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Birth defects: 8 million annually worldwide

...ssing health disparities between richer and poorer nations and at reducing the toll of infant deaths, especia...ics services. "Building such services would allow nations to reduce the toll of death and disability from birth defects and to capitalize on the genetics revo...

Free access to a digital library for developing countries

...blic and non-profit institutions in underdeveloped nations in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean and Eastern Europe will have free access to the peer-reviewed scientific literature of Springer and other leading international publishing houses. Springer's Environmental Online Library covers a range ...

World faces challenge as life expectancies lengthen, scientist says

... to deliver these anti-aging technologies to other nations is pretty slim," he said. In the final analysis, Tuljapurkar stressed the need for scientists and policymakers alike to confront the full environmental and sociological implications of anti-aging technologies, with an awareness of the potential cost...

The world's deepest dinosaur finding - 2256 metres below the seabed

While most nations excavate their skeletons using a toothbrush, the Norwegians found one using a drill. The somewhat rough uncovering of Norway's first dinosaur happened in the North Sea, at an entire 2256 metres below the seabed. It had been there for nearly 200 milli...

World's pledge to halve hunger by 2015 looks like empty promise

...been made," he says. "The governments of developed nations just don't care; they have the resources but not t... political will. And the governments of developing nations don't invest in alleviating hunger and poverty because they're only interested in short-term results...

Rhinos clinging to survival in the heart of Borneo, despite poaching

...e populations. WWF aims to assist Borneo's three nations (Brunei, Indonesia and Malaysia) to conserve the "Heart of Borneo" ?a total of about 84,942 square miles of equatorial rain forest ?through a network of protected areas and sustainably managed forest, and through international cooperation led by the ...

Less antibiotic use in food animals leads to less drug resistance in people, study shows

...oquinolones for animal use." Other industrialized nations have also realized the apparent benefits of restricting antimicrobial use in animals. Sweden prohibited the use of fluoroquinolones for food animals in 1986, Norway has never licensed their use in food animals, and both countries have reported low tr...

The diversity of marine life in the Gulf of Maine region is much greater than previously thought

...is a global network of researchers in more than 70 nations engaged in a ten-year initiative to assess and explain the diversity, distribution, and abundance of marine life in the oceans -- past, present, and future. The Gulf of Maine Census, which is based at the University of Southern Maine, is one of 17 p...

Scientist warns of threat to last stronghold of endangered turtle

... has struck up a number of agreements with African nations to fish their waters. Amazingly, most EU fishing concessions don't even incorporate compulsory bycatch monitoring programmes. Scientists from the University of Exeter's Cornwall Campus are working with a consortium of partners in Gabon (Aventures S...

New Research Shows Artificial Light at Night Stimulates Breast Cancer Growth in Laboratory Mice

...ancer is about five times higher in industrialized nations than it is in underdeveloped countries,?said Les Reinlib, Ph.D., a program administrator with the NIEHS?grants division. “These results suggest that the increasing nighttime use of electric lighting, both at home and in the workplace, may be a signif...

UGA study explains peaks and troughs of dengue epidemics

... expand its range. Population growth in developing nations is pushing more people into substandard housing in mosquito-infested areas. And the ease of travel brings the virus to areas that were previously dengue-free when a mosquito bites an infected traveler and then spreads it to others. According to the C...

Federal testing for mad cow disease a failure, law review editor says

...st all slaughtered meat for BSE, and most European nations test cattle 24 months and older before they are slaughtered. Compounding USDA's lax practices has been its refusal to allow beef processors to independently test cattle for mad cow disease. In 2004, Creekstone Farms, a Kansas processor of black Ang...

Researchers appeal for new regulations to save coral reefs from live fish trade

...e fish imported into Hong Kong from various source nations across the Indo-Pacific region, Dr. Andrea Manica and his team from the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge have tracked the fisheries trade radiating out from Hong Kong, the hub for international trade in live reef fish. They have also d...

Dragonfly migration resembles that of birds, scientists say

...d other disturbances. Becausethe economies of many nations are still largely agrarian, a betterunderstanding of how, say, locust swarms travel could assist us withmanaging both local agriculture and the world economy that hinges uponit." ...

AIDS vaccine research offers new insights on survival

...ndividuals -- a majority in the world's developing nations -- have died of AIDS since it was first identified 25 years ago. "This research underscores the importance of the preservation of memory CD4+ T cells for the long-term health of the HIV-infected individual," says Letvin. "It also suggests that the m...

New study reveals structure of E. coli multidrug transporter protein

...ible to "be available in many of the resource-poor nations where drug-resistant tuberculosis is emerging." EmrD belongs to the Major Facilitator Superfamily, a group of transporters among the most prevalent in microbial genomes. These transporters are distinctive in their ability to recognize and expel a hi...

End of deforestation in view? Experts advance new way to size up global forest resources

...s Brazil and Indonesia but an increasing number of nations show gains. The forests of Earth's two most populated nations no longer increase atmospheric carbon concentration: China's forests are expanding; India's have rea...

Scientists map air pollution using corn grown in US fields

...d adhere to the Kyoto Protocol, an agreement among nations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The United Sta...has not been ratified by the U.S. Senate. "Many nations are facing increasing pressure to monitor and regulate the release of carbon dioxide from fossil fue...

Pacific Rim researchers to collaborate on distributed bioinformatics analysis of avian flu

...se of a flu pandemic." Institutions in three Asian nations will leverage TATRC’s investment by funding their own researchers to work with their counterparts in California and Hawaii, as part of their ongoing collaboration in the National Science Foundation-funded Pacific Rim Applications and Grid Middleware ...

Twenty of world's 162 grouper species threatened with extinction

...ses adding 12 more. A panel of 20 experts from 10 nations determined the extinction threat facing groupers, which are the basis of the multimillion-dollar live reef food fish trade based in Hong Kong and comprise one of the most valuable groups of commercial fishes in chilled fish markets of the tropics and...

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