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Czech Authorities Kill 70,000 Birds at H5N1 Farms

...0,000 birds, mostly chickens and turkeys, on three nearby farms even though bird flu has not been detected there, veterinary service spokesman Josef Duben. "Around 70,000 have been killed," at two farms near the village of Norin in the centre of the country where the virus was confirmed on Wednesday, he t...

Textile City Tirupur in Tamil Nadu Tops in Pollution Generation

...Tirupur but this contamination will spread over to nearby areas as well,' says Kalidass. The discharge of ...TNPCB). The waste treated water let out into the nearby rivers is free of only the coloured suspension and continues to carry a large amount of invisible di...

Completely Neutral Evolutionary Changes Helped Shape Our Genome

..., nor did they seem to control the function of any nearby genes. "At best, it seems numts are a neutral part of our genome. If anything, they may be mildly negative since long repeat sequences can be unstable or get inserted inside genes and disrupt them," said Katsanis. The researchers believe they ha...

FDA Approve S Robotic Device to Help Stroke Patients

... movement therapy may help the brain to use other, nearby neurons or even neurons in the opposite brain hemisphere to complete a movement. The goal is to make neurons talk to each other again, said Dr. Krebs, adding that even patients who cannot move initially may benefit from making an attempt, then se...

Gene Therapy Eradicates Pancreatic Cancer in Mice

...h the CMV BikDD showed only a few small tumours in nearby organs. There were no detectable metastases in mice treated with the VISA-BikDD combination. "All cancer drugs have some toxicity and so cause side effects, which affects the dose that can be administered. The VISA-BikDD produces virtually no sy...

Obesity Drug may Hold Potent Cancer Treatments

...heoretically you don't have to worry about harming nearby healthy tissue," Kridel said. Scientists used X-ray crystallography to get a three-dimensional snapshot of the drug interacting with the protein. "Understanding this drug-protein interaction is essential for designing new drugs," Lowther said. ...

Somerville, A Town Committed to Tackle Obesity Among Kids

...ville children on average weigh less than those in nearby towns, and as they learn to eat better, they impro...pared with those of children the same age from two nearby towns. On average the kids of Somerville gained about one pound less than the children in the oth...

Autism Children can Be Diagnosed Within One Year of Age

...t themselves or fuss, often without looking at the nearby person. Compromised ability to initiate and respond to opportunities to share experiences with others: Children with ASD infrequently monitor other peoples focus of attention. Therefore, a child with ASD will miss cues that are important for shared...

Scientists Destroy Cancer Cells Using Electric Pulses

...resolution without affecting surrounding tissue or nearby blood vessels is key," Davalos said. "IRE shows remarkable promise as a "minimally invasive, inexpensive surgical technique to treat cancer. It has the advantages that it is easy to apply, is not affected by local blood flow, and can be monitored ...

Will Seven Be the Lucky Number for Las Vegas Newlyweds?

...ings for decades and at large glitzy resorts where nearby gamblers are sweating and shouting as they watch the dice tumble, thousands will tie the knot. "This is the busiest I've been in my 49 years in this business. This is our magical, maniacal, historical moment of love," said Charlotte Richards, owner...

Anchoring Lives Aboard Warship: Nimitz

...een cases when the critical have been airlifted to nearby bases, crew members said....

Dengue Surge in Singapore, Man Prosecuted for Breeding Mosquitoes

...f the mosquitoes may have found their way into the nearby homes," said Silachart Lau, GM of Northeast Regional Office, NEA. If found guilty, the owner of the fishing pond could be fined a maximum of S$5,000 or face a jail term of up to three months, or both. NEA said the cluster at Pasir Ris Drive 6 sta...

Chilean Lake Disappears, Thanks to Global Warming

...e's disappearance. They suggested the melting of nearby glaciers raised the lake's level to the point wher...Water in the lake flowed out of the breach, into a nearby fiord and then to the sea, said Andres Rivera, a glaciologist with Chile's Centre of Scientific Stud...

Pond in High Artic Drying Up Due to Global Warming

...e ponds, the researchers also reported a drying of nearby wetlands. "The ecological ramifications of these changes ... will cascade throughout the Arctic ecosystem. ... Lower water levels will have many indirect environmental effects, such as further concentration of pollutants," the researchers wrote. The...

Jharkhand Village Shocked to Know About Its Huge HIV Positive Population

...se villagers, who had gone out of their village to nearby cities in search of work, only to return with the deadly virus. The remote village fraught with poverty, illiteracy, unemployment and underdevelopment has been shocked into disbelief, after 35 AIDS deaths were reported in the last four years. E...

Live Earth Will Make the World More Aware of the Crisis Facing the Earth, Hopes Al Gore

... as much as possible. Most artists are coming from nearby areas. Madonna, for example, lives in London and will be performing at Wembley.' He added: 'There are 3,000 concerts a year. We're doing 10, but touching 2 billion people about what I think is the biggest issue that's ever faced humanity.' Steve Ho...

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