Leading bacterial pathogen is sequenced
...ists studying P. aeruginosa , a bacterial cousin blamed for chronic and fatal lung infections in cystic fibrosis patients and acute infections of cancer and burn patients, says Collmer, who is principal investigator on the project. Comparisons of the genomes, he says, will help researchers understand how ...Human rights in Peru: AAAS analysis doubles previous estimates of killings
...rity forces. The deaths of another 23 percent were blamed on other rebel groups, including the Tupac Armaru Revolutionary Movement, and armed peasant groups. Ball and his colleagues used data analysis methods similar to those developed by AAAS for use in Guatemala and Kosovo. Ball said that the AAAS report ...Peregrine falcons may face new environmental threat
...f extinction after World War II. Their decline was blamed mostly on organochlorine pesticides like DDT, which were linked to thin-shelled eggs that broke during incubation. While BDEs do not produce the eggshell thinning associated with DDT, there has been some evidence of neurobehavioral problems from expo...Fat cells fight disease, Purdue University researchers find
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Fat cells, commonly blamed for a number of diseases, also may aid in the body's defense against illnesses such as diabetes and cancer, according to Purdue University researchers. Rather than contributing to disease, fat cells, or adipocytes (pronounced ah-dip-poe-sights), norm...Ontario researchers see increase in taste and odour-causing algae problems
...ver the past two decades. This phenomenon can't be blamed solely on "local human impact," says team member John Smol, Canada Research Chair in Environmental Change and co-head of Queen's University's Paleoecological Environmental Assessment and Research Laboratory (PEARL). "It's a complex of patterns, whic...New research explores 'early bird' and 'night owl' sleep patterns
... each month. Excessive daytime sleepiness has been blamed on interference in cognitive functioning, motor vehicle crashes (especially at night), poor job performance and reduced productivity. While researchers have learned much about the basic mechanism underlying the control of sleep and its importance o...Lewis and Clark data show a different Missouri River
...er." This restriction, Criss said, can be blamed on a four- to nine- foot increase in flood stages along the lower Missouri River. Wing dams, or wing dikes, are found approximately every 1,500 feet along the Missouri River, from outside St. Louis to Sioux City, Iowa, ostensibly for control...Earstones tell fishes' tale of early life in the Colorado River estuary
...oaba fishery crashed in 1975. Overfishing has been blamed for totoaba's decline. The fish was listed by the United States as federally endangered in 1979. The current size of the totoaba population is unknown. Gulf corvina, Cynoscion othonopterus, are still fished commercially, although the American Fisheri...Highlights of the July Journal of the American Dietetic Association
...a significant percentage of a daily diet, has been blamed by some people for the rise in excess weight and obesity in this country. However, according to a commentary by researchers from Tufts University, it's not the Pyramid that is to blame for the rise in weight in this country but ourselves for not foll...British scientists exclude 'maverick' colleagues, says report
...ed foods," said Dr Eriksson. "The media are often blamed for presenting a misleading image of science, but to some extent, public perception of such scientifically and politically charged issues turns on the way scientists present themselves to the outside world. "The image of a scientific establishment at...