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UAB researchers confirm HIV-1 originated in wild chimpanzees

...les collected by trackers from the forest floor in remote jungle regions of Cameroon, Hahn and her colleagues were able to detect SIVcpz-specific antibodies and nucleic acids (viral genetic information) in as many as 35 percent of chimpanzees in some ape communities. The UAB investigators went on to molec...

Antarctic Treaty Meeting moves to protect frozen continent from non-native species

...a direct link between numbers of people visiting a remote area and the numbers of non-native species that survive. Once established, they can be very difficult to eradicate. Prevention is better than cure." Concerned that a rapidly changing and warming climate on the Antarctic Peninsula could increase the ...

Better beetle sought for salt cedar control

...Borger. The new site was selected because of its remote location and because itis not subject to other control methods, such as fire and chemicaltreatments, Carney said. A total of 25 egg masses have been released at three different sites,all within cages, Carney said. While the Posidi beetles are approv...

Underwater listening devices yield discoveries about endangered large whales

... hydrophones (underwater microphones), deployed in remote waters off Alaska, have been used in recent years to track seasonal occurrences of blue, fin, humpback, North Pacific right, bowhead, and sperm whales, an article in the January 2006 issue of BioScience reports. Because whale calls can be detected...

Plants used to detect gas leaks, from outer space!

...r study was about testing the ability of satellite remote systems to monitor gas leaks via the spectrum of reflected light from plants, which changes when the plants are stressed", says Steven. "A satellite image of the stress responses in vegetation should identify gas leaks at least as well as a visual r...

One fish, two fish: New MIT sensor improves fish counts

...termine whether fish populations are shrinking. A remote sensor system developed by Associate Professor Nicholas Makris of mechanical engineering, along with others at MIT, Northeastern University and the Naval Research Laboratory, allows scientists to track enormous fish populations, or shoals, as well as...

Some like it hot: Worms at deep-sea vents favor a fiery 45-55°C

... taking submarine-borne thermometers to the worms' remote habitat, Girguis and Lee brought the worms to their special aquarium, leaving the deep-sea creatures free to choose any temperature between 20 and 61 degrees Celsius (58 and 142 degrees Fahrenheit). When this thermal gradient was established, all the...

UC San Diego partners with Venter Institute to build marine microbial genomics cyberinfrastructure

...tational resources, and accessing information from remote digital libraries. Calit2 will also partner with UCSD's San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) to create a next-generation science data server complex, which couples the Calit2 and SDSC middleware, compute, and storage capabilities with the NSF's Ter...

Ancient DNA provides clues to the evolution of social behavior

... colonial tuco-tuco (Ctenomys sociabilis) lives in remote highland savannah areas of southern Argentina. Unlike the more than 50 other tuco-tuco species that live mostly solitary lives, C. sociabilis lives in colonies. Several females frequently share one burrow and in captivity are known to nurse one anoth...

The Amazon in 2050: Implementing the law could save a million square kilometers of rainforest

... de São Paulo in 1998. He also holds a master's in remote sensing from the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais. A tropical forest ecologist, Nepstad has studied Amazon forests and strategies for their conservation for the last 21 years. His research includes forest fires and "savannization", the anal...

Unique equine cataract surgery offered on routine basis

...ey combined this with a technique commonly used in remote Indian Eye Camps to dislodge the cataract via the anterior eye chamber using a jet of saline. The teams remove the lens using an ultrasound probe and administered an injection of intravitreal steroids to control postoperative inflammation of the eye...

First wolverine radio-collared in Pacific Northwest

...h and Wildlife (WDFW), traveled by snowmobile to a remote location south of the Pasayten Wilderness in Okano...es in north-central Washington via aerial surveys, remote cameras, and winter tracking. "What we learn about wolverines from this effort will help us determ...

2005 was the warmest year in a century

...t ocean areas have warmed. Because these areas are remote and far away from major cities, it is clear to climatologists that the warming is not due to the influence of pollution from urban areas. ...

Canine cancer vaccine program shows early promise

...on have wanted to participate in the study, on the remote chance that this would help their pet. After promising results from work done in collaboration with cancer specialists from Arizona, California, and Michigan, the school has hired a full-time technician to produce the existing vaccine. The vaccine ...

Swiss researchers develop all-in-one remote control gene expression tool

...xciting is a fusion protein that acts as a kind of remote control. By administering an antibiotic, the genet...gene that expresses a growth factor. Thanks to the remote control carried in the lentivirus the expression of this growth factor can now be turned off when th...

Antibacterial coatings cut infection rates

... impossible for them to break away and travel into remote organs such as the brain or liver," Professor Griesser said. UniSA PhD student in applied science (minerals and materials), Sameer Al-Bataineh, has developed a fundamental understanding of the antibacterial coatings and how to make them. Using model...

T-rays: New imaging technology spotlighted by American Chemical Society

...ovement for national security applications such as remote sensing of explosives. In conjunction with NASA, THz imaging has also successfully detected defects in space shuttle foam. Other T-ray applications could enable the label-free characterization of genetic material, detect a C-4 explosive hidden in the...

How the neuron sprouts its branches

...surface of growing dendrites. And we thought these remote structures we had discovered in dendrites called Golgi outposts might play a role." The researchers studied the dendritic growth process in pyramidal neurons, which grow a single long "apical" dendrite and many shorter ones. To explore the role of G...

New U. of Colorado at Boulder flu chip may help combat future epidemics, pandemics

...ice the size of a cell phone or PDA and taken into remote areas around the world to test for lethal strains ... to swiftly test for the avian flu virus at large, remote bird farms in Asia, Europe and Russia, said Kuchta. The chip also could be easily reconfigured to u...

Seal rookeries could provide a reliable food source for endangered California condors, study finds

...ed more than 30 captive-bred condors in Big Sur, a remote mountainous region overlooking California's central coast. "We believe that marine mammals--primarily sea lion carcasses that wash up on the beach--now represent about 50 percent of the Big Sur population's diet," Sorenson says. "That's really exciti...

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