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No relief for Pacific Northwest drought

...cast for fire risk this spring and summer indicate huge forest and rangeland fire outbreaks in northeastern Oregon and southeastern Washington, and more isolated but severe fire potential in forests near Eugene, Roseburg, Bend and the Portland area in Oregon. Other severe fires are forecast for parts of ...

New Drugs For Bad Bugs: UF Approach Could Bolster Antibiotic Arsenal

...ments are getting longer and longer, and this is a huge dilemma with the recent discussion about Vioxx. That’s created some doubt in the approval procedure. I think we have to come to a reasonable expectation here in terms of the balance between benefits and potential harm. The worries I have right now ar...

GeneNotes - A novel information management software for biologists

...ologists. Biologists often feel overwhelmed by the huge amount of and the great diversity of distributed heterogeneous biological information. We developed a novel information management application called GeneNotes. GeneNotes is the first application that allows users to collect and manage multimedia bi...

Love's all in the brain: fMRI study shows strong, lateralized reward, not sex, drive

...nt concept is that the caudate probably integrates huge amounts of information, everything from early personal memories to one's personal notions of beauty. Then, this brain region (and related regions of the basal ganglia) helps to direct one's actions toward attaining one's goals. For neuroscientists," ...

Protein That Promotes Survival Of Stem Cells Might Be Key To Poor Leukemia Prognosis

...d multiply so they can complete the task of making huge numbers of blood cells. This process is extremely important during the initial development of the blood system before birth. Expression of Mc1-1 is also crucial for maintaining blood cells throughout life as red and white cells and platelets die and ...

Infants With Rare Genetic Disease Saved by Cord Blood Stem Cells

...mpared to those who receive adult bone marrow, and huge developmental milestones occur during that period of infancy, said Kurtzberg. The ease of obtaining cord blood also makes it an excellent source of stem cells, she said. Cord blood is readily available because it is extracted from discarded placenta...

Roche clinical trial registry and results database launched

...t Roche’s clinical trials? Roche expects that the huge task of publishing data from more than 30 medicines, on a product by product level from a large number of global and local trials, will take approximately a year. Roche will also continue to contribute information to established databases (i.e. www.c...

New tumor-suppressor gene discovered

...ew candidate genes within a very small part of one huge chromosome," Lai explains. The scientists narrowed...her mutant form of the mats gene--this time with a huge missing pie ce of genetic material caused by another transposable element jumping out and dragging l...

Decoding the logic of olfaction

... of Columbia University for their discovery of the huge family of odorant receptors and their previous work on the organization of the olfactory system. Whenever you inhale the aroma of vanilla, the neurons in your brain "light up" with a characteristic pattern of activity. It turns out that pattern is, ...

Genpathway and Baylor College of Medicine Identify New Genes in Breast Cancer

... of Columbia University for their discovery of the huge family of odorant receptors and their previous work on the organization of the olfactory system. Whenever you inhale the aroma of vanilla, the neurons in your brain "light up" with a characteristic pattern of activity. It turns out that pattern is, ...

Double triumph in stem cell quest

...," he assured them. Verlinsky's method would have huge advantages if it really does work. Obtaining the large numbers of fresh human eggs needed for therapeutic cloning is not possible for legal reasons in many countries and is very expensive in countries where it is legal, such as the US. By contrast, t...

Are rice and wheat behind China's population boom?

...and wheat, helps explain the foundation of China's huge population today." ...

Grizzlies set to invade high Arctic?

The telltale paw prints with huge 10 centimetre-long nails spoke volumes. But now definitive corroborating DNA evidence seals the case of the most northerly sighting of a grizzly bear. The discovery fuels mounting evidence that Canada's High Arctic is no longer the sole preserve of t...

New project aims to make large-scale lobster farms feasible

...cinating habits such as their tendency to crawl in huge single-file lines when crossing open areas between island coasts and reefs, will be the focus of the next Harbor Branch Ocean Science Lecture Series event, on March 9. "Spiny lobsters are one of the most highly-prized fisheries species in the world,...

Road salt affects mitigation wetlands

...t good for the environment, but salting roads is a huge safety issue in a part of the country that gets 10 to 12 feet of snow every winter." Silver's research does show a large decrease in non-biting midges in the designated runoff wetland. The effect on other species is not yet known. There was no decre...

Infants with Rare Genetic Disease Saved By Cord Blood Stem Cells

...mpared to those who receive adult bone marrow, and huge developmental milestones occur during that period of infancy, said Kurtzberg. The ease of obtaining cord blood also makes it an excellent source of stem cells, she said. Cord blood is readily available because it is extracted from discarded placenta...

Innovative collaboration brings Arctic science into the classroom

...developed with the community of Zhigansk is paying huge dividends scientifically, and it also helping us to get our science to the public." Holmes envisions a network of schools in the Russian, Canadian, and Alaskan Arctic, participating in an international research effort and at the same time learning ab...

Nature provides inspiration for important new adhesive

...s," Li said. "It appears our adhesives will have a huge impact in the creation of improved wood products that work better and are safe in the environment." The new adhesive should improve both work and living environments, and enhance the global competitiveness of U.S. companies, researchers say. They ca...

Next Generation Body Scanner Launched By The University Of Manchester

...r and mental illness. Of course, this will be of huge benefit to patients suffering from these severe medical conditions and will also ensure that The University of Manchester remains at the forefront of worldwide medical research," he added. As well as offering higher quality images, the quick scannin...

An (ecological) origin of species for tropical reef fish

...ome new species. What explains the evolution of a huge number of closely related fish species on reefs in an open undersea world where currents constantly stir the waters, washing in fish or their larvae from afar, a world without well-defined geographical barriers? Rocha et al. took a close look at the ...

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