Leatherback sea turtles careening towards extinction
...precedent for success. Saving leatherbacks will be harder because of their range," says Crowder. "It will require even more international cooperation. There is hope, but we need to act now." Unlike the Kemp's ridleys that stay in the coastal zone of the US and Mexico leatherbacks roam the world. In the ...Invading weeds escaped old enemies, brought immunity
...heir native European habitats. (Viral diseases are harder for plants to escape because the viruses can travel, systemically, in the plants or in their seeds, the ecologists note.) And invading plants that had acquired the most pathogens in their naturalized ranges were less likely to become widespread, no...Fast-paced lifestyle helps to erode teens teeth
...hy habits such as drinking soda throughout the day harder to stop. The phosphoric, citric, tartaric and/or carbonic acid in soda is now linked to breaking down the tooth enamel around dental sealants and restorations further compromising teens' teeth and leading to more extensive dental treatment to prevent...Genetic heterogeneity of Icelanders
...ing loci such as short tandem repeats will be much harder to detect."...Scripps scientists discover new approach for treating 'misfolding diseases'
... TTR protein and stabilize the tetramer, making it harder for the subunits to dissociate. Since trans-suppression is known to prevent disease onset in humans, there is good reason to be optimistic that the small molecule approach will be effective in humans. "The same approach may also work with other amyl...NIH study shows MRI provides faster, more accurate way to diagnose heart attacks
...art cells die in unstable angina, the condition is harder to detect with standard tests. Approximately two percent of patients with a heart attack are discharged home from the emergency department without the heart attack being detected and treated. In addition, many patients with unstable angina are sent h...Special section: Invasive species
... the species spreads significantly, making it much harder and more expensive to control. Simberloff argues for using whatever methods are currently available, adopting any new methods as they are found. This "brute force" approach has controlled plenty of invasions effectively: for instance, rats, goats, an...A bed of microneedles: Johns Hopkins scientists' gadget measures muscle cell force
...th needles of different lengths (shorter posts are harder to bend) to challenge cells' contractile forces....Survey of Chesapeake Bay watershed residents may save the bay
...aguing the bay region, monies for the clean-up are harder to come by. To enhance progress on cleanup of the Chesapeake Bay, the Conservation Management Institute at Virginia Tech conducted a telephone survey in March and April of 2002 of 1,988 residents of the bay watershed, including those residing in part...Checkpoint protein blocks chromosome breaks at fragile sites
...ltures with aphidicolin, a substance that makes it harder for cells to make new DNA. Casper discovered that fragile site breaks were 5- to 10-times more common in cell lines without ATR as compared to normal cell controls. "If you complete the cell cycle without replicating the fragile site and the cell con...Reconstructing salmon populations
... rings is potentially more accurate, although much harder to determine."...International consortium launches genetic variation mapping project
... contribute to the disease process, making it even harder to find the genetic factors. Researchers emphasize that the HapMap is not meant to minimize the role of environmental factors in disease development. "In fact, studying genetic factors may greatly increase the likelihood of our understanding the ...Parasite, mosquito genomes complete malaria picture
...g a vase that has smashed into hundreds of bits is harder than fixing one broken into a few large pieces. "This detailed map of the parasite's 5,300 genes and their predicted functions is a milestone in malaria research. The information it provides will enable investigators to design anti-malarial drugs tar...Mosquito genome sequence--Published in the journal Science
...prevent the spread of malaria, simply by making it harder for mosquitoes to find their prey, according to Holt. Two additional Research Articles, ten Viewpoints, four Reports, and an Editorial accompany the genome report. From a public health perspective, A. gambiae is the most important insect in the wo...Wrong proteins targeted in battle against cancer?
...h, because of their larger surface areas, are much harder to disrupt. Still, Darnell argues that, despite inherent obstacles, such an approach could potentially yield novel cancer therapeutics. "After all," he asks, "What is the benefit to medicine in all the twenty-first century promise of proteomics if w...Maize's starch pathway found limited
...ps other, yet-to-be-studied maize pathways make it harder for plant breeders to increase yields of the popular crop. Therefore, to further increase yields, diversity of these important pathways must also be increased. He adds that there are essentially three ways to solve the problem of low diversity in mai...Even neurons have favorite numbers
...quantity increased, paralleling the fact that it's harder to discriminate between two quantities of equal nu...tance as their magnitude increases. That is, it's harder to detect a one-dot difference when comparing 5 dots versus 4 dots as opposed to 2 dots versus 1 dot...Compound from yeast shows promise in protecting against anthrax
... bacterial infection. As a result, the cells fight harder against infection. In the case of anthrax, the fortified macrophage cells appear to kill the bacterial spores before they have a chance to germinate and spawn the deadly toxins that can quickly overwhelm a less-protected immune system, the researcher...A mane is a pain, but worth it for male lions
...ales. "A male with a dark mane may have to work harder to stay cool, behaviorally or physiologically, and is advertising that toughness, along with his toughness in battle," said West. "But we didn't find that longer-maned males were hotter than those with shorter manes. It appears that beyond a certain ...Gene could hold key to predicting, combating life-threatening abnormal heart growth
...esearch had demonstrated that when the heart works harder than normal, a calcium sensor called calcineurin i...mal by eight months of age. Making the heart work harder than normal produced dramatic disparities. The researchers first constricted the thoracic aortas in ...