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What's nature worth? New computer models tell all

...cosystem services provide a majority of income for poor people in developing countries, but, more startling, that the economic value of the world's ecosystems is much larger than the value of all the products and services usually put under the umbrella of "the global economy." Ultimately, Costanza hope...

New flood-tolerant rice offers relief for world's poorest farmers

...ldest challenges and offering reliefto millions of poor rice farmers around the world. While rice thrive...will help ensure a more dependable food supply for poor farmers andtheir families. And, in the long run, our findings may allow riceproducers in the United ...

Polynesia explorers created worldwide web of scientific knowledge

... During this era, scientific travelers were young, poor and "painfully dependent" on the goodwill and deep pockets of their patrons. They also were ambitious, enduring the "madness of long, lonely voyages" for the fame they might claim upon their return.Their bosses, the voyage sponsors, tended to be high...

Diabetes hits 275 Australians each day as pandemic spreads

...rs, particularly the dramatic increase in obesity, poor diet and physical inactivity ?and is already costing taxpayers over $3 billion annually. That figure will increase exponentially over time," he said. The Institute's Deputy Director, Associate Professor Jonathan Shaw, said the latest research had gi...

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

...to a pound of beef. His article further warns of poor oversight of cattle feed. In particular, the slaughterhouse practice of "rendering," or recycling dead cows and sheep into protein for cattle feed, is believed to be widespread. Congress banned the practice in 1997 following evidence that feeding h...

Metal homeostasis research in plants will lead to nutrient-rich food and higher yielding crops

...e Iron in rice can increase the Iron intake of the poor by 50 percent. Rice is a staple food in many of the countries with widespread Iron deficiencies in human diets. Guerinot's lab has previously identified the essential Iron transporter responsible for Iron uptake from the soil. This Iron transport...

Experimental vaccine protects lab animals against several strains of H5N1

...-virulent H5N1 strains have so far been relatively poor stimulators of immunity in human trials. In the study, the ferrets were vaccinated intramuscularly with one or two doses of vaccine. Both schedules induced a protective antibody response, but the two-dose schedule induced higher levels of antibodie...

Compound in dairy products targets diabetes

...ecoming an epidemic and is largely associated with poor diet and nutrition and other lifestyle issues," Vanden Heuvel says. The reason for the increase in diabetes may have to do with the ratio of so-called "good" and "bad" fats, with the average American diet containing too much of the "bad" fats. CLA, w...

Just like us, social stress prompts hamsters to overeat, gain weight

... when subjected to a similar stress, making them a poor subject for human stress-induced obesity research. The study asked three questions: Does repeated social defeat increase food intake, weight and fat in hamsters? If so, how many defeats are necessary? Do intermittent (unpredictable) defeats increas...

Surprising symbiosis: Glassy-winged sharpshooter eats with friends

...n be used as food," Moran explains. "It's terribly poor in nutrients." In the study, the team first carried out a painstaking forensic type of DNA analysis known as "metagenomics," in which they sequenced the B. cicadellinicola's genome from material gathered via dissections of hundreds of insects. The s...

Analysis of breast-cancer gene role offers promising target

...le for metastases in early-stage breast cancer and poor prognosis for patients. In a study published in this week's issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , the gene, called uPAR, offers a promising target for therapeutic drugs to stop or slow the progression of the disease and c...

Parasitic plants sniff out hosts

...ts. They even found attraction to wheat plants, a poor host on which the dodder seedlings do not survive....n why wheat is somewhat attractive despite being a poor host. However, another chemical compound from wheat actually repels the dodder seedlings, perhaps e...

Cougar predation key to ecosystem health

...s." Until recently, ecologists had a poor understanding of how the loss of an important predator, such as wolves or cougar, could affect such a broad range of other plant and animal species. But the evidence is now accumulating that primary predators not only have direct effects in influenci...

Study shows how herpes infects cornea, evades immune cells

...ult to treat. Effective treatment is hampered by poor understanding of how the virus infects the stroma, says Deepak Shukla, assistant professor of ophthalmology and visual science and microbiology and immunology, and senior author of the paper. In their study, he and his coworkers determined that the H...

Why Popeye only has eyes for spinach

... it is also linked to controllable factors such as poor diet, smoking and obesity. "Having their macular pigment measured and learning about the health of their eyes might be the first step to a change in lifestyle for many people." ...

New biologic treatment for tennis elbow may replace surgery for chronic sufferers

...ng it back into an area where there was relatively poor blood supply to help repair the damage." ...

Recurrence of a flu pandemic similar to infamous 1918 flu could kill 62 million

...being thought through that are primarily targeting poor countries." For many decades, published epidemi...s actually conservative. "We all know that the poor tend to have higher mortality," said Murray, "but we never expected that so much of the cross-countr...

Search on for treatment of slow-healing wounds

...that turn into chronic wounds annually. Due to the poor blood circulation of many diabetics, a foot sore can develop into an open ulcer that won't heal. For diabetics, such wounds contribute to a foot or lower-leg amputation rate 10 to 15 times higher than non-diabetics. Eighty percent of diabetics who...

Gene therapy research switches off joint inflammation; switches on genetic process of joint repair

...ry Board said that, "Sixty six million people have poor joint health; 20 million people suffer from osteoarthritis. Compromised joint health is a major contributor to comprised quality of life. No product of any kind has been able to demonstrate this combination of actions. These findings have been publis...

NASA study: Alaskan fires affected Houston air quality in 2004

... unprecedented insight into the origins of locally poor air quality in Houston on those two days," Morris said. Houston frequently exceeds federal standards for ground-level ozone. On 52 days in 2005, Houston's air quality violated the eight-hour Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) standard for ozone, ...

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