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'Lucky 13' as new gene discovery offers further hope for childhood blindness

...University of Leeds, working in collaboration with experts from other centres around the world, identified the gene, which is essential to photoreceptors in the eye, the cells that "see" light. The finding, the thirteenth gene to be linked to Leber’s congenital amaurosis (LCA), comes at a time of hope for ...

Newly discovered antibody may be body's natural defense against Alzheimer's

... benefit in patients requires much more study, the experts say. NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell is cur...eimer's and other neurodegenerative illnesses, the experts say....

Runners -- Let thirst be your guide

...ially lethal water intoxication, say international experts who study disorders of water metabolism. Such exer...ing exercising, the researchers say. A group of experts in this condition has issued a number of papers and recommendations, including an international cons...

Researchers demonstrate way to control tree height

...roducts for the ornamental and nursery industries, experts say, if regulatory hurdles can be overcome – a big “if.” The findings were recently published in the journal Landscape Plant News. “From a science perspective, this is a very interesting accomplishment and there’s no doubt it could be made to...

Researchers develop buckyballs to fight allergy

...s are molecules that cause oxidative stress, which experts believe may be the basis of aging. “The immune system both protects us and causes harm, so we are always interested in finding new pathways to help manage the harmful effects,” said Kepley....

Treating HIV in war zones -- Public health emergencies need rapid advice from WHO

...develop. The laborious process involves convening experts who search for and appraise all the relevant research literature, and who meet several times before making treatment recommendations. Such a time frame is clearly not practical in an emergency situation. Holger J. Schünemann and colleagues, autho...

HIVMA opposes The Gambia's unproven AIDS remedy

Leading HIV experts are alarmed that the government of The Gambia is encouraging citizens living with HIV to stop taking antiretroviral medications in order to try an unproven herbal remedy. The HIV Medicine Association (HIVMA) calls on President Yahya Jammeh to cease h...

Amphibians in losing race with environmental change

...r of zoology at OSU and one of the world's leading experts on amphibian decline. "But looked at in a different way, it's not just that there are threats and pressures amphibians have to deal with," Blaustein said. "There have always been threats, and these have been some of the most adaptive and successfu...

Chronic fatigue syndrome impairs a person's slow wave activity during sleep

... "CFS shares symptoms with depression, and some experts have suggested that it is not a distinctly different disorder," said Armitage. "We have also conducted studies of SWA response to sleep challenge in depression, and the results are very different. Depressed women did not show a blunted SWA response...

Legal ruling may put endangered species in danger

... down the Act." Vucetich, Nelson, and the other experts who signed the letter are urging Secretary Kempthorne to "consult with the nation's leading environmental scholars before defining terms such as endangered species." ...

New knowledge improves rice quality

.... The event attracted 71 cereal chemists and other experts from more than 20 nations. "It’s very clear from the great response we got to the workshop that rice quality is becoming a very hot topic in rice research almost everywhere," the convener and head of IRRI’s Grain Quality, Nutrition, and Postharv...

Diminishing dinosaur steps saved by laser and laptop

...a region of central Catalonia, is so delicate that experts cannot get physically close enough to the tracks to examine them. In the years since the tracks were discovered they have been exposed to the elements, and as a result are severely weathered and eroding at a rapid rate. To make things even more d...

World's leading scientists announce creation of 'Encyclopedia of Life'

...he project, bringing together species and software experts from across the world. The Missouri Botanical Gar... Built on the scientific integrity of thousands of experts around the globe, the Encyclopedia will be a moderated wiki-style environment, freely available to a...

Confirmed -- deforestation plays critical climate change role

... kind, Dr Canadell joined an international team of experts from the US, UK, Brazil and France to compare data from 11 climate-carbon computer models. The results show that tropical forests continue to accumulate carbon through to the end of the century, although they may become less efficient at higher tempe...

Hexavalent chromium in drinking water causes cancer in lab animals

...ng input from the public and a panel of scientific experts about the study design. ...

Rare soft-shell turtle, nesting ground found in Cambodia

...e area by an international team of flora and fauna experts was planned for July 2007. The turtle survey team consisted of Cambodian Fisheries Administration staff and the Cambodian Turtle Conservation Team, a group of early career conservationists who have received long-term mentoring from CI along with f...

Bones in motion: Brown scientists to create new 3-D X-ray system

...isco, computer scientist David Laidlaw, orthopedic experts Braden Fleming and Douglas Moore, and biologists Stephen Gatesy, Thomas Roberts and Sharon Swartz. Brainerd, a professor of medical science in Brown's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, leads the team. The grant from the W.M. Keck Fou...

Autism gene identified by researchers at Yale working with a global research consortium

Yale School of Medicine autism experts Fred Volkmar, M.D. and Ami Klin are part of a global research consortium from 19 countries to identify a gene and a region of a chromosome that may lead to autism in children. The findings are published online today in Nature Genetics and also will ...

Failure to meet United Nations sanitation target could affect millions of the world's poorest

...nitation facilities. Now, halfway to the deadline, experts warn that the United Nations is on track to achieve only part of the Target 10 objective. "The target of reducing to one-half the proportion of people who do not have access to improved water supplies will probably be met," said Jennifer "Jenna" D...

Biologists prove critical step in membrane fusion

... a live cell. Researchers in the Wessel lab are experts in fertilization; they used sea urchin eggs to study membrane fusion. In urchin eggs, thousands of membrane-bound vesicles are attached to the plasma membrane. Within seconds after fertilization, the contents of these vesicles are rapidly released. P...

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