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Chernobyl: The true scale of the accident

... of power from Chernobyl. The costs have created a huge drain on the budgets of the three countries involved. What were the main consequences for the local economy? Agriculture was hardest hit, with 784,320 hectares taken from production. Timber production was halted in 694,200 hectares of forest. Remed...

Seafloor creatures destroyed by ice action during ice ages

...ing animals further down the continental slope, as huge sediment slides would have buried them. Typically these ecosystems would have been made up of sponges, urchins, sea fan corals, and starfish. Dr Thatje said: 'We show that during ice ages seafloor organisms emigrated to the deep sea - below the effe...

Gene therapy may protect normal tissues during radiation retreatment for lung cancer

...ing animals further down the continental slope, as huge sediment slides would have buried them. Typically these ecosystems would have been made up of sponges, urchins, sea fan corals, and starfish. Dr Thatje said: 'We show that during ice ages seafloor organisms emigrated to the deep sea - below the effe...

Study uncovers placental microtransfusions lead to transmission of AIDS virus during childbirth

...n to their infants sometime during childbirth is a huge international problem, studies have shown. Between 25 percent and 35 percent of babies born to untreated HIV-infected mothers become infected themselves. That's a half million newborn worldwide every year facing chronic illness and premature death o...

Researchers: Treated wood poses long-term threat

... be relatively concerned about ?how to manage this huge stock of CCA wood that remains to be disposed of," said Tim Townsend, a UF associate professor of environmental engineering. Earlier studies on the arsenic leaching problem prompted the wood products industry to phase out CCA-products for residentia...

Stroke treatment a step closer after trial

...ff being available to patients, it is definitely a huge step in the right direction." ...

Ancient trans-Atlantic swarm brought locusts to the New World

...brethren died and landed in the ocean, they formed huge floating mats of dead locusts," says Lovejoy. "The other locusts would land on these mats, rest and feed on the dead bodies, then take off and keep flying." Another possibility is that among the millions of swarming locusts were a few exceptional ins...

Zooming in on the protein-conducting channel

... electron microscope. “What we have achieved is a huge jump in resolution of this complex,?said Frank. “Even so, this resolution would not allow us to study the complex in atomic detail, or even see individual helices.?He said the results from the cryo-EM analysis were informed by detailed x-ray crystall...

Clinical trial to test stem cell approach for children with brain injury

...rself or having to rely on others. That would be a huge impact on families and on society," Cox said. Trauma is far and away the main cause of death and disability among children, and the main reason children die from trauma is brain injury, Cox said. The proposal was under review for a year. The U.S. F...

Scientists use stem cells to grow cartilage

...nce can be used to directly benefit patients for a huge variety of illnesses and injuries." The team included Professor Dame Julia Polak, Head of the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Centre, Imperial College London, as well as Mr Neil Tolley, ENT Dept, St Mary's Hospital and also researchers ...

Mining biotech's data mother lode

...ng the life sciences today. "How to integrate the huge volume of disparate data ?on gene expression, protein interactions and the vast output of literature both inside and outside laboratories ?to find out what is important," says Dr Michael Schroeder, Professor of the Bioinformatics group at Dresden Tec...

Some good news for the world's poor

...search, described the study by Dr. Evenson and his huge team of researchers as a "milestone" and a "monumental effort." Dr. Evenson and his team found that the development of improved rice varieties between 1970 and 1995 had substantial impact in four major areas. Their findings indicate that, were it no...

The bioweapon is in the post

...s orders for potential bioweapons shouldn't pose a huge challenge. Indeed, a company called Craic Computin...ing from a bioengineered organism, there will be a huge security response and research will be clamped down," warns Endy. ...

How E. coli bacterium generates simplicity from complexity

...nes would theoretically be capable of generating a huge variety of internal states; however, researchers at UCSD will report in the Dec. 27 issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) that Escherichia coli doesn't gamble with its metabolism. In a surprise about E. coli that may offer...

Seal rookeries could provide a reliable food source for endangered California condors, study finds

...Columbia River in Oregon," Chamberlain notes. "But huge sealing and whaling industries started around that time, and the large seal rookeries and whale carcasses quickly disappeared. So the condors were once again stuck without a food source. Our isotopes show that the disappearance of the marine mammals ...

Anyway you slice it, tomatoes cut through drought with new gene

...ditions throughout the world each year carve out a huge amount of food production. To overcome food shortages, the authors suggest, "it will be necessary to increase the productivity of land already under cultivation and to regain the use of arable land lost to scarce water supplies." Hirschi and...

Wild birds help to create human flu vaccine

...serves not only to protect them, but also can have huge payoffs for humankind." The field team, supported by the Food and Agriculture Organization (F.A.O.) of the U.N., included personnel from WCS, the Mongolian National Academy of Sciences, the Mongolian Institute of Veterinary Medicine, the State Cen...

Odd energy mechanism in bacteria analyzed

...ientists in 1990. Although tiny, because of their huge numbers SAR11 plays a major role in the planet's carbon cycle as a consumer of organic carbon. Its main energy generating system is the respiration of organic carbon, producing carbon dioxide and water in the process. Oxygen in the Earth's atmospher...

Performing monkeys in Asia carry viruses that could jump species to humans

...large, diverse population of primates there, and a huge human population in dense urban centers, so there's the potential for viral transmission across the species barrier." The study's authors are urging more research on the different settings in Asia where people have contact with non-human primates ?z...

Access to existing medical treatments could save more lives than spending to improve the treatments

...nts need cholesterol-lowering therapy. "Society's huge investment in technological innovations that only modestly improve efficacy, by consuming resources needed for improved delivery of care, may cost more lives than it saves," they wrote. "The misalignment of priorities is driven partly by the commerci...

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