K-State's National Agricultural Biosecurity Center receives $1.3 Million from Department of Defense
...he government as zoonotic and/or ones particularly threatening to U.S. agriculture and its infrastructure. "Those include foot and mouth disease, avian influenza and exotic Newcastle disease," she said. Federal, state, non-profit and private industry groups will be contacted, in search of response lessons. An i...Veterinarians discover first known case of canine distemper in a wild tiger
...ld Siberian tiger in the Russian Far East, further threatening populations of this highly endangered big cat. Kathy Quigley, veterinarian for the WCS Siberian Tiger Project, confirmed that an adult female tigress that wandered into a Russian town exhibiting abnormal behavior had the disease, which is fatal in ca...Scientists fear new Ebola outbreak may explain sudden gorilla disappearance
...outbreak of the Ebola virus, which, in addition to threatening human lives, would threaten tens of thousands of great apes in this case gorillas and chimpanzees in the Republic of Congo. The announcement was made by the International Primatological Society (IPS) and Great Ape Survival Project (GRASP) at the I...Research shows oceans are becoming more acidic
... ), which is increasing their acidity and possibly threatening the survival many marine species, especially calcifying organisms including corals, shellfish and phytoplankton. According to research presented recently at a symposium organized by UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission and the Internat...Early dexamethasone exposure has long-term neurodevelopment, neuroendocrine effects
...animals exhibit increased anxiety-like behavior in threatening environments, they demonstrate no such behavior when placed in a less threatening novel environment. Conclusions This study finds that an early exposure to a tapering dose of dexa...Virginia Bioinformatics Institute researcher advances fight against sudden oak death disease
...rseries in a dozen states, including Virginia, and threatening woody ornamentals and East Coast forests. Tyler and his colleagues have successfully mapped the genome of the devastating pathogens Phytophtora sojae and Phytophtora ramorum. P. ramorum, also known as sudden oak death, is a serious fungal pathogen th...Memory fails you after severe stress
...riences. When military personnel were subjected to threatening behaviour during mock interrogations, most failed to identify the questioner a day or so later, and many even got the gender wrong. The finding casts serious doubt on the reliability of victim testimonies in cases involving psychological trauma. Nu...Dramatic decline of California native frog linked to introduced trout in mountain lakes
... mountain yellow-legged frog. The fungus, which is threatening frog populations around the world, attacks the mouthparts of tadpoles as well as adults, and can kill adult frogs. It was discovered in the Sierra Nevada in 2001....Archaeologists announce discoveries at the ancient Maya site of Waka' in northern Guatemala
...ure. Last year, 100,000 acres of the park burned, threatening both the wildlife and cultural history of the park area. The Waka' project, together with the Government of Guatemala through the General Direction of the Cultural and Natural Patrimony and the National Council for Protected Areas, the Wildlife Con...Researchers begin study to protect against anthrax
... rare disease that, like smallpox, has become more threatening with the emergence of bioterrorism. Doctors and nurses across the country hope to enroll a total of 480 people 40 people at each of 11 sites by the end of May in the study funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NI...Gene-rich human Chromosome 19 sequence completed
...eed for animals to recognize millions of odorsboth threatening and attractivein their environment. Transcription factors are proteins that need to be recognized by RNA polymerase in order to initiate the elaboration of nucleotides along the DNA molecule. Zinc finger proteins are chains of amino acids that captur...Pollution history documented through shell remains provides tool to study ecosystem change
...ne whether pollution or environmental stresses are threatening freshwater mussels. The GSA meeting is March 25-27 in Tysons Corner, Va. Brown measured the mercury content in freshwater mussel shells in the river near Saltville, Va., where industry had polluted the river from 1950 until 1972, measured the damag...Approved drug blocks deadly anthrax toxin
...t that September and October someone began sending threatening letters stuffed with anthrax spores to several politicians and journalists. Nearly half (5/11) of those infected by breathing in the spores died from the disease. Many of those who survived have ongoing symptoms such as fatigue, shortness of breat...Digging for truth in Guatemala
...g to AAAS staff expert Victoria Baxter. One of the threatening letters sent to the FAFG forensic scientists stated that "in a war, there are no guilty parties, and it is not your place to judge us." Many of those responsible for past human rights abuses still remain in positions in power. According to Amnesty In...Lake restrictions make lakeshore property more valuable
... moved into the area, fish abundance has declined, threatening many qualities of the lakes that attract people to the area. Development tends to have a homogenizing effect across an area, giving lakes similar water qualities and similar fish and plant communities, says Stephen Carpenter, a UW-Madison limnology ......that feral cats and other non-native predators are threatening the palila, an endangered Hawaiian forest bird. The palila is a Hawaiian honeycreeper with a gray back, yellow breast, yellow head and finch-like beak. Fewer than 5,000 of these birds exist today. The scientists discovered that feral cats kill chicks...Researchers determine reason for deadly spread of 1918 influenza
...ly to the new virulent strain of avian flu that is threatening to spread, they do emphasize how subtle alterations in the influenza virus's infectivity could spawn a major epidemic. The findings were the result of a long-term collaboration between the late Don Wiley, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigato...Natural killer cellers are made, not born
...ilizing," says Mnz. "Without natural killer cells, threatening conditions can get a strong foothold before the ad...ls to deliver an extra punch to the cancer and the threatening graft-versus-host disease, the updated logic goes. Mnz and his colleagues did not develop the bone m...UN report: Accelerate global agreement to oversee exploitation of South Pole 'extremophiles'
... that efforts to exploit this new frontier are now threatening to outpace the capacity of national and international law to regulate such things as ownership of genetic materials, the issuing of patents on products that may arise from them, and the potential environmental consequences of harvesting these resourc......genic surface, which does not produce serious life threatening reactions in test animals. These attributes, together with the facts that certain Bdellovibrio strains show a very narrow prey spectrum and are capable of penetrating the same tissues as may human-pathogens, gives promise to the development of novel ...