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Common human viruses threaten endangered great apes

Common human viruses are responsible for outbreaks of respiratory disease that have led to the decline of endangered chimpanzees in the wild, according to a study reported online on January 24th in Current Biology, a publication of Cell Press. The findingswhich are the first to provide direct evid...

Global Environment partners provide additional $20 million to protect endangered habitats

Washington, D.C. (Jan. 11, 2008) The World Bank and Conservation International (CI) today signed an agreement for $20 million in new funds, provided by the Global Environment Facility (GEF), to protect some of the worlds most unique and threatened areas, including island ecosystems and temperate ...

Galapagos on UN Endangered List

The UN has declared Galapagos Island in danger. The Galapagos Islands has been listed as "in danger" because tourism is threatening the environment that helped shape Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. It is the first place on the planet officially designated as a World Heritage site. ...

The Organic Center Refutes Misleading Nutritional Claims Made by United Kingdom's Food Standards Agency (FSA) in Agency Report on Health Value of Organic Foods

...everse the effects of global warming through sequestering more carbon than conventional farming; and improving health and survival among honey bee and endangered fish and amphibian species. We call upon government bodies, academic institutions, business leaders and consumers to join us in contesting this...

Narconon Graduate Delivers Drug Education in Florida

...to get hooked on drugs and the reason why," he says. Even with drug prevention organizations set up in Florida such as the Florida Alliance for endangered Children, Florida Office of Drug Control and Community Coalitions Prevention Center, Narconon drug education in Florida is a much needed component to ...

Beverages Holdings, LLC Acquires Bossa Nova: The Superfruit Company

...nd goji berry juice with tart cherry. Bossa Nova's use of the sustainably harvested crop, acai, represents a contribution to helping preserve the endangered Amazon rainforest, while providing a sustainable source of income for thousands of people across the Amazon river basin. This focus on sustainability...

BioArts International Clones 9-11 Hero Dog - Owner to Receive Five Cloned Puppies June 17 in Los Angeles

...ington will receive his puppy clones of Trakr for free. BioArts International holds the sole, worldwide license for the cloning of dogs, cats and endangered species, and is partnered with Sooam Biotech Research Foundation of South Korea, the world's foremost experts in canine cloning. The cloning of Trakr...

Endangered Great Ape Finds Safe Haven

...otected area which harbors one of the largest known wild populations of the endangered bonobo. The Kokolopori Bonobo Reserve is the pilot and model site for the B...BCI) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to the survival of the endangered bonobo (Pan paniscus) and its rainforest habitat in the Congo Basin. BCI ...

Beetles drive groundbreaking conservation project

...r for contaminating food supplies and are a huge commercial pest, but the humble flour beetle is about to play a significant role in the management of endangered species. The flour beetle or Tribolium castaneum will be the model in a major new study into the consequences of inbreeding, launched at the Un...

Young Tells Congress Survival of Postal Service Could Depend on Passage of Relief Legislation

...5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Letter Carriers union President William H. Young told a House hearing today that the survival of the U.S. Postal Service, endangered by the greed and recklessness of financial firms and Wall Street, could depend on whether Congress enacts bipartisan legislation that would save the P...

Endangered in Medical Technology

Cloned Human Embryos Successfully Reprogrammed Using Human - But Not Animal - Eggs

...e been reports of blastocyst formation. Our group and others have successfully used eggs to clone closely-related species (for instance, we cloned two endangered species - the guar and banteng using cow eggs). Rabbit eggs have also been used to generate embryos using cells from cats and panda, among others. H...

Oridion Announces Significant Medical Studies Presented at STA

...e research study conducted by Robin W. Radcliffe, DVM from Cornell University and others on the effect postural changes had on EtCO2 readings in the endangered African black rhinoceros and its importance to field anesthesia, concluded that EtCO2 monitoring could provide "important new information to enhance d...

New Study Shows Cloning from Dried Cells Now Possible

...gy Could Have Widespread Use in Improving Medical Care and Saving endangered Animals from Extinction MT. LAUREL, N.J., Sept. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Core Dy...by allowing for easy and inexpensive transportation and storage of cells of endangered species. "This could be invaluable, given we have no way of recovering thes...

White Nose Syndrome: Is Pennsylvania Next?

