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Massive coral death attributed to earthquake

...nesia such as cyanide fishing or bleaching. People monitoring Indonesian corals reefs now have another threat to watch out for, and not all reef damage should be immediately attributed to human influences." Many other reefs, particularly in the Pulau Banyak, continue to be damaged by destructive fishing incl...

Farmed salmon could become an invasive species in forest streams

...o be safe rather than sorry, and to be diligent in monitoring any reports of Atlantic salmon in Pacific Northwest streams whether in national forests or in state and private forests." ...

The penalty of having a sister -- why sibling sex matters for male saiga antelopes

...blic of Kalmykia, Russia. Data from saiga antelope monitoring during Soviet times from the Betpak-dala saiga pop...tor the reproductive state of the population. Such monitoring has become vital since saiga have seen a dramatic decline in numbers of over 95% in recent years, m...

New report: Explosive growth changes salmon industry

...ed Salmon, released by TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring network of World Wildlife Fund and IUCN-the World Conservation Union identifies two important trends that have remade the salmon industry in the last 25 years: farmed salmon has grown from just two percent of the world supply in 1980 to 65 percent in...

Study suggests some drug resistance to influenza B medications

...ould draw attention to the importance of continual monitoring of strains over time and to the need for frequent rethinking of policies for use of antiviral drugs. While the news about resistance is not good and certainly calls into question some of the current assumptions about drug-resistant viruses, an effect...

Male owls pitch their hoots to advertise body weight to competitors

...in order to assess the function of vocal signals), monitoring the reaction of subjects to the broadcast of vocalizations. To do this they modified the pitch of several hoots, creating stimuli that mimicked the hoots given by males from a range of body weights. They then played back these recordings to males wit...

Investigating the measles virus as a tool to kill multiple myeloma

...us for treatment, one that also enables biological monitoring of anti-tumor activity. Dr. Russell’s team also is looking at ways to use the measles virus to combat other cancers, including breast, pancreatic and liver cancer. ...

Sleep quantity affects morning testosterone levels in older men

...ernight laboratory polysomnography, wrist activity monitoring for six-to-nine days were used to determine the amount of nighttime sleep of the participants in everyday life settings. The main outcome levels were total sleep time and morning testosterone levels. Analyses revealed that the amount of nighttime...

Hepatitis E takes a piggyback

...an potentially cause acute hepatitis in humans. So monitoring infection rates could help protect meat processors and vets. The disease can be transmitted by drinking water contaminated with faeces as well as by eating pork: uncooked wild boar liver is one Japanese delicacy that frequently leads to infection. ...

Simple home spit test to spot deadly pre-eclampsia

...until the latter stages. The new test works by monitoring levels of urate, a salt of uric acid, increased levels of which are thought to be due to impaired kidney excretion in pre-eclampsia. 'A salivary urate test is simple, non-invasive, quick and cheap and can be done at any time. As a metabolic test i...

pHLIP, a novel technology to locate and treat tumors

...shetnyak. “Therefore, pHLIP could also be used for monitoring of disease development and therapeutic outcomes. It might play very important role in the study of arthritis, ischemia and stroke.? Lead author Oleg Andreev said, “We believe that universal medical tests to reveal many health problems at earlier ...

Technique monitors thousands of molecules simultaneously

...r, Ph.D., assistant professor of chemistry, in the monitoring of his system. ...

Catching cancer's spread by watching hemoglobin

...emoglobin (deoxyhemoglobin). This is important for monitoring tumors, because the oxygenation state around cancerous tissue and the size and density of blood vessels around the tumor can provide a lot of information about the progression of a tumor and its response to anti-cancer drugs. In the technique, two...

Want to save polar bears? Follow the ice

... countries and first nations actively managing and monitoring polar bear population trends....

Focused ultrasound relieves fibroid symptoms in women

...US to locate and treat the targeted fibroids while monitoring temperature changes in tissue. Ninety-six patients were treated under the original study protocol (A), and 64 patients were treated under an optimized protocol (B). Protocol A allowed a maximum treatment time of 120 minutes and a maximum fibroid...

'Smart' mice teach scientists about learning process, brain disorders

... the same effects without genetic manipulation and monitoring the animals’ health and behavior over time. The findings may have applications in treating post-traumatic stress disorder, where getting a patient to learn that a once-threatening situation no longer poses a danger is a major goal. In addition...

Salty oceans provide early warning for climate change

...ns too. Currently there is no large-scale salt monitoring system in place in the southern hemisphere oceans. Zahn thinks that regular measurements taken in the waters around South Africa and New Zealand could be useful. “It could act as an early warning system for climate changes 10-20 years down the road,”...

Envisat captures first image of Sargassum from space

... role in determining how healthy it is. Accurately monitoring chlorophyll from space, therefore, provides a valuable tool for modelling primary productivity. "The 709 band used by MERIS is not present on other ocean-colour sensors. It was essential to our detecting Sargassum," Gower said. "The MCI index has...

CSIRO scientists join fight to save 'Tassie devil'

...tegrated historical wildlife spotlight data, devil monitoring data and geo-referenced reports of diseased devils into a geographical information system (GIS) to map the spatial and temporal distribution of the disease across Tasmania. “The result of my work was a map showing the spread of DFTD over time and ...

Blood test may help signal tumor's remission, return in throat cancer patients

...owing tumor could one day become a useful tool for monitoring the effectiveness of chemotherapy and radiation tr...markers for detecting cancer as it begins and then monitoring the course of treatment is a major goal of the NCI and this research in head and neck cancer is an e...

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