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Putting ecology back into river restoration

...r ecologically successful river restoration. Their aim is to arrive at an agreed set of standards which would eventually be endorsed by the United Nations Environment Programme. Although billions of dollars are spent on river restoration projects worldwide, little agreement exists on how their success i...

Compounds in plastic packaging act as environmental estrogens altering breast genes

...osing prepubescent female rats to BPA and BBP, our aim was to determine what effects, if any, each compound had on mammary gene expression during at different ages," said Moral. "Our results showed that exposure to BPA changes the gene expression profile of mammary tissues as a function of age. That is,...

Youth With HIV Take More Risks After New Meds Introduced

...th living with HIV that address risk behaviors and aim to improve quality of life are more needed now than ever before," the researchers write. Although HAART use has significantly improved the care of HIV patients, the longer lives of those patients could mean more opportunities to transmit the virus t...

Advances in the characterisation of the oyster mushroom genes

...sometimes used as a decontaminating agent, was the aim of the PhD thesis by Arantza Eizmendi Goikoetxea, which she defended at the Public University of Navarre with the title, Molecular Characterisation of a family of genes of cellobiohydrolases in the "Pleurotus ostreatus" fungus. Degradation of cellul...

Scientists discover how fish evolved to float at different sea depths

...ion even when they are in high water pressures. My aim was to find out how these systems came into place and how this allowed for the great variety of fishes we have in our oceans today." The study revealed that the special blood proteins, which are essential for oxygen secretion, were present in the ey...

Measuring the impact of post-genomics on Mediterranean populations

...orkshop organisers explained to delegates that the aim of this research priority, among others, is to help exploit ?in this post-genomic era ?the “unprecedented opportunities for generating new knowledge and translating it into applications that enhance human health? To achieve this, they continue, funda...

Duke Chemists Isolating Individual Molecules Of Toxic Protein In Alzheimer's, Parkinson's Disease

... molecular building blocks of the deposits. Their aim is to understand the detailed assembly process for the toxic protein called amyloid plaque. Such basic understanding, they said, could lead to approaches to preventing plaque formation. The researchers led by Boris Akhremitchev are using the infinit...

UCLA scientists transform HIV into cancer-seeking missile

...peutic genes that can travel through the blood and aim itself at a precise location, thereby minimizing harmful side effects," explained Irvin S.Y. Chen, Ph.D., director of the UCLA AIDS Institute. "Our approach proves that it is possible to develop an effective carrier and reprogram it to target specifi...

Research Gives Hope For Liver Damage

...Now that we have shown how the macrophageswork, we aim to find out how to create, activate and de-activate thesecells to make them repair, rather than damage, liver tissue."He added: "Cirrhosis, commonly, but not always, caused by alcoholconsumption, can lead to liver failure. At a time when outcomes for...

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