UIC researchers hunting drugs for devastating parasitic disease
Hundreds of millions of people, mainly in developing countries, are disabled by infectious diseases, according to the World Health Organization. More than 12 million people in 88 countries are infected with leishmaniasis, a parasitic disease spread by the bite of infected sand flies. Nearly 2 ...Penguins Altered Diet When Humans Began Hunting Whales and Seals
Adlie penguins living in Antarctica switched from eating fish to krill (shrimp-like marine invertebrate animals) around the time that humans began hunting seals and whales, ancient eggshell fragments reveal. According to Steven Emslie of the University of North Carolina in Wilmington, and...Headhunters Lice Removal Service Has Lice in Atlanta on the Run
...t I spoke with Katie that I made the right choice." So how did they come up with such a clever name? "We figured for years it's been the lice hunting for heads," stated Lambert's wife, Heather. "It's about time the roles got reversed." About Headhunters Lice Removal Service Headhun...National Insurance Carriers Now Cover Artificial Cervical Disc Surgery
...pain and addictive medication. She wanted her life back. In 1996, Virginia had two discs fused. Now a third disc was acting up, and she went hunting for answers. She found them in Geoff Dixon, M.D., an experienced neurosurgeon with the Chicago Institute of Neurosurgery and Neuroresearch (CINN) . H...Endangered Great Ape Finds Safe Haven
... the heart of Africa's Congo Basin--the world's second largest rainforest--which is increasingly threatened by industrial logging, commercial bushmeat hunting and agricultural encroachment. Bonobos are known for their peaceful, cooperative, matriarchal society, their remarkable intelligence and their sexual ...Smith & Wesson Security Services Wins Top Honors at SAMMY awards
...firearms and firearm safety/security products and parent company to Thompson/Center Arms Company, Inc., a premier designer and manufacturer of premium hunting rifles, black powder rifles, interchangeable firearms systems and accessories under the Thompson/Center brand. Smith & Wesson licenses shooter pro...Meat for sex in wild chimpanzees
...nefits that women receive from hunters in human hunter-gatherer societies could also be driving the relationship between reproductive success and good hunting skills," concludes Gomes. ...Spiders, frogs and gecko among exciting discoveries found in Papua New Guinea
...to their traditional lifestyles," said CI scientist Steve Richards, who led the expedition. Local clan communities rely on this wilderness area for hunting and collecting forest products, and the region is a critical source of clean drinking water to tens of thousands of valley people living in the Enga S...New book chronicles the journeys of women physicians and scientists to fighting cancer
...o the United States with her husband, Gandhi worked hard at whatever task was at hand - from studying molecular biology and cancer therapeutics to job hunting in a foreign country and even learning how to drive in parking lots - eventually earning a tenured position in experimental therapeutics at M. D. Ande...New Genes Found for Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Children
...e likely to affect the colon than other areas of the GI tract. Those age-related differences in IBD spurred the current research team to do their gene hunting in childhood-onset disease. "Although the gene variants we found may have a stronger signal in pediatric IBD than in adult- onset IBD, we do not belie...Game Commission Announces EHD Confirmed in Fayette County
...ouraged to call their respective regions to report dead or sick deer. Contact information is available on page 3 of the 2007-08 Pennsylvania Digest of hunting and Trapping Regulations, which is presented to each license buyer and the agency's website (http://www.pgc.state.pa.us ) under the "Regional Informa...Geographic profiling applied to track hunting patterns of white sharks in South Africa
VIRGINIA KEY, Fla. -- Predation is one of the most fundamental and fascinating interactions in nature, and sharks are some of the fiercest predators on Earth. However, their hunting pattern is difficult to study because it is rarely observed in the wild. As a result, shark predatory behavior has r...A combined tooth-venom arsenal revealed as key to Komodo dragon's hunting strategy
A combined tooth-venom arsenal revealed as key to Komodo Dragon's hunting strategy. A new study has shown that the effectiveness of the Komodo Dragon bite is a combination of highly specialized serrated teeth and venom. The authors also dismiss the widely accepted theory that prey die from sept...Spotted hyenas can increase survival rates by hunting alone
EAST LANSING, Mich. Recent research by Michigan State University doctoral student Jennifer Smith has shed new light on the way spotted hyenas live together and more importantly hunt for their food alone. In a paper recently published in the journal Animal Behaviour , Smith, a student in MSU...Lizard hunting styles impact ability to walk, run
ATHENS, Ohio (April 21, 2008) The technique lizards use to grab their grub influences how they move, according to researchers at Ohio University. A research team led by doctoral student Eric McElroy tracked 18 different species of lizards as they walked or ran in order to understand how their...Key 'impact hunters' catalyze hunting among male chimpanzees
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 1, 2008 While hunting among chimpanzees is a group effort, key males, known as impact hunters are highly influential within the group. They are more likely to initiate a hunt, and hunts rarely occur in their absence, according to a new study. The findings, which appear in ...Wolves find happy hunting grounds in Yellowstone National Park
