Viral suspect for amphibian decline traced to human spread through bait
...ality and Avian Flu have to do with the world-wide disappearance of frogs and salamanders, otherwise known as "Amph...nvolved in amphibian decline -- the ongoing global disappearance of a broad group of animals -- and is additional evidence for how human activities such as farming ...In the obese, metabolic adaptations post-weight loss lead to regaining of shed pounds
.... The researchers did determine that carbohydrate disappearance was proportionally higher. Thus, the second major conclusion is that continued maintenance of a reduced body weight was accompanied by an elevation in metabolic efficiency and shift in fuel utilization such that there was a preference for carbohydrat...Study examines future of species extinction, conservation
...o extinct in order of their sensitivity." With the disappearance of organisms most vulnerable to a certain condition, such as the increase of nutrients in lake water, the species best suited for that condition are left behind. This ordered extinction, notes Ives, makes the community as a whole more resistant to th...Closing in on treatment for Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease?
...ilitation of the muscles ultimately leads to their disappearance in the lower legs, feet and hands. Now, researchers from VIB (the Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology) have discovered a piece of the molecular puzzle of this disease. Two small 'heat shock' proteins turn out to be crucial - faults i...Surgeons explore new treatment for Tourette syndrome
...pressed with this patient's dramatic reaction: the disappearance of the jerking motions, muscle tics and grunting associated with his Tourette's. "This technique holds great promise for patients suffering from this movement disorder, which often is diagnosed in childhood or early adolescence and can be completely...Eastern lowland gorilla population plummets 70 percent since 1994
...eir habitat. "The staggering and almost immediate disappearance of the eastern lowland gorilla underscores the alarming decline of an entire ecosystem," said Juan Carlos Bonilla, senior director for Central Africa at Conservation International. "But this joint effort which includes everyone from tribal chiefs to...Policy review in Science calls for Bush Administration to protect wild salmon
...sponsibility, as citizens, to prevent the on-going disappearance of wild salmon."...MGH study finds female mammals produce egg cells into adulthood
...decline in total follicles represented the gradual disappearance of a limited supply of oocytes. No one ever attempted to measure the actual rate of oocyte or follicle death before because the dogma was so persuasive," he explains. Among many potential implications of the study is a different mechanism underlying...Genetic master switch sends bacteria toward 'seafood dinner'
...s Hopkins. Researchers were puzzled about the disappearance of chitin because little of the material turned up in sediment on the ocean floors. Where did all of the chitin go? Then, about 70 years ago, two microbiologists determined that bacteria were quickly consuming the sinking shells and preserving the ec...Third set of awards are announced under interagency biodiversity program
... and botanicals evaluation, coupled with the rapid disappearance of organisms from which new medicines may be derived, make this work more important todaythan ever." He added that, "we see development of new and improved therapies from indigenous resources in a collaborative framework between U.S. and developing-c...Professor uses satellites to protect Amazon forests, global climate
...ainst time as the rate of the Amazon rain forest's disappearance quickens. Annually, roughly 15,000 square kilometers of forest are lost to clear cutting and cattle pasturing alone - an amount of territory the size of the state of Massachusetts. Another 7,000 to 15,000 square kilometers is lost to timber harvestin...New evidence says Earths greatest extinction caused by ancient meteorite
...he fossils that had gone from prominence to sudden disappearance was Glossopteris flora, a plant that was widely known to have been wiped out in The Great Dying. This reassured the team that they had the right rock from the right period. Previous tests by Poreda on this same layer found shocked quartz and fulleren...US crackdown on bioterror backfiring
... be held criminally accountable for any mysterious disappearance when it is almost certainly only sloppy record keeping," says another researcher, "then I'll work on Paramecium [a pond protist] and leave the select agents to someone else."...Wolves are rebalancing Yellowstone ecosystem
...the scientists say. In some areas of the West, the disappearance of up to 90 percent of the aspen trees has been documented - another species of plant that is also highly vulnerable to animal browsing when it is young. "The last period when aspen trees in Yellowstone escaped the effects of elk browsing to generat...Multiphoton microscope observes cell membrane action
... was changed, processes that appear to involve the disappearance of boundary-line tension as the two phases merge into a single one at higher temperatures. The study was supported, in part, by a National Institutes of Health grant to the Developmental Resource for Biophysical Imaging Opto-Electronics (DRBIO) at C...Cow's resistance to worms is genetically determined
...f mechanisms that are responsible for ensuring the disappearance of the worms from the small intestine. Cattle pick up larvae from the grass, which develop into adult worms in the cattle's gastrointestinal system. The worms reproduce sexually and lay eggs. The eggs pass out of the cattle with the excreta. In the d...Whale populations are too low to resume commercial hunting, geneticists find
...University of California-Santa Cruz: "Clearly, the disappearance of the great whale was not an isolated event." Not only are baleen whales major consumers of krill and small fish, he explained, but when they die, their massive carcasses sink to the bottom and provide vital nutrition for a wide variety of creatures...19th century museum specimens help plan reintroduction of endangered tiger beetle
...uch scientists are trying to address the animal's disappearance makes it hard to answer these questions. Examining the DNA of museum specimens, however, can fill information gaps caused by the lack of living animals in key locations.This is what two scientists have done to help guide the reintroduction of the No...Clinical study reports findings of combination therapy with DOXIL
... achieved a complete response, defined as complete disappearance of myeloma protein from the serum and urine by immune fixation, a bone marrow biopsy demonstrating less than 3% plasma cells, the absence of monoclonal plasma cells by immune staining of the bone marrow on two occasions at least four weeks apart, and...Syracuse University geologists raise questions about controversial theory of species survival
...ated stasis attempts to describe the emergence and disappearance of species across geologic time by suggesting that species living together in the same environment go through long periods of stabilitysome six million yearsand then undergo a rapid, almost complete turnover, during which old species disappear and ne...