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Madagascan tropical forests return thanks to better management and well-defined ownership

...tand factors like seed dispersal and soil quality, our study clearly shows the importance of an increased understanding also of the social context behind forest regeneration," says Elmqvist. The loss of tropical forests is a concern worldwide since these forests harbor more than 50 % of the terrestrial s...

Does amateur boxing cause brain damage?

...tially damaging to the central nervous system, and our results suggest CSF-analysis could be used for medical counseling of athletes after boxing or head injury," said Hietala. The study was extended to soccer players heading the ball repeatedly from long and high goal kicks. No increased levels of bi...

Scripps research team sheds light on long-sought cold sensation gene

... candidates have been postulated to play a role in our ability to sense cool temperatures, but none have ...ipheral nervous system and how temperature affects our behavior," he says. The altered mice also showed little response to the application of acetone ...

pHLIP, a novel technology to locate and treat tumors

...s of the paper] have taken a recent discovery from our lab and we are pushing hard as a team to test possible applications,?said Engelman. “We are very excited by the possibilities for both imaging and treating tumors.? The pHLIP molecule has three states: soluble in water, bound to the surface of...

Chronic fatigue syndrome impairs a person's slow wave activity during sleep

...omen, and none had current depression. Therefore, our results cannot be explained on the basis of depression." Experts recommend that adults get between seven and eight hours of sleep each night to maintain good health and optimum performance. Persons who think they might have a sleep disorder ar...

US control strategies may make flu epidemics worse, UCLA study shows

...ctors into epidemic models can dramatically change our understanding of why flu epidemics occur." said Vardavas. ...

Corals -- More complex than you?

...may possess a set of genes as large and complex as our own, says Professor David Miller of the ARC Centre... Australia and have to offer science and medicine, our corals remain genetically largely unexplored, Prof. Miller says. "There is no project to sequence th...

Legal ruling may put endangered species in danger

...pecies." "The proposed rule would have allowed our national symbol, the bald eagle, to become extinct in the lower 48 states, surviving only in Alaska, and it would have allowed the gray whale to become extinct in U.S. waters," Vucetich went on to say. Vucetich and Michael P. Nelson, associate pro...

A frown or a smile? Children with autism can't discern

...en as a direct threat. “Gaze has a huge impact on our brains because it conveys part of the meaning of that expression to the individual. It cues the individual to what is significant,?Davies said. While the results show the key role of eye gaze in signaling communicative intent, it also shows that ...

Premature births may be linked to seasonal levels of pesticides and nitrates in surface water

...linical research, and public health initiatives of our time. To recognize that what we put into our environment has potential pandemic effects on pregnancy outcome and possibly on child development is...

Risk of lymphoma increases with hepatitis C virus infection

...lthough the risk of developing lymphomas is small, our research suggests that screening of HCV-infected individuals could identify conditions which may lead to cancer. It might then be possible to prevent progression to lymphoma," said investigator Eric A. Engels, M.D., from the Viral Epidemiology Branc...

Egyptians, not Greeks were true fathers of medicine

... Hippocrates, as being the fathers of medicine but our findings suggest that the ancient Egyptians were practising a credible form of pharmacy and medicine much earlier," said Dr Jackie Campbell. "When we compared the ancient remedies against modern pharmaceutical protocols and standards, we found the...

World's leading scientists announce creation of 'Encyclopedia of Life'

...Life. "Through collaboration, we all can increase our appreciation of the immense variety of life, the c...n protect Earth's biodiversity and better conserve our natural heritage." "For more than 250 years, scientists have catalogued life, and our traditio...

LIAI scientists make important finding on cytomegalovirus transmission

... pretty important role in small RNA viruses, while our study looked at its impact in large DNA viruses," Ware said. "I think both of these studies lend credibility to the idea that the medical community should be looking at IL-10 as a molecular candidate that might be used to control persistent viral in...

Researchers publish first marsupial genome sequence

...tree of life. This analysis fills a crucial gap in our understanding of how mammalian genomes, including our own, have evolved over millions of years," said NHGRI Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D. "Thes...

DOE JGI sets 'gold standard' for metagenomic data analysis

...the May edition of Nature Methods. "DOE JGI and our collaborators have pioneered the use of DNA sequen...curacy was very low. But it also validated some of our assumptions." Mavrommatis said that, for example, when using the widely used sequence assembly to...

Researchers attach genes to minichromosomes in maize

...ofuel production. “The technique used to create our engineered minichromosomes should be transferable to other plant species,?Birchler said. He said he hopes that he and other scientists can use the technique to create minichromosomes in other plant varieties and produce more resistant plant strain...

100 percent of pregnant women have at least one kind of pesticide in their placenta

...of these substances which cannot be assimilated by our body, and are accumulated in the fatty parts of our tissues. This is especially worrying for pregnant women. During the gestation period, all the conta...

Heavy multivitamin use may be linked to advanced prostate cancer

...upplements could have unintended consequences for our health,?the authors write. ...

Dinosaur hearing, listening to muscle noise, quieter cubicles

... conditions on several other terrestrial bodies in our solar system. In addition, Martin Towner of The Open University in the United Kingdom ( martintowner@googlemail.com ) and others will discuss the acoustic instrumentation that has been flown to date in space missions, particularly the Huygens probe ...

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