Wolves decline, moose increase
... with little snow cover, the moose could move more freely and avoid the wolves. "Last year, two-thirds of the kills were moose calves," Peterson said. "This year, it was about 20 percent. The wolves had to work hard to find a moose to kill." Peterson also said that all three packs had breeding activity, so ......rams to control the spread of the black fly and to freely distribute an anti-worm medicine called ivermectin. Onchocerca larvae deposited by the fly's bite burrow into the skin, where they mature and eventually send out tiny offspring called microfilariae that can migrate through the skin to the eye. When......ed in a dish. But when we examine the system in a freely behaving animal to try and find out what the Yabby uses it for in its natural environment, the system behaves contrary to what we or an engineer might expect. In fact, the sensors hardly fire at all during movements initiated by the animal itself. "...Microbe first to break down PCBs
...ss and nearly colorless. Before being banned, they freely entered the air, water and soil during their manufacture, use and disposal. Although often buried in anaerobic river and coastal mud, PCB contaminated particles get released when disturbed by natural currents and tides, burrowing activity of aquatic ...New public-domain database could advance human computer interaction through sound
...nt for individual differences. The information is freely available for research or commercial use on a compact disk or can be downloaded from the Internet.......less of a deterrent to native fish which swim more freely the open water. It is this demand for selectivity that makes the application of these deterrents so challenging. The researchers have also been developing an electronic detector that can register the movement of fish through a point of entry to a ...Study: Immunize refugee children early to prevent deadly measles
...sovar refugee population mixed freely with local populations in the host country. In that situation, diseases can spread between the two populations. While Koop was in Macedonia, he coordinated the Expanded Program on Immunizat...Typhoid fever bug sequence raises hope of complete eradication
...ists are already using the sequence data, which is freely available on the web, to design new drugs to combat the disease and improve understanding of the way the bacteria spreads in communities and the mechanisms by which it causes disease. The researchers unravelled the sequence of a strain of Salmonella ...WiCell signs stem cell research agreement
...materials, the agreement permits NIH scientists to freely publish the results of their research. NIH will retain ownership to any new intellectual property that might arise from the conduct of its research in this area. In addition, the agreement governs the transfer of cell lines to individual laboratories...Researchers make key genome public on the Internet
... an important organism, Agrobacterium, and made it freely available on the Internet.This information is available at http://www.agrobacterium.org . Agrobacterium has the unique property of inserting small pieces of genetic material into a plant, animal or fungal cell that it colonizes. The bacterium has ha...Plant diseases plague world trade
...ortant food crops, is a case in point. Once traded freely between countries, an outbreak in 1973 of a disease known as dwarf bunts of winter wheat pretty much put an end to open trade. And even long after scientists learned how to control it countries like China and Brazil still refused to accept U.S. wheat...Webcast will ensure broad public access to the UC Santa Cruz Public Forum on Human Genome Research
... human genome sequence on the web, distributing it freely without any restrictions on use (see http://genome.ucsc.edu ). The UCSC webservers currently process more than 50,000 requests for information each day from biomedical researchers worldwide who want to explore the assembled genome sequence. Hauss...NIAID awards grant to rapidly sequence the malaria mosquito genome
...uence the mosquito genome and make the information freely available to the scientific community. Celera anticipates completing the project next spring. Malaria is caused by parasites of the genus Plasmodium. The disease strikes 300 to 500 million people annually, 90 percent of who live in sub-Saharan Af...Research team unlocks secrets of the firefly flash
...the mitochondrial gatekeepers, oxygen can now pass freely through the photocyte to activate light production. "So, amazingly enough," says Barry Trimmer, "it's a temporary cut in the power supply that probably triggers the firefly flash." As the NO signal decays, the mitochondria power up and begin consumi...Scientists sequence genome of major periodontal disease bacterium
...ce will be posted on the Internet today, making it freely available to researchers worldwide. The sequencing project, supported by the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), was carried out by scientists at The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) in Rockville, MD in collaboratio...Chemists characterize regulators of zinc intake and export in cells
...d that zinc does not have the opportunity to float freely in the cells cytoplasm before it binds to either Zur or ZntR, depending on the cycle. "The zinc concentration is so low in between pump activity that free-floating zinc just doesnt exist," said Outten, now a post-doctoral researcher at Johns Hopkin...New research confirms that natural selection is acting on the current human population
...hat occurred along side industrialisation, such as freely available contraception for women and better healthcare and nutrition for children. Dr Ian Owens of the Department of Biology and Biochemistry at Imperial College, an author on the paper, described the significance of their research: The most import...... The extra hydrogen ion or proton on the hydronium freely jumps around to other water molecules, and the concentration of these protons is a measure of the acidity of the solution. Water is defined as neutral, with a pH - a measure of the concentration of loose hydrogen ions (protons) in the liquid - of 7....Passport, please: A global strategy to curb invasive species
...uring that era, plant seeds and animals could move freely across the land, since they were not yet separated by thousands of miles of ocean. Mooney dramatizes the long-term consequences of alien invasion by holding up a picture of the continents as Pangea once again. Currently there is no global network set...Growth factors do not typically diffuse freely through intact tissues, but interact with a variety of soluble and insoluble macromolecules in the extracellular space. Binding of these factors to the ECM or to other extracellular proteins can alternately interfere with or potentiate their biologic...