Harmful Algal Blooms monitored from space in Chile
Chile is currently the world's largest producer of farmed salmon and has a burgeoning mussel culture industry that is supplying a growing world market. However, the country's marine aquaculture sector is vulnerable to Harmful Algal Blooms, which occur when some algae species producing poi...Large dinosaurs were extremely hot in their day, UF study finds
...ly begin to break down. In fact, the size of the largest dinosaurs may ultimately have been limited by thei...ate more like today's mammals and birds. While the largest dinosaurs may not have been running around as fast as in 'Jurassic Park,' they certainly were very a...Federal testing for mad cow disease a failure, law review editor says
...x of mandatory and voluntary testing to ensure the largest possible number of cattle are tested, while working to open foreign markets for American beef on the basis of the reliability of that testing," Berlowitz said. The law editor faulted the USDA's decision to test only downer cows, which constitute les...Ecosystem services and invasive species
...t Hall, Cook Convention Center Overton park, the largest green space in Memphis, provides ecosystem services as an urban forest. Often people appreciate the value of urban forests and green spaces for their recreational value, taking for granted the ecological and economic importance of these spaces. Ecosy...Microbes transform 'safest' PBDEs into more harmful compounds
... dust. The American Chemical Society ?the world’s largest scientific society ?is a nonprofit organization chartered by the U.S. Congress and a global leader in providing access to chemistry-related research through its multiple databases, peer-reviewed journals and scientific conferences. Its main offices a...Global warming may warrant new approaches to ecosystem restoration
... always be applicable in the future They see the largest potential challenge ahead is restoring environments undergoing the most rapid rate of change in the earth's history. This global climate change is likely to have important regional consequences for biota and ecosystems. Ecological restoration, ...Pathway toward gene silencing described in plants
...ld of the siRNAs while also binding to NRPD1b, the largest subunit of an alternative form of RNA Polymerase IV, Pol IVb. The AGO4-siRNA-NRPD1b complex is then thought to leave the nucleolus, acquire the second-largest Pol IV subunit, NRPD2, which serves both Pol IVa and Pol IVb, and then seek out the DNA seq...New GI technologies improve internal organ visualization
... of the GI tract and surrounding areas. DDW is the largest international gathering of physicians and researchers in the fields of gastroenterology, hepatology, endoscopy and gastrointestinal surgery. The Heart ?An Easily Accessible and Safe Target for Endoscopic Ultrasound and Fine Needle Intervention? [Ab...Novel therapy combinations gain ground in treating hepatitis
...ss to improve symptoms of the disease. DDW is the largest international gathering of physicians and researchers in the fields of gastroenterology, hepatology, endoscopy and gastrointestinal surgery. Hepatitis is caused by a virus that attacks the liver, triggering painful inflammation and often leading to ...Slow-frozen people? Latest research supports possibility of cyropreservation
...shed by the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society. In medicine, cryopreservation involves preserving organs and tissues for transplantation or other uses. Only certain kinds of cells and tissues, including sperm and embryos, currently can be frozen and successfully rewarmed. A ma...A new tool against brain disease
...edical Research Institute in Durban. Durban is the largest city in KwaZulu-Natal, and HIV prevalence among pregnant women in the city exceeds 50 percent. The studies at the lab in South Africa found that PD-1 was significantly activated in 71 HIV-infected patients who had not yet begun antiviral treatm...CHAVI announces international search for genes affecting HIV response
...0 patients from nine cohorts. "This will be is the largest cohort assembled for large-scale analysis of genetic differences among HIV-infected patients," said Amalio Telenti, M.D., Ph.D., a key organizer of the collaboration. Telenti is professor of medical virology and co-director of the Institute of Microb...How HIV 'exhausts' killer T cells
...edical Research Institute in Durban. Durban is the largest city in KwaZulu-Natal, and HIV prevalence among pregnant women in the city exceeds 50 percent. The studies at the lab in South Africa found that PD-1 was significantly activated in 71 HIV-infected patients who had not yet begun antiviral treatm...New tiger report release: Tiger habitat down from just a decade ago
...ities for recovery of wild tiger populations. The largest tiger landscapes exist in the Russian Far East and India. Southeast Asia also holds promise to sustain healthy tiger populations although many areas have lost tigers over the last 10 years. "As tiger range spans borders, so must tiger conservation...Ecologists home in on how sperm whales find their prey
...dark ocean depths. The sperm whale is the world's largest deep-diving toothed whale, feeding mainly on squid, but until now little has been known about the timing of prey detection and capture during dives. "Due to the difficulty of observing sperm whales during their long, deep dives, little has been know...How satellite tracking revealed the migratory mysteries of endangered Atlantic loggerhead turtles
...pe Verde, West Africa, which is one of the world's largest nesting sites for loggerheads and a hotspot for industrial fishing. What they found could turn current conservation strategies upside down, as the team discovered the turtles adopted two distinct approaches to finding food, linked to their size. Pre...Microbes hitchhike across Atlantic on desert dust
...ent through the Earth's atmosphere each year. The largest of these events is capable of dispersing large quantities of dust across oceans and continents. Since a gram of desert soil may contain as many as 1 billion bacterial cells, the presence of airborne dust should correspond with increased concentratio...Radiation-armed robot rapidly destroys human lung tumors
...lu and approximately 30 colleagues form one of the largest US teams devoted to the CyberKnife, a radiation delivery system that uses an accurate, precise robotic arm to aim highly focused x-ray beams at the site of a tumor. Currently there are 76 active CyberKnife sites worldwide (with 45 in the US), and an......the world's climate. This area of the ocean is the largest natural source of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. "We concluded that nitrogen is the primary element missing for algae growth and photosynthesis in the northern portion of the tropical Pacific, while it was iron that was most lacking everywhere e...