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Leptin-signaling Protein Maintains Normal Body Weight And Energy Balance In Mice

...ently so sparsely developed that an estimated 260% expansion in fish production from aquaculture there is needed by 2020 to maintain per capita consumption levels. Fish and HIV/AIDS in Africa The WorldFish Center says small fish farms require little financial investment, physical strength or education ?a l...

MicroRNA tweaks protein that controls early heart development

...f embryonic development to allow proliferation and expansion of a pool of muscle progenitor cells that can even...r regulator, and in its absence, you don't get any expansion of the heart ventricle at all. The finding that this microRNA controls Hand2, and probably several o...

Old drug, new tricks: Prospects for slashing the impact of malaria

...diseases. The project funding allows significant expansion of joint activities and research among the collaborating institutions. Successful completion of the trial is likely to help inform global health policy in combating this most serious disease of humanity. ...

Genomatix, AAAS ink agreement

... level. "The STKE database is a great synergistic expansion to our BiblioSPherePE knowledge base. Following our strategy to only include highest quality data backed by well known scientific authorities, I couldn't think of any better source than STKE published by AAAS along with the leading scientific weekly,...

Optimizing cell therapy against tumors is a balancing ACT

...ic strategy for ACT is to keep the in vitro T cell expansion phase as short as possible to keep them naïve. These findings are important for development of improved adoptive immunotherapy approaches for treating tumors and established infectious diseases. TITLE: Acquisition of full effector function in vitro ...

New amphibian species result from exploration, not from rule changes

...c and genetic tools, and urge the continuation and expansion of efforts to identify further examples. They acknowledge, however, that taxonomic inflation might explain the growing number of species in some other animal groups, such as primates and birds. The complete list of research articles in the August is...

2005 AIDS figures released by WHO and UNAIDS

...igns of increased condom use among sex workers and expansion of voluntary HIV testing and counselling. Despite decreases in the rate of infection in certain countries, the overall number of people living with HIV has continued to increase in all regions of the world except the Caribbean. There were an additio...

Earliest European Farmers Left Little Genetic Mark On Modern Europe

...igns of increased condom use among sex workers and expansion of voluntary HIV testing and counselling. Despite decreases in the rate of infection in certain countries, the overall number of people living with HIV has continued to increase in all regions of the world except the Caribbean. There were an additio...

Same-sex mating by fungi spawned infection outbreak, evidence suggests

...hat sex played an important role in the pathogen's expansion may provide a useful model for the evolution of infectious diseases and parasites more generally, they said. The team reported its findings October 9, 2005, in an advanced online publication of Nature. The work was supported by the National Institut...

PET imaging reveals the immune system at work

...gues, can now be applied to "visualize immune cell expansion and activation (and) can be used for the evaluation and development of immunotherapies for cancer and other diseases," he said. One intriguing possibility, according to Witte, is that these techniques could be turned to the study of autoimmune disea...

Jefferson biologist coaxing human embryonic stem cells to make dopamine with simpler, faster method

...gues, can now be applied to "visualize immune cell expansion and activation (and) can be used for the evaluation and development of immunotherapies for cancer and other diseases," he said. One intriguing possibility, according to Witte, is that these techniques could be turned to the study of autoimmune disea...

Bones from blood: Scientists aim to break new ground on fractures

...link the scientific questions of MSC isolation and expansion to the wider environment and define potential barriers and areas of weakness in their use. They will consider questions such as safety and standards, commercial viability, potential investment, consensus amongst scientists and clinical distribution. ...

HIV/AIDS rates in Tijuana, Mexico increasing at alarming rate

...Health officials in Mexico and the U.S. agree that expansion of free and voluntary HIV screening and counseling are needed. "Other studies by this team reveal that only half of female sex workers and one third of injection drug users in Tijuana have ever had an HIV test," said Carlos Magis-Rodriguez, M.D., M....

There's something fishy about human brain evolution

...of language and tool making to explain the massive expansion of early hominid brains. But this is a Catch-22. Something had to start the process of brain expansion and I think it was early humans eating clams, frogs, bird eggs and fish from shoreline environments....

Powerful technique for multiplying adult stem cells may aid therapies

...d a way to multiply an adult stem cell 30-fold, an expansion that offers tremendous promise for treatments such as bone marrow transplants and perhaps even gene therapy. "A 30-fold increase is ten times higher than anyone's achieved before," says Lodish, senior author on the paper, which will be publis...

The Amazon in 2050: Implementing the law could save a million square kilometers of rainforest

...nvironmental communities, work to control frontier expansion and insure the ecological integrity of the basin. ... original forest would remain in 2050. The future expansion of deforestation will not affect all forests and watersheds equally. The dry forest formation of Mat...

Report finds cruise industry is protecting the precious places it visits

...roups and shore operators to manage the growth and expansion of the cruise industry into sensitive ecosystems. The report also profiles leadership examples of how these stakeholders are taking tangible steps to ensure a sustainable future for cruise tourism, while maintaining the natural and cultural integrity...

New analysis shows three human migrations out of Africa

...hers thought had occurred.The new data confirm an expansion out of Africa to 700,000 years ago that was detect...at 700,000 years ago as well as the adaptation and expansion of a new stone tool culture first found in Africa and later at 700,000 years expanded throughout Eur...

Exotic crab poised for widespread UK invasion

...ng invasion of the UK is similar to the population expansion in Europe earlier in the last century when the Continent experienced a major outbreak. The study authors predict that the mitten crab - so called because its claws are coated with small clumps of dark brown fur, or mittens - has the potential to e...

A new look at the state of the oceans

...This not only facilitates the fast development and expansion of the data base, but also leads to a high diversity of data entries with varied geographic origin through contributions from across the globe. This large geographic scope is of great importance for plankton research and is currently a unique feature...

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