: I’ve got the macbook back, now with it’s 3rd logic board and 2nd magsafe board. The tech said he thinks there was a ‘bad batch’ of [...]

Clearly, the publishers think there is. “[John] Conyers, a liberal Democrat whom one might expect to be on the other side of this issue, is taking harsh aim at a new National Institutes of Health (NIH) policy requiring NIH-funded scientists to archive their published papers in a publicly accessible database within a year of [...]