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Releasing fish for the future

...sheries scientists are investigating ways to boost the survival rates of fish caught and then released b...g more than $1.5 million and funded by NSW DPI and the Recreational Fishing Trust (using money from licence fees), is developing protocols designed to maxi...

Pregnant mom's exposure to flu vaccine kick-starts fetal immune system

Some researchers have hypothesized that the fetus can be exposed to and mount an immune response against allergens to which the mother has been exposed, and this may have an effect on the development of allergic sensitivity (e.g...

Liver cancer patients with high serum levels of hepatitis B virus face poorer outcomes

In the June issue of Hepatology, a journal published by John Wiley & Sons on behalf of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD), researchers report their findings from...

Soils offer new hope as carbon sink

...reduce greenhouse gases and increase production at the same time has been reinforced by new research find...a saviour of Australia's carbon-depleted soils and the environment - have doubled and, in one case, tripled crop growth when applied at the rate of 10 tonn...

Math that powers spam filters used to understand how brain learns to move our muscles

...timates” of human muscle movements to explain how the brain draws on both what it recently learned and w...rom Johns Hopkins, MIT and Northwestern, exploited the fact that all people show similar “probable” learning patterns and use them to develop and fine tune...

Threats to wild tigers growing

...cupies a mere 7 percent of its historic range, and the area known to be inhabited by tigers has declined by 41 percent over the past decade, according to an article published in the June 2007 issue of BioScience. Growing trade i...

Researchers find 24 species believed new to science in Suriname rainforest

Scientists exploring the remote highlands of eastern Suriname discovered 24...insects. Presented in a report made public today, the findings from a 2005 expedition led by Conservation International’s Rapid Assessment Program (RAP) a...

Cigarette smoke alters DNA in sperm, genetic damage could pass to offspring

...nstrated in mice that smoking can cause changes in the DNA sequence of sperm cells, alterations that coul...pring. The results of their study are published in the June 1 issue of Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. “Her...

Old memory traces in brain may trigger chronic pain

...an old memory trace that essentially gets stuck in the prefrontal cortex, the site of emotion and learning. The brain seems to remember the injury as if it were fresh and can’t f...

Gene therapy delivery of nerve growth factors reverses erectile dysfunction in animal model

...researchers. These findings are being presented at the 10th annual meeting of the American Society of Gene Therapy, which is convening May 30 to June 3 at the Washington State Conven...

Discovery in orange cauliflower may lead to more nutritious crops

...vantages. Now, Cornell researchers have identified the genetic mutation behind the unusual hue. The finding may lead to more nutritious staple crops, including maize, potato, rice, so...

Researchers track how spores break out of dormant state

Tapping into the unknown world of awakening dormant bacterial spore...ave revealed through atomic force microscopy (AFM) the alterations of spore coat and germ cell wall that accompany the transformation from a spore to a veg...

Modeling the restless brain

...oscientists Olaf Sporns and Christopher Honey find the 98 percent of brain activity that other researcher...ng state," waves of neural activity ripple through the brain, creating fluctuating and ever-changing patterns. Sporns and Honey's work on modeling this bra...

Simulations unravel outer membrane transport mechanism

...es Gumbart used two software programs developed in the U. of I.'s National Institutes of Health Resource ...ulation and visualization software, researchers at the University of Illinois have painstakingly modeled a critical part of a mechanism by which bacteria t...

How sneaky HIV escapes cells

Like hobos on a train, HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, uses a pre-existing transp...ists have discovered. Their findings, published in the June issue of Plos Biology, counter the prevailing belief that HIV and other retroviruses can only l...

New study reports hotel guests at risk from carbon monoxide poisoning

...(CO) poisoning kills over 200 people every year in the United States. Although inexpensive CO detectors h...not widespread. In fact, while every guest room in the U.S. must contain a smoke detector, there is no federal mandate for CO detectors. In a study publish...

Crammed with charged DNA, pressure rises inside virus

...is a 3-D cryoelectron microscope reconstruction of the cross-section of a virus, before and after crammin...s, phi29, has a tiny motor that pumps its DNA into the capsid—outer shell—during the assembly process. The potential energy of the tightly coiled DNA may ...

Snoring in children might be an allergic type disease

The research found that snoring is in fact part of the spectrum of childhood allergic diseases. So whilst the condition looks and sounds similar in adults and children it can have quite different causes and ris...

CSIRO scientists join fight to save 'Tassie devil'

CSIRO scientists have joined the battle to save Australia’s iconic Tasmanian devils from the deadly cancer currently devastating devil populations. Researchers from CSIRO’s Livestock Industrie...

The insect vector always bites twice

The reality of the threat from vector-borne diseases has been recognized and the problem is prompting research scientists to take a strong interest. Most of these infections, classi...

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