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New Estimates For The Causes Of Child Deaths Worldwide

...hey found the four communicable disease categories account more than half (54%) of all child deaths. Infection of the blood or pneumonia in newborn babies and pneumonia in older children constitute 29% of all deaths. Undernutrition is an underlying cause of 53% of all deaths in children aged younger than 5 y...

Super predators and mass extinctions

...lty, according to Lipowski, because they failed to account for the effects of limited living spaces shared by a large number of different species. A. Lipowski Phys. Rev. E 71, 052902 (2005), 20 May 2005 http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRE/v71/e052902 ...

Marburg haemorrhagic fever in Angola update

...unicipality. Other municipalities in Uige Province account for an additional 56 cases and 50 deaths. WHO believes that the risk of international spread is low. No foreign nationals, with the exception of those involved in the direct care of patients, have been infected. There is no evidence that people can ...

HIV-1 spread through six transmission lines in the UK

...ion and treatment programmes may want to take into account when developing new initiatives.?/p> More than 57,700 people in Britain have been infected with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 or HIV-1 since the first identification of A ID S in 1982. Despite a recent increase in heterosexually acquired in...

Biodiversity hotspots identify conservation priorities

...al forest areas) cover a small total land area yet account for a very high percentage of global biodiversity. The concept was subsequently refined by Myers and CI, most recently in 2000. "This new analysis has benefited greatly from increased collaboration among countries and organizations, as well as from ...

BioMed Central welcomes the new National Institutes of Health public access policy

...ll NIH grantees now have a new factor to take into account when choosing where they wish to publish their research. To fulfil the NIH request, authors publishing with most of the traditional subscription publishers will be expected to go through a process of resubmitting their papers to the PubMed Central re...

Supercomputer Dedicated To Bioengineering, Computational Biology Installed

...ed CyberInfrastructure Lab Phil Papadopoulos, Dell account manager Doug Shaw, and Bioengineering chair Shu Chien perform a ceremonial ribbon cutting at the dedication of UCSD's new cluster computer. "No single computational model spans all these biological scales, but this powerful new cluster will enable u...

Children's taste sensitivity and food choices influenced by taste gene

...ren, which lessens with age. Such a scenario would account for the increase of vegetable consumption that often occurs as children mature into adulthood. This is definitely an area that merits more research." The bitter receptor genotype also predicted children's sweet preference, along with their preferenc...

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

...tion. Already, changes in land use and land cover account for about 1.6 gigatonnes (17%) of annual human-caused carbon emissions, the analysis says. And by 2100, "the terrestrial biosphere, which is at present a carbon sink, is projected to become a carbon source." "The release, maintenance or enhancement ...

Research Using Mouse Models Reveals A Novel Key Player In The Initiation Of Colon Cancer

Gastric and colorectal cancers account for more than 1 million deaths worldwide every year and several research groups have been working to identify the molecular events that result in the initiation and progression of these tumors. It has been established that interfering with the functi...

Plants defy Mendel's inheritance laws, may prompt textbook changes

...s paper, that show none of the simple explanations account for this skipping of generations by an inherited trait." The scientists kept the plants in isolation so they couldn't accidentally crossbreed with plants that didn't have the mutated gene, called hothead, that causes organ fusion like that seen in t...

Scientists decipher genome of fungus that can cause life-threatening infections

...hen the genesare expressed (turned on or off) ?may account for the disparity invirulence.Among the surprising...ns (moveable elements)within the genome, which may account for the genome rearrangementsoften observed between different Cryptococcus isolates.TIGR's Fraser sa...

Newly discovered virus linked to childhood lung disorders and Kawasaki disease

...suggests that a previously unknown coronavirus may account for someof the many respiratory diseases for which a causative agent isunidentified, and may have a role in Kawasaki disease, the most commoncause of acquired heart disease in children in developed countries. In the first of two studies, Jeffrey S. ...

Scientists detect probable genetic cause of some Parkinson's disease cases

...eople with a family history of the disorderand may account for 1½ to 2 percent of cases in individuals who do nothave a family history of the disease. The researchers found a mutationin one copy of the gene can lead to the disease. The findings werepublished online by Lancet at 6:30 p.m. ET on January 17, 20...

Male circumcision reduces risk of HIV transmission from women to men

...wever, the presentstudy was also able to take into account cultural characteristics thatmight be responsible ... sexual behavior. Thesedifferences could, in turn, account for differences in the risk ofinfection. But the researchers found that cultural differences insexua...

Topical treatment shown to inhibit HIV and herpes simplex virus infection

...on people worldwide are living with HIV, and women account for nearly half of those infected. As stated by the World Health Organization, unprotected sex is the predominant mode of HIV transmission, and genital herpes plays a major role in the sexual spread of HIV. The researchers conducted a prospective, r...

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