Recovery in Biological News

Obama administration announces more than $327 million in Recovery Act funding for science research

Washington, D.C. U.S Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced today that more than $327 million in new funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will go toward scientific research, instrumentation, and laboratory infrastructure projects. Ten of DOE's national laboratories...

New study finds lowfat chocolate milk is effective post-exercise recovery aid for soccer players

JUNE 1, 2009, SEATTLE Soccer players and exercise enthusiasts now have another reason to reach for lowfat chocolate milk after a hard workout, suggests a new study from James Madison University presented at the American College of Sports Medicine annual meeting. Post-exercise consumption of lowf...

New center at Georgia Tech aims to improve recovery of soldiers with severe injuries

When a soldier is wounded during combat, surgeons must focus on reducing infection and reconstructing damaged bone and tissues. Technologies that could improve the repair and regeneration processes are being developed in research laboratories across the country, but they are not being moved quickl...

Long-term recovery of reefs from bleaching requires local action to increase resilience

VIRGINIA KEY, Fla. -- In the journal Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science , University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science Professor Dr. Peter Glynn, and 2008 Pew Fellow for Marine Conservation and Assistant Professor Dr. Andrew Baker, assess more than 25 years of data on...

Endangered sawfish focus of national collection and recovery efforts

GAINESVILLE, Fla. The University of Florida, keeper of the world's shark attack records, is also now overseeing a national records collection for another toothy marine predator: the sawfish. Distinguished by a long rostrum or "saw" that makes it a popular curio item and gives it its name, the ...

Diversity of plant-eating fishes may be key to recovery of coral reefs

For endangered coral reefs, not all plant-eating fish are created equal. A report scheduled to be published this week in the early edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that maintaining the proper balance of herbivorous fishes may be critical to resto...

Ozone hole recovery may reshape southern hemisphere climate change

A full recovery of the stratospheric ozone hole could modify climate change in the Southern Hemisphere and even amplify Antarctic warming, according to scientists from the University of Colorado at Boulder, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA. While Earth's average surf...

New study shows greenback cutthroat trout involved in recovery effort misidentified

A new study led by the University of Colorado at Boulder indicates biologists trying to save Colorado's native greenback cutthroat trout from extinction over the past several decades through hatchery propagation and restocking efforts have, in most cases, inadvertently restored the wrong fish. ...

Survey finds elevated rates of new asthma among WTC rescue and recovery workers

Findings released today by the Health Department shed new light on the health effects of exposure to dust and debris among workers who responded to the World Trade Center disaster on September 11, 2001. The data, drawn from the World Trade Center Health Registry, show that 3.6% of the 25,000 rescu...

Scripps-led study shows ocean health plays vital role in coral reef recovery

The new research study led by scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego suggests that by improving overall ocean health, corals are better able to recover from bleaching events, which occur when rising sea temperatures force corals to expel their symbiotic algae, known as z...

Basic research critical to America's economic recovery

The Science Coalition (TSC) today urged Congress to move swiftly to pass economic recovery legislation that includes strong funding for key science agencies including the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Department of Energy Office of Science (DOE), National Aeronautics and Space Administrat...

Flowering plants speed post-surgery recovery

MANHATTAN, KSContact with nature has long been suspected to increase positive feelings, reduce stress, and provide distraction from the pain associated with recovery from surgery. Now, research has confirmed the beneficial effects of plants and flowers for patients recovering from abdominal surger...

Researchers use MRI to predict recovery after spinal cord injury

Using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), radiologists can better predict the likelihood of full or partial recovery of patients with acute spinal cord injuries (SCI), according to a study published in the June issue of the journal Radiology. "Our study demonstrates that the possibility and exten...

Palau's coral reefs show differential habitat recovery following the 1998 bleaching event

Coral reef bleaching, believed to be one of the detrimental effects of climate change, may receive a welcomed "buffer" through effective local management, according to new research by a team of scientists recording the long-term recovery of coral reefs in Palau and elsewhere. "It appears that cor...

