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Deep treasure to be found in Oculina Bank

... investigator, nominated the Oculina reefs to for protection in 1981. In 1984, NOAA approved the the South Atlantic Fishery Management Council's (SAFMC) designation of 92 square miles of the Oculina reefs as a coral Habitat Area of Particular Concern (HAPC) where the use of bottom trawling, longlines, fish t...

Center releases new public survey on stem cells

...e human life at all stages of development deserves protection and should not be destroyed. Much current debate focuses on whether other sources of stem cells - blood from the umbilical cord removed at birth, for example - might be as useful without the need to destroy embryos, but the scientific consensus so f...

New clues to the dark side of a key anti-tumor guardian

... protein is beneficial in terms of bestowing extra protection against tumor formation, but at the same time it has a significant negative effect: a shortening of lifespan, accompanied by hallmarks of accelerated aging, including osteoporosis, decreased stress resistance, and organ atrophy. The work is reported...

NJIT study shows nanoparticles could damage plant life

...ngs, sunscreen lotions that provide transparent-UV protection and environmental catalysts that reduce pollution, said Daniel J. Watts, PhD, the lead author of the study. "Before this study there was an assumption that nanoparticles had no effect on plants," said Watts, executive director of the York Center fo...

Oysters: The natural way to protect our shores

... shell reefs as opposed to other heavier shoreline protection structures (i.e. limestone rock breakwaters) which usually necessitate placement of additional material over time to maintain their effectiveness," authors, Bryan P. Piazza, Patrick D. Banks, and Megan K. La Peyre state. The authors evaluated the ef...

New vaccine platform may fight infections with causes from influenza to bioterrorism

...d on activated T-cells of the immune system offers protection from infection even in the absence of essential im... Nov. 23, 2005, at www.jci.org . "In addition to protection against pneumocystis, our vaccine platform may be effective in preventing viral illnesses such as in...

Biotech cotton 8: Bugs 0

...s are planted with the biotech plants. Without the protection provided by Bt cotton, some fields can have 100 percent of plants infested with pink bollworm caterpillars, which live inside the cotton boll, destroying the crop. Dennehy said, "In an extreme infestation, you can have every single boll in the field...

Researchers Find Drug May Give Some Cardiac Protection 24 Hours After Heart Attack

A drug has been shown to provide some protection to the heart from injury even if given as much as ...opoietin (EPO), which has been shown to offer some protection to the heart from injury from ischemia, or a lack of oxygen. In previous studies, Dr. Koch had given...

Fresh water affected by salt from deicing roads

.... already exceeds the recommended standard for the protection of aquatic life of 250 mg/l of chloride. In developed areas of Baltimore, chloride concentrations were already high enough to induce mortality in aquatic animals and alter wetland plant composition. During the winter months chloride in urbanized ar...

Living anti-HIV gel shows early promise

...d offer cost-effective, efficient and long-lasting protection against the virus. The team, led by Srinivas Rao,... the bacteria successfully colonise and reproduce, protection can be long-lasting. Short-lasting creams against HIV/AIDS would need to be applied regularly befor...

Chernobyl: The true scale of the accident

...ery and mitigation, resettlement of people, social protection and health care for the affected population, research on environment, health and the production of clean food, radiation monitoring, as well as indirect losses due to removing agricultural lands and forests from use and the closing of agriculture and...

Scientists characterize proteome of human cornea

...microbial defense, heme and iron transport, tissue protection against UV-radiation and oxidative stress. Several other proteins were known antiangiogenic factors, which prevent the formation of blood vessels. The results from this research may open the door to future therapeutics for a myriad of corneal disord...

PLoS Medicine publishes first trial of effect of male circumcision on HIV infection

...s had suspected that circumcision might offer some protection against HIV transmission. However, because the lower infection rates in the circumcised groups might be due to some other difference between circumcised and uncircumcised populations, the only way to test whether circumcision has a protective effect ...

Study provides insight into cellular defenses against genetic mutation

...lar Biology, the research is important because the protection itself can contribute to disease, and the ability to side-step it may lead to new treatments for hundreds of genetic disorders. The blueprint for the human body is encoded in genes, many of which hold the information necessary for the building of ...

NC State researchers redesign life for Mars and beyond

...in hopes of providing evenmore extreme-temperature protection to plants. And, they're involving more great minds tocome up with more answers - they've team-taught an honors undergraduate class called "Redesigning Living Organisms to Survive on Mars: Development of Virtual Plants" and plan to offer another class...

Researchers find Amchitka seafood safe for now

...skill of the CRESP people. We sent them with every protection we could reasonably devise, but the fact that the expedition was executed safely and successfully in this forbidding environment is quite extraordinary. And then we found that the challenge of analyzing our data proved every bit as difficult as the e...

Bronx Zoo bears are new Samsonite gorillas

...d, means the container provides more-than-adequate protection from the black bear, the grizzly bear's smaller cousin. Unlike grizzly bears, which are found in only a handful of locations in the lower 48 states, black bears occur throughout the country, often living in or near areas of human recreation and devel...

Preventing a pandemic: Study suggests strategies for containing a flu outbreak

...rus. Because humans would have little or no immune protection against this strain, it could potentially cause a massive pandemic. "There were three influenza pandemics in the 20th century alone. The threat of another pandemic, related to avian influenza, is real and very serious. Fortunately, as the new study ...

Continued reduction in the number of drug-related deaths in the UK

...possible on prevention of drug trafficking and the protection of our young people from the scourge of drug abuse problems" ...

Volunteers sought for avian flu vaccine study

...ll be required to provide blood samples to test if protection against the virus was produced. People 65 years or older who are interested in hearing more about the avian flu vaccine study, may call the Avian Influenza Hotline at 615-322-8740. ...

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