If Mark Boyce could converse with elk, he might give them a word of advice: avoid open, flat, snowy areas near rivers and roads. A biological scientist at the University of Alberta, Boyce analyzed 774 wolf-elk kill sites and concluded that spatial patterns of predation between wolves and elk a...Immune cell communication key to hunting viruses, Jefferson immunologists show
Immunologists at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia have used nanotechnology to create a novel "biosensor" to solve in part a perplexing problem in immunology: how immune system cells called killer T-cells hunt down invading viruses. They found that surprisin...UGA researchers find that hunting can increase the severity of wildlife disease epidemics
A new study by University of Georgia researchers shows that the common practice of killing wild animals to control disease outbreaks can actually make matters worse in some cases. In a study published the August 7 edition of the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, po...Symbiotic bacteria protect hunting wasps from fungal infestation
Researchers have discovered a fascinating symbiotic relationship between a wasp species and a newly discovered bacterial species ?a relationship that potentially sheds light on how bacteria can be successfully utilized by higher organisms in defensive mechanisms against other microbes. In the new w...Venomous sea snakes play heads or tails with their predators
...the most toxic known in all snake species. When hunting for food sea snakes probe crevices and coral forma...irty minutes, swimming between corals and crevices hunting for food. Rasmussen was momentarily distracted by ... defence strategy used as instinct when a snake is hunting for food. "It is intriguing that this discover...Job hunting the Air Google way
Silicon Valley's current enfants terrible Googles brilliant duo have given the global populace wings to soar over towns and cities, and the flights include everything except peanuts. Fasten your seat belts. Consider these two observations: First, every half century or so, advertisers accid...Pay attention to your alumni connections when job hunting
Pundits say the principal benefit of a Harvard M.B.A. isn't the learning acquired in the program but rather the blue-chip roster of fellow alums with which you can later associate. As the mythology goes, you can call on a fellow alum to help you out 20 years after graduation and your shared colle...Nature parks can save species as climate changes
...As lack any form of legal protection under national or international law. Agricultural development, logging, invasive alien species, and unsustainable hunting and trapping are the main threats to bird species and IBAs across the African continent. Dr Stephen Willis said: "We looked at bird species across ...Beyond associations: Colorectal cancer culprit found
...ic variation associated with the risk of colorectal cancer and its functional implications, shedding new light on the basis of this deadly disease. hunting down the genes that underlie diseases such as colorectal cancer is extremely difficult, owing to the genetic heterogeneity of cancer cells. Numerous...DNA Study Unlocks Mystery to Diverse Traits in Dogs
...ive breeding produced dogs with physical and behavioral traits that were well suited to the needs or desires of their human owners, such as herding or hunting ability, coat color and body and skull shape and size. This resulted in the massive variance seen among the more than 350 distinct breeds that make up...Scientists say sabercat bit like a pussycat
...n the prey this way. Once the bite was done the prey would have died almost instantly." Dr Wroe describes the lion as a "better all rounder" in the hunting stakes. Smilodon was massively over-engineered for the purposes of taking small prey, but a ruthlessly efficient hunter of big game." The team is n...Individual differences caused by shuffled chunks of DNA in the human genome
...previously assumed that landmarks, like the SNPs mentioned earlier, were fairly evenly spread out in the genomes of different people. Now, when we are hunting for a disease gene, we have to take into account that structural variations can distort the map and differ between individual patients. While it ma...Maybe its time to write our own television shows about Wisconsin
... A cute but wacky hippie girl from Madison marries a sophisticated Norwegian guy from Westby. Just Shoot It: The editors of a fashion magazine go hunting for deer infected with chronic wasting disease. OK, I didnt say these shows had to be funny or interesting just better for Wisconsins image. Im av...How to Quit Your Midwest Technology Job
...emember that a huge percentage of people who accept counter offers from their employers leave within the next six months. Remember why you started job hunting in the first place. If you weaken now, your reputation will suffer at your current job and youll be lifelong toast at the other place. If the comp...'Don't work here' job interviews set new Midwest technology trend
...t to curve balls (and how they'd approach adversity in general). This isn't the case. The interviewer finally shares the information that she's job hunting herself, she's burned out on the company environment and she'd hate to be the one responsible for my friend going to work at that company and having t...TRIMMER-Direct cDNA Normalization Kit from Evrogen JSC
Description:... cDNA normalization is essential for hunting and analyzing the rare transcripts using high-throughput approaches, such as EST sequencing projects, microarrays, functional screenings etc. The Evro...TRIMMER cDNA Normalization Kit from Evrogen JSC
Description:... cDNA normalization is essential for hunting and analyzing the rare transcripts using high-throughput approaches, such as EST sequencing projects, microarrays, functional screenings etc. Most nor...