More than 700 threatened species remain completely unprotected, new study shows
...ng just 2.6 percent of the world's land area would bring approximately two-thirds of unprotected species into the protected area system. However, scientists urge caution in interpreting the results of the study. "The global gap analysis should be regarded as a useful tool to guide the worldwide allocation ...State of Amazonas safeguards world's richest biodiversity with six new protected areas
...ver a region the size of Belgium or Costa Rica and bring the state's overall protected area coverage to more than 40 percent. Amazona's Secretary of Sustainable Development and the Environment (SES) Virgilio Viana made the announcement during the World Parks Congress (WPC) in Durban, South Africa. The six ...The cogs that move the science policy wheel
...ital. Notes one federal legislator, "AAAS Fellows bring enormous learning, energy and curiosity to my office, as well as a fresh perspective. Indeed, many of my most valued staffers began their careers as AAAS Science Fellows." Speakers include: Alan I. Leshner, Chief Executive Officer, AAAS Richard...Virginia Bioinformatics Institute central to Regional Center of Excellence
...and other Virginia Tech researchers are pleased to bring genomics and bioinformatics resources to this comprehensive team of scientists that will launch a multi-pronged attack to combat infectious diseases including potential bioterrorism threats. Our goal is nothing short of improving the prevention, dia...Exploring oil rigs and an ancient shoreline in the Gulf Of Mexico for new disease cures
...ration's (NOAA) Ocean Exploration program. It will bring HARBOR BRANCH scientists, co-led by Reed, Dr. Amy Wright, director of DBMR and Dr. Shirley Pomponi, the institution's vice president and director of research, from the southwest tip of Florida north toward the panhandle off the coast of Alabama. The ...... and water-carrying aircraft have been deployed to bring the fire under control since it first began in the thick oak and cork oak trees covering the Maures hills last Sunday. At the height of the fire, several campsites had to be evacuated and roads closed. So far this week 4,500 hectares of trees and sc...Fishing for photos of rare or unknown deep-sea creatures with an electronic jellyfish lure
...e lights, motors and electric fields such vehicles bring with them are more than enough to either scare ani...2 for the first deployment, and on subsequent days bring the equipment to the surface to download video then redeploy for more recording on the seafloor. On...Canada, US launch collaborative research programs for circulatory and respiratory health
...n. "This unique programmatic collaboration will bring together scientists who are international leaders in their fields to unravel the complexities of circulatory and respiratory illness. I am very hopeful that this is the first of many collaborative efforts between our two institutes," said Dr. Bruce M...Zengen's new technology first to deliver drug active ingredients in an oral strip
...drug delivery needs. "Chloraseptic Relief Strips bring true innovation to the cough/cold category and are a fitting extension of the Chloraseptic product line," said Elise Donahue, president and chief operating officer of Prestige Brands International. "Zengen's technology has allowed us to make our pro...Brain links non-food images with eating -- But only when hungry, study suggests
...dicts to stay clean is that the smallest signs can bring back the cravings for drugs or alcohol. The ability to make connections between eating and various stimuli in one's environment is a fundamental part of learning that is probably common, to some degree, in all animals. "Say a rabbit is hopping aroun...New principle guides memory dynamics
...lict with others. For instance, a certain food can bring up memories of taste delicious or disagreeable; a person can be remembered in pleasant or unpleasant contexts, and so on. When we next taste the food or see the person, all of the associated memories are called up in the blink of an eye, but in the...Splitting hairs: GATA-3 function in hair follicle development
...microscopist, Dr. Amalia Pasolli). "These studies bring us one step closer to understanding the key components that go into making a hair follicle. Over the past few years, we and others in the field have identified critical signals for making the hair itself. Now, we've uncovered an important missing fac...Washington University in St. Louis, Monsanto Co., awarded crop protection patent
...t. "The creation of disease-resistant plants will bring benefits throughout the world, thanks to the pioneering work of Beachy and our many other outstanding biology faculty and their scientific colleagues at Monsanto. This discovery is another example of St. Louis's emerging role as a world leader in pl...Duke ecologist finds devastation, hope in Iraqi marshes
...ing to work with some of the universities there to bring some Iraqi scientists to Duke for some environmental and wetland training," he added. "Then we're going to do some training in Iraq." In the end, Richardson predicted that Iraqis "will not be able to restore all the marshes, because they won't have e...Toxic protein could explain Alzheimer's and lead to breakthroughs
...w down memory loss, but to actually reverse it, to bring memory function back to normal." Although both are a form of amyloid beta, ADDLs and their properties differ significantly from the amyloid fibrils (known as plaques) that are a diagnostic hallmark of Alzheimer's. ADDLs found in human brains, mostly ...Funding opportunities for junior faculty offered by the American Association for Cancer Research
... efforts by oncology scientists everywhere to help bring hope to cancer patients as we relentlessly pursue cures." This Award fosters meritorious basic, translational, or clinical cancer research by a tenure-track scientist at the level of Assistant Professor at an academic institution anywhere in the worl...Development of hair depends on development of the hair channel
...r for the treatment of balding. The latest results bring scientists one significant step closer to this goal, in addition to the opposite possibility of removing unwanted hair in a condition known as hirsutism. What is more, the new research comes with a surprising twist. In the mid 1990s, at the Universi...Measles on the rise as vaccinations fall in the UK, Science study reports
... U.K., cases and small outbreaks occur when people bring measles into the country from other parts of the world. If the reproductive number increases further to exceed one, measles will not disappear as it does now after each case or small outbreak. "These findings re-enforce how important it is to vaccin...Whale populations are too low to resume commercial hunting, geneticists find
...mething about their history is crucial in order to bring their populations back."...