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Research on Top of the World

...map of the volunteers will be drawn after tests at sea level. Scientists feel a link explored between genes and oxygen level could definitely help in case of hypoxia. Patients lying in an ICU ward usually experience hypoxia or low oxygen levels that can cause circulation problems and metabolism difficu...

Surfing Safer Than Soccer: Study

...es increases as it grows in height. In addition, a sea floor with a sandy bottom is much more forgiving upon impact than one covered with reefs or rocks," says Nathanson. The paper cites that establishing an injury rate for surfing is not just of academic or general interest, but also has implications ...

How Many Genes Does It Take to Learn? Lessons from Sea Slugs

... any given time within just a single brain cell of sea slug known as Aplysia, more than 10,000 genes are ...s controlling feeding or defensive reflexes in the sea slug. To their surprise, they identified more than 100 genes similar to those associated with all ma...

Findings on Dangerous Parasite, Toxoplasma Gondii Published

...ll livestock and has devastated efforts to restore sea otters near Monterey, Calif. Because it's common, yet complex, toxoplasmosis is a potential weapon for bioterrorists. People usually acquire toxoplasmosis by eating commercial meat or drinking water that's contaminated with Toxoplasma gondii, Whit...

New Study Links Western Wildfires to Atlantic Ocean Surface Temperatures

...in the past five centuries with periods of warming sea surface temperatures in the North Atlantic. State...nd fire in western North America when the Atlantic sea surface warms, said Veblen. The sea-surface temperature of both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans comb...

New Findings on Toxoplasmosis

...ll livestock and has devastated efforts to restore sea otters near Monterey, Calif. Because it's common, yet complex, toxoplasmosis is a potential weapon for bioterrorists. People usually acquire toxoplasmosis by eating commercial meat or drinking water that's contaminated with Toxoplasma gondii, Whit...

Durable Critters Provides Better Way to Human Egg Preservation

...conditions. A type of brine shrimp, often called a sea monkey, comes back to life with water. The Baker’s yeast Dr. Eroglu uses when he bakes bread with his children does as well. Similarly arctic wood frogs use the sugar, glucose, to tolerate frigid temperatures until the summer thaw. While humans don...

Sea Snails May Aid Chronic Pain Treatments – Says Researcher

... believe that the conotoxins present in the deadly sea snail venom, could revolutionize treatment for sufferers from chronic pain//. This treatment could replace the conventional pain relief drugs such as morphine. Researchers say that the toxin, snail uses to hunt its prey, can accurately target pain ...

Plastic May Be Poisoning Oceans: Scientists

...es there are 300,000 items of plastic per sq km of sea surface and 100,000 per sq km of seabed. So plastic appears to be everywhere in our seas, he said. Thompson and his team set out to find how small these fragments can get. So far they've identified plastic particles of around 20 microns - thinner t...

Sea Urchin Genome Similar To Man And May Cure Diseases

A research finds that the sea urchin's genome is remarkably similar to that of h... are small in size and spiny and have no eyes. The sea urchin has been used for many years as a research model to study embryonic development. They eat kel...

Antacids also control oral bacteria

...nce that, under a microscope, appears as a teeming sea of hundreds of bacteria. Among these are gingivitis-causing bacteria that break down sugars and amino acids into toxins that are harmful to our gums. Unchecked, an accumulation of plaque and an overgrowth of these ravenous, toxin-oozing bacteria le...

A Timely Reminder Of Devastating Health Impact Of Climate Change

...g the effects with drought in Australia and rising sea levels in the Pacific. “The effects of climate change will hit poor and developing countries the hardest. “As a wealthy nation and a prolific per capita greenhouse polluter, Australia must take heed of the Stern Review and show leadership with it...

Iodine Deficiency: A Global Initiative to Weed Out the Problem

...ears ago. Nature came to the rescue in the form of sea weeds and many of those who ate sea weeds// actually weeded out the problem of iodine deficiency. Perhaps it is due to the consumption o...

Consumption of Raw Oysters Cause the Death of Two Women in Savannah

...sh lot of oysters. According to Frank Velasquez, a sea food buyer, raw oysters are safe for consumption only during certain months, ideally between October and March. Further, it is imperative to buy from a credible source, accompanied with the date the oysters were out of water. Experts say, it is dange...

"Beach to Bedside" Study Focuses on Effects of Inhaled Toxins

...ter, the toxin they contain, the airborne toxin in sea spray, the toxin transported ashore by wind and the amount people inhale, the team is rapidly increasing understanding about one of the most far-reaching human exposures to a natural toxin. Florida red tide toxins affect the pulmonary, nervous, imm...

Discrepancy in salt content on food labels

...ng salt consumption and the popularity of rock and sea salts have resulted in marked decrease of iodised salt intake. Transtasman food regulator Food Standards Australia New Zealand intends to require iodised salt to be used in baked cereal products. Responding to the test results, Green Party spokes...

Philippines Oil Spill Causing Adverse Health Effects

... spilled 50,000 gallons of industrial oil into the sea near Guimaras in Philippines is causing health problems// to the people in the area. The ship had sunk off the coast on August 11. Health Secretary Franciso Duque confirmed that many people have fallen sick and one man has died as a result of the oil...

Ignorance - the main reason behind deaths on Mount Everest

...an altered sense of reality is well known, even at sea level,' he said. 'One climber who took dexamethasone on summit day felt that he could fly down, but talked himself out of it. We will never know how many climbers have fallen on the upper reaches of Everest because of similar, but more compelling, de...

Maharashtra warns against Mahim's 'miracle' water

... large quantities of groundwater draining into the sea because of the rains. "The noticeable drop in salinity levels occurs at low tide when the maximum dilution of seawater by fresh water occurs. Apart from this, one must also consider that the Mithi river, too, flows into the Mahim creek," he added. ...

Unraveling the Secrets of the Seabed of Andaman off the Thai coasts

...me is assisted by the Tsunami Fund. Mapping of the sea bed is planned to begin soon. <br...

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