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Update on census of world's most endangered cat -- Female Amur leopard found dead

...ture female leopard was shot in the back side. The bullet came through tail bone, crushed the hip bones and lodged in the belly. She was then beaten to death with a heavy object. “The killing of even one female is a huge loss for a cat on the brink of extinction,?said Darron Collins, managing director o...

Iron critical to ocean productivity, carbon uptake

...tained as models predicted. "It wasn't the silver bullet that scientists originally hypothesized," Strutton said. "The carbon export was slower than we thought. It could be the scale was too small, and it could be that the (biological) response was too slow and we didn't wait long enough." Behrenfeld said...

Mice lacking social memory molecule take bullying in stride

...chers injected mice with a kind of molecular magic bullet (using transgenic techniques and a virus) that selectively turned off BDNF expression in the social learning circuit. This exerted an antidepressant-like effect; the mice were spared from developing social avoidance behavior following repeated social...

Climate change drives widespread amphibian extinctions

...ready pushed them into the abyss. "Disease is the bullet that's killing the frogs," said J. Alan Pounds, the study's lead scientist affiliated with the Tropical Science Center's Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve in Costa Rica. "But climate change is pulling the trigger. Global warming is wreaking havoc on a...

NYU study reveals how brain's immune system fights viral encephalitis

...fect other cells in the brain. "There is no magic bullet in fighting viral infections in neurons," said NYU Biology Professor Carol Shoshkes Reiss, the study's senior author. "However, these findings show the redundancy of the immune system--when one response fails to fight infection, others step in." The...

NYU Study Reveals How Brain's Immune System Fights Viral Encephalitis

...fect other cells in the brain. "There is no magic bullet in fighting viral infections in neurons," said NYU Biology Professor Carol Shoshkes Reiss, the study's senior author. "However, these findings show the redundancy of the immune system--when one response fails to fight infection, others step in." The...

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