Iridescent orchid bee of the family Apidae/subfamily Euglossinae
An orchid bee specimen from Costa Rica with iridescent body belonging to the family Apidae and subfamily Euglossinae.
[Research supported by U.S. National Science Foundation grant DEB 0337220.] (Date of image: 2004; date originally posted to NSF Multimedia Gallery: March 17, 2023)
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Sunset on < em > JOIDES Resolution < /em >
View from stern of the JOIDES Resolution at sunset during Integrated Ocean Drilling Program expedition 301T, Sept. 1, 2004, approximately 200 kilometers south-southeast of Acapulco, Mexico, transiting at full speed to Ocean Drilling Program site 1253 off the coast of Costa Rica.This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
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Two unrelated butterfly species may develop the same wing pattern, but along different pathways
An international team of scientists working with Heliconius butterflies at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama was faced with a mystery: How do pairs of unrelated butterflies from Peru to Costa Rica evolve nearly the same wing-color patterns over and over again? The answer, ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
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The changing epidemiology of HPV and cervical cancer: from etiology, to validation of prevention methods, to dissemination
NIH Director's Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series
Over three decades of studies moving from etiology to preventive methods research to guidelines development, Dr. Schiffman has learned some broad lessons about the strengths and weaknesses of epidemiology that he will describe.
He joined the Clinical Genetics Branch in October 2009 to study intensively why HPV is such a powerful carcinogenic exposure, akin to an acquired genetic trait with high penetrance for a cancer phenotype. The main studies in which Dr. Schiffman played a major role in the past 5 years, listed chronologically, include: The Portland Kaiser Cohort; the T...
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