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Elusive salamanders have role in developing new sampling models

...were a bit concerned and were looking for a better survey method, said Mark Bevelhimer, an aquatic ecologist and member of ORNL's Environmental Sciences Division. A Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program project is helping in that area and addressing even greater challenges. "Just because...

Genetically modified maize not found in southern Mexico

...ences. The study is the first published report to survey the frequency of transgenes in native varieties of maize. Four years ago, researchers reported finding four cobs of GM maize in Oaxaca , the southern Mexican state where Snow and her colleagues conducted their work. And despite the government's ban ...

Bird samples from Mongolia confirmed as H5N1 avian flu

... or waterfowl. Present in Mongolia for a health survey of wild bird populations in the south and north of the country, WCS field vets Drs. William Karesh and Martin Gilbert responded to initial reports of the most recent avian influenza outbreak in Kovsgol Province near the Russian border from the Mongol...

Siberian tigers hang tough

Results of the latest full range survey indicate that tiger numbers in Russia appear to be...coordinator for the project, remarked, "This tiger survey represents a milestone in cooperative, international conservation efforts, with full political suppo...

Why are coyotes getting more aggressive?

...ral Resources at Cornell, will work with Curtis to survey public attitudes and behaviors relating to coyotes. The researchers also will develop and test ways to try to induce coyotes to fear humans without harming them. "We need to determine what people are doing, for example, to encourage coyotes into the...

Scientists to mimic nature for newest cancer drugs

...andatory ship location reporting, extensive aerial survey efforts and mariner education -- the scientists say that the initiatives don't lead to a reduction in ship strike mortalities without required changes in the operation of ships within right whale habitats and migratory corridors. And although the ri...

FSU scientist warns North Atlantic right whale facing extinction

...andatory ship location reporting, extensive aerial survey efforts and mariner education -- the scientists say that the initiatives don't lead to a reduction in ship strike mortalities without required changes in the operation of ships within right whale habitats and migratory corridors. And although the ri...

New defibrillator signals doctor of patient's irregular heartbeat or device malfunction

...according to U.S. News & World Report's annual survey of more than 6,000 hospitals nationwide. This is the third year in a row that Loyola has achieved the top spot for Heart Care and Heart Surgery in the state. Loyola opened its new 10,000-square-foot Center for Heart and Vascular Medicine on the Loy...

Poaching, logging, and outbreaks of Ebola threaten central African gorillas and chimpanzees

...are kilometres. Two other areas labelled "priority survey sites" have known ape populations that require additional study to assess the numbers and determine boundaries to promote ape conservation. "New types of collaborations are going to be needed, as the fate of apes in Central Africa relies not only on...

Amazon source of 5-year-old river breath

... effects. "As part of the largest radiocarbon age survey ever for a single watershed, we show that the enormous amount of carbon dioxide silently being returned to the atmosphere is far younger than carbon being carried downstream," he said. "Previous studies failed to detect the rapid recycling of forest ...

Survey reveals women and doctors aren't talking about HPV

...he human papillomavirus (HPV) - according to a new survey released by the Association of Reproductive Health... www.arhp.org. For more information about the HPV survey visit www.arhp.org/HPVsurvey. To learn more about cervical cancer prevention visit www.arhp.org/cerv...

Natural Killers Could Lead to New Hepatitis Treatments

...dily to infection. “It wasn't clear how NKT cells survey (tissue), or even if they survey at all,?said Littman. To visualize the activity of NKT cells in the liver, Geissman used mice in whi...

wFleaBase: the Daphnia genome database

... information from expressed sequenced tags, genome survey sequences and full genome sequencing projects. This new database is built primarily from core components of the Generic Model Organism Database project, and related bioinformatics tools. Over the coming year, preliminary genetic maps and the nearl...

Habitat use by North Pacific right whales, Eubalaena japonica, in the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska

...s, this may be due, at least in part, to a lack of survey effort there. Results of acoustic recorder deployments along the slope are much anticipated. All sightings since 1979 were in waters less than 200 m deep which may simply reflect the paucity of search effort elsewhere. From the commercial whaling er...

Shift of weather patterns necessitates rethinking of reforestation methods

... or early spring. In 2000, a Texas Forest Service survey showed Texas had 12 million acres in forest land, all of it in the East Texas Piney Woods area. Approximately 61 percent of the forest land was owned by non-industrial private forest landowners. Another 32 percent was owned by industry and investment...

Reservoirs may accelerate the spread of invasive aquatic species, researchers say

... Jake Vander Zanden of the University of Wisconsin survey evidence indicating that the physical and biological properties of reservoirs make them more likely to be invaded by exotic species than natural lakes. The researchers point to cases in which reservoirs are believed to have facilitated the rapid spre...

Survey finds silver contamination in North Pacific waters

...open ocean turned up in samples collected during a survey of the North Pacific in 2002. Researchers from the...tes have recovered, Luoma said. The North Pacific survey completes a preliminary survey of silver throughout the world's oceans. The goal was to establish cu...

New lab technique identifies high levels of pathogens in therapy pool

...hers said. The two-year study involved a molecular survey of a common RNA gene found in all life forms, even...vironment. The new approach allowed researchers to survey more than 1,300 ribosomal RNA genes from different bacteria and fungi in the pool air and water and ...

Camera Traps Catch Eye of the Tiger

...er photo within 10 days of setting the traps. The survey portion of the project will likely last between two and three years, and could lead to opportunities for radio collaring and tracking tigers in order to better establish the size and shape of their range in certain habitats. WWF has been able to focu...

Drug-resistant bacteria on poultry products differ by brand

...d Perdue announcements, Price and his team began a survey of Campylobacter isolates on uncooked chicken products from Tyson and Perdue and from two other producers, Eberly and Bell & Evans, who claim their production methods are completely antibiotic-free. Using both standard isolation methods and new m...

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