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Afghanistan to protect wildlife and wild lands

...ecies, including the Marco Polo sheep, the world's largest sheep and the namesake of one of the first European travelers along the silk routes to east Asia and who described the giant sheep in his writings in the late 13th Century. Other mammals known to occur in Afghanistan include the ibex, the Persian leo...

Study shows hope for ridding lakes of clawed invader

...are returned to the lake. The trapping targets the largest crayfish, those that may be too big for the lake's predators. The big hope, says Carpenter, is that the experiment will expose a "tipping point," where the combination of trapping and pressure from predator fish pushes the rusty crayfish population...

Avian flu modeled on supercomputer, explores vaccine and isolation options for thwarting a pandemic

...oc "Science Appliance" running Clustermatic 3, the largest single-system image Linux cluster in the world. Pink's nodes have dual 2.4 GHz Intel Xeon processors (Pentium 4) with 2 gigabytes of memory per node. The purchase of the Science Appliance was funded by the National Nuclear Security Administration's A...

Alaska seal pup diet may hold key to decline of population

... diet they were on. On the other hand, the study's largest seal, which weighed 33kg when she began in 2004, has shown good growth despite being on the low fat diet, Polasek said. A seal that weighed 26kg at the start of the study, on the high-fat diet, has also continued to grow in a similar manner. These r...

How nice, brown rice: Study shows rice bran lowers blood pressure in rats

...shed by the American Chemical Society, the world’s largest scientific society. A commonly prescribed class of drugs called ACE inhibitors dilates the arteries of hypertensive patients and thus decreases their risk of stroke, heart attack and kidney disease. But the drugs can also carry side effects: chronic...

VCU Massey Cancer Center researchers identify a new class of anti-cancer drugs based on platinum

...isplatin is to bind to DNA. Platinum drugs are the largest class of anti-cancer drugs in the clinic and the most important in terms of treatment. Cisplatin is a chemotherapy drug that is given for the treatment of metastatic testicular or ovarian cancers, and some advanced bladder cancer, and is a very effec...

Stem cell transplants improve recovery in animal models for stroke, cerebral palsy

...t of Neurology and a study co-author. "The single largest cause of disability among adults in ths U.S. is stroke," said Dr. Hess. "It's a huge public health problem in the world." He hopes one day stem cell therapy, along with aggressive physical therapy and possibly tPA can work synergistically to reduce t...

Contaminants linked to sturgeon decline in Columbia river

...umulating behind dams over time." North America's largest freshwater fish, white sturgeon can grow to 20 feet in length, weigh more than 1,500 pounds and live for more than a century. The fish have always been an important food source for Oregon's Native Americans, and now as salmon runs diminish, white stu...

Illegal trade is propelling rare turtle toward extinction, new report

... the illegal trade in wildlife which is the second largest illegal trade in the world, next to drugs, and a major driver of the decline in wildlife worldwide. "Collectors and exotic pet enthusiasts need to make sure that the specimens they purchase have not been illegally taken from the wild or illegally ...

New vaccine for condition that kills 500,000 children a year

...diatric deaths each year worldwide. In one of the largest pre-licensure vaccine clinical trials ever conducted worldwide, research championed by an Eastern Virginia Medical School investigator demonstrated that the oral vaccine Rotateq virtually eliminated the most severe cases of rotavirus, a common childh...

Parachuting allows krill to eat and run

...late greenhouse gases. Antarctic krill, one of the largest animal resources on Earth, parachute into the deeper layers of the ocean many times a night and sequester large amounts carbon in the process. The work is reported by Geraint Tarling of the British Antarctic Survey and Magnus Johnson of the Scarbor...

The diversity of marine life in the Gulf of Maine region is much greater than previously thought

...from miniscule, like the diatoms, to gigantic, the largest being the blue whale. The smallest species, like the phytoplanktonic diatoms and dinoflagellates, number in the billions, while the larger species can be rare, such as the right whale, of which there are only a few hundred in the Gulf of Maine. Lik...

Scientists make first step towards 'holy grail' of crystallography

... found BioGlass induced the crystallisation of the largest number of proteins ever crystallised using a single nucleant. Professor Naomi Chayen, from Imperial College London, who led the research, said: "The first step in obtaining a good crystal is to get it to nucleate in an ordered way. The 'holy grail'...

Invasive exotic plants helped by natural enemies

...shed by the AAAS, the science society, the world's largest general scientific organization. Each year, invasive exotic species cause an estimated $120 billion in damage in the United States, not to mention the untold amount of harm they do to the structure and function of native ecosystems. In this latest s...

Scientists discover dozens of new species in 'Lost World' of western New Guinea

...ch eye. Other discoveries included what may be the largest rhododendron flower on record ?almost six inches a...ct of more than 1 million hectares constitutes the largest essentially pristine tropical forest in Asia and an important region for biodiversity conservation. ...

MIT research holds promise for Huntington's treatment

...oteins. However, recent evidence suggests that the largest inclusions may not necessarily be harmful and could in fact be protective, said Bodner. So, the MIT and Harvard scientists decided to look for compounds that actually promote the formation of large inclusions. The highest concentration of protein in...

Leave it to salmon to leave no stone unturned

...on world, the female chinook ?or king ?salmon. The largest females are more than a yard long and tip the scales at 45 pounds or more. The biggest nests are nearly a foot and a half deep and extend up to 17 square yards –about the size of two parking-lot stalls. The rims around these craters can be the bane o...

Report shows deforestation threatens Brazil's Pantanal

...ation in Brazil's Pantanal, considered the world's largest wetland. A new study published by Conservation International sounds an alarm for the Paraguay River Basin, which includes the Pantanal. Continued deforestation at the current rate would cause all of the Pantanal's original vegetation to disappear in...

Component in soy products causes reproductive problems in laboratory mice

...become fertilized based on previous research. The largest difference between the genistein treated and normal mice was found at six days of age where 57 percent of the egg cells in the non-treated ovaries were single or unclustered; and only 36 percent in the genistein treated group were single We think ge...

The giant protein titin helps build muscles

...ge, have thought that a molecule called titin, the largest protein made by human cells, is involved. Titin is anchored in the Z-disk and is so long that it spans half the length of a sarcomere. Its size and position ?putting it into contact with all the majorcomponents of sarcomeres ?suggests that it might h...

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