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Sustainable farm practices improve Third World food production

...onmental Science & Technology . The study, the largest of its kind to date -- 286 farm projects in 57 countries -- concludes that sustainable agriculture protects the environment in these countries while substantially improving the lives of farmers who adopt the resource-conserving practices. Yields inc...

2005 was the warmest year in a century

...ccurring nearly everywhere at the same time and is largest at high latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere. Over the last 50 years, the largest annual and seasonal warmings have occurred in Alaska, Siberia and the Antarctic Peninsula. Most ocea...

Satellites show Amazon parks, indigenous reserves stop forest clearing

... tropical forest areas of 24 million hectares, the largest in the Amazon and the world. With broad alliance...tituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia), now the largest independent research institution in the Amazon region. He has published more than 75 scientific arti...

Penguins okay with human visitors?for now

...th America. The penguins in the study live in the largest and most visited colony of Magellanic Penguins at Punta Tombo, Argentina. More than 70,000 people now visit annually. ...

Mouse study reveals human X-SCID gene therapy poses substantial cancer risk

...ase had not been solved. The French trial is the largest to date to test IL2RG gene therapy, and of the 10 children treated, nine were successfully cured of X-SCID, although cancer was diagnosed in three of the children. Halted for a time, the trial is now continuing on a case-by-case basis, according to W...

Powerful new tool for studying brain development

...se Brain Gene Expression Map (BGEM), is one of the largest gene expression maps of an organ ever developed, according to the St. Jude researchers. They say the map will likely help scientists discover the genetic origins of brain cancers, which could speed development of novel drugs to treat them. The conti...

Oceans are 70 percent shark free

...es deeper into the abyss and beyond throughout the largest environment on the planet - new species would be discovered. However, 20 years of exploration, combined with analysis of records over the past 150 years, has convinced the team of scientists that the world's oceans are 70% shark-free. Their findi...

New Rotavirus vaccine joins routine infant immunization schedule

...ion, a common childhood illness that is the single largest infectious disease killer of infants and young chi...re than 70,000 infants in 11 countries--one of the largest clinical trials to be performed by a pharmaceutical company. The company's data showed that the vacc...

Pacific Islands paradise protected

...he declaration today that it is creating the third largest marine protected area in the world, conserving an ...bited Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA) is the largest marine protected area in the Pacific Islands at 184,700 square kilometers (73,800 square miles), twi...

Computers to save unique type of American red squirrel

...ound 10,000 red squirrels, Kielder hosts England's largest remaining population. In Kielder, Newcastle University's Dr Peter Lurz and colleagues used the model to create a conservation strategy for the forest, assisting with planting and felling plans to help maintain a viable red squirrel population. He...

Researchers map of genetic variations implicated in disease

...on autoimmune diseases the MHC provides by far the largest genetic contribution by a single chromosome region. For example, the MHC accounts for at least 30% of the familial aggregation in type 1 diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis. "Data generated by projects such as the MHC Haplotype Project will feed into ...

Sweetgum tree could help lessen shortage of bird flu drug

...ting of the American Chemical Society, the world’s largest scientific society. Shikimic acid is used to make a generic drug called oseltamivir ?best known commercially as Tamiflu® ?which is used to fight many types of flu viruses. Some health experts believe that this and similar antiviral drugs could help ...

Neurons find their place in the developing nervous system with the help of a sticky molecule

...asoning, and, in humans, language. In mammals, the largest and evolutionarily newest part of the cortex, the neocortex, is recognized anatomically by its six horizontal layers. The neocortex develops outward from an underlying zone of cells. From that zone, crawling neurons migrate radially out toward the s...

Vaccine provides 100 percent protection against avian flu virus in animal study

...arger study of biology. "The open ocean is Earth's largest and, perhaps, most complex ecological community," said collaborator David Karl, a biological oceanographer at the University of Hawaii. "The diversity and depth-defined characteristics of marine microbial communities revealed unexpected genomic patte...

Wyoming cloud seeding experiment begins this month

...arger study of biology. "The open ocean is Earth's largest and, perhaps, most complex ecological community," said collaborator David Karl, a biological oceanographer at the University of Hawaii. "The diversity and depth-defined characteristics of marine microbial communities revealed unexpected genomic patte...

Sequencing our seas

...arger study of biology. "The open ocean is Earth's largest and, perhaps, most complex ecological community," said collaborator David Karl, a biological oceanographer at the University of Hawaii. "The diversity and depth-defined characteristics of marine microbial communities revealed unexpected genomic patte...

Pair of studies offer new clues to combat antibiotic resistance

...tion of the American Chemical Society, the world’s largest scientific society. In one study, researchers from the University of Michigan College of Pharmacy in Ann Arbor and the Borstel Research Center in Germany genetically engineered a strain of E. coli so that it lacks its normal outer protective layer...

Parents need to be educated about HPV vaccinations for daughters

...ler of women worldwide. It is not only one of the largest causes of death due to cancer, but is also responsible for a great deal of suffering. Tragically, its regions of highest incidence are those in which preventative screening cannot be provided due to lack of resources, and those least well equipped to...

NASA's AURA satellite peers into Earth's ozone hole

...ar's peak. The size of the ozone hole in 1998, the largest ever recorded, averaged 10.1 million square miles. For 10 of the past 12 years, the Antarctic ozone hole has been larger than 7.7 million square miles. Before 1985, it measured less than 4 million square miles. The protective ozone layer over Antarc...

Sensors, a smart dose of medicine for cancer treatment

... the Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology, one of the largest oncology centres in the UK. Of the two devices, the diode system is the most commercially viable. However, the MOSFET system is working and we'll have the results of patients trials in the next few months," says Jaksic. "We need to further optimise ...

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