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Restoring seagrass beds: Is it for the birds?

.... John Dindo will be setting out bird stakes in an effort to revive scarred grassbeds around the popular recreational spot of Robinson Island in Orange Beach, Alabama. Robinson Island is a favored spot in the summer, with constant boat traffic in its shallow waters. Its underwater shoal grassbeds, however...

World Trade Center identifications pushed forensic DNA technology

...rse than a laboratory not ready for the monumental effort of identifying the victims of this disaster were t...on Sept. 11 were identified, but the best possible effort given the circumstances and the level of technology at the time produced all the identifications tha...

Confidence in memory performance helps older adults remember

...er information, the more likely you will be to use effort and adaptive strategies and to allocate resources ...ress, anxiety, and giving up without expending the effort or strategies needed to support memory." In fact, even young people have problems with memory perfo...

Genetically engineered mosquitoes show resistance to dengue fever virus

...onal Institutes of Health to lead an international effort to develop new methods to control the transmission of dengue fever. The project is among 43 groundbreaking research projects to improve health in developing countries, supported by $436 million for the Grand Challenges in Global Health Initiative, la...

Bone and cartilage growth to blame for heart valve disease

...generation, furthering a Northwestern researcher's effort to lead a paradigm shift in the medical community's beliefs about the cause of valve disease. Heart valve disease is caused not by a 'wear and tear' phenomenon, but by an inflammatory process likely triggered by high cholesterol that stimulates cert...

Scientists re-engineer a well-known antibiotic to counter drug resistance

...iotic has been under scrutiny. This re-engineering effort could help make the drug more effective in treating infections produced by vancomycin resistance enterococci (VRE), a serious and growing problem in the nation's hospitals. While several antibiotics target a bacterium's cell wall, vancomycin binds ...

Two NIH initiatives launch intensive efforts to find roots of common diseases

...l Institutes of Health (NIH) for a multi-institute effort to identify the genetic and environmental underpin...Genes and Environment Initiative (GEI), a research effort at NIH to combine a type of genetic analysis and environmental technology development to understand ...

Does father know best?

...esults for men with low paternity confidence in an effort to determine how perceptions of fatherhood correlate to fact. He found that, overall, men who were confident about their fatherhood going into the test were only wrong 1.7 percent of the time, that is, they were indeed the child's father more than 98...

Supersized 'island' of resistance genes discovered in an infectious bacterium

...aid. "This work will guide a future international effort on identifying all major A. baumannii resistant strains throughout the world, and help follow the emergence of new strains and understand their mode of evolution." ...

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

...r infecting humans. The United States, in a recent effort to reduce American levels of Campylobacter drug resistance, has taken a cue from other countries' success. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration proposed banning fluoroquinolones in poultry in 2000, but one drugmaker fought the ban until it was final...

NHGRI announces new sequencing targets

...on types of structural variation in human DNA. The effort will use 48 human DNA samples donated for the rece...nvolved in human disease. The structural variation effort will seek to identify instances where larger segments of DNA have been deleted, duplicated or rearra...

U-M scientists identify major psoriasis susceptibility gene

...soriasis study so far. It has been a collaborative effort involving physicians, scientists and patients from dermatology departments at many institutions ?including the U-M, the University of Kiel in Germany, Detroit's Henry Ford Hospital, and the Ann Arbor VA Healthcare System." ...

On a fly's wing, scientists tally evolution's winners and losses

...ge of Medicine researcher who participated in this effort reported in today's issue of the journal Nature. ...ime dealing with that portion of the genome in his effort to identify gene mutations that result in disease. They sought his expertise on the chromosome. Chr...

Mouse to man: The story of chromosomes

...ge of Medicine researcher who participated in this effort reported in today's issue of the journal Nature. ...ime dealing with that portion of the genome in his effort to identify gene mutations that result in disease. They sought his expertise on the chromosome. Chr...

UC San Diego partners with Venter Institute to build marine microbial genomics cyberinfrastructure

... comprising thousands of species. The largest such effort is Venter Institute's Sorcerer II Expedition, for which sequencing is funded by the Moore Foundation. The Expedition is developing the first large-scale genomic survey of microbial life in the world's oceans to produce the largest gene catalogue ever...

Growing crops to cope with climate change

...nts a huge challenge for the world. Although every effort must be concentrated on reducing the impact of human activity on the environment, science should also be answering questions about how we can live in an altered climate. Research such as this helps to present answers to some of these problems." ...

New nano-canary in the nanotoxicology coalmine: The body itself

...nd where they go ?is part of a large collaborative effort funded by NIH, DOE and private industry. This res... component of this multi-institution collaborative effort is a $10 million, 5-year Bioengineering Research Partnership, BRP, funded by the National Heart Lung...

Bringing the zoos to the zebras

...f Princeton University reported on this pioneering effort at the annual meeting of the American Association ... our close collaboration with zoo personnel in the effort to improve awareness and management of life on Earth." As part of WildCare Institute's involvement ...

Hooked on fishing, and we're heading for the bottom, says scientist

...Nature. "We're in a phase where increasing fishing effort produces less catch." While global catches peaked in the late 1980s, the peak occurred earlier in those parts of the world where industrial fishing developed first. Thus, peak fish occurred in the mid-1970s in the North Atlantic, exploited by Europe...

First wolverine radio-collared in Pacific Northwest

...cking. "What we learn about wolverines from this effort will help us determine the species' status and management needs," said Rohrer, who is the project field coordinator for the Methow Valley Ranger District in Winthrop. The capture is the culmination of several years of survey work in north-central Wa...

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