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Hope for major advance in fighting world killer disease

...In the developing world it is not possible on cost grounds to give antibiotics to every child with diarrhoea, and in any case antibiotics would not work in every case. The Leicester test includes the facility to determine antibiotic resistance profiles quickly so that the correct antibiotics can be used. ...

End of deforestation in view? Experts advance new way to size up global forest resources

...mplacency would be misplaced, our insights provide grounds for optimism about the prospects for returning forests."...

Bats prey on nocturnally migrating songbirds

...and offspring migrate then towards their wintering grounds in Africa, whereas in spring only birds having survived winter mortality return to their breeding area. In addition, young birds in autumn may represent naïve, inexperienced, i.e. more vulnerable prey. The ability of giant noctules to prey on the...

Antifungal drug kills TB bug

...evelop and these regions have become huge breeding grounds for these ‘super strains?" Funded by the EU’s NM4TB (new medicines for tuberculosis) project, the Manchester team set about trying to find alternative drugs that could be used to treat these multi-drug resistant varieties of TB, known as MDR-TB. ...

Tracking sperm whales and jumbo squid

...d had to have moved from the Santa Rosalia fishing grounds right through the area where the whales were patrolling," he said. As for diving behavior, the majority (91 percent) of sperm whale dives recorded during the study ranged from 300 to 1,600 feet below sea level and were 15 to 30 minutes in duration...

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