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Some good news for the world's poor

... and consumers in Asia have received a little good news just in time for Christmas. While the world's trading nations remain deadlocked on how to move ahead with agricultural reforms that could benefit the poor farmers of the developing world, research just published has confirmed details of a proven str...

New technique helps researchers determine amino-acid charge

...ec. 15 issue of Nature, are expected to be welcome news for chemists and biophysicists, both experimentalists and theoreticians, because they have previously relied on theoretical estimations to predict protonation states -- whether an amino acid is charged or not. Appropriate experimental benchmarks also...

Group proves it's possible to grow new lung alveoli by growing new blood vessels

The good news is that medical advances in perinatal care have al...wed us to save many more premature babies. The bad news is they're often at risk of developing bronchopulmonary dysplasia--a chronic lung disease caused by ...

NIH launches comprehensive effort to explore cancer genomics

...event cancer." NCI and NHGRI announced today at a news conference in Washington, D.C., that they have each committed $50 million over three years to the TCGA Pilot Project. The project will develop and test the complex science and technology framework needed to systematically identify and characterize th...

New study pinpoints epicenters of Earth's imminent extinctions

...ylor Ricketts, lead author of the study. "The good news is we still have time to protect them." Among the 794 imperiled mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles, and conifers are monkey-faced bats, cloud rats, golden moles, poison frogs, exotic parrots and hummingbirds, a hamster and a dormouse, a penguin, c...

Pretreating rogue cancer cells with aspirin cripples their resistance to targeted therapy

...ylor Ricketts, lead author of the study. "The good news is we still have time to protect them." Among the 794 imperiled mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles, and conifers are monkey-faced bats, cloud rats, golden moles, poison frogs, exotic parrots and hummingbirds, a hamster and a dormouse, a penguin, c...

Researchers develop new method to help find deadly malaria parasite's Achilles heel

...in other organisms. While this is potentially good news for fighting malaria, we need to know much more before we start talking about which membrane-protein interactions to target with a new drug." ...

Study shows AIDS drugs cost-effective, care underfunded

...iversity, says the article "demonstrates some good news and some worrisome findings about the current state of HIV clinical care." Learning that people with HIV can significantly reduce their treatment costs by getting healthier is encouraging; but having the funding to provide the treatment in the first ...

Tiny polyps gorge themselves to survive coral bleaching

...s it has, bleached Montipora is not. That's good news for Montipora and corals like it as the frequency, duration and intensity of warming events increases globally. But Grottoli warns that Montipora's resilience doesn't diminish the threat that bleaching events hold for the world's coral reefs. While i...

Satellites show Amazon parks, indigenous reserves stop forest clearing

...rontier of the Amazon and elsewhere. This is good news for governments and environmental groups, who have assumed for years that the most important tool for tropical forest conservation is the creation of protected areas. A tropical forest ecologist, Nepstad has studied Amazon forests and strategies fo...

World faces challenge as life expectancies lengthen, scientist says

..., he said, a longer-lived population could be good news for many European countries with low fertility rates. "Countries like Sweden and Italy have been having this huge debate for many years over population decline," Tuljapurkar explained. "A lot of the debate is about immigration: People have been telli...

University of Utah to help build bionic arm

...Advanced Research Projects Agency. DARPA said in a news release that it wants to "revolutionize prosthetic devices for amputee soldiers. Over the next four years, researchers will create a mechanical arm that has the properties of a biological limb." Col. Geoff Ling, a physician and DARPA's Revolutionizi...

Both alcoholism and chronic smoking can damage the brain's prefrontal cortex

...Advanced Research Projects Agency. DARPA said in a news release that it wants to "revolutionize prosthetic devices for amputee soldiers. Over the next four years, researchers will create a mechanical arm that has the properties of a biological limb." Col. Geoff Ling, a physician and DARPA's Revolutionizi...

Mayo Clinic collaboration discovers protein amplifies DNA injury signals

...tional Institutes of Health. To obtain the latest news releases from Mayo Clinic, go to www.mayoclinic.org/news . MayoClinic.com ( www.mayoclinic.com ) is available as a resource for your health stories. ...

International HIV/AIDS trial finds continuous antiretroviral therapy superior to episodic therapy

...tions and Answers document below. An earlier NIAID news release describing the initiation of the SMART trial can be viewed at http://www3.niaid.nih.gov/news/newsreleases/2002/smart.htm . ...

Aspirin reduces cardiovascular risks in men and women -- but differently

...thor cardiologist David Brown, M.D. "This is good news because many of the past studies of the effect of aspirin in preventing cardiovascular events looked only at men, so physicians were reluctant to prescribe aspirin for women because there was little data," Berger continued. "But now, the combined dat...

Australian first to save sight

...Corneal recipient Dorothy O'Kane, 61, welcomed the news after initially missing an opportunity for a corneal transplant when she was on holiday in South Australia. "If this system had been in place at that time I could have come back and the cornea would have still been there for me," Mrs O'Kane said. M...

How marine reserves are giving coral reefs a helping hand

...ing number of larger predators is essentially good news we had concerns that this might result in a decrease in the numbers of parrotfish, which could ultimately damage the health of the reef. More than 20 years ago sea urchins in the Caribbean were wiped out by disease, leaving parrotfish as the main gra...

Sociality of sweat bees evolved simultaneously during climate change

... in evolutionary terms," said Danforth. "It's also news to us that the origin of sociality in halictid bees was so recent." Once the team dated the evolution of the social behaviors to just 20 million to 22 million years ago, they researched what might have been going on in this time frame that would tri...

UMaine teams with fishermen to study affects of trawling on seafloor ecology

...ing. "No good habitat, hardly any fish." The good news is that recently protected habitats are recovering. While anything resembling a "natural" condition would certainly be far in the future, Knight found that significant gains had been made in the short term. "Scientists were predicting it would take ...

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