Published: Sunday, 7/20/2014 - Updated: 1 minute ago BY MARK ZABORNEY BLADE STAFF WRITER OAK HARBOR Harold V. Ashley, a retired high school biology teacher whose interest in the natural sciences and the natural world transcended classroom and laboratory, died Thursday in Otterbein-North Shore Retirement Village. He was 90. Hed been in failing health, his son Chris said. Mr. Ashley retired in 1989 from Oak Harbor High School, where hed taught since 1963. Teaching just came naturally to him, his son said. He loved showing people what he knew about things and trying to improve them. Once he got established at Oak Harbor, that was his mission and his life calling. He loved Oak Harbor and the school. He taught biology, earth science, and general science. He played recordings of bird calls and expected students to be able to identify 30 of them. He led students on walks to collect and identify leaves. He was popular, said son Chris, a onetime student, as were Mr. Ashleys son Charles and daughter Mary. Most kids enjoyed that class. He made it fun. Mr. Ashleys wife, Virginia, was a popular English and history teacher at Oak Harbor High who later served on the … Continue reading →

PUBLIC RELEASE DATE: 20-Jul-2014 Contact: Glenna Picton picton@bcm.edu 713-798-7974 Baylor College of Medicine HOUSTON (July 20, 2014) A team of scientists from around the world led by Baylor College of Medicine and Washington University in St. Louis has completed the genome sequence of the common marmoset the first sequence of a New World Monkey providing new information about the marmoset's unique rapid reproductive system, physiology and growth, shedding new light on primate biology and evolution. The team published the work today in the journal Nature Genetics. "We study primate genomes to get a better understanding of the biology of the species that are most closely related to humans," said Dr. Jeffrey Rogers, associate professor in the Human Genome Sequencing Center at Baylor and a lead author on the report. "The previous sequences of the great apes and macaques, which are very closely related to humans on the primate evolutionary tree, have provided remarkable new information about the evolutionary origins of the human genome and the processes involved." With the sequence of the marmoset, the team revealed for the first time the genome of a non-human primate in the New World monkeys, which represents a separate branch in the primate evolutionary … Continue reading →