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Common practices at petting zoos put visitors at risk

...d Environmental Control conducted an observational survey of visitors to a petting zoo at the 2005 South Car... into the petting zoo with them. In the Tennessee survey one in five visitors was observed eating or drinking in the petting zoo. "Our petting zoo had a lo...

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

...dition is developing the first large-scale genomic survey of microbial life in the world's oceans to produce the largest gene catalogue ever assembled. Sorcerer II is expected to more than double the number of protein sequences currently available in the National Institutes of Health's GenBank. The metageno...

Medical experts: US unlikely to have enough vaccines to stop avian flu

... spread easily from human to human, according to a survey led by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University. The results of the survey will be published in the June 2006 issue of the journal Global Public Health. The 19 medical expert...

MIT: Oceans are a major gene swap-meet for plankton

...t is most important to them" by doing a systematic survey of relative abundances among six different types, or clades, of Prochlorococcus across vast environmental gradients in the oceans, Chisholm said. "We found first that two clades are orders of magnitude more abundant than all of the rest, and that tem...

First wolverine radio-collared in Pacific Northwest

...The capture is the culmination of several years of survey work in north-central Washington to document wolverine presence to begin to understand their habitat needs. "We know so little about these rarely seen animals that this is an exciting opportunity to learn more about their general ecology in the north...

Mechanism for memory revealed in neurons of electric fish

...akon and Oestreich discharge electrical signals to survey their environment and communicate with each other. "Every time they discharge, it's kind of like they are opening their eyes and closing them," says Zakon. "Each pulse of electricity is a snapshot of the environment. These guys are swimming around ...

Environmental metagenomics diagnosing extreme environments, tapping opportunities for clean energy

...s Edward M. Rubin, DOE JGI Director. "We can then survey this vast catalog of biodiversity and harness the microbial pathways that catalyze the conversion of lignocellulosic feedstocks, such as wood chips, crop residue, and various grasses, into cleaner sources of energy." One of the systems that DOE JGI ...

Whole-genome study at Johns Hopkins reveals a new gene associated with abnormal heart rhythm

Using a new genomic strategy that has the power to survey the entire human genome and identify genes with common variants that contribute to complex diseases, researchers at Johns Hopkins, together with scientists from Munich, Germany, and the Framingham Heart Study, U.S.A., have identified a gene that may ...

Wild birds help to create human flu vaccine

... influenza. Working in Mongolia for a health survey of wild bird populations in Mongolia, WCS field vets Drs. William Karesh and Martin Gilbert responded to reports of the avian influenza outbreak in Kovsgol Province near the Russian border from the Mongolian Ministry of Food and Agriculture, which co...

Should doctors tell patients about expensive, unfunded drugs?

...ons might have on patients and their families. The survey also found that these discussions were stressful for clinicians. But the authors argue that this practice fails to respect autonomy and may not be in the patient's best interests. They believe that withholding information on the basis of what a pat...

New research examines genetics of successful aging

...were male, half were female. Using a novel genome survey method, scientists compared the DNA of the study sample with that of 100 young adults, aged 18-25 years old, who were matched for sex, race, ethnicity and geographic location. Specifically, Dr. Zubenko and his research team attempted to identify spe...

New methods offer insight into regulatory DNA

...ves us greater confidence to take on a genome-wide survey of gene activity." A global map of sequence variation and gene activity will be an important tool in the interpretation of variation and disease. Such genome-wide association studies will be able to identify some regions of the genome with strong di...

First big influenza genome study reveals flu evolution

Which flu did you get? TIGR scientists survey five New York flu seasons On the eve of the 2005-06 flu season, scientists at The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) have captured influenza evolution in action. In a study published in this week's journal Nature , the researchers report the fir...

Marine conservation organizations team up to conduct Indonesia coral reefs assessment

...servation organizations will complete an extensive survey next week along the west coast of Aceh Province, I...onservation Union (IUCN) will carry out a two-week survey from October 17-31 of over 600 kilometers of Aceh's southwest coast to examine the damage to the cor...

Earliest European Farmers Left Little Genetic Mark On Modern Europe

...nowledge of HIV transmission. According to a major survey carried out in the Philippines in 2003, more than 90% of respondents still believed that HIV could be transmitted by sharing a meal with an HIV-positive person. Finally, weak HIV surveillance in several regions including in some countries in Latin A...

2005 AIDS figures released by WHO and UNAIDS

...nowledge of HIV transmission. According to a major survey carried out in the Philippines in 2003, more than 90% of respondents still believed that HIV could be transmitted by sharing a meal with an HIV-positive person. Finally, weak HIV surveillance in several regions including in some countries in Latin A...

Center releases new public survey on stem cells

...ress would either extend this ban or relax it. A survey of 2,212 Americans conducted September 9-19, revea...nd in the op-ed pages of American newspapers. The survey found wide support for embryonic stem cell (ESC) research that cut across political, religious and s...

Past illegal blood donation in China linked to hepatitis C virus infection

...e University of Alabama at Birmingham, conducted a survey in 2003 among a random sample of 538 adult residents from 12 former commercial plasma-donating villages in Shanxi Province. Structured questionnaires were administered and blood samples tested for HCV antibodies. HCV rates were 8% in all participants...

Techniques available to detect soil that inhibits destructive soybean pest

...isms." Westphal and his research team conducted a survey throughout Indiana to locate nematode-suppressive soils in an effort to make this tool more available and to further study the mechanisms that create its effectiveness against the pathogen. Soybean cyst nematodes, one of a large, diverse group of mu...

Survey Uncovers Surprising Attitudes Towards HIV Vaccine Research

A survey of U.S. adults has found that a majority believe t...were among the conflicting findings of a telephone survey of more than 3,500 adults to assess attitudes, knowledge and awareness of HIV vaccine research in th...

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