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A healthier start to a pig's life

...uable in making contacts in other countries and in raising the profile of the project....

Bumblebee house warming -- it takes a village

...temperature extremes. Some workers specialized in raising the temperature in a nest when they incubated the ...bumblebees rely on nest thermoregulation, actively raising or lowering temperature. Because they are well adapted to cooler and temperate climates, bumblebees...

Will the plague pathogen become resistant to antibiotics?

...coli have been found in droppings from wild geese, raising the possibility that wild animals might be able to spread MDR far beyond the livestock where it originated, Ravel notes. "When we identified the first Y. pestis strain resistant to multiple antibiotics, we warned that if this type of strain spread...

Largest genomic search finds genes that may contribute to autism

...on dedicated to increasing awareness of autism and raising money to fund autism research, and the National Institutes of Health. The consortium scientists utilized statistical power from the largest set of autism-related genetic material yet examined. The researchers found neurexin 1, part of a family of ge...

Warming oceans threaten Antarctic glaciers

... Antarctica were shown to be retreating in unison, raising concerns that global sea level could rapidly rise if the oceans continue to warm. Dr. Andrew Shepherd, at the University of Edinburgh’s School of GeoSciences, said: "Our assessment confirms that just one type of glacier in Antarctica is retreating...

Post oak grasshoppers emerging

... the state and to create a database. He's also raising the grasshoppers in his lab, with Junek supplying nymphs she has already found this year. Junek is also giving him other valuable insights gained through personal observations. Last year, when the grasshoppers reached adulthood, she caught them a...

Autism gene identified by researchers at Yale working with a global research consortium

...it dedicated to increasing awareness of autism and raising money to research the disorder, and the National Institutes of Health, these are the preliminary findings from the AGP’s first phase. The consortium used "gene chip" technology to look for genetic similarities in autistic individuals culled from ...

Are one-third of costly implanted heart devices unnecessary? New study suggests yes

... spared the operation to implant a device, without raising their risk of sudden death. That would mean that Medicare could be spared the additional $90,000 lifetime cost of each device compared to best medical therapy. The study, published in the January issue of the Journal of the American College of Car...

Rare soft-shell turtle, nesting ground found in Cambodia

...turtles has been found in Cambodia’s Mekong River, raising hopes that the threatened species can be saved from extinction. Scientists from Conservation International (CI), World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the Cambodian Fisheries Administration, and the Cambodian Turtle Conservation Team captured and released an ...

Antarctic icebergs -- Hotspots of ocean life

... scientists estimate that overall the icebergs are raising the biological productivity of nearly 40 percent of the Weddell Sea’s area....

CU study reveals why starling females cheat

...ative breeders, meaning breeding pairs get help in raising chicks from other family group members.) This addi...ng, the partner punishes her by doing less work in raising the chicks, or in extreme cases, leaves her to raise the chicks on her own. But because superb starl...

Weizmann Institute scientists develop a general 'control switch' for protein activity

...tch” that can control the activity of any protein, raising it several-fold or stopping it almost completely. The method provides researchers with a simple and effective tool for exploring the function of unknown proteins, and in the future the new technique may find many additional uses. The switch has a...

Nurtured chimps rake it in

...y. The study (1) is the first to demonstrate that raising chimpanzees in a human cultural environment enhances their cognitive abilities, as measured by their ability to understand how tools work. The findings have just been published online in the Springer journal Animal Cognition. The scientists compare...

Study investigates 'divorce' among Galapagos seabirds

...azca booby females switch mates after successfully raising a chick, according to a Wake Forest University stu... increases with the birds’ success at breeding and raising a chick, because the effort required may tire out the male and consequently his mate may reject him....

In mice, drug protects against diabetes and atherosclerosis

...sensitive to the sugar-lowering action of insulin, raising the risk of diabetes. For many decades, aP2 was believed to act only in fat cells. In 2001, Hotamisligil and a collaborator discovered that aP2 is also expressed in macrophages, which scavenge and digest cellular debris and microbes in the blood stre...

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