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Proposal would allow wild animals to roam North America

...iously, gaining public acceptance is going to be a huge issue, especially when you talk about reintroducing predators," said the paper's lead author, Josh Donlan, a graduate student in Cornell's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, pointing to the controversy that raged when wolves were reintro...

UF researchers kill resistant bugs one bandage at a time

...ille-based company to develop the coating. "It's a huge problem there." A patent is pending on the researchers' method of chemically bonding the substance to fabrics and other materials. This method allows the substance to be efficiently mass produced and permanently adhered to wound dressings or ready-t...

AACR Favors 'full spectrum of stem cell research biology'

... question on everyone's mind was, 'why wasn't this huge medical breakthrough made by Americans?' "Sadly," he continued, "American stem cell biology suffers from a small and unsteady flow of graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and early-career faculty. No scientific discipline can grow without the co...

Modification of program enables prediction of gene transcription

...side right near the transcription site. There is a huge amount of biology to be discovered there, and the appreciation of this area is growing daily." While genomics researchers 15 years ago paid little attention to parts of the genome outside the coding regions, they have discovered some strange functio...

Clear rules needed to govern deep sea bioprospecting: UNU

...n Earth. "Deep sea ecosystems hold the promise of huge potential contributions to future human well-being, provide our planet with vital climate-related and other ecological services, and have much to teach us about life processes," says UNU-IAS Director A.H. Zakri. "The unfettered and unregulated explo...

A Father’s Day Gift: Free DNA Paternity Testing

...n Earth. "Deep sea ecosystems hold the promise of huge potential contributions to future human well-being, provide our planet with vital climate-related and other ecological services, and have much to teach us about life processes," says UNU-IAS Director A.H. Zakri. "The unfettered and unregulated explo...

Researchers discover how tumor suppressor gene works

...down the enzymes, p16 keeps them from activating a huge complex of proteins, which, when active, attaches to chromosomes and turns on many genes that promote cell growth. The p16 gene works by producing a protein that attaches to the enzymes, preventing them from performing their function. When the resea...

Gaining ground in the race against antibiotic resistance

...new antibiotics and treatments for infections is a huge challenge because bacteria evolve quickly to evade...a has increased its range of resistance. This is a huge concern in the clinic." To date, there are no known inhibitors of metallo-alpha-lactamases, but dir...

Carnegie Mellon cyLab researchers work to develop new red tide monitoring

...o-investigator for this project. "In fact, a huge, huge problem for us is trying to validate any algorithm for the harmful algae. Evaluating the imagery is very time-consuming." Stumpf said he is collaborating with Carnegie Mellon researchers to devise a way to simply convert harmful algae data into an i...

Study uncovers dirty little secret: Soil emissions are much-bigger-than-expected component of air pollution

Nitrogen oxides produced by huge fires and fossil fuel combustion are a major component of air pollution. They are the primary ingredients in ground-level ozone, a pollutant harmful to human health and vegetation. But new research led by a University of Washington atmospheric scien...

UCSD discovery may provide novel method to generate medically useful proteins

...ast two completely different methods to generate a huge amount of protein variability, and it opens up a whole new platform for protein development." Other contributors to the paper were Jeffrey Lawton, Department of Chemistry, Eastern University; Donald Kerkow, The Scripps Research Institute; Marc Marti...

New technique could alter field of mouse genetics

...ling ensures that the immune system can generate a huge assortment of protective antibodies. Bacteria use the mechanism to swap antibiotic-resistance genes among themselves. And scientists have "borrowed" and adapted the same handy technique to insert genes and mutate genes in fruit flies and simpler orga...

Whisky fans can drink to crop research

...r plant genetic studies to analyse a crop that has huge economic importance. We expect to be able to identify the genes that could lead to improvements in the quality of barley that will be of interest to growers, producers and drinkers." The research will help to contribute to the Scottish agricultural ...

India's smoking gun: Dino-killing eruptions

...(55 lbs) were obliterated. The Deccan Traps are a huge pile of basaltic lava extending over more than 500,000 square kilometers. Its original volume likely exceeded 2 to 3 million cubic kilometers, says Chenet. The entire volcanic episode that created the traps took place over about one million years. Th...

New partnership to clear landmines for African Elephants

...cent decades will be cleared of landmines to allow huge elephant herds to resume their normal spread in southern Africa, Roots of Peace (RoP) and Conservation International (CI) announced today. The U.S.-based non-profit organizations are partners in a project to remove landmines sown during Angola's 26-...

New technology shows our ancestors ate…everything!

...ches to analyzing teeth," said Teaford. "So it's a huge step to have a reliable technology that detects subtler diet variations." A team of scientists from the University of Arkansas and Worcester Polytechnic Institute developed the software, called "scale-sensitive fractal analysis," to analyze fossiliz...

Female butterflies go for sparkle -- not size -- when choosing to mate

...iological sciences. "We always think of something huge or ornamental as determining sexual choice," noted Kendra Robertson, co-author, who recently received her master's degree from the Department of Biological Sciences in the UB College of Arts and Sciences. In a series of carefully controlled tests on...

Cracking the perception code

... interpreted by perceptual areas of the brain is a huge challenge in neurophysiology, one that's often overlooked, said Romo. "The neuronal correlates reported in most of the neurophysiological studies in the different sensory modalities simply do not pay attention to this," he noted. "They assume that v...

PLoS Medicine publishes first trial of effect of male circumcision on HIV infection

...ternational AIDS conference in July, has attracted huge attention among the global health community. Bertran Auvert and his co-authors have called for the promotion of male circumcision as part of AIDS prevention efforts in Orange Farm and in other parts of Africa. However, other HIV experts take a mor...

Restaurant seafood prices since 1850s help plot marine harvests through history

...me a flourishing industry. A fish soup produced in huge open-air boileries was consumed in such large quantities by the Romans that they significantly reduced fish stocks in the Mediterranean; * How 600 year-old Queen Conch shells from the Caribbean Sea reveal the decline in average size and age at ha...

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