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Drugs from the deep blue

...ing overgrown with other sea life. Others might be released into the seawater as pheromones to encourage larvae to join an existing colony, or to attract a mate. Molinski's group is collaborating with Jay Stachowicz, assistant professor in the UC Davis Section of Evolution and Ecology and his graduate studen...

NASA satellite data provides rapid analysis of Amazon deforestation

... so much rainfall, an incredible amount of heat is released into the atmosphere - making the tropics the Earth's primary source of heat redistribution. And, because of the Amazon's location, any sort of weather hiccup from the area could signal serious changes for the rest of the world like droughts and sever...

Tropical Deforestation affects rainfall in the U.S. and around the globe

... so much rainfall, an incredible amount of heat is released into the atmosphere - making the tropics the Earth...ffecting the amount of both sensible heat and that released into the atmosphere when water vapor condenses, called latent heat," said Avissar. "Associated chang...

Brain networks change according to cognitive task

Using a newly released method to analyze functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), Northwestern University researchers have demonstrated that the interconnections between different parts of the brain are dynamic and not static. This and other findings answer longstandi...

Fluoride poisoning in China due to clay, not coal

...s team found that only 15 per cent of the fluoride released when the coal and clay mixture is burnt comes from the coal. The fluoride that contaminates the food and air comes mostly from the clay, which is taken from fluoride-rich soil, Zheng told SciDev.Net. Simply building outdoor chimneys will not be eno...

Researchers develop new testing methods for potential monkeypox or smallpox outbreak

...ase Control and Prevention (CDC). The research was released online this week by the medical journal Nature Med...onfirmed. Directly following the outbreak, the CDC released a report that focused on 11 of the 72 cases. Of those 11, six cases were confirmed and the remaining...

New results validating Pall prion reduction filter disclosed at ISBT Congress

... Medicine" symposium, Pall Corporation (NYSE: PLL) released new research results further validating the perfor...r, Ph.D., Principal Scientist of Pall Corporation, released new research results that further support the performance of the Leukotrap Affinity Prion Reduction ...

The ecological effects of the Chernobyl disaster

...Belarus, and Russia. Some 40 radionucleotides were released into the environment, including Strontium 90 (90Sr) and Cesium 137 (137Cs). Yet despite radiation levels dangerous to humans, most natural areas in the region have rebounded, and by ecological standards, are functioning normally. The session, organiz...

'Patient-choice' C-section rate rises 36%: HealthGrades study

....6 percent from 2001 to 2003, according to a study released today by HealthGrades, the leading provider of ind... Obstetricians and Gynecologists' Ethics Committee released an opinion supporting C-sections by patient choice "�so long as the patient is fully informed of the...

New book expands biological classifications to account for 'alien' life

...sis of) Alien Life," published by Viking and being released Thursday. The new system is already necessary, he said, because "alien" life has been created in laboratories on Earth. That includes microbes with at least one amino acid beyond the 20 in the DNA of native Earth life, or organisms that have been gen...

Number Of Babies Born Prematurely Nears Historic Half Million Mark In U.S.

... weeks gestation) in 2003, according to the report released by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). That's up from 12.1 percent (or about 480,000 babies) in 2002 -- and an increase of more than 30 percent since the government began tracking premature births in 1981. The prematurity rate was 9.4 i...

Oceans turning to acid from rise in CO2

...California.* The report on ocean acidification was released today by the Royal Society. See http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/ Many scientists view the world's oceans as an important sink for capturing the human-induced greenhouse gas CO2 and slowing global warming. Marine plants soak up CO2 as they breathe it in an...

Hunger in America rises by 43 percent over last five years

...alysis of US Department of Agriculture (USDA) data released today. The analysis, completed by the Center on Hunger and Poverty at Brandeis University, shows that more than 7 million people have joined the ranks of the hungry since 1999. The USDA report, Household Food Security in the United States, 2004, s...

Bacteria in Household Dust May Trigger Asthma Symptoms

...re found in the cell wall of bacteria and are only released when bacteria ruptures or disintegrates. Because bacteria can be found everywhere in the home, the likelihood of their release is high. Once released, endotoxins can cause inflammation of the airways and lead to asthma symptoms. The study, published...

Research casts doubt on circulating stem cells

...s The reason is probably that in nearly all cells released into the blood from bone marrow many genes are permanently "switched off" and the cells cannot simply be switched back on again. After all, what comes from bone marrow is generally blood and not muscle tissue. The story of a "jack of all trades" circ...

Biologist Discovers What May Be World’s ‘Pickiest?Mates

...d release their larvae. “Larvae were successfully released during high-amplitude nocturnal tides only when females incubated in burrows that allowed the larvae to exit the estuary swiftly and thus reduce predation risk, but not when females incubated in burrows that were too wide or narrow,?deRivera writes i...

New antibody shows promise as cure for anthrax

...ailable to treat the large amounts of deadly toxin released by those bacteria, which is what leads to death in patients with late-stage anthrax infection. In 2002, Iverson and Georgiou, a biomedical and chemical engineer, reported that their labs had developed a high-affinity, "sticky" antibody designed to b...

K-State professors discover enzyme responsible for creation of a beetle's hard shell

...flour beetle, Tribolium castaneum. A paper, to be released this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, presents the research results. The K-State researchers are Yasuyuki Arakane, research associate in biochemistry; Subbaratnam Muthukrishnan, professor of biochemistry; Richard Beeman, a...

Emerging staph strains found to be increasingly deadly and deceptive

...pitals and other health-care settings. In a paper released today online in The Journal of Immunology, scientists from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, describe how community-acquired S. aureus strains that survive treatment with the...

Anthrax stops body from fighting back, study shows

... to move freely in the body, according to research released last week in The Journal of Infectious Diseases. The need to find new ways to treat victims of bioterrorism has increased since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and the anthrax attacks that killed five people exposed to inhalation anthrax throu...

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