Extinct giant deer's descendant found in UK
...anning 3.5 metres (10 feet). Deer from around the world (including the southeast Asian axis deer, the hog deer and fallow deer) were DNA tested and their characteristics - such as antlers, skull and teeth size & shape - were studied. Two giant deer were used; one found in the Ballynamintra Cave, Water...Study Holds Promise For New Way To Fight HIV
...anning 3.5 metres (10 feet). Deer from around the world (including the southeast Asian axis deer, the hog deer and fallow deer) were DNA tested and their characteristics - such as antlers, skull and teeth size & shape - were studied. Two giant deer were used; one found in the Ballynamintra Cave, Water...Scientists must offer solutions for conserving tropical forests in a rapidly changing world
...angesAs human populations and their impacts on the world increase, tropical forests are changing in many different ways. Forests are being cleared, burned, logged, fragmented, and overhunted and an unprecedented pace, and they are also being altered in insidious ways by global climatic and atmospheric cha...Breath of the dragon: ERS-2 and Envisat reveal impact of economic growth on China's air quality
...ospheric composition." SCIAMACHY: surveying the world in six days SCIAMACHY is a spectrometer, and it...nd nadir observations, SCIAMACHY covers the entire world every six days at the equator and more often at high latitudes. This versatile instrument represen...Cyberkinetics, Case to develop system to help restore extremity function
... potential to advance cortical interfaces into the world of restorative rehabilitation as a "brain-body interface" (BBI). About the BrainGate TM System The BrainGate Neural Interface System is a proprietary brain-computer interface (BCI). BrainGate is an investigational device currently in pilot clini...2005 AIDS figures released by WHO and UNAIDS
...IV has continued to increase in all regions of the world except the Caribbean. There were an additional five million new infections in 2005. The number of people living with HIV globally has reached its highest level with an estimated 40.3 million people, up from an estimated 37.5 million in 2003. More tha...Earliest European Farmers Left Little Genetic Mark On Modern Europe
...IV has continued to increase in all regions of the world except the Caribbean. There were an additional five million new infections in 2005. The number of people living with HIV globally has reached its highest level with an estimated 40.3 million people, up from an estimated 37.5 million in 2003. More tha...Science's Breakthrough of the Year: Watching evolution in action
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...ajor investment from the enormous donations of the world community in projects to restore fisheries productivity. As well, WorldFish says survivors need retraining and education programs to find alternative livelihoods. Governments also need to ensure that fishery catches reflect the abundance of availab...Multiple genes permit closely related fish species to mix and match their color vision
...particular environments by interpreting the visual world slightly differently, using photoreceptors that ar...al way, resulting in differences in how the visual world is sensed. The researchers identified a total of seven "cone" (color-sensing) visual pigments under...University of Arizona plant scientists to unravel maize genome
..."This grant reinforces the position of the UA as a world leader in plantgenomics," said Vicki Chandler, director of BIO5 and a Regents' Professor inthe department of plant sciences at the College of Agriculture and LifeSciences. "It further exemplifies our exceptionally competitive position inattracting na...Membrane research opens window to benefits for plants, humans
... of basic-science firsts that offer immediate real world applications, the scientists say. First, Swedish plant biochemists and crystallographers at Lund University and Chalmers University of Technology, studying membrane proteins of spinach, solved the structure of a water-protein channel -- an aquaporin...Grid bridges 4,800 miles for molecular repositories
...rchers at these institutions, which rank among the world leaders in biological science, positions PNNL to contribute to breakthroughs in scientific understanding that could have tremendous impact on the environment, energy, security and everyday life. Grid technology is a distributed computing environment...Mining biotech's data mother lode
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...e the prodynorphin gene in human beings around the world and in non-human primates to see whether such variation was commonplace and whether that variation affected gene expression. The group found a surprisingly large amount of genetic variation among humans within the prodynorphin gene's promoter. They...Health of coral reefs detected from orbit
...etres of water. "MERIS Full Resolution covers the world every three days, a bottleneck for global monitoring could be data processing," Dekker concludes. "However satellite sensors measuring sea surface temperature such as Envisat's Advanced Along Track Scanning Radiometer (AATSR) can be applied to priori...Recreating 'Flowers for Algernon' with a happy ending
...mental retardation each affect five percent of the world population," said Dr. Alcino Silva, professor of neurobiology, psychiatry and psychology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. "Currently, there are no treatment options for these people. That's why our findings are so exciting from a cli...'Creationism is not science' ?making the case for Darwin at UCL
...ovement to a conservative evangelical Christianity world view -- I don't think we evolutionists have been a...n whether this turn towards the Intelligent Design world view could hit the UK too, Professor Ruse (whose book The Evolution-Creation Struggle was published ...WWF peeks into mysterious life of Borneo's pygmy elephants
...World Wildlife Fund shed light on the little-known world of pygmy elephants in Borneo. This week marks the six-month anniversary of the first pygmy elephant's being captured and outfitted with a collar that can send GPS locations to WWF daily via satellite. Now, for the first time, the public can track ......s of DNA, are being intensively studied around the world as a group of 'typical' human genome regions. The second was 35million base-pairs of chromosome 21 sequence: three copies of chromosome 21 lead to Down Syndrome. The third was a region of chromosome 20 ?10 million base-pairs ?that is known to be asso...