Nature cover story - Only 10% of all large fish are left in global ocean
...an be fished below recovery, but it also reveals a grim global mosaic that demands immediate action. "The impact we have had on ocean ecosystems has been vastly underestimated," says co-author Boris Worm of Dalhousie University and the University of Kiel in Germany. "These are the megafauna, the big preda...Coils slash death/disabilty from brain aneurysms
...he rupture. The outlooks for survivors also can be grim - about half suffer some form of permanent disability. Daniele Rigamonti, M.D., one of the study's co-authors and professor of neurosurgery at Hopkins, emphasizes that the coils are not suitable for every aneurysm patient. "For patients with certain...Gene therapy for diabetic neuropathy
... the feet, a mere annoyance for most people, are a grim and sometimes life threatening danger for diabetics, whose ulcerations can be so serious that they require amputation of the lower leg. These injuries occur because of nerve degeneration, which reduces pain perception the lower leg. Although the bio...For the first time, scientists uncover how breast cancer metastasizes
...onduit for theflow of metastatic tumor cells. This grim statistic, if true also in humans, could be turned to a cancerpatient's benefit, says Detmar. "In the future, we may be able to determine theamount of lymphatic vessels in a breast cancer specimen obtained from apatient," he says. "And it may potenti...UCSF Researchers Pinpoint Molecule That Triggers Deadly Progress Of Pulmonary Fibrosis
Scientists have uncovered crucial steps in a grim molecular dance thatasphyxiates more than 5,000 people a year in the United States. The researchpinpoints a pivotal protein involved in a multi-step process leading topulmonary fibrosis, an incurable lung inflammation that eventually robs thelungs of......t at a high concentration. Two genes, reaper and grim , are specifically expressed in cells that are doomed to die. Thethird gene, hid , ( h ead i nvolution d efective), isalso expressed in cells that continue to live, indicating that the killingactivity of the Hid protein must be kept in check by ot...