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Research suggests fitness of Florida panthers improved by limited breeding with Texas animals

...e area from Texas have "about a three times higher chance of becoming adults as do purebred ones," reports a paper planned for publication in January 2006 in the British journal Animal Conservation. "Hybrids are expanding the known range of habitats panthers occupy and use," the paper adds. In view of the ...

UF researchers kill resistant bugs one bandage at a time

...he wound, which can slow healing and increases the chance germs will develop resistance. "These technologies are especially timely given the threats that are facing the American public, such as antibiotic-resistant bugs occurring in hospitals across the world," said Christopher Batich, Ph.D., a UF professo...

Discovering an ecosystem beneath a collapsed Antarctic ice shelf

The chance discovery of a vast ecosystem beneath the collapsed Larsen Ice Shelf will allow scientists to explore the uncharted life below Antarctica's floating ice shelves and further probe the origins of life in extreme environments. Researchers discovered the...

Gambling monkeys give insight into neural machinery of risk

... from experiments in which they gave the monkeys a chance to gamble to receive juice rewards -- could give insights into why humans compulsively engage in risky behaviors, including gambling, unsafe sex, drug use and overeating. The researchers, Michael Platt and Allison McCoy, published their findings in ...

Stem cell training program to make its Stanford debut

... out. Although the researchers have not yet had a chance to test the modified molecules to see if their function has changed, they believe that Orf2 could be a powerful tool for creating biologically active compounds that could be used as drugs or as new methods of enhancing the disease-preventative proper...

Promiscuous Catalytic Activity Possessed by Novel Enzyme Structure

... out. Although the researchers have not yet had a chance to test the modified molecules to see if their function has changed, they believe that Orf2 could be a powerful tool for creating biologically active compounds that could be used as drugs or as new methods of enhancing the disease-preventative proper...

Sandia completes depleted uranium study

...y of temporary kidney damage and about a 1 percent chance of fatal cancer. Several earlier studies were carried out by the U.S. Department of Defense, by University Professors Fetter (University of Maryland) and von Hippel (Princeton), and by an Army sponsored team from Pacific Northwest National Laborator...

Bacteria use host's immune response to their competitive advantage

... noses and upper respiratory tracts, waiting for a chance to infiltrate and infect. But long before these bacteria break through our immune defenses, they must first compete against other bacterial species to colonize the mucus-lined surfaces of our noses. Competition between two common nose bacteria invol...

New complete muscle grown in the lab

...with its own blood supply boosted the new tissue's chance of survival and of connecting seamlessly with the mice's own blood vessel networks, they concluded. The study was supported by the United States' National Institutes of Health. The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology is Israel's leading science...

Unexpected lock and key mechanism found for the assembly of tumor blood vessels

...nly in tumors in adults," said Varner. "This was a chance discovery, which was exciting, and we think it may have important clinical significance." In their current studies of breast cancer patients for the presence of the integrin and VCAM, "We want to know if the integrins predict aggressive breast cance...

Wild grasses and man-made wheats advance research capabilities

...s to cross wheat with wheat," Rudd said. "The best chance for success is to cross High Plains wheat with High Plains wheat. But to get genetic variability, you cross state lines or even into other countries. The next step would be to cross species, if the desired traits can't be obtained in a wheat-to-wheat...

Fluorescing lab worms signal longer life spans

...ned by a combination of genetic, environmental and chance factors. Twin studies in humans have suggested tha...in the genetically identical worms in the study to chance metabolic processes that involve an array of biochemical and kinetic reactions, said Rea. "This wor...

Deep thinking: Scientists sequence a cold-loving marine microbe

...r's moons, Europa. As yet, however, there's little chance that deciphering C. psychrerythraea's genome will yield insights into another cool character, its namesake. Deming, who led the establishment of the Colwellia genus, named the genus after her one-time advisor: noted marine biologist Rita Colwell. In...

Poaching, logging, and outbreaks of Ebola threaten central African gorillas and chimpanzees

...overnment agencies and donors, but we still have a chance to save these animals." The Brazzaville meeting was organized by the Centre International de Recherches M�dicales de Franceville (CIRMF), Conservation International (CI), the Wild Chimpanzee Foundation (WCF), and the Wildlife Conservation Soci...

Confirmation of human protein interaction data by human expression data

...ua said. Hua gave those losing neurons a fighting chance through another molecular twist. She managed to silence some neurons near the green, quietly-firing cells. When she did that, the green cells were able to compete successfully and formed longer, more complex arbors. Although this work specifically e...

Speak up: Louder neurons form more connections

...ua said. Hua gave those losing neurons a fighting chance through another molecular twist. She managed to silence some neurons near the green, quietly-firing cells. When she did that, the green cells were able to compete successfully and formed longer, more complex arbors. Although this work specifically e...

IMF Launches World’s First DNA Database for Myeloma Patients

...um. "A male with a larger gonopodium has a higher chance of mating, but in a predator environment he has a higher probability of dying," Langerhans said. "That's the cost, the tradeoff. On the other hand, we found that in predator-free environments gonopodia size was larger, as there is minimal cost for la...

Certain fish have a special mating preference

...um. "A male with a larger gonopodium has a higher chance of mating, but in a predator environment he has a higher probability of dying," Langerhans said. "That's the cost, the tradeoff. On the other hand, we found that in predator-free environments gonopodia size was larger, as there is minimal cost for la...

Newest HIV drugs should be used with FUZEON(R)

...rugs to give patients facing resistance their best chance of achieving undetectable viral load ?the optimal treatment goal for all people living with HIV. "Undetectable viral load should be the ultimate treatment goal for all triple-class experienced patients. FUZEON combined with the latest drugs now make...

Two studies document rise of superbugs in the environment

...one drug) because physicians want to "maximize the chance that the organism is sensitive to at least one of them," Dr. Pop-Vicas said. "Starting to treat an infection with inadequate therapy is associated with a worse outcome than using adequate therapy from the start," she added. Once the bacterium's drug ...

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