Widespread elephant slaughter discovered in Chad
...t a large herd was missed in the second count. The latest survey, partly funded by National Geographic, was commissioned to assess the level of poaching during the wet season, when the elephants wander outside park limits to forage and are vulnerable to attack. Elephants in the park have enjoyed strong pro...Indonesia - disaster relief aid in action
ISN's immediate response to this latest quake - to strike the Indonesian island of Java - ...the Pacific's "ring of fire" was the target of the latest devastating 6.2 Richter scale quake which struck at 05:54 local time, 22:53 GMT last Friday 26 May. ...Role of protein in immune response may aid HIV research
...ired systems. Drs. Dziarski and Gupta, in their latest report, revealed many parts of the body produce these proteins, which fight disease-causing bacteria. These proteins appear to be the front line in defending the body from infection, mounting a defense long before the body's main immune system respon...Tetracycline plus teeth equal gray smile
...embers that attend this course will offer them the latest in dental health technology, knowledge and treatme...ne of more than 70 clinicians who will present the latest developments in oral health and technology at the AGD's 54th Annual Meeting & Exposition, August...First direct mechanical communication of mitochondria, cardiomyocyte nucleus shown
...nian researchers after moving to Paris, said their latest research "shows that substances increasing the mitochondria can also compress the nuclear organelles, ensuring storage and treatment of genetic information." Taken together, the results indicate that "the existence of such mechanical signaling betw...Evolutionary scrap-heap challenge: Antifreeze fish make sense out of junk DNA
...nd subpolar seas. Professor Cheng will present her latest results at the Annual Main Meeting of the Society for Experimental Biology in Canterbury on Tuesday the 4th April [session A2]. Fish such as cod that live in subzero polar waters have evolved to avoid freezing to death by using special antifreeze pr...How low can you go? Ants learn to limbo
... slowing down. Tobias Seidl will be presenting his latest research findings at the Annual Meeting for the Society for Experimental Biology on Tuesday 4th April. Desert ants generally scurry around at high speeds whilst foraging to limit their exposure to the life threatening conditions of their habitat. Cl...Fish on acid: Hagfish cope with high levels of CO2
... found in normal air). Dan Baker is presenting his latest findings at the Society for Experimental Biology Annual Meeting on Wednesday 5th April [session A4]. "Our results are exciting because it turns out that Hagfish can not only regulate their acid-base balance, but that they have a greater capacity for...Teens unaware of sexually transmitted diseases until they catch one, Carnegie Mellon study finds
...abstinent than girls who did not see the DVD. This latest study was co-authored by Wandi Bruine de Bruin and Baruch Fischhoff of the Department of Social and Decision Sciences at Carnegie Mellon, and Pamela J. Murray, director of adolescent medicine at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. ...Brittlestar provides new model for stem cell research
...Sam Dupont and Mike Thorndyke are presenting their latest work on Friday 7th April at the Annual Meeting for the Society for Experimental Biology [session A8]. "What is really amazing is that the nervous system starts to be functional only a few days after the beginning of regeneration", says Dr Sam Dupont...Don't hold your breath: Carp can manage without oxygen for months
...Professor Göran Nilsson who will be presenting his latest results at the Annual Meeting for the Society for Experimental Biology on Friday 7th April [session A9]. The researchers have found that this extraordinary fish can change the structure of its gills to avoid becoming anoxic. In addition its blood ha...Molecular force field helps cancer cells defend against attack
...ome protein receptors FAK binds to; VEGFR-3 is the latest they've discovered and represents a "hot area for developing therapeutics," Cance said. "We've shown that if you disrupt this interaction - if you block the binding of these two proteins - the tumor cells are more prone to being killed," he said. U...Study reveals classic symbiotic relationship between ants, bacteria
...ooms," were actually colonies of bacteria. In the latest phase of his research, Currie, who began this study when he was at the University of Kansas, and his team removed the external blooms of bacteria from two ant species in the genus Cyphomyrmex and examined the exoskeleton beneath with a high-powered m...One in 14 men having a heart attack drive themselves to hospital
... ambulance, according to research published in the latest Journal of Advanced Nursing. The study, which looked at 890 heart attack patients admitted to six major teaching hospitals in Dublin, Southern Ireland, also found that it took women five times as long as men to go to casualty departments after the...Uncovering sex-change secrets of black sea bass
... Sciences and Agriculture, and home to Berlinsky's latest research. Black sea bass feature prominently on many menus, but wild populations of the fish are in decline and their availability is limited. Because of the high demand, they're a good candidate for aquaculture on the east coast. Except, that is, f...Berkeley researchers lay groundwork for cell version of DNA chip
... is the lead author of a paper that appears in the latest issue of the international chemistry journal Angewandte Chemie. The other authors are Erik Douglas, Richard Mathies, Carolyn Bertozzi and Matthew Francis. The paper is entitled: Programmable Cell Adhesion Encoded by DNA Hybridization. Many of th...Invasive exotic plants helped by natural enemies
...ructure and function of native ecosystems. In this latest study, researchers found that exotic herbivores, including cattle, rabbits and goats introduced by Old World explorers, can encourage the spread of invasive exotic plants ?increasing their relative abundance by nearly 70 percent over native plants. ...Scientists develop malaria forecasting tool to predict disease risk
...epidemic. The team's research is published in the latest issue of Nature. ...Research updates 65-year-old genetic discovery
...ation," she says. Her samples contributed to this latest research, which found that when compared to human non-taster gene variants, "chimps don't have the same change in the middle of the gene variant as humans, but rather have a change at the start." Both changes in the sequences cause this bitter taste ...African amphibians make extreme parental sacrifice: The skin off their backs
...s in the same order of amphibians foreshadowed the latest discovery. In the 1990s, the same research team found that newborn Siphonops annulatus had teeth and stayed with their mothers for some time after hatching. Those observations, coupled with the unusually pale skin color of mothers caring for young, l...