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Growth in biomass could put US on road to energy independence

... and 25 percent in 2030. Nearly half of the 2,263 million acres that comprise the land base of the U.S. has potential for growing biomass. About 33 percent of the land area is classified as forest, 26 percent as grassland, 20 percent as cropland, 13 percent as urban areas, swamps and deserts, and 8 percent ...

New Estimates For The Causes Of Child Deaths Worldwide

...T, reveal that worldwide more than 70% of the 10.6 million child deaths that occur annually are attributable to six causes: pneumonia (19%), diarrhoea (18%), malaria (8%), neonatal sepsis or pneumonia (10%), preterm delivery (10%), and asphyxia at birth (8%). Robert Black (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of ...

Human Cells Filmed Instantly Messaging for First Time

... and 25 percent in 2030. Nearly half of the 2,263 million acres that comprise the land base of the U.S. has potential for growing biomass. About 33 percent of the land area is classified as forest, 26 percent as grassland, 20 percent as cropland, 13 percent as urban areas, swamps and deserts, and 8 percent ...

Potential Drug Target For Treating Cocaine Abuse Found

... it does not have a stimulating effect. Between 2 million and 3.2 million people in the United States ?about 1 percent of the population - use cocaine, according to estimates...

Genetic defects give the immune system the green light to attack the pancreas

...ull-blown type 1 diabetes emerges. An estimated 1 million people in the United States have type 1 diabetes. Their pancreatic beta cells can no longer make insulin. Without this crucial hormone, their body cannot convert food into energy. To sustain life, they must get insulin through injections. The disorde...

Bioelectronic ‘signatures?hold key to DNA mutations

...bout once in every 1,000 DNA bases, adding up to 3 million potential individual differences across the human genome. Wang’s method allows for an accurate, ultra-sensitive, rapid and low-cost identification of these SNP variants. “The novelty of the approach is the combination of the nanocrystal tagging of D...

Shift of weather patterns necessitates rethinking of reforestation methods

... a Texas Forest Service survey showed Texas had 12 million acres in forest land, all of it in the East Texas Piney Woods area. Approximately 61 percent of the forest land was owned by non-industrial private forest landowners. Another 32 percent was owned by industry and investment groups, and the remainder w...

Live vaccines more effective against horse herpes virus

...near Baltimore. In anticipation of the June 11, $1 million Belmont Stakes, the third leg of the Triple Crown, in Belmont, N.Y., the New York Racing Association (NYRA) on May 18 issued travel restrictions for all horses that might have been exposed to equine herpes virus, with special attention paid to those ...

Duke engineers develop new 3-D cardiac imaging probe

...that number." The probe generates ultrasound at 5 million vibrations per second, which, combined with the 504 sensors, provides great sensitivity and a sharp image, Smith said. And because the image is large enough to encompass the whole volume of the heart, fewer "pictures" need to be taken. This may short...

First technology to remove prions that cause vCJD from blood launched

...ilable later this year or in early 2006. Of the 40 million red cell units collected annually across the industrialized world, 2.5 million are collected in the UK and 130,000 in Ireland. Since the first human case of vCJD was identified i...

Turning viruses into allies against cancer

...causes of cancer death worldwide, causing nearly a million deaths per year. Despite a variety of differing treatment approaches, its prognosis remains poor with a median survival of about 10 months following diagnosis. For this reason, scientists are anxious to find novel methods that could improve short- an...

New project aims to make large-scale lobster farms feasible

...ild capture, mostly using traps. Each year, 3 to 4 million pounds of Florida spiny lobsters valued at about $17 million are harvested and account for 11% of the spiny lobsters on the U.S. market. Overfishing of lobster h...

OneWorld Health drug receives 'Orphan' designation from U.S. and European regulatory agencies

...ites that attack internal organs. An estimated 1.5 million people worldwide are currently infected; the number of new VL cases per year is estimated at 500,000; and as many as 200,000 people die annually. More than 90 percent of VL cases occur in five countries: India, which bears the greatest disease burden...

Secret of smallpox's success may lead to bioterror cure

...athogens, including HIV. Jacobs has received a $1 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and I...n, the less sick they become. "If you give them a million particles, they don't even get sick -- the animals stay healthy," notes Jacobs. "The body reacts an...

Measles Deaths Worldwide Drop By Nearly 40% Over Five Years

...led millions of children each year and affected 30 million more, leaving many with life-long disabilities lik...cially effective. From 1999 to 2003, more than 350 million children throughout the world were vaccinated against measles through SIAs. As measles wards shut d...

Cellular Defects in Premature Aging Disease are Reversible

...are inherited disease affecting about one in eight million children. While appearing normal at birth, infants with HGPS age rapidly after their first 18 months, and physical symptoms include stunted growth, loss of hair and body fat, joint stiffness, osteoporosis, and heart problems. The condition is fatal, ...

Supercomputers to focus brains on AIDS dilemma

...o the scene, HIV/AIDS has claimed more than twenty million lives and continues to devastate societies around the world, particularly in Africa and other developing countries. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, after years of effort AIDS researchers succeeded in developing a class of drugs that proved to be h...

Researchers find new giant amphibian fossils in Africa

Two new 250 million year-old species of large, meat-eating amphibians ...ur findings show that climate change more than 250 million years ago had a dramatic effect on species survival and evolution," says Larsson. "Something to keep...

Infants with Rare Genetic Disease Saved By Cord Blood Stem Cells

...re rare ?fewer than 5,000 births combined out of 4 million per year in the U.S. ?they are best treated if patients are diagnosed and treated in early infancy, said Kurtzberg. In fact, transplantation in newborns yields the best long-term outcomes and newborns tolerate the transplants more easily than older b...

Low oxygen likely made Great Dying worse, greatly delayed recovery

... biggest mass extinction in Earth history some 251 million years ago was preceded by elevated extinction rate...and bottoming out at less than 12 percent about 10 million years into the Triassic period. "Oxygen dropped from its highest level to its lowest level ever in ...

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