Do fish farms really add to the world's supply of fish?
...arms. More than 255,000 Atlantic salmon also have escaped into the Pacific Ocean since the early 1980s and are routinely caught by fishing vessels from Washington to Alaska. But the problem is especially acute in the Atlantic Ocean. "Increasing evidence suggests that farm escapees may hybridize with and alt...Genes may help protect kidneys from diabetes damage
...tructure of these kidneys to find out why they had escaped damage. "We have to look at what genes growth hormone affects because you can't do away with growth hormone itself," said Karen Coschigano, an EBI scientist and lead author of the recent study. "We don't want to lose the good things that growth hormo...To combat poaching, Florida officials use wildlife forensics
...officials are bagging poachers who might once have escaped their reach, thanks to DNA analysis performed at a University of Florida laboratory. More commonly used to catch murderers and rapists, the lab's forensic DNA techniques have proved so successful in nabbing deer poachers that officials have recently...St. Jude researchers discover genetic reason why some patients resist HIV therapy
...ls, the nucleoside drugs with mono-phosphategroups escaped from the cells, leading to lower levels of the drug. These lowerconcentrations of active drug are less effective in preventing replication ofHIV and lead to uncontrollable proliferation of the deadly virus. Anotherimplication of these findings -- in...USGS director and science camp kids to pull invaders from USGS backyard
... Purple loosestrife is an invasive plant that has escaped from gardens, clogging many U.S. waterways and wetlands--changing the landscape and prohibiting the growth of native plants. This popular ornamental, still sold in Virginia nurseries and found in all 48 lower states except ...Media Advisory: 1999 Spring Meeting -- Updated Press Conference Schedule
...e lunar surface created a cloud of sodium gas that escaped from the Moon.Sodium atoms were pushed away by the pressure of sunlight, reaching the vicinityof the Earth on November 19th. This cloud of lunar gas was "gravitationallyfocused" into a narrow tail that was photographed using a sensitive camera atthe ...Invasive fishes pose increasing threat to U.S. waters and native fishes, says USGS
...h aresold in the aquarium trade and which may have escaped or been released into thestate's waters by aquarists, are voracious predators that could threaten anumber of native species. While many state agencies still stock nonindigenous species for sport fishing,Fuller says there is a price to pay for intro...Urban Ecology Study Watches Birds On The Web
...hesecolorful small exotic parrots (pets that have escaped and naturalized) havebeen sighted. Though it is too early to reach any firm conclusions about what specificfactors affect the distribution of specific urban bird populations, Hostetlernotes that while land use type (commercial, industrial, h...AAAS Report Attributes Majority Of Killings In Guatemala To State
...olicy." Many leaders of the counterinsurgency have escaped trialand live comfortably. General Ríos Montt, under whose rule more state killingsoccurred than any other, continues to exercise power as the head of theGuatemalan Republic Front. The report also notes that those who work to clarify this h...Jurassic Beetle: CSIRO Entomologist Discovers Living Fossil
...ossible to say whether the new Omma species has escaped discovery until now because it is extremely rare - or simply because it tends to spend much of its time underground. But it is living proof that Australia still harbours an enormous wealth of ancient animals and plants which remain unknown and un...Molecular Circuit Breaker Can Prevent Runaway Cell Growth
...rotein, the geneencoding the ARF protein initially escaped attention because it lies embeddedwithin another gene called INK4a . Sherr's group realized that, like theprotein specified by the INK4a gene, ARF also inhibits cell growth. Theintimate physical relationship between two overlapping genes that ordi...Ecological Consequences Of Jasmonate-Induced Responses For Plants In Native Populations
...airs growing in population IB which had largely escaped herbivory and lost less than 5% of their leaf a...o detectable in the 43 pairs in which both members escaped herbivore attack; jasmonate-treated plants produced on average 20% less viable seed than did c...USGS Scientists Find New Invasive Fish Species In Florida
...Scientists say they suspect the swamp eel may have escaped from a tropical fish farm or have been a pet relea...tists can only speculate that the species may have escaped or been released into the state's waters. In 1995, swamp eels were found in several ponds at the Cha...Herpes-Based Gene Therapy Is Key To Promising Liver Tumor Vaccine
... cells should wipe out any stray cancer cells that escaped the surgeon's knife. A compound that does this, such as the vaccine cocktail put together by Drs. Federoff and Fong, is known as an autologous tumor vaccine. "We're trying to exploit the immune system's ability to specifically recognize and kill tumo...Herpes-Based Gene Therapy Is Key To Promising Liver Tumor Vaccine
...e cells should wipeout any stray cancer cells that escaped the surgeon's knife. Acompound that does this, such as the vaccine cocktail puttogether by Drs. Federoff and Fong, is known as an autologoustumor vaccine. "We're trying to exploit the immune system's ability tospecifically recognize and kill tum...