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Marine conservation organizations team up to conduct Indonesia coral reefs assessment

...o understand and preserve the marine ecosystem. It brings to life the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation's objective of conserving living oceans through the practice of Science Without Borders?," Capt. Renaud added. The survey outcomes will be incorporated into the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Netw...

University of Delaware researchers develop cancer 'nanobomb'

...inary research provides for fresh perspectives and brings about new ideas, which is probably the way to go in the future." Funding for the research was provided in part by the Department of Defense' TM s Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program. Panchapakesan is the lead investigator for a te...

New factor implicated in allergy and asthma attacks

...nted out, are resolved by the evidence that pollen brings both NADPH oxidase and antigens into the airways, making airway antioxidant levels the critical factor. "The antioxidant has to be there when the person is exposed, and if the antioxidant level is not sufficient, it won't eliminate this oxidative ins...

Researcher says flu responders can learn from 1918 epidemic

A doctoral student's research brings lessons and insight to a looming pandemic If health officials and media prognosticators are accurate, this coming winter may bring with it one of the most sweeping, deadly outbreaks of killer flu that the world has ever seen. While that prospect wo...

A New Era Of Hope For Neglected Diseases

...le increase in activity, and that the PPP approach brings together the best skills of both public and private partners. This model consequently performs better than either sector working alone when it comes to delivering safe, effective, affordable drugs for neglected diseases. In a linked editorial, entit...

Prescription pain patch abuse blamed for increase in deaths

...n Academy of Pain Medicine, said that the UF study brings necessary attention to the importance of physician and patient education regarding addictive disorders. "There is nothing wrong with the patch, the problem is with addictive disorders," Ray said. "Any drug has the potential for abuse. This study is ...

NHGRI expands effort to revolutionize sequencing technologies

...olutionizing genome sequencing. Each research team brings a unique set of skills and expertise to solving difficult scientific and engineering problems," said Jeffery Schloss, Ph.D., NHGRI's program director for technology development. "The different approaches will likely yield several successful and compl...

Fish and chips: A fast track to understanding blood development

...and function of blood stem cells, a discovery that brings researchers a step closer to harnessing the power of stem cells for disease treatments. Every day, blood stem cells divide and differentiate to generate approximately 200 billion new blood cells in the bone marrow of adults. To maintain their number...

New understanding of jet lag

...and' is: the neurotransmitter GABA that ultimately brings the clock back into synch," Block said. "This could lead to future therapies for jet lag. This is the first time that we have a mechanistic understanding of the systematic coupling of the different parts of the clock. We are now on our way to suggest...

Researchers discover how malaria parasite disperses from red blood cells

...erg said. By first understanding how the parasite brings about these steps, it may be possible to find ways to prevent them from occurring. ...

Hanging baskets of sex and death help fruit growers

...eating the virus on the egg or plant surface. This brings two key benefits to fruit growers: An end to spraying - Normally Growers wishing to use this form of virus warfare have to spray almost every element of an orchard to ensure the moths come into contact with virus. This is wasteful both of time and r...

Digging in the dirt for life's biochemical foundations

...ity-supported research on the movement of nitrogen brings into sharper focus this underground process at the root of nearly all of Earth's food chains. "Ignorance (about the movement of nitrogen) limits our understanding ... in what is arguably the world's most important symbiosis," says Yair Shachar-Hill,...

Discovery of T-cell 'traffic control' boosts new drug promise

...sing essential immune defenses. The emerging view brings together research findings on S1P's effect on both the immune system and the blood-circulating vascular system, showing how the two systems interact to regulate T cell circulation and prevent a constant and potentially dangerous release of T cells, o...

US Army plans to bulk-buy anthrax

...ions under the Biological Weapons Convention if it brings these tanks online," saysAlan Pearson, programme director for biological and chemical weapons at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation in Washington DC. "If one can grow the Sterne strain in these units, one could also grow theAmes strain...

Microscopic brain imaging in the palm of your hand

...o-photon fluorescence, the result is a system that brings the power of a cutting-edge imaging technique to the deep tissues of the brain. By creating a handheld device based on some of the latest advances in micromotors, lensing and fiber optics (see accompanying article for more information), the research...

Exercise training in ordinary people affects the activity of 500 genes

... to be inactive and that regular physical activity brings health, improves quality of life and extends life span. How these positive effects are created in the body is not known. Influences on gene activity in the heart, vessels and muscles are probably immensely important. In this study, the first of its ...

Mosaic mouse technique offers a powerful new tool to study diseases and genetics

...iversity describe MADM as "an elegant method" that brings mouse geneticists "one step closer to the enviable experimental facility available to invertebrate geneticists." There are "many potential applications of this powerful approach," Anthony and Heintz wrote, including the "opportunity for in-depth stu...

Scientists discover global pattern of big fish diversity in open oceans

... declines in the variety of big fish. "This study brings to the surface something that was buried," says Daniel Pauly, a fisheries biologist from the University of British Columbia Fisheries Centre. "The long-term trend of decline is not discernable at first because there are lots of things happening ?like...

New understanding of cell movement may yield ways to brake cancer's spread

...e leading edge of the cell. Along with it, DOCK180 brings a host of additional molecules to the leading edge, triggering a series of internal events that begin moving the cell forward. "We see a protrusion form first, in which the cell changes shape and extends towards the direction it is about to go, follo...

Purdue researchers use enzyme to clip 'DNA wires'

...les and DNA in a solution, and the electric charge brings them together to form the wire," Ivanisevic said. "Then we basically make smaller wire segments with magnetic particles attached to this DNA sequence." Because hundreds of different restriction enzymes snip segments containing specific sequences of ...

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