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Dogs keep dying: Many owners unaware of toxic dog food

...e nation and possibly in more than two dozen other countries remain unaware of the tainted food, and as a result, they continue to give dogs food containing a lethal toxin. To better screen affected dogs so they can be treated as soon as possible, Cornell veterinarians report that they now have a new test, a...

Scientists develop malaria forecasting tool to predict disease risk

...r Morse said: "The risk of an epidemic in tropical countries such as Botswana increases dramatically shortly after a season of good rainfall ?when the heat and humidity allow mosquito populations to thrive. By using a number of climate models, we were able to compose weather predictions for such countries, wh...

MBL leads effort to update E. coli genome

...this forward." A group of 19 scientists from four countries updated the annotation of E. coli K-12 at two MBL workshops organized by Riley and Serres. Annotation involves identification of genes, and their starting and ending sites, as well as the description of gene products. The process helps scientists to ...

Do plants have the potential to vaccinate against HIV?

...so be accessible to poor populations in developing countries ?which is where these medicines are needed the most." The results could also lead to the development of more effective vaccines. By using specific immunoglobulin sequences in the fusion molecule, antigens could be targeted to specific cells in the i...

Access to antiretrovirals unlikely to reduce HIV infection rates

...ege London) suggests that the HIV epidemic in poor countries will not be controlled through antiretroviral drugs alone, even if universal access is achieved. As they demonstrate in an article in the open-access international medical journal PLoS Medicine, without additional prevention methods such as counselin...

Does father know best?

...lly, breaking down nonpaternity rates in different countries according to high and low paternity confidence. Among those for who paternity confidence was relatively high, actual nonpaternity is highest in Mexico and lowest among the Kohanim lineages of Sephardic Jews. ...

Less antibiotic use in food animals leads to less drug resistance in people, study shows

... "use of fluoroquinolones in food animals in other countries has increased the risk of resistance in [Campyloba...never licensed their use in food animals, and both countries have reported low trends--similar to Australia's--in fluoroquinolone-resistant Campylobacter infecti...

Genomics-based vaccine could prevent deadly cattle disease

...ally, this tick-borne disease rages across a dozen countries in eastern and central Africa. Now, an international team of scientists has taken the first major step toward a vaccine to prevent East Coast fever. Their work, published in the February 13-17 early online edition of the Proceedings of the National ...

HortResearch science reveals the natural potential of apples

...multiplier effect, where discoveries made in other countries will benefit our work and speed up cultivar development. There will also be opportunities for HortResearch to become involved in collaborative research programmes." HortResearch says its apple EST database is already being employed to support the c...

World first research to speed up cure for ear infections

...reluctance to visit the doctor ?but in third-world countries the problem is common due to the lack of available treatment," he said. Dr Ghassemifar said the results of other gene targeting research have indicated that gene therapy (to target wound healing genes) could prevent wound scarring and be potentially...

World's pledge to halve hunger by 2015 looks like empty promise

Almost 200 countries agreed in 1990 to cut worldwide hunger in half by ...overty in the Developing World." "Even though 186 countries agreed with the Millennium Development Goals to reduce the proportion of people living on less than ...

Researchers release new variety of asparagus

...ties that can compete with those produced in other countries where labor cost is low, such as Peru and Mexico," said Mikeal Roose , a professor of genetics in the Department of Botany and Plant Sciences and the leader of the asparagus breeding project. "Indeed, Neil Stone, a staff research associate at UCR, a...

New DNA 'fingerprinting' technique separates hemp from marijuana

...n U.S. criminal cases. It may also prove useful in countries where the cultivation of hemp is permitted but mar...ons not just for separating hemp from marijuana in countries where hemp cultivation is permitted, but in establishing origins of seized drugs and, therefore, con...

World faces challenge as life expectancies lengthen, scientist says

...selected representative populations from different countries around the world and examined relationships betwee...ncreasing the modal age of death in industrialized countries such as the United States from roughly 80 years to 100. "We studied different countries around the ...

Typhoid fever led to the fall of Athens

... nowadays the disease is most common in developing countries and in travellers returning from these countries. Corresponding author Dr Manolis J Papagrigorakis of the University of Athens says: "Studying the historical aspects of infectious diseases can be a powerful tool for several disciplines to learn from...

Sustainable farm practices improve Third World food production

Crop yields on farms in developing countries that used sustainable agriculture rose nearly 80 p...est of its kind to date -- 286 farm projects in 57 countries -- concludes that sustainable agriculture protects the environment in these countries while substant...

Climate change: The rice genome to the rescue

...he effects are felt mostly in poor, underdeveloped countries because of their reliance on agriculture as one of the main drivers for national development," Dr. Zeigler said. "In turn, agriculture is very dependent on climate. "Another more insidious effect may be more frequent extreme weather events such as ...

Low-cost drug gaining favor for use in HIV-infected children in poor countries

... early this year -- will provide some guidance for countries as they make their own decisions, Vitória said. The recommendations include guidelines on monitoring toxicity and when to begin cotrimoxazole treatment given the child's age, whether the patient has symptoms of HIV disease and the strength of the pa...

Oceans are 70 percent shark free

...es in 2004. More than 100 scientists from over 16 countries were involved in the MAR-ECO project which is part of the 10-year Census of Marine Life programme which is exploring the abundance, distribution and diversity of life in the world's oceans. The team also used findings built up over the last two dec...

Underdogs in the understory: Study suggests nature favors rarer trees

...landmark study, conducted by 33 ecologists from 12 countries and published in the Jan. 27 issue of the journal Science, conclusively demonstrates that diversity matters and has ecological importance to tropical forests. Helene Muller-Landau, an assistant professor of ecology in the University of Minnesota's C...

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