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Amazon symposium to address large-scale conservation

...and soybean farming) are strengthened by expanding world markets for open-range beef and grain. The paving ...n will facilitate the export of Amazon products to world markets as it creates new corridors for explosive frontier expansion. These mounting threats to the ...

$5.1 billion would save 6 million children

...heir international development partners. "Can the world afford to save the lives of 6 million children each year" was co-authored by Jennifer Bryce, Robert E. Black, Neff Walker, Zulfiqar A. Bhutta, Joy E. Lawn and Richard W. Steketee. ...

High fidelity keeps human DNA assembly line humming

...foundation of how living systems function. In the world of molecular biology, much attention has been given to how RNA is made. Burton explains that it is similar to an industrial assembly line, with DNA being a conveyer belt to load building blocks, or bases, called nucleoside triphosphates (NTPs) to hoo...

Census of Marine Life explorers surprised by diversity, density of Arctic creatures

...ern technology has opened a window on this amazing world for the first time," says scientist Dr. Russ Hopcr...ter per second, more than the combined flow of all world rivers. Piecing together the history of marine evolution Because they now understand the physical ...

Scientists map the world for nature conservation

... publication, in the Journal of Biogeography, of a world map of plant biodiversity. The atlas is arranged ... project is a map showing how thoroughly the plant world has been studied in different regions. Among the "white patches" on the map, showing areas for which...

Hopkins AIDS experts issue warning about global efforts to provide drug therapies

...ies for 2 million people, demand in the developing world is even greater and steadily growing, with at least 6.5 million people in need of drug therapy and only 15 percent receiving any. And, Zenilman notes, treatment for HIV is a lifelong need for infected people. "Even if the president's plan was succes...

U of T researchers map role of Epstein-Barr virus in cancer

...BV) is one of the most common human viruses in the world and is strongly linked to certain b-cell cancers like Burkitt's lymphoma as well as the epithelial cell cancer, nasopharyngeal carcinoma. EBNA1 is a protein coded in the Epstein-Barr virus and suspected to play a role in the development of cancer," s...

Study of energy and health in Africa focuses spotlight on charcoal and forest management

... It also presents an opportunity for the developed world to invest in the African continent, as many promised at the January meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and as promoted by British Prime Minister Tony Blair at the recent G-8 summit." "If the rapid urbanization continues - and...

Key to elephant conservation is 'in the sauce'

...crop-raiding and then be harvested and sold on the world market through the trust." Osborn originated the idea of Elephant Pepper in 1997, when he found that chilli peppers could be used as a means of stopping elephants from destroying crops in the Zambezi Valley, which straddles the borders of Zimbabwe a...

Cancer related gene p53 not regulated as indicated by previous tissue culture research

... tissue culture studies by several labs around the world indicated that tinkering with the tail end prevented the protein from being flagged for degradation or activation. Instead of accumulating in mouse cells and halting cell division in the genetically engineered mice, the altered p53 protein performed ...

How exactly does the brain control breathing?

...imental Physiology editor Julian Paton invited two world renowned scientists Dr. Guyenet from the University of Charlottesville and Dr. Richerson from Yale University, to use the journal as a forum to discuss the issue and attempt to resolve their differences in opinion. Both authors agree that the respir...

Genome study of beneficial microbe may help boost plant health

...iseases. Since then, plant pathologists around the world have used this strain as a laboratory model to study beneficial microbes. Paulsen says the P. fluorescens project also pioneered a new methodology. This novel approach relies on the analysis of repeated regions of the DNA sequence to help identify s...

Scientists discover global pattern of big fish diversity in open oceans

...areas. To me, it's the most important thing in the world right now ?to keep as many pieces of the puzzle as we can before we destroy it." ...

Program finds lost genes in nematode genome

...something produced by a machine. "But look at the world of chess. Fundamentally, humans are better than ma..., they'll come up with a machine that can beat the world champion. The same principal applies to developing a machine that can reveal the mysteries of our ge...

Revueltosaurus skeleton unearthed at Petrified Forest upsets dinosaur tale

...like Stegosaurus and Triceratops, which roamed the world millions of years later in the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. The fact that this presumed dinosaur, Revueltosaurus callenderi, is instead a crocodile ancestor does not merely disappoint rockhounds, who sell the abundant teeth as "dinosaur teeth," ...

Agilent Technologies introduces high-capacity human protein removal system for proteomics research

...like Stegosaurus and Triceratops, which roamed the world millions of years later in the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. The fact that this presumed dinosaur, Revueltosaurus callenderi, is instead a crocodile ancestor does not merely disappoint rockhounds, who sell the abundant teeth as "dinosaur teeth," ...

Bacterial genome sheds light on synthesizing cancer-fighting compounds

Sea squirts around the world are breathing a sigh of relief, as they no longer run the risk of being harvested for their natural disease-fighting substances. Scientists recently discovered that the bacterium Prochloron didemnii, which lives symbiotically inside the sea squirt, a...

Researchers find first evidence of venom system in extinct mammal

...central Alberta is one of the richest areas of the world to uncover the types of fossils that we're interested in." ...

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

...the survival of great apes, it's important for the world to know that this is not a lost cause," said Emma Stokes of the Wildlife Conservation Society's Congo Program, another author of the action plan. "It will take a tremendous amount of work and dedication from a variety of conservation groups, governm...

ORNL, UC Berkeley unravel real-world clues to Earth's mysteries

...t starting point because it is a real-life natural world community with a limited number of members. Thus, we can measure and learn about microbial interactions and function distribution in a natural setting without being overwhelmed by an extremely large number of organisms." The research team acknowledg...

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