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Size matters: Preventing large mammal extinction

Saving large mammals such as elephants and rhino from extinction could be made more effective by focusing efforts on individual species as well as their habitats. Scientists at the Zoological Society of London's Institute of Zoology (IoZ) and Imperial College London have identified fundamental new approaches to improve the success of large mammal conservation. Published today in the journa...

Bigger brain size matters for intellectual ability

Brain size matters for intellectual ability and bigger is better, McMaster University researchers have found. The stud...

Space matters: Estimating species diversity in the fossil record

Estimates for the number of living species on earth range from 3.5 million to over 30 million but only 1.9 million species have been classified and described. Estimating historical biodiversity from the fossil record is an even more daunting task. One tool ecologists - but not paleontologists - have traditionally relied on to identify patterns of existing biological diversity is a long-est...

UCSB researchers discover shape matters to macrophages

Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have made a surprising discovery: phagocytosis depends more on particle shape than size. The research, which has far-reaching implications for immunology, vaccine development and drug delivery, is published today online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Samir Mitragotri, a UCSB professor of chemical engineering, and graduate student Julie A....

Researchers find that bumblebees' flower choice matters

To predict where a bumblebee will carry its pollen next, you have to literally think like one. Flanigan and her professor, Jeffrey Karron, a...

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Why Google Matters

Last week Google, the ubiquitous Internet search engine company, set the business world abuzz with the announcement of its intention to go public. In doing so it released data about its financial performance that had Wall Street drooling and its competition fidgeting. Some analysts however, criticized the company and its founders for being arrogant, secretive and unrealistic in the conditions it...

siRNA screening of the cell cycle with two dynamic GFP sensors (from Discovery Matters Issue 1, July 2005)

M. Kenrick, S. Hancock, S. Stubbs, and N. Thomas GE Healthcare, The Maynard Centre, Cardiff, UK Recent advances in siRNA methodologies and the development of high-throughput image analysis platforms such as the IN Cell Analyzer have revolutionized the functional analysis of genes and proteins. Here, we describe the application of...

Manufacturing Matters starts with innovation

Manufacturing Matters, which kicked off on Monday at the Midwest Airlines Center, is the only statewide conference g...

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The way you talk matters a lot

People who have the habit of talking over the telephone with the receiver cradling between their head and shoulder could be put into problems like that of a temporary stroke.//Scientists say a 43-year old psychiatrist in France spent an hour on the telephone talking to a patient, cradling the receiver between his left ear and shoulder so he could keep his hands free. Soon after that...

Age Matters in Kidney Matching

Over the years kidney transplantation has come a long way. The number of successfully transplanted kidneys has been able to help more and more people lead a normal lifestyle. //However, a recent study looking into the issue, “If Age matters when matching donor and recipient kidneys,” gave not only the researchers a whole new perspective but also the transplant community. Researchers fr...

Being together matters, both in marriage and smoking

The risk of stroke is high among couples who smoke according to a new study// which has reported a six times higher relative risk of total stroke than cigarette-smoking women with non-smoking spouses. The study recorded the smoking and marital status and the incidence of total stroke and ischemic stroke (a stroke caused by a blood clot blocking blood flow to the brain) among various gr...

Punch-Drunk Effect- Every blow matters

According to a recent study conducted by researchers at Goteborg University, Sweden, frequent punches on the head may lead to a rise of certain// chemicals in the cerebrospinal fluid. These chemicals are markers for brain and nerve cell damage. This increase of chemicals in the brain may give reasons for “punch-drunk” syndrome and symptoms of lasting neurological damage. Thi...

Critically Ill patients ill-equipped to handle end-of life matters

KINGSTON, Ont. –Terminally-ill patients in Canada are not adequately prepared to deal with end-of-life issues- matters concerning resuscitation after a heart attack //or other life-threatening medical complication, says Queen's University professor of Medicine Daren Heyland. A national study has found that only a miniscule number of patients were prepared regarding the different options a...

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When Volume Matters, Immunoassay Systems Deliver

Although new and innovative technology has enabled more and more laboratory testing to occur at the bedside or physicians office, the central laboratory is hardly threatened with extinction. National volume data suggest that medium and large labs are busier than ever before, and the huge range of their capabilities, gold standard reliability and ability to handle very large volumes of tests a...