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Researchers reveal the infectious impact of salmon farms on wild salmon

...rom farms to wild salmon. However, a bitter debate continues in British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest as to whether salmon farms are contributing to sea lice infections of wild salmon at all. "Parasites are a key negative side effect of fish farms on the local fish stocks," says Andrew Dobson, an epidemi...

Same mutation aided evolution in many fish species, Stanford study finds

... pinpoint the exact genetic alteration. The group continues to wade out into nature, collecting additional stickleback species from around the world that can reveal whether particular genes are always reused when the animals adapt to new conditions, or if evolution has other tricks up its sleeve to push organ...

Studies reveal methods viruses use to sidestep immune system

...urn on the genes to make interferon, and the virus continues to replicate unimpeded. "Having identified RIG-I, now we can spend our time completely defining the signaling pathway that goes from RIG-I all the way down to IRF-3," Dr. Gale said. "Once we've done that, we hope to identify parts of the pathway to ...

Why do insects stop 'breathing'? To avoid damage from too much oxygen, say researchers

...e grasshopper is inactive and resting, however, it continues to breathe in oxygen at the same high volume it uses while flying. The result is excess internal oxygen that can cause oxidative damage -- the destruction of biomaterial due to excess oxygen -- to tissues. To protect their bodies, insects like grassh...

Ice core 'dipstick' indicates West Antarctic ice has thinned less than believed

...ice flows down into adjacent ice streams, where it continues to the nearby Ross Ice Shelf, a part of a bay on the Ross Sea that is covered with floating glacier ice. "Then the whole thing spreads out like oil on water," Waddington said. The West Antarctic Ice Sheet once rested on the bottom of the bay all th...

Children's taste sensitivity and food choices influenced by taste gene

...fiance of authority," explains Reed. The research continues and extends Monell's long-term research program exploring development of taste and flavor preferences during childhood, a critical time for learning about food. Mennella comments, "Our previous studies focused on how early experience influences prefe...

New winter hulless barley has high protein

...modity markets. The Small Grains Breeding Program continues to work on more new cultivars that help provide solutions to agriculture problems. Another of the projects aims to develop wheat and barley cultivars resistant to pests and so require fewer chemical inputs. For example, producers would obtain higher ...

WHO Warns Of Increased Risk Of Vector-borne Diseases In Tsunami-affected Areas

...r malaria and dengue fever, the ministry of health continues to conduct its routine vector-control activities. A generous outpouring of donations targeting vector-control efforts is facilitating the task. In Banda Aceh alone, some 100,000 insecticide-treated mosquito nets, 20,000 rapid diagnostic tests for ma...

Used in a new way, RNA interference permanently silences key breast cancer gene

...aterial are become inactive as the cell population continues to expand. "We are a long way from using this technique in patients, but this study shows that that it may be possible to use RNAi in more than just experiments that silence genes temporarily," says the study's principal investigator, Ralph Arlingha...

Roche clinical trial registry and results database launched

...s database today. Transparency has always been and continues to be a priority for us. In January, we announced our plans to have an independent host for the database and since then, we selected CenterWatch, a company with a wealth of experience in the area of data management and the publication of clinical tri...

FDA Works To Speed The Advent Of New, More Effective Personalized Medicines

...ndustry gain valuable experience as this new field continues to evolve. FDA believes this approach will save time and resources and eliminate possible delays in the application review process because parties will be able to familiarize themselves with novel pharmacogenomic approaches as they evolve. FDA's ne...

Habitat use by North Pacific right whales, Eubalaena japonica, in the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska

...ent, it appears that the SEBS middle shelf was and continues to be important habitat for this species. Although there has been a conspicuous absence of right whale sightings from the outer shelf and slope habitat in recent years, this may be due, at least in part, to a lack of survey effort there. Results of a...

NIAID begins clinical trial of West Nile virus vaccine

...s disease fluctuates seasonally and regionally, it continues to pose a serious public health threat, especially to older adults and people with weakened immune systems," says Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., director of the NIAID. WNV, initially isolated in Uganda in 1937, made its first U.S. appearance in New York Ci...

Supercomputers to focus brains on AIDS dilemma

...IDS has claimed more than twenty million lives and continues to devastate societies around the world, particularly in Africa and other developing countries. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, after years of effort AIDS researchers succeeded in developing a class of drugs that proved to be highly effective agai...

A New Species of Monkey is Discovered in Tanzania: The First in Africa for More Than 20 Years

... wonder and mystery they contain." Meanwhile, WCS continues its conservation work in the Southern Highlands, while CI and independently funded researchers continue to support conservation efforts in the Udzungwas and in the other Eastern Arc Mountains. “Such partnerships are crucial to the conservation missi...

Science study holds implications for gene therapy and stem cell biology

... to treat severe inborn disorders or cancer. There continues to be an increasing interest in gene therapy research with blood stem cells because these cells can be extracted and manipulated and then reinserted to repopulate the entire blood system, as in leukemia treatment. The process has the potential to tr...

New strategies to reduce hospital-aquired infections

...m of waterborne microbes in the healthcare setting continues to persist," explained Dr. Cervia. "Each of the systemic methods are limited in their ability to prevent patient exposure to waterborne pathogens because they cannot completely reach and permanently destroy biofilm." Biofilm is a Key Culprit Biofil...

Distributed Basic Local Alignment Search Toolkit (W.ND-BLAST)

...m of waterborne microbes in the healthcare setting continues to persist," explained Dr. Cervia. "Each of the systemic methods are limited in their ability to prevent patient exposure to waterborne pathogens because they cannot completely reach and permanently destroy biofilm." Biofilm is a Key Culprit Biofil...

Cousin of Asian super termite invades Florida

...ite's range in South Florida, the Formosan termite continues to spread its destruction across Florida and much of the southeastern United States. First identified by UF/IFAS researchers in Miami-Dade and Broward counties in the 1980s, the Formosan termite is now well established along the southeastern coast o...

NHGRI targets 12 more organisms for genome sequencing

...ctive scientific merits. "Our sequencing strategy continues to focus on identifying the sets of organisms with the greatest potential to fill crucial gaps in biomedical knowledge," said Mark S. Guyer, Ph.D., director of NHGRI's Division of Extramural Research. "The most effective approach we currently have to...

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