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Study: Living coral reefs provide better protection from tsunami waves

...vide their adjacent coasts with substantially more protection from destructive tsunami waves than do unhealthy o...althy reefs offer the coast at least twice as much protection as dead reefs. The finding provides the first quantitative confirmation of a widely held theory rega...

Too mellow for our predatory world

...ustainable tourism, thereby ensuring the necessary protection of the unique animal and plant world of the Galápagos....

Pilot study successful in taming allergic reactions to food

...al, Burks said, is to offer food allergy sufferers protection from accidental ingestion of items that provoke reactions and, eventually, to induce complete or near-complete tolerance to those items. Burks and his colleagues modeled the study on a commonly used method for treating seasonal allergy sufferers ...

Fatty fish protects against cancer

...ded that women who eat fatty fish gain significant protection against renal cancer. At least one portion of fatty fish a week during the period (1987-2004) reduced the risk of renal cancer by 74 per cent compared with those who never ate fatty fish. The group who ate fresh fish at least once a week but for who...

Serengeti patrols cut poaching of buffalo, elephants, rhinos

...ed in Science. "The Hilborn team has shown that protection of wildlife by active enforcement of laws and regulations remains an essential tool for conserving biological diversity," Hobbs says. "This sounds so simple, but it has been controversial." ...

Tuberculosis: The bacillus takes refuge in adipose cells

... measure, may in some cases not provide sufficient protection against the disease. This is particularly important for immunocompromised patients and for people with AIDS, for whom a secondary infection with tuberculosis bacillus may have very serious consequences. This work highlights the importance of the se...

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

...rly alarming when you consider that all the policy protection is aimed at the high income world. Very few strategies are being thought through that are primarily targeting poor countries." For many decades, published epidemiological literature assumed that mortality rates from the 1918-20 pandemic were distr...

Why Popeye only has eyes for spinach

...ence to suggest that macular pigment provides some protection against AMD but we want to discover whether eating vegetables rich in these chemicals will have a direct impact on the disease. "Since macular pigment is wholly derived from our diet we would expect that eating foods containing high levels of these...

Steep oxygen decline halted first land colonization by Earth's sea creatures

...stance, a mollusk shell is typically thought of as protection for the marine creature, he said, but it turns out the shell actually channels water across the gill to deliver oxygen. "An unshelled mollusk has a far greater respiratory problem than a shelled mollusk," Ward said. "In many groups the shell is an...

Scientists find a key to immune system's ability to remember

...to deactivated virus particles in vaccines confers protection from disease. But how that memory system works -- how it acts at the finest level of detail to thwart the pathogens that invade our bodies -- is not well understood. Now, however, an international team of scientists has ferreted out an important cl...

Microcapsules like it hot and salty

... component of car paint which releases a corrosion protection agent when damaged, thereby stopping the damaged section from becoming larger. As microsensors they could supply information about the concentration of certain molecules, such as glucose or calcium ions in cells or also work as micropumps. ...

Crohn's disease gene identified

...disease. One mutation appears to offer significant protection from IBD, and will be a crucial target for drugs that might better manage Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis." Previous genetic studies found a link between Crohn's disease and mutations in a gene known as CARD 15, but those mutations alone di...

Tarantulas produce silk from their feet

...their abdomen and to use the silk to form webs for protection and capturing prey rather than for locomotion. The findings are published in the current issue of Nature. "If we find that other spiders in addition to these tarantulas have the ability to secrete silk from their feet, this could represent a majo...

Vaccine combined with short-term postexposure antibiotics protects monkeys from inhalational anthrax

...inued. Thus, postexposure vaccination enhanced the protection afforded by 14 days of antibiotic prophylaxis alon...low. In contrast, computer modeling suggests that protection against higher doses of anthrax spores could require that antibiotics be continued for as long as fo...

Gene transfer using mutant form of good cholesterol cuts vascular plaque and inflammation

...y be administered in childhood to provide lifelong protection against vascular inflammation and plaque. The gene therapy research was supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health, the Eisner Foundation, Entertainment Industry Foundation, Milken Family Foundation, United Hostesses and The Heart F...

St. Jude test of bird flu vaccine proves successful

...upled with results of previous studies that showed protection against multiple human influenza strains, suggests...omponent vaccine (H5, NP and M2) provided complete protection in mice against lethal challenges with a highly virulent (Vietnam/1203/2004) H5N1 avian influenza vi...

Common carp sheds new light on surviving in extreme environments

...ngs suggest that this protein plays other roles in protection from low levels of oxygen in the tissues apart from storing oxygen, and we need to reassess its importance. It may be that the kind of damage caused in humans by low oxygen levels, could be countered by the therapeutic elevation of myglobin levels ...

Race to halt global amphibian crisis boosted by rediscovery of endangered Colombian frogs

... an important home for threatened species, and its protection was a top priority of the Alliance for Zero Extinction ?a 62-member group of conservation organizations battling global extinctions. In March, alliance members Conservation International (CI) and American Bird Conservancy (ABC) helped Fundación ProAv...

Report focuses on the role good microbes play in future medicine

...lining of the digestive tract providing additional protection against pathogenic organisms that can cause diarrhea. "Several probiotics have been shown to shorten the duration of acute watery diarrhea caused by rotavirus in children. Other causes of diarrhea may also be addressed through probiotics," says Car...

AIDS vaccine research offers new insights on survival

...ntibodies -- the mechanism responsible for vaccine protection against other viruses including polio and hepatiti... this point -- assuming that the vaccine conferred protection for only 100 days -- Letvin and his VRC colleagues decided to follow the monkeys for an additional 7...

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