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Birds that make teeth

...t if mouse tooth-forming tissue is in contact with bird jaw tissue, the bird tissue is able to follow the instructions given by the mouse tissue and participate in making teeth,...

Horse antibodies against the bird flu virus H5N1 are effective as treatment in mice

Antibodies against the bird flu virus H5N1, derived from horses, prevent mice infected with H5N1 from dying from the virus. A study published today in the open access journal Respiratory Research ( http://respiratory-research.com ) reveals that a dose of 100 µg of horse anti-...

Pacific Islands paradise protected

...ristine coral archipelago with abundant marine and bird life, and is the first marine protected area in the region with deep-sea habitat, including underwater mountains. Located near the equator in the Central Pacific between Hawaii and Fiji, the Phoenix Islands form an archipelago several hundred miles ...

Sweetgum tree could help lessen shortage of bird flu drug

... chemical needed to make a lifesaving drug against bird flu ?a drug that is currently in short supply worl...tiviral agent in a much-heralded drug for fighting bird flu. Their findings, which could help increase the global supply of the drug, were described today a...

H5N1 avian flu virus vaccine induces immune responses in healthy adults

...orts indicate an increasing spread of infection in bird populations in Southeast Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. According to the World Health Organization, as of March 24, 2006, 186 people had been infected with avian flu viruses, and more than half of them had died. Generally, flu viruses ar...

Duke to test bird flu vaccine dosing

...at will test a modified form of an investigational bird flu vaccine to determine whether the vaccine still...ne, and there is no risk of volunteers contracting bird flu or spreading it to others," Walter said. The vaccine is designed to protect against the H5N1 s...

Pregnancy drugs can affect grandkids

Changes in bird song could be used as an early warning system to d...nd. Although much previous research has focused on bird song and vocal mimicry, this is the first study to analyse the role played by habitat loss and fragm...

Bird song changes sound alarm over habitat fragmentation

Changes in bird song could be used as an early warning system to d...nd. Although much previous research has focused on bird song and vocal mimicry, this is the first study to analyse the role played by habitat loss and fragm...

UCR environmental scientists propose chemical solution to cleaning California's Salton Sea

...ng an area that is home also to several endangered bird species and visited by millions of waterfowl every year. Massive fish kills are a common occurrence at the Salton Sea, however, because of low dissolved oxygen, high hydrogen sulfide and ammonia concentrations, high temperatures and an increasing l...

Expert dispels bird flu paranoia

The risk of human bird flu infection is small in Australia and people can...afely eat chicken and keep pet birds, according to bird medicine specialist Dr Bob Doneley. "The chances of getting bird flu off a pet bird or your neighb...

Wild birds help to create human flu vaccine

... Working in Mongolia for a health survey of wild bird populations in Mongolia, WCS field vets Drs. Willi...tain that indiscriminate culling of wild migratory bird populations would be ineffective in preventing the spread of avian flu. Wild birds, some of which ar...

New U. of Colorado at Boulder flu chip may help combat future epidemics, pandemics

...an flu H5N1, which has been spreading rapidly from bird to bird in Asia, Russia and parts of Europe, said Kuchta. While the avian virus does not now spread effecti...

USC researchers track down the stem cells that create feathers

The stem cells that produce bird feathers have been visualized and analyzed for the...ecause of their profound regenerative abilities. A bird in nature molts twice a year. With more than 20,000 feathers on the average bird, Chuong notes, that...

Seal rookeries could provide a reliable food source for endangered California condors, study finds

...ia condor (Gymnogyps californianus) is the largest bird in North America. Thousands are believed to have inhabited the continent during the last Ice Age, their range extending from British Columbia to Baja California and east into Texas, Florida and New York. Fewer than 300 are alive today, the majority...

Overfishing may drive endangered seabird to rely upon lower quality food

...ticularly the coastal old-growth forests where the bird nests," he said. "But it's possible that they're g...pecies list, denying it protection even though the bird has not recovered throughout its range. The researchers argue that such a move would be premature. ...

Did feathered dinosaurs exist?

...s younger than those containing the earliest known bird Archaeopteryx. Researchers, led by Alan Feduccia...ty of evidence supports a 2-3-4 digit identity for bird wings. The bird hand "appears different from that in theropod dinosaurs," they say, and casts doubt ...

First big influenza genome study reveals flu evolution

...fluenza strains in other species, such as the H5N1 bird flu strain found in poultry and migratory birds in Asia and Russia, will jump the species barrier into humans and trigger a new pandemic. Although researchers first isolated the influenza virus in 1933, they still don't fully understand how the vi...

Science's Breakthrough of the Year: Watching evolution in action

...e deadly flu seems to have started out as purely a bird virus. Understanding the evolution of last century's deadly bird flu may help us predict and cope with the current bird flu threat. Other studies showed how small c...

Removing egg from nest may help save endangered whooping crane

...e chicks have been observed pecking the later-born bird to death. Also, a pair of chicks is more likely to attract the attention of a predator and parents can be more attentive if they only have a single chick to protect. Even though long-term fitness is almost the same whether one egg or two is laid, t...

Pulp mill devastates swans' sanctuary in Chile

...ation of black-necked swans, along with most other bird life, a WWF-led team of investigators said Monday. "What was probably the largest population of black necked swans in South America has been wiped out in less than a year. It is an environmental catastrophe," said Clifton Curtis, director of World W...

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