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Human's ecological footprint in 2015 and Amazonia revealed

...s feasible, but would need a focused international effort to succeed," say the researchers. According to the study, one advantage to the rapid growth of these two nations is with the development of their infrastructures in the early 21st Century: China and India are positioned to invest in more efficient...

New details on how the immune system recognizes influenza

...attention." The analysis drew upon a much larger effort called the Immune Epitope Database and Analysis Resources Program, which began in 2004 after NIAID awarded LIAI a $25 million contract to create a single repository of immune epitopes from critical disease-causing microbes, including agents that migh...

Horse genome assembled

...quencing Project announced today. The $15 million effort to sequence the approximately 2.7 billion DNA base...gan in 2006, building upon a 10-year collaborative effort among an international group of scientists to use genomics to address important health issues for eq...

Woman's Day and For Womens of Science

...aid the Madison Declaration summarizes a year-long effort by many of the world's leading mercury scientists, assembled into four expert panels, to review and synthesize the major mercury science findings. Every member of all four scientific panels endorsed the declaration, he said. Wiener added that all 1...

Mercury contamination of fish warrants worldwide public warning

...aid the Madison Declaration summarizes a year-long effort by many of the world's leading mercury scientists, assembled into four expert panels, to review and synthesize the major mercury science findings. Every member of all four scientific panels endorsed the declaration, he said. Wiener added that all 1...

Prehistoric origins of stomach ulcers uncovered

...pproximately 60,000 years ago. The UK research effort was led by Dr Francois Balloux, a Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council-funded scientist at the University of Cambridge. He said: "Humans and this ulcer-causing bacterium have been intimately linked for the last 60,000 years. The res...

Smithsonian scientists discover new marine species in eastern Pacific

...ies and sea cucumbers participated in an intensive effort to discover organisms from this ecosystem. Alth...tal agency) and to STRI's Juan Mate, who leads the effort to develop an innovative management plan for Coiba National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage site. Wh...

NIAID DNA vaccine for H5N1 avian influenza enters human trial

...to potential products," he adds. "Our accelerated effort to understand and find new solutions to pandemic influenza is part of the NIAID commitment to respond to new emerging infectious disease threats and to improve public health preparedness." Highly pathogenic avian influenza A viruses, specifically ...

Misclassified for centuries, medicinal leeches found to be 3 distinct species

...arch team. "However, it will also require a better effort to conserve these much-maligned animals, in a way that takes into account their impressive diversity." While Hirudo medicinalis was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2004, for use as a prescription medical device that help...

Gene elevating breast cancer risk also causes prostate cancer

...ations. The results of this international research effort were recently published in Nature. The research first involved comprehensive screening for genetic aberrations in 113 Finnish breast cancer families. The same constitutional mutation in PALB2 was observed in three families. It was later showed tha...

Saving endangered whales at no cost

...rs point out that the basic problem of huge excess effort in lobster fishing is characteristic of other aspe...and tuna longline industries that expend much more effort than needed to obtain optimal yields, while threatening turtles and non-targeted fish, including sha...

Autism gene identified by researchers at Yale working with a global research consortium

... Genome Project was also announced to continue the effort to discover the genes that cause the disorder. This second phase represents a $14.5 million, three-year investment by Autism Speaks, the British Medical Research Council, the Health Research Board of Ireland, Genome Canada and its partners, Canadian...

Cancer vaccines -- Taking a jab at cancer by stimulating the immune system

...ines for cancers that are not virally based, in an effort to coax the immune system into attacking cancerous cells. Today at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research, presentations on ongoing HPV trials and other new approaches to stimulating the immune system are injecting m...

Failure to meet United Nations sanitation target could affect millions of the world's poorest

... Millennium Development Goals initiative, a global effort by member nations "to meet the needs of the world's poorest." The target is based on data from 1990, when 20 percent of the global population lacked a safe source of drinking water and 45 percent had no access to sanitation facilities. Now, halfway t...

Gene expression test reveals ER and HER-2 status of breast tumors

...Lancet Oncology paper results are the latest in an effort by the research team to develop a single test to quickly and efficiently determine the characteristics and vulnerabilities of a patient's breast cancer and ultimately to guide treatment. About 70 percent of breast cancers are estrogen-receptor po...

Active ingredient in common Chinese herb shown to reduce hypertension

... fully understood, these results contribute to the effort to bring complementary and alternative medicine and allopathic care closer together in the treatment of hypertensive patients. ...

Largest genomic search finds genes that may contribute to autism

...tutions to share data, samples and expertise in an effort to speed up the process of identifying susceptibil...e Project also was announced today to continue the effort to discover the genes that cause the disorder. This $14.5 million phase is being funded by Autism S...

NIH announces phase III clinical trial of creatine for Parkinson's disease

... the phase III study for five to seven years. The effort will be led by Karl Kieburtz, M.D., M.P.H., of the University of Rochester in New York, and Barbara C. Tilley, Ph.D., of the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, and the patients will be seen by movement disorders specialists at the NE...

Chimpanzees found to use tools to hunt mammalian prey

...tly using them with jabbing motions in an apparent effort to obtain lesser bushbabies (Galago senegalensis) from cavities in hollow branches or tree trunks. Bushbabies are nocturnal prosimians that retire to such hidden cavities during the day. Although there was only one successful attempt in 22 recorde...

New culture method for hepatitis C virus uses primary hepatocytes and patient serum

...ssing interferon-beta, a cellular antiviral, in an effort to control the infection. This culture system provides a breakthrough in studying HCV replication in nontransformed hepatocytes, the natural target of the virus. By allowing infection by patient serum containing a wide array of virus strains, thi...

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