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Shark attack worries? Driving to the beach is more deadly

...as studied sharks for years. Worldwide, about one million people a year are killed in auto accidents, including more than 42,000 a year in the United States. McEachran goes on to note that far more people die each year - about 90 worldwide - from an allergic reaction to eating peanuts. Despite several att...

New HIV drug candidate developed in Sweden

...as studied sharks for years. Worldwide, about one million people a year are killed in auto accidents, including more than 42,000 a year in the United States. McEachran goes on to note that far more people die each year - about 90 worldwide - from an allergic reaction to eating peanuts. Despite several att...

Agilent Technologies introduces advanced zebrafish, mouse microarrays for stem cell and developmental biology research

...as studied sharks for years. Worldwide, about one million people a year are killed in auto accidents, including more than 42,000 a year in the United States. McEachran goes on to note that far more people die each year - about 90 worldwide - from an allergic reaction to eating peanuts. Despite several att...

Evidence of 600-million-year old fungi-algae symbiosis discovered in marine fossils

.... The previous earliest evidence of lichen was 400 million years old, discovered in Scotland. The discovery a...sor Taylor were from non-marine deposits about 400 million years old, when plants began to massively colonize the land. But did cyanobacteria or other algae fo...

$5.1 billion would save 6 million children

Six million children could be saved if $5.1 billion in new res... colleagues found that two-thirds of the almost 11 million child deaths worldwide could be prevented with existing knowledge and treatments. In order to decrea...

Census of Marine Life explorers surprised by diversity, density of Arctic creatures

...ut 30 countries is expected, together with several million dollars in direct and in-kind support. Countries c... Russia, New Zealand, Belgium, Chile. Covering 35 million square kilometers (10 per cent of the world's ocean surface), the Southern Ocean is the planet's mos...

Chronic Sinus Infection Thought To Be Tissue Issue, Mayo Clinic Scientists Show It's Snot

...hronic diseases in the United States, affecting 32 million adults, according to the National Center of Health Statistics. Chronic sinus infection produces nose and sinus problems characterized by stuffy nose, loss of sense of smell, postnasal drip, nasal discharge, and head and face pain lasting three months...

Hopkins AIDS experts issue warning about global efforts to provide drug therapies

...cy Plan for AIDS Relief is spending more than $600 million on antiretroviral therapies for 2 million people, demand in the developing world is even greater and steadily growing, with at least 6.5 milli...

Grass makes environmentally friendly biofuel

... grow a crop of grass for pellets, but it takes 70 million years to make fossil fuels," says Cherney, who notes that a grass-for-fuel crop could help supplement farmers' incomes. Cherney presented the case for grass biofuel at a U.S. Department of Agriculture-sponsored conference, Greenhouse Gases and Carbon...

Unique library of plant genes germinates, takes root at UNC

...ion is supporting the project with a five-year, $1 million grant it awarded to UNC in 2002. "This is a unique resource for scientists trying to understand the genes contributing to variation in traits of economic importance in crops," Vision said. ...

Ancient DNA helps clarify the origins of two extinct New World horse species

... authors showed that the Hippidion genus is only 3 million years old, a much more recent date than previously...diverged and moved into South America around three million years ago, during the great biotic interchange that occurred when the Panama Isthmus was established...

Study of energy and health in Africa focuses spotlight on charcoal and forest management

...for cooking and heating homes. In 2000, nearly 470 million tons of wood were consumed in homes in sub-Saharan... other region in the world. However, more than 1.6 million people, primarily women and children, die prematurely each year worldwide (400,000 in sub-Saharan Af...

FDA Approves New Treatment for Chronic Hepatitis B

...Disease Control and Prevention, approximately 1.25 million Americans are chronically infected with the HBV virus. Baraclude slows the progression of chronic hepatitis B by interfering with viral reproduction. FDA based its approval of Baraclude on the results of three studies in which Baraclude was compare...

Map of life on Earth could be used on Mars

...and diverge in these habitats for many hundreds of million years before they start moving into other types of habitats." The 'peculiar' ancestor It isn't clear why bacteria diversified later, though environmental changes, like periods of global glaciation nicknamed "snowball Earth," could have provided the...

UN: World in big ecological mess

...rica the number of poor is forecast to rise to 404 million in a decade from 315 million in 1999. The report was launched simultaneously at several UN headquarters around the world. "The c...

Team Invents Device For Weighing Individual Molecules

...ill an entire laboratory and can cost upwards of a million dollars each, Roukes adds. By contrast, future nanodevice-based systems should cost a small fraction of today's technology, and an entire massively-parallel nanodevice system will probably ultimately fit on a desktop. Roukes says his group has techn...

Malaria mechanism revealed

...he journal Cell. Malaria causes approximately 400 million clinical cases and 2 million deaths annually, with more than 80% of deaths occurring among children. The disease is caused by mos...

UN pours polio vaccine into Yemen amid outbreak

...Children's Fund (UNICEF) said it was shipping in 6 million doses of polio vaccine. In addition, 10 experts f...ers for Disease Control and Prevention, needed $50 million by July and $200 million for 2006, it added. UNICEF said polio has been losing its grip even on the...

Fragile US vaccine system needs improvement despite dramatic gains in health over past century

... the cost to develop a new vaccine range from $110 million to $802 million, and five vaccines recently reviewed by the National Vaccine Advisory Committee took from two to twenty-one years from Phase I clinical trials to licensing. Safety concerns, such as the problem with the rotavirus vaccine in 1998 as w...

Amazon source of 5-year-old river breath

...nerate quickly returns to the atmosphere, some 500 million tons a year, an amount equal to what is absorbed each year by the Amazonian rainforest. "Having established that the amount of carbon outgassing is much greater than anyone imagined, the issue then becomes, where does it come from," Mayorga says. "I...

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