Scientists discover Amazon river is 11 million years old
... the Amazon Fan, a submarine sediment column around 10km thick, had proven difficult to penetrate. New exploration efforts by Petrobas, however, have lea to two new boreholes being drilled near the mouth of the Amazon - one 2.5miles (4.5km) below sea level - which resulted in new sedimentological and pa...Do chemicals in the environment affect fertility?
...Chemicals in Females Consortium (REEF), Dr Richard lea of the School of Veterinary Medicine and Science a...eive a total of 2.4m in funding from the EU. Dr lea and Dr Sinclair will study the impact of low level...sure to environmental chemicals in the womb. Dr lea said: Though male fertility has been the subject o...The benefits of 80 million years without sex
...ne in each cell will create two proteins which are also often nearly identical. However, the researchers discovered that the two copies of the gene lea in Adineta ricciae are different and therefore generate proteins with different functions which protect the animal during dehydration. One copy protec...Epidemic of unneeded amputations
...Center statistics. "A good portion of these individuals could have salvaged their limbs. This is tragic." Of note: --The number of diabetes-related lea hospital discharges increased by 240 percent between 1980 (33,000) to 2002 (82,000), according to the CDC.--The CDC says the five-year survival rate f...