...r County, is the state's largest hibernaculum for Indiana bats, a federally endangered species. "The good news is no dead bats have been found to date in Penn...w York in late 2006. Its discovery occurred during routine surveys counting endangered Indiana bats, a large portion of which had inexplicably disappeared from on...

Cardium's Innercool Therapies Unit Announces Publication of Positive Effects of Early and Rapid Hypothermia Following Heart Attack

...ific and medical articles have described the usefulness of temperature modulation, such as induced hypothermia (cooling), which is designed to protect endangered cells, prevent tissue death and preserve organ function following acute events associated with severe oxygen deprivation such as cardiac arrest or str...

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Appendix

...ith results ... An inflamed appendix has a diameter larger than 6 mm, and is usually surrounded ... Appendix I lists species that are the most endangered among CITES-listed animals ... International trade in specimens of Appendix -II species may be authorized by the ... Online Medical Dictionary an...

Endangered in Biological News

Biologists rediscover endangered frog population

For the first time in nearly 50 years, a population of a nearly extinct frog has been rediscovered in the San Bernardino National Forest's San Jacinto Wilderness. Biologists from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) assessing suitability of sites to re-establish frogs and scientists from the San Dieg...

Humans lend a hand to critically endangered waterbird

Human impact on one of the world's most threatened bird species can be beneficial rather than destructive - and could even save it from extinction - according to counterintuitive new findings by the University of East Anglia (UEA). Published today in the peer-reviewed journal Animal Conservati...

Working to conserve endangered 'Playboy' bunnies

Playboy founder Hugh Hefner's legacy will live on with a new University of Central Florida study aimed at saving the endangered bunnies named after him. Rosanna Tursi, a master's student and graduate teaching assistant, is using population genetics to aid in the conservation of the Lower Keys...

T-STAR grant funds genetic studies on shrimp and papaya and endangered cycad rescue

The projects funded will serve aquaculture and papaya farmers as well as work toward the preservation of an endemic cycad species endangered due to attacks by several species of invasive insects. Hui Gong, an aquaculture researcher with WPTRC, was awarded $186,960 for a genetic variability stud...

Jeepers creepers: Climate change threatens endangered honeycreepers

As climate change causes temperatures to increase in Hawaii's mountains, deadly non-native bird diseases will likely also creep up the mountains, invading most of the last disease-free refuges for honeycreepers a group of endangered and remarkable birds. A just-published U.S. Geological Surve...

Australia's most endangered snake might need burning

Conserving Australia's most endangered snake might mean lighting more bush fires, ecologists have proposed. The last remaining populations of broad-headed snakes are being threatened by encroaching woodland that is destroying their habitat, a study by scientists from the University of Sydney an...

Dealing with taxonomic uncertainty for threatened and endangered species

As part of a symposium on "Defining species for threatened and endangered protection" Barbara Taylor, Ph.D., NOAA Fisheries Service, will discuss the need to explicitly consider uncertainty in taxonomy in conservation decisions. Species concepts continue to be a contentious, but largely philosoph...

Scientists call for protected 'swimways' for the endangered leatherback sea turtle

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) World Conservation Congress this week adopted a resolution urging nations to protect the leatherback sea turtle and sharks from the world's industrial fisheries by identifying and creating marine protected areas along the Pacific leat...

Study finds high mortality of endangered loggerhead sea turtles in Baja California

SANTA CRUZ, CA--Along the southern coast of Baja California, Mexico, scientists have been counting the carcasses of endangered sea turtles for a decade as part of an effort to assess and eliminate threats to loggerhead sea turtle populations. Their findings, published this week, are shocking: almo...

In a last 'stronghold' for endangered chimpanzees, survey finds drastic decline

In a population survey of West African chimpanzees living in Cte d'Ivoire, researchers estimate that this endangered subspecies has dropped in numbers by a whopping 90 percent since the last survey was conducted 18 years ago. The few remaining chimpanzees are now highly fragmented, with only one v...

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Endangered in Biological Technology

'Museomics' yields new insights into extinct Tasmanian tiger

... January 13, 2009 In 1902, the National Zoo in Washington D.C. arranged to have a unique and endangered animal called the thylacine, or Tasmanian Tiger, brought to the United States from Tasmania. Later that year, a female and her three cubs arrived at ...