Diabetes slows nerve recovery after heart transplant

Diabetes has a detrimental effect on a person's ability to recover from a heart transplant, notes a study in the September Journal of Nuclear Medicine. "Using positron emission tomography (PET) and the transplanted heart as a very specific model to study the regenerative capacity of the heart's ...

Dopamine drug leads to new neurons and recovery of function in rat model of Parkinson's

In preliminary results, researchers have shown that a drug which mimics the effects of the nerve-signaling chemical dopamine causes new neurons to develop in the part of the brain where cells are lost in Parkinson's disease (PD). The drug also led to long-lasting recovery of function in an animal m...

Insect predation sheds light on food web recovery after the dinosaur extinction

The recovery of biodiversity after the end-Cretaceous mass extinction was much more chaotic than previously thought, according to paleontologists. New fossil evidence shows that at certain times and places, plant and insect diversity were severely out of balance, not linked as they are today. The e...

Stem cell transplants improve recovery in animal models for stroke, cerebral palsy

A single dose of adult donor stem cells given to animals that have neurological damage similar to that experienced by adults with a stroke or newborns with cerebral palsy can significantly enhance recovery from these types of injuries, researchers say. Using a commonly utilized animal model for s...

Infused spleen cells found not to impact islet recovery and reversal of type 1 diabetes in mice

Researchers at the McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine at Johns Hopkins have invented a cost-effective and highly efficient way of analyzing what many have termed "junk" DNA and identified regions critical for controlling gene function. And they have found that these control regions from...

Adult stem cells aid recovery in animal model of cerebral palsy

Have you ever wondered how the myriad insect forms—beetles, flies, dragonflies, mosquitoes, grasshoppers, ants, wasps, bees, and countless others—evolved? Insects make up 75% of all species known. The large number of insect species is probably a result of a combination of one or more factors: a h...

Combination therapy leads to partial recovery from spinal cord injury in rats

Combining partially differentiated stem cells with gene therapy can promote the growth of new "insulation" around nerve fibers in the damaged spinal cords of rats, a new study shows. The treatment, which mimics the activity of two nerve growth factors, also improves the animals' motor function and ...

NIH stimulus funding supports Emory biomedical scientists

...nal opportunities for students. Emory has received half of all the NIH ARRA grants awarded to Georgia academic institutions thus far. The American recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), passed by Congress in February, opened up funding opportunities for new projects as well as supplemental funding ...

AGU journal highlights -- Aug. 6, 2009

...te system. To study mass flows in the Southern Ocean near Antarctica and how they relate to wind stress, Ponte and Quinn analyze data from the Gravity recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellite mission (which measures Earth's gravity field and can sense mass movement) and estimates of winds and current...

Symposium to discuss geoengineering to fight climate change at the ESA Annual Meeting

...ease in ozone depletion over the Arctic could lead to dangerous levels of ultraviolet light hitting the Earth's surface," she says. "In this case, the recovery of the ozone hole over the Antarctic could be delayed by decades." Another large-scale geoengineering scheme is fertilizing the oceans with iron to...

ComCam Selected by ePortation on New Maritime Domain Awareness Project

...d expertise and will be integral to our seaport security solution." The two companies have teamed to assist additional Ports under the American recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 stimulus specifically targeting the $150m Port Security Grant Program (PSGP) http://www.fema.gov/government/grant/psgp/in...

August 2009 Geology and GSA Today media highlights

...lberta and his international team of colleagues. They focus on the Klondike region of Yukon, one of North America's most productive localities for the recovery of late Pleistocene mammal fossils. By using numerous volcanic ash beds that characterize the fossil-rich strata to determine the age and correlations...

Global curbs on overfishing are beginning to work

...em models Atlantis and Ecosim to analyse ecosystem recovery in 31 fisheries worldwide, 10 in detail, including...d economic recovery. "As a result we are seeing recovery in overall ecosystem structure, even if some speci...veys conducted up to the mid-1990s showed signs of recovery in ecosystem structure in the North West Shelf reg...

