Predictive testing for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer: its effect on women
...r or only reason to be tested. The most important arguments for testing are: wanting to know whether regular medical examinations of the breast or ovaries are needed or not, to decide about prophylactic surgery, wanting to know whether the children have an increased risk, reducing uncertainty. Moreover, psyc...Past fire regime is key to managing chaparral fires in southern California
...past efforts to suppress fires, and they presented arguments suggesting that landscape-scale prescription burning is not an effective means of preventing such fires. They added that limited and strategically placed prescription burns are more cost effective. One of the most important roles for fire managers of...Women who drink moderately do not face a longer wait to become pregnant
...t. However the results of our study do not provide arguments against the Danish recommended intake of less than 14 drinks a week for women. The most consistent finding was a longer waiting time to pregnancy in women who reported no alcohol intake. We do not expect alcohol to improve a womans fertility, but a m...Science reviewer calls anti-environmental book 'dangerous' and 'misguided'
... certainly impressive," and he offers "compelling" arguments to support his theory that the environment is improving, Grubb writes: "He establishes a convincing case that, in general, humanity is better off today than it has ever been in terms of standard welfare measures and of many enironmental indicators." ...Blame North America megafauna extinction on climate change, not human ancestors
...rizona ecologist Paul Martin in 1967 and its basic arguments haven't changed since. It claims large mammal extinctions occurred 11,000 years ago; Clovis people were the first to enter North America, about 11,000 years ago; Clovis people were hunters who preyed on a diverse set of now-extinct large mammals; rec...AAAS seminar explores the implications for human cloning
...). Speakers will explore the ethical and religious arguments against human reproductive cloning, the moral predicament associated with therapeutic cloning, and the problems with genomic reprogramming. Opinions from human cloning activists will be summarized. Ample time will be provided for speakers to address ...Fight between GMOS and the bugs they repel may not be over
...es and miticides. These speculations and deductive arguments have resulted in the first-ever requirement by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for resistance management plans as a part of the GMO registration process Whalon is a proponent of working now to head off resistance in the field by learning to live...The true encroacher, human or alligator?
...o be a hot human or a disoriented alligator. While arguments abound as to who is the true encroacher in this situation, the answer depends on which side of the pool one is on - as in "gene" pool. Timothy P. Scott, a crocodilian biologist at Texas A&M University, can tell about the true encroacher. He has been ...Pet trade wrong: Poaching major threat to parrots
...s from nearly 50% to 20%, refuting the pet trade's arguments that limiting legal trade will only intensify illegal trade and thus poaching. This finding suggests that parrots would benefit from similar legislation in Europe and Japan, which currently provide most of the market for parrot imports. "Import rest...A first: A (nearly) complete road map for the evolution of placental mammals
... debate has flared up repeatedly over the years as arguments have occurred around certain animals or groups of animals, such as how closely rodents and rabbits are related. The UF study took a step back. Instead of exploring the evolutionary history of this or that mammal or mammal group using one method or an...Transgenic fish could threaten wild populations
...ld reduce negative fitness effects. However, these arguments ignore the potentialadvantageous effects of transgenes on some aspect of fitness such as mating success. Here, we examinethe risk to a natural population after release of a few transgenic individuals when the transgenetrait simultaneously increases t...Licensing procedure for genetically modified organisms turns out to be fallible
...f these categories, the relevant questions and the arguments for theirrelevance can be listed in a systematic manner. In the case of an agent, for example, thefollowing question is in order: To what extent can the transgene survive without thegenetically modified organism? The argument for the relevance of thi......ssues involving new technologies. That is, popular arguments againstGM foods don't use the typical, pragmatic logic of risks and benefits. Instead,some of the European public objects to food biotechnology on moral and ethicalgrounds, essentially expressing the concern that the technology is a challengeto the n...NYU Chemist Supports New Theory For Origin Of Life
...implausible as theories of Divine Creation. These arguments are presented in Shapiro's article, "Prebiotic cytosinesynthesis: A critical analysis and implications for the origin of life,"which appeared in the April 13th Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Vol.96, Issue 8, 4396-4401). Shapiro als......s. The Great Ape Project has used the same arguments to call for a UnitedNations Declaration of the Rights of Great Apes. That declaration wouldguarantee chimps and their close relatives all the rights contained in the NewZealand proposals, plus the right to freedom from imprisonment "without duelegal ......oots probably came from the samepools." The arguments concerning thermophiles by Wiegel and numerous otherscientists from around the globe were just published in Thermophiles: The Keysto Molecular Evolution and the Origin of Life -- by Taylor & Francis publishers.The book, edited by Wiegel and UGA bioch...... humans might be involvedgoes to the heart of many arguments about these "genetic gods." "If genes were merely passive backdrops to human existence, why shouldwe care about the prospects of human cloning?" asked Avise. "But most of us docare. We understand, if only at an impressionistic level, the conc......ozygouschildren. These findings provide important arguments in the debate over the beneficialeffect of delta 32 heterozygosity on HIV disease progression. The CCR5 genotypeshould also give a prognostic information for children born to HIV-1-infectedmothers. In addition, these findings should encourage the de...