Advice to the new administration: UM foreign and domestic policy guide

...ational cooperation and a diplomacy-first approach. The domestic policy brief on the financial crisis calls for additional federal spending to help endangered businesses accompanied by reforms. The health reform brief recommends a compromise step-by-step approach the kind that has worked at the state level....

Cardium Announces FDA 510(K) Clearance of InnerCool's RapidBlue(TM) Endovascular System

...ific and medical articles have described the usefulness of temperature modulation, such as induced hypothermia (cooling), which is designed to protect endangered cells, prevent tissue death and preserve organ function following acute events associated with severe oxygen deprivation such as stroke or cardiac arr...

Cardium's InnerCool Therapies Unit Announces European Commercialization Agreement for Portfolio of Temperature Modulation Systems

...ific and medical articles have described the usefulness of temperature modulation, such as induced hypothermia (cooling), which is designed to protect endangered cells, prevent tissue death and preserve organ function following acute events associated with severe oxygen deprivation such as stroke or cardiac arr...

Biodiversity threatened as forests become 'islands' of green, UW professor says

...e spread of invasive species. Wildfires and animal-human conflicts are added risks. "It is possible that the national forests may not suffice for some endangered species," says Radeloff. Radeloff is not advocating a moratorium on building rural homes. "We are hoping to generate a broader discussion on how ho...

Jump starting technology education

... cited the example of Apollo 13, the aborted moon mission in which the objective quickly transitioned from a lunar landing to the safe return of three endangered astronauts. The Apollo crew and those in NASA's mission control center had to creatively solve a number of problems, including the need to scrub out...

Endangered in Biological Definition

Animal

... Zoo Clean animals Unclean animals Animal (Muppet) External links Tree of Life A Multimedia Database of Various UK or endangered Species ...

Biodiversity

...n-situ is usually seen as the ultimate conservation strategy. However, its implementation is sometimes unfeasible. For example, destruction of rare or endangered species' habitats sometimes requires ex-situ conservation efforts. Furthermore, ex-situ conservation can provide a backup solution to in-situ conser...

Cloning

...sful. In 2000 , a cow named Bessie gave birth to a cloned Asian guar, an endangered species; this provided hope that similar techniques (using surrogate mother... died (from illness after birth). Researchers are also considering cloning endangered species such as the giant panda, ocelot, and cheetah [2] . In 2002 , gen...

Extinction

...ributed directly or indirectly to human effects. endangered species are species that are in danger of becomin...veral organizations attempt to preserve recognized endangered species through a variety of conservation progra...anizations 6.5 Indigenous populations 7 endangered species 8 See also 9 External links ...

Marine biology

...e, due to sea surface temperatures rising well above normal. Some reefs are recovering, but scientists say that 58% of the world's coral reefs are now endangered and predict that global warming could exacerbate this trend. Deep sea and trenches The ocean is deep, very deep in some places. The deepest r...

Animal

... Zoo Clean animals Unclean animals Animal (Muppet) External links Tree of Life A Multimedia Database of Various UK or endangered Species ...

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Species

... transmission from space containing alien DNA, they create the ultimate femme fatale: a hybrid woman named... World Wildlife Fund is committed to endangered species protection. ... WWF safeguards hundreds of species around the world, but we focus special ... In biology, a species is one of the bas...

Proboscis

... ARKive - images and movies of the Proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus) ... Save the Proboscis Monkeys Petition and weblog with info on the rare, endangered ... Proboscis . Breakbeat • Glitchy • Glitchy • Funky • Electro • Techno • House • IDM • Heavy ... Proboscis . Dope • Electro • Breakbeat • Midte...

Genetic diversity

...hed from genetic variability, which describes the tendency of genetic ... Genetic Diversity . Invasive Species. Pollinators. Threatened & endangered Species ... Agriculture and Genetic Diversity ... Introduction to Genetic Diversity ... Genetic diversity Genetic diversity is a le...

Clone

...s, but why would we want to? ... For an example, see "Can we really clone endangered or extinct animals? ... clone () creates a new process, in a manner sim...s. But this success has ... announced the birth of the first ­clone of an endangered animal, a baby bull ... Clone troopers were an army of identical, gene...