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Ecology in an era of globalization

... to manage invasions on the ground. The scientists also discuss the importance of determining the economic...assess existing infestations. The special issue also contains workshop reports, including "Ecological impacts of wildlife conservation units policy in Me...

Madagascan tropical forests return thanks to better management and well-defined ownership

...y forests occurs in southern Madagascar, there are also large areas of forests regenerating. The return of...ost important "ecoregions" of the world. The study also shows that the relationship between human population density and deforestation is much more complex ...

Does amateur boxing cause brain damage?

...in three months after rest from boxing. The study also included 10 healthy men who were not athletes. The study found high CSF levels of neuronal and glial markers suggestive of brain damage after a fight. A particular marker for neuronal damage, neurofilament light (NFL), was four times higher in b...

'Personality-gene' makes songbirds curious

...are an easier target for research and indeed, they also have different personalities. An international t...t tits. In the forest-living birds, the scientists also found a significant association between the SNP830-genotypes of individuals and variation in their l...

Scripps research team sheds light on long-sought cold sensation gene

...ects our behavior," he says. The altered mice also showed little response to the application of aceto...ant or painful under certain circumstances, it can also deaden pain, as illustrated by icing an injury to relieve pain. To test this side of cold sensation,...

Protein enables discovery of quantum effect in photosynthesis

...ke a taco shell around ground beef. The structure also is referred to as trimeric because of the three cl... and choose the most efficient one." Fleming is also a professor of chemistry at UC Berkeley, and an internationally acclaimed leader in spectroscopic st...

'Insulator' helps silence genes in dormant herpes virus

...ld sores brought on by the Herpes simplex virus 1, also known as HSV-1. After the initial infection, the v...trategies to manipulate the virus. Insulators, also known as boundary elements, are DNA segments that work to prevent a gene from being influenced by th...

How the brain's backup system compensates for stroke

...increase in activity. The researchers' experiments also established that this activity increase was functi...ral increase in brain activity. The researchers also established that the activity increase in the right PMd caused the recovery of performance. When the...

Peramivir protects mice from lethal H5N1 infection

...ctions of peramivir daily for eight days. The drug also inhibited replication of the deadly strain of H5N1...s Diseases department at St. Jude. "The drug could also be given as a preventive measure during an outbreak to decrease the risk of infection," he said. Bol...

pHLIP, a novel technology to locate and treat tumors

... acidity,?said Reshetnyak. “Therefore, pHLIP could also be used for monitoring of disease development and therapeutic outcomes. It might play very important role in the study of arthritis, ischemia and stroke.? Lead author Oleg Andreev said, “We believe that universal medical tests to reveal many heal...

Amphibians in losing race with environmental change

...nmental changes under way. Many other species will also be unable to evolve fast enough to deal with these..., and chemical contamination of aquatic systems is also more common. Many animal species lay their eggs communally or congregate socially, often to avo...

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

...y 1st issue of the journal SLEEP finds that CFS is also associated with a blunted slow wave activity (SWA)...ctly different disorder," said Armitage. "We have also conducted studies of SWA response to sleep challenge in depression, and the results are very differe...

Scientists discover rare 'gene-for-gene' interaction that helps bacteria kill their host

...nzene, known as ST for short. This molecule is also an antibiotic and Photorhabdus produces it to kill off other microbes that might grow in the corpse of the dead insect. To test their findings, the researchers produced a mutant Photorhabdus that is unable to make ST. Without ST, the bacteria wer...

Climate change impacts stream life

...variations. An ecological response to warming has also been clear." The study predicts that at the p...umbers of species in the streams we examined might also fall by 12-25 per cent if trends continue as expected over the next 50 years". ...

Vaccine prevents prion disease in mice

...mal limb movements. Prion is a protein that is also an infectious agent. The proteins are so similar t...r 400 days. The mice with low levels of antibodies also had a significant delay in the onset of the disease. It normally takes 120 days for mice that have n...

Keeping the immune system from starting a 'food fight'

...ation in deep pockets of visceral fat. The animals also showed symptoms of metabolic syndrome—including in...ar and lipid levels, and fatty liver disease. They also showed that the loss of STAMP2 exacerbated the metabolic symptoms of mice with a genetic predisposit...

Master regulatory gene of epithelial stem cells identified

... regenerative epithelial stem cells. The findings also have implications for cancers of the skin, breast and prostate, which are among the most common human malignancies. The role of p63 in epithelial stem cells has been controversial. Some studies found that p63 maintains a steady pool of the regenerat...

Nitric oxide: Key to cardiovascular and pulmonary function and drug effectiveness

...ng drugs not only for heart failure and asthma but also for other conditions such as pain and high blood pressure. "We demonstrated that when one of the systems goes awry, so does the other," said Stamler, whose laboratory has made many fundamental discoveries about the role of nitric oxide in human bi...

Cancer patients monitor fatigue in real time

...reathing -- another symptom of some cancers -- may also experience fatigue." According to Hacker, this is the first study of real-time collection of fatigue data in acutely ill cancer patients. Ecological momentary assessment holds substantial promise for investigating fatigue and other cancer symptoms...

Corals -- More complex than you?

...h to better understand coral disease. There may also be a direct payback, in the sense that, by explori...f which were thought to have evolved much later?is also casting new light on evolution. It appears that all animals lose genes during evolution; those wi...

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