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South America's vast pantanal wetland may become next everglades, UNU experts warn

...raffic through dredging, channel modification, and port installation. "Depending on how it is implemented, this project could potentially modify various key ecological processes in the Pantanal, including the flood pulse. The Hidrovia, if fully constructed, would reduce the area flooded in the Pantanal."...

Biologists discover why 10% of Europeans are safe from HIV

... haemorrhagic fever that used the CCR5 as an entry port into the immune system. Using computer modeling, they demonstrated how this disease provided the selection pressure that forced up the frequency of the mutation from 1 in 20,000 at the time of the Black Death to values today of 1 in 10. Lethal, vira...

First North American Encapsulated Islet Transplant without Long-term Immune Suppression into a Patient with Type 1 Diabetes

... haemorrhagic fever that used the CCR5 as an entry port into the immune system. Using computer modeling, they demonstrated how this disease provided the selection pressure that forced up the frequency of the mutation from 1 in 20,000 at the time of the Black Death to values today of 1 in 10. Lethal, vira...

Undesirable expatriates: Preventing the spread of invasive animals

...res. And vote for politicians that encourage sound port inspection. Because, according to recent Proceedin...duced. As global trade increases, precautions like port inspection and exotic wildlife regulations are essential. Consumers also need to be educated; many e...

Census of Marine Life explorers surprised by diversity, density of Arctic creatures

...ersity throughout the seas. The Healy returned to port July 26 with thousands of specimens from the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas and the Canada Basin, a vast bowl walled by steep ridges and lidded with ice. "The Canada Basin is one of the world's most isolated ocean areas," says Dr. Rolf Gradinger, head of...

Surgical Robot 'Scrubs In' At UNC, May Be More Precise Than Conventional Surgery

...ms, is wheeled over and its center arm docked to a port that holds the camera and the other arms docked to the instrument ports. However, surgery with the da Vinci does not mean close proximity to the patient. Unlike with laparoscopy, the surgeon is seated across the room from the patient, with arms inse...

Screen all at risk for HIV, plus pregnant women

...ms, is wheeled over and its center arm docked to a port that holds the camera and the other arms docked to the instrument ports. However, surgery with the da Vinci does not mean close proximity to the patient. Unlike with laparoscopy, the surgeon is seated across the room from the patient, with arms inse...

FDA: 'Highly Unlikely' Green Tea Lowers Cancer Risk

...ms, is wheeled over and its center arm docked to a port that holds the camera and the other arms docked to the instrument ports. However, surgery with the da Vinci does not mean close proximity to the patient. Unlike with laparoscopy, the surgeon is seated across the room from the patient, with arms inse...

The Antarctic Ocean floor

...ication of a new species Once the animals get to port they are distributed amongst the specialists according to their group. In our case, at the Leioa campus of the University of the Basque Country in Bizkaia, two groups of vermes or sea worms are taxonomically analysed. The aim of this is to identify t...

Cholera pathogen reveals how bacteria generate energy to live

...of the membrane, which corresponds to the "intake" port of the ion pump. The second paper was published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry. In this study, Barquera focused on structures, known as flavins, within the enzyme that carry the electric current that drives the ion pump. Using an interdisc...

Fitness has fallen since the days of Ancient Greece

...as used to carry the Olympic flame to Piraeus, the port near Athens, at the start of the last Olympic Games. It is now housed in a museum in Piraeus....