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

... the global tide of over fishing, says a fisheries expert based at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Daniel Pauly says the crisis in the world's fisheries is less about scientific proof than about attitude and political will. And, he says, the world's fish need a dynamic, high-profile political cham...

First wolverine radio-collared in Pacific Northwest

...lverine had just been captured. Aubry, a carnivore expert and research wildlife biologist at the U.S. Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station in Olympia, Wash., and Jeff Copeland, a wolverine researcher with the Rocky Mountain Research Station in Missoula, Mont., rushed to the Methow Valley to fit...

'Uniquely human' component of language found in gregarious birds

...se starlings ?long known as virtuoso songbirds and expert mimics ?can be trained to reliably discriminate be...erceptual learning. Gentner, a neuropsychologist, expert on starlings and, at the time, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Chicago, was an essential ...

New Rotavirus vaccine joins routine infant immunization schedule

...ory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), an expert panel selected by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, added the new RotaTeq vaccine, manufactured by Merck & Co., Inc., to its list of routinely recommended childhood immunizations. Today's decision follows the vaccine's approval fo...

New male contraceptive clears hurdle

...ed a temporary suspension of the project. However, expert panels subsequently concluded that the major side effect -- several weeks of non-painful scrotal swelling in about a third of the subjects --was not enough to stop the study. Additional Safety Tests Since 2002, researchers have conducted several ...

Picking particles faster than one at a time

... "It's hard to find good candidates even with an expert eye," says Adiga. "Having to choose hundreds of th...monstrated goal of selecting the same particles an expert would select with a low error rate, future refinement of the segmentation algorithm aims higher. By ...

Johns Hopkins flu expert calls for mandatory vaccination of health care workers

...ns Hopkins' senior hospital epidemiologist and flu expert is calling for mandatory vaccination of all health care workers as the best means of protecting patients and hospital staff from widespread outbreaks of the viral illness. Studies by other United States researchers show that voluntary vaccination pr...

The bioweapon is in the post

...ly examine any matches that crop up. The need for expert human checks may be one factor deterring some companies from screening orders. Others like to reassure customers who may be worried about commercial confidentiality that their sequence data will remain secret. But whatever the reasons, some firms fre...

Scientists learn to predict protein-stabilizing ability of small molecules

...igh-tech treatment. David I. Lee, M.D., a national expert in robotic surgery, was recruited to Penn and named Chief of the Division of Urology at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, where the robotic prostate program is based. There are many factors that make robotics an except...

Penn Surgeons Use Completely Robotic Surgery to Successfully Treat Prostate Cancer

...igh-tech treatment. David I. Lee, M.D., a national expert in robotic surgery, was recruited to Penn and named Chief of the Division of Urology at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, where the robotic prostate program is based. There are many factors that make robotics an except...

Novel protein complex enables survival in hostile environment

...f microbiology at the University of Georgia and an expert in microbial diversity and the evolutionary relationships of prokaryotes, said: "This original work provides important insights into the evolution of the methanogens. These organisms have often been thought to be very limited in their metabolic capab...

Deep treasure to be found in Oculina Bank

...ersibles in 1975. John Reed, a Harbor Branch coral expert and expedition co-principal investigator, nominated the Oculina reefs to for protection in 1981. In 1984, NOAA approved the the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council's (SAFMC) designation of 92 square miles of the Oculina reefs as a coral Habi...

New class of antibiotics effective against drug-resistant bacteria discovered in fungi

...robiologist John Stolz of Duquesne University, and expert on bacteria that transform arsenic. Schreiber and Stolz are looking at bacteria present in the litter and soil and the conditions under which biotransformation occurs. Schreiber will deliver her paper, "Arsenic cycling in agricultural watersheds: Th...

Geoscientists follow arsenic from chicken feed to streambeds

...robiologist John Stolz of Duquesne University, and expert on bacteria that transform arsenic. Schreiber and Stolz are looking at bacteria present in the litter and soil and the conditions under which biotransformation occurs. Schreiber will deliver her paper, "Arsenic cycling in agricultural watersheds: Th...

Give thanks for the cranberry, say dental researchers

...ist, Koo became fascinated with research and is an expert on natural substances that can improve oral health. Currently, as an assistant professor in the Eastman Department of Dentistry and a researcher in the Center for Oral Biology, he is focusing on ways to stop the bacteria that ultimately causes caviti...

Life in deadly conditions

...play a role in its functioning. The bioinformatics expert Michaela Falb and biochemist J?Tittor thus designed additional experimental studies which showed that Natronomonas pharaonis does indeed have a functioning respiratory chain, which amazingly, and in contrast to other organisms that grow in alkaline c...

New amphibian species result from exploration, not from rule changes

...iences, indicates that, contrary to some published expert opinions, new amphibian discoveries are a consequence of increasing exploratory effort, not of changing criteria for recognizing a species, or "taxonomic inflation." The authors of the new analysis, Jörn Köhler of the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstad...

Biotech cotton 8: Bugs 0

...entomology, a member of UA's BIO5 Institute and an expert in insect resistance to insecticides. "We found no net increase in insect resistance to Bt. If anything, resistance decreased. This is the opposite of what experts predicted when these crops were first commercialized." He added, "I'm definitely surp...

Plant wounds trigger bacteria

...urr, a plant pathology professor at Cornell and an expert on crown gall disease. "This is really the cutting-edge research on the biology of the pathogen, so now we can think about how to develop novel controls for gall tumors." ...

Chernobyl: The true scale of the accident

...ists, according to Dr Mikhail Balonov, a radiation expert with the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna, who was a scientist in the former Soviet Union at the time of the accident. As for environmental impact, the reports are also reassuring, for the scientific assessments show that, except for the...

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