Recovery act-funded research projects aid communities across the country

... In the five months since passage of the American recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), thousands of research-related awards have been made, supporting important scientific efforts across the country. ...

Biologists rediscover endangered frog population

...ay. A USGS team led by Dr. Robert Fisher rescued 82 tadpoles, which were taken to the San Diego Zoo's Institute for Conservation Research. The frog recovery effort has been funded by Caltrans in part to mitigate for emergency work to stabilize a slope near the frog's habitat on state Route 330 in the San B...

Researchers team up to provide new hope for childhood hunger

...novation; his peanut butter-based ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) for the treatment of severe acute malnutrition has consistently resulted in 90% recovery rates in research and operational projects. The World Health Organization officially declared Manary's RUTF the most effective method by which malnour...

Common allergy drug reduces obesity and diabetes in mice

...mproved moderately, the third group demonstrated dramatic improvements in both body weight and diabetes. The fourth group exhibited nearly 100 percent recovery in all areas. To bolster these findings, Shi and colleagues then took a group of mice whose ability to produce mast cells was genetically impaired...

Grant supports LSUHSC research on how like cell receptor systems determine very different functions

...d output-specific 'scaffolding' molecules that assemble the pathway around growth factor receptors." The supplement was funded through the American recovery and Reinvestment Act and will be used to help retain key personnel needed to identify and characterize ERK phosphorylation targets proteins to which ...

New drug may reduce heart attack damage

... of clot-busting drugs. Significantly, the heart's pumping action is protected by the drug, dramatically improving the patient's chances of a full recovery after a heart attack. Safety trials of Dz13 are now underway ahead of Phase 1 human trials. A paper outlining the animal study appears this month i...

Salt marshes: A natural and unnatural history

...le light on the human impact of the marsh lands. SALT MARSHES includes chapters on physical and biological alterations, pollution, and remediation and recovery programs. In addition to a national and global perspective, SALT MARSHES places special emphasis on coastal wetlands in the Atlantic, the Gulf regions...

High construction cost for cycads

...tissue that requires energy to maintain. Therefore, large plants with this leaf construction strategy must also possess a payback strategy that allows recovery of these costs coupled with an excess in food synthesis to support plant growth. "These phenomena are understood using a financial analogy where bo...

Stunting plants' skyward reach could lead to improved yields

...with the Plant Research Laboratory at MSU, Montgomery in July landed a four-year, $765,249 National Science Foundation grant funded under the American recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to study that process. "We've developed a unique approach that's allowing us to ask questions people haven't been able...

University of Miami receives stimulus funds for study of hurricane impacts on structures, ecosystems

...y of Miami (UM) has been awarded a $15 million grant funded by the American recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). These recovery Act dollars will help to create new jobs in Miami-Dade County through the c...

Wolf reintroduction proposed in Scottish Highland test case

...other animals to badly overgraze lands and ravish entire terrestrial ecosystems. If successful, the experiment might demonstrate the same ecosystem recovery is possible in Scotland that has been accomplished in some parts of the U.S. where wolves have been brought back. "Wolves were last found in Scotla...

Avoiding hysterectomy: Major interventional radiology E-collection info available

...sity Medical Center in Washington, D.C. Uterine artery embolization, a minimally invasive, targeted treatment, offers less risk, less pain and less recovery time than traditional surgery. Interventional radiologists use expertise in imaging to deliver treatment directly to a fibroid, blocking the flow of b...

LSUHSC's Bazan awarded ARRA grant to preserve vision

...al Institutes of Health to advance her research on potential therapeutic approaches to heal corneal injuries. The grant was awarded under the American recovery and Reinvestment Act. Dr. Bazan's research project explores the mechanisms of inflammation and repair during corneal wound healing. Sustained corne...