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Ocean 'dead zones' trigger sex changes in fish, posing extinction threat

...w oxygen levels also might reduce the quantity and quality of the eggs produced by female fish, diminishing their fertility, he adds. In their experiments, Wu and his colleagues found low levels of dissolved oxygen ?less than 2 parts per million ?down-regulated the activity of certain genes that control th...

Carnegie Mellon develops non-invasive technique to detect transplant rejection at cellular level

...f biopsy procedures and should greatly improve the quality of life for cardiac transplant patients, especially children," added Ho, who directs the Pittsburgh NMR Center for Biomedical Research. "Perhaps most importantly, this advance will allow doctors to provide highly personalized care that could prevent ...

Antibacterial coatings cut infection rates

...significantly reduce health care costs and improve quality of life for patients, researchers at the University of South Australia have found. A significant number of hip and knee implants are prone to infection after surgery and in many cases are not amenable to treatment with antibiotics, according to Hans...

Picking particles faster than one at a time

...s are drawn around the final picks and their image quality is enhanced by an operation called "shrink-wrappin... intending to select only particles of the highest quality -- a "gold standard" -- he chose roughly two-thirds of the same particles picked by the software. Wh...

'Dating agency' boosts hunt for disease genes

...y patients. The new collaborators then request top quality research materials from the DNA Network's archive. "The significance of this development is that it builds on the success of the Human Genome Project. This discovered all our genes - and revealed that biologists now need serious logistics for this t...

Setting the standard for computer models of life

...ww.ebi.ac.uk/biomodels ). The current challenge is quality control: systems biologists won't use publicly ava...le to provide our users with a reasonable level of quality assurance, so they'll be able to get on with the business of generating and testing new hypotheses i...

Have a taste for fat? Yes! A sensor in the mouth promotes preference for fatty foods

The sense of taste informs the organism about the quality of ingested food. It comprises five sub-modalities that perceive sweet, salt, sour, bitter, and umami stimuli. The possibility for an additional taste modality directed to lipid has often been suggested because many animals exhibit a spontaneous att...

UCR environmental scientists propose chemical solution to cleaning California's Salton Sea

UC Riverside scientists are able to improve water quality by 90 percent in the rivers flowing into the Salto...utrients, particularly phosphorus, deteriorate the quality of the lake's water by encouraging algae growth. "Water treatment technology and on-farm management...

GROWing the next generation of water recycling plants

...ome and workplace does not need to be of drinkable quality yet it comes from the same pure source as our kitchen taps. Using GROW, much of the water that enters a building can be used twice before being placed into the national wastewater management system. "We had to carefully choose which semi-aquatic pla...

Largest computational biology simulation mimics life’s most essential nanomachine

...urse, drug toxicity may significantly affect ones' quality of life and drug adherence rates." Results from the study have led to changes in the drug regimen to improve patients' drug adherence and prognosis. In addition to creating the first public sector ARV clinic, Harvard has used the grant received in 2...

New Therapeutic Target Identified In Inherited Brain Tumor Disorder

...urse, drug toxicity may significantly affect ones' quality of life and drug adherence rates." Results from the study have led to changes in the drug regimen to improve patients' drug adherence and prognosis. In addition to creating the first public sector ARV clinic, Harvard has used the grant received in 2...

HIV-infected adults in Botswana respond positively to ARV therapy public treatment program

...urse, drug toxicity may significantly affect ones' quality of life and drug adherence rates." Results from the study have led to changes in the drug regimen to improve patients' drug adherence and prognosis. In addition to creating the first public sector ARV clinic, Harvard has used the grant received in 2...

New malaria vaccine shows promise in early clinical trial

... could kill parasites] were utilized to assess the quality of the antibody response produced," say Brendan Crabb and James Beeson in an accompanying Perspective. However, they also point out that important questions remain, some of which will only be answered in additional clinical trials. Based on the resul...

UK sperm donor crisis

...ncrease because of a possible decline in the semen quality in the general UK population." The potential gap ...uality. However, to achieve good freeze-thaw sperm quality and, hence, good success rates, the starting sample needs to be substantially better than the WHO cr...

WWF peeks into mysterious life of Borneo's pygmy elephants

... the satellite tracking. It was proved that forest quality influences the diversity and distribution of elephant food in the forest, with encroachment into palm oil plantations being higher along the degraded forest-plantation areas. The Sabah Wildlife Department described the study as very important and t...

Do the Europeans turn ill sitting up so late?

...ed accident rates and considerable decrease in the quality of life.Sleep loss may also predispose individuals to conditions such as burn-out and cardiovascular diseases. The EU has granted a 4,4 million Euro funding for this research project from the Marie Curie 6th Framework Program. In addition to Finland...

Implantable pumps extend lives of patients too sick for transplant

...ity of life, but they appeared to have an improved quality of life," said Duke cardiologist Joseph Rogers, M....cored significantly higher on standard measures of quality of life than patients in the control group, Rogers said. "This is a remarkably ill group of patient...

How Fruitflies Know It's Time for Lunch

...while external signals relay information about the quality of available food, determined by its smell and tas...nd external signals carrying information about the quality of food. The researchers also noted that the finicky pumpless (ppl) mutants, which have a feeding de...

Researchers show how air pollution can cause heart disease

...e range of annual EPA limits and equivalent to air quality in urban areas such as New York City. The researchers then conducted an array of tests to measure whether the PM2.5 exposure had any impact on the mice's cardiovascular health. Overall, mice who breathed polluted air fared worse than those inhaling...

Brain activity related to processing faces is similar in people with, without autism

...ggered by looking at faces may help to improve the quality of social interactions, at least from the perspective of caregivers and others involved with them. "The idea is that maybe behavioral methods can help a child with autism approach facial stimuli without anxiety. This is strictly conjecture, but it is...

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