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

...eeches in 19th-century Europe grew so intense that efforts to protect them led to the some of the earliest legislative efforts at biological conservation. Leeches are still afforded protection by the World Conservation Union...

Gene elevating breast cancer risk also causes prostate cancer

...east cancer risk and result in improved prevention efforts and treatment. About a year ago, Dr Bing Xia and Professor David Livingston at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston identified a novel BRCA2 binding factor, PALB2 that regulates certain key functions of normal BRCA2 activity. The next step was...

New sucker-footed bat discovered in Madagascar

...lead author of the study. "We can put conservation efforts on behalf of this bat on the backburner because it is able to live in areas that have been completely degraded, contrary to what is indicated or inferred in the current literature." This underlines the importance of basic scientific research for es...

Shedding new light on proteorhodopsin

...ion represents a potentially significant boost for efforts to develop alternatives to fossil fuel energy sources. Microbes that can simultaneously harvest energy from several different sources may be better at producing biofuels than microbes that can only utilize a single energy source. The results of t...

ESA launches new project to protect biodiversity

...ill make a contribution to the required monitoring efforts that will help us to determine whether we are making progress and which management and policy measures are most effective and thereby support decision-making," the UNCBD Secretariat Robert Höft said. DIVERSITY project services and products are be...

Researcher to study astronaut bone loss for space biology agency

... excited and honored to contribute to our nation's efforts to safely explore space, the moon, and Mars." ...

Scientists sequence genome of parasite responsible for common sexually transmitted infection

...site that causes trichomoniasis, we can target our efforts to developing the most effective medicines to treat the infection and potentially create a way to prevent infection altogether," says NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. Trichomoniasis is a sexually transmitted infection that affects both men an...

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

...are continuing to make progress. While HPV vaccine efforts had the "benefit" of a viral source for the disease, other researchers are developing vaccines 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 Ame...

World's largest flower evolved from family of much tinier blooms

...icult to compare to more conventional plants. Most efforts to place plants in the botanical tree of life in the past 25 years have tracked ancestry using molecular markers in genes governing photosynthesis. Rafflesia is a non-photosynthetic parasite, and those genes have apparently been abandoned, meaning th...

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

...ross domestic product of $4,500, is lagging in its efforts to expand access to sanitation services and is expected to miss the 2015 target. Despite the challenges, Davis said that it is still possible to meet both Target 10 goals, because in recent years new actors, such the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundat...

What recognizes what in plant disease resistance?

...pathogen Avr proteins and should help in long-term efforts to enhance crop yield. ...

Large size crucial for Amazon forest reserves

...m the importance of this action and other, similar efforts to conserve forested regions. ...

Canada's new government invests $200M in the fight against the mountain pine beetle

...nsequences of the beetle infestation and assist in efforts to slow the infestation's eastward spread. "This outbreak is a major threat to the economy and the communities of British Columbia," said the Honourable Gary Lunn, Minister of Natural Resources. "With this program, we'll be working with the Province...

A case of mistaken identity for the ivory-billed woodpecker?

... video published in Science catalysed conservation efforts in SE USA's bottomland swamp forests, which face continuing development. Furthermore, it spurred renewed efforts, in Florida and elsewhere, to find the Ivory-billed Woodpecker and determine its status in the USA....

New research shows that flu is a trigger of heart attacks

... in coronary deaths. This calls for more intensive efforts to increase the vaccination rate in people at risk of coronary heart disease. This may be especially important in an influenza pandemic when we would expect to see high mortality amongst the elderly and those suffering from heart problems or who have...

Researchers uncover protection mechanism of radiation-resistant bacterium

...of radiation therapy; and may prove significant in efforts to contain toxic runoff from radioactive Cold War waste sites. Fifty years ago, scientists discovered D. radiodurans, leading to speculation that the incredible degree of resistance exhibited by the bacteria has to do with its mechanism of DNA rep...

New bird, bat species revealed by extensive DNA barcode studies

...uncil was formed. Von Borstel’s principal research efforts were on the causes of spontaneous mutations and how genes repair themselves. He remained at the university past his mandatory retirement in 1992, continuing research for another 10 years. It was during his "retirement" years that he discovered how...

Cancer that colonizes our bodies

...uncil was formed. Von Borstel’s principal research efforts were on the causes of spontaneous mutations and how genes repair themselves. He remained at the university past his mandatory retirement in 1992, continuing research for another 10 years. It was during his "retirement" years that he discovered how...

Scientists unlock mystery of embryonic stem cell signaling pathway

...ts who have recently joined the stem-cell research efforts at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California. Their findings are being published today in an early online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. This discovery takes scientists another step closer ...

Uganda's mountain gorillas increase in number

...rsisting as well, thanks to sustained conservation efforts by the guards and staff members within that landscape. The current total of mountain gorillas at both locations brings the worldwide tally to approximately 720 individual animals....

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