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Scientists find method to pick noncompetitive animals, improve production

...h to animal well-being and to securing the world's future food supply, including possibly permitting more an...ions developed in the past and will develop in the future between individuals and among various animal species. "This is important because the most stable ...

The price of vanity: Mating with showy males may reduce offspring's ability to fight off pathogens

... that, in fish, choosing a flashier mate may cause future generations to be more susceptible to pathogens. In the January 2007 issue of The American Naturalist, a new study by Judith Mank (Uppsala University, Sweden) finds that mating with males who possess showy traits ?such as bright colors or long tail...

Cartilage discovery offers arthritis hope

... basic scientific facts that could prove useful in future studies on osteoarthritis and related conditions." The next stage of the team's work will be to determine the structure of the thicker fibrils and examine how collagen cells manage to produce these relatively large fibrous structures which are 1,00...

Scripps research study reveals structural dynamics of single prion molecules

...e monomers and not aggregates. Deniz said that future work with yeast prion mutants might resolve some of the questions that remain unanswered. "Our laboratory has spent a great deal of time in improving these techniques, and we have used them to uncover some very intriguing information about this parti...

Large size crucial for Amazon forest reserves

...nization processes permit prediction of effects of future fragmentation on bird communities in these Amazon landscapes. Area is important because the forest is spatially diverse. "What might look like a vast mantle of homogeneous green is actually a multicolored mosaic", said Lovejoy. And species that oc...

Breakthrough in understanding type-2 diabetes as key genes identified

...therapies for those affected and to try to prevent future cases," he added. ...

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

...ustry meet its challenges and ensure a more stable future for forest-based communities and economies. Canada is the world's largest exporter of forest products, with about one third of Canada's potential harvest coming from British Columbia. Canada has 10 percent of the world's forests, including 30 per...

Carnegie Mellon University research shows how sensory-deprived brain compensates

...nal of Neuroscience, the results should help shape future studies of sensory deprivation that results from s...that our well-designed model is extremely good for future in-depth studies of brain plasticity in response to changes in how an animal senses its environment....

Warming oceans threaten Antarctic glaciers

...fied four Antarctic glaciers that pose a threat to future sea levels using satellite observations, according...anges within the ice sheets that will govern their future sea level contribution."...

Researchers first to map gene that regulates adult stem cell growth

...ant because of its usefulness in a wide variety of future genetics studies. "We're thinking about cancer in a big way," Van Zant said. "This is a great example of translational research ?from the most basic type of genetic research all the way to possible treatments for patients." One big obstacle che...

Scientists to track impact of Asian dust and pollution on clouds, weather, climate change

...es Medical Institute. "This mouse model and its future variants mark the first use of genetically produce...ens up whole new avenues for study. We may reach a future where brain injuries, spinal cord damage, neuron loss in Alzheimer’s disease, or even depression are...

Common algae helps illustrate mammalian brain electrical circuitry

...es Medical Institute. "This mouse model and its future variants mark the first use of genetically produce...ens up whole new avenues for study. We may reach a future where brain injuries, spinal cord damage, neuron loss in Alzheimer’s disease, or even depression are...

QUT scientists on the way to sifting out a cure for HIV

...tively easily and cheaply." But Dr Zhu said the future of nano-mesh relied on attracting an industry partner interested in developing the technology into a commercial product. "We have proven the technology works, so the initial research has been done," he said. "We now need a partner to come on bo...

Ethanol vehicles pose a significant risk to human health, study finds

...puter to run air quality simulations comparing two future scenarios: A vehicle fleet (that is, all cars, trucks, motorcycles, etc., in the United States) fueled by gasoline, versus A fleet powered by E85, a popular blend of 85 percent ethanol and 15 percent gasoline. Deaths and hospitalizations ...

Amur leopard still on the brink of extinction, scientists say

...to 34 are left in the wild, renewing fears for the future of the species. In February and March, World Wildlife Fund along with the Wildlife Conservation Society and the Pacific Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Science, conducted a routine snow-track census of leopard numbers. "The recen...

Researchers hot on the trail of brain cell degeneration

...ing cell degeneration. It is more than likely that future research will uncover more such factors interacting with each other. Investigating these will benefit new forms of treatment and advance research that aims to alleviate symptoms. The researchers behind the study hope that the results can be used in p...

Eating less salt could prevent cardiovascular disease

... of salt in the diet reduces the long term risk of future cardiovascular disease, say the authors of the report. Researchers followed up participants from two trials completed in the nineties which had been conducted to analyse the effect that reducing salt in the diet had on blood pressure. All t...

Swell gel could bring relief to back pain sufferers

...ent for chronic lower back pain." He added that future work will investigate biodegradable microgels that release additives to stimulate regeneration of intervertebral disc tissue. ...

Freeze! Scientists film proteins at work by freezing them at different states

...mimetics is an exciting possibility for developing future drugs. In order to produce the film, the team used the ESRF-IBS “Cryobench?laboratory to freeze the protein in three different states while the reaction took place. In order to make sure that they “trapped?the right intermediate states, the resear...

Lab research may one day lead to cancer treatment using patient's own immune cells

...d obtain the T cells for this form of therapy. In future use with humans, the cells would be grown in the cell processing facility located in the Iris S. and Bert L. Wolstein Research Building, which opened in 2003. The activated T cells would be reinfused into the bloodstream of the same patient to train...

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