New marine protected area to safeguard world's largest fish
...he GCF. "Through this strategic land deal, we have helped a community-based organization secure a tiny island with huge importance for marine biodiversity."...Manatee's cousin faces extinction on Tanzanian coast
...nia," said WCS researcher Dr. Daniela De Luca, who helped coordinate the research project. In addition to establishing sanctuaries in the two areas where dugongs may remain, the report recommends that fishermen should be encouraged to participate in dugong conservation through financial incentives. Research...Perceptions about the threat of bioterrorism could impair the nation's response
...e SARS outbreak, even more than the anthrax scare, helped health care professionals realize the potentially devastating consequences of an event," Shadel said. "They saw how quickly the disease spread from person to person, its impact on the economy and how quickly it created a fury for the need for informa...Passing its global sight test leaves MERIS ready for work
...ith life For open ocean data, in October 2002 ESA helped fund the South African Fisheries Research Ship Africana for a two-week cruise along the Benguela Current off the west coast of South Africa, an upwelling of cold nutrient-rich water. Exposed to the hot sun, the waters are able to support an abundant ...UN development work guided from space
...ied out by satellite," explained Retiere. "We then helped ensure the results got into the right hands to do ...ursuit of sustainable development, UNOSAT has also helped make EO data available directly to local authorities. In Matagalpa, UNOSAT with the financial backi...Genome researcher analyze chromosome 7
...ce the human sequence alongside the mouse sequence helped us to swiftly distinguish real, protein-coding genes from pseudo-genes. The power of comparative genomics really sharpened our focus," Dr. Green said. In addition to NHGRI and Washington University, other institutions taking part in the chromosome 7 ...Spectrum of West Nile symptoms includes paralysis
... earliest symptoms in 26 percent was a rash, which helped distinguish the disease from another rapid-onset paralytic disorder, Guillain-Barre syndrome. Misdiagnosis is still very common for West Nile virus, according to lead study author Lara Jeha, MD. Other early symptoms include low back pain, limb pain, ...Stem-like cells from peripheral blood restore function in rats with severe stroke
...reported that intravenous injections of HUCB cells helped rats recover from strokes faster. The USF team looked at three groups of rats induced to have symptoms of stroke. The first group was intravenously injected with G-CSF stimulated peripheral blood cells 24 hours after a stroke. These cells were coll...Embryonic hope for damaged spines
...pha and BDNF), which protected damaged neurons and helped them to re-establish connections with other neurons. "The stem cells' magic was really their ability to get into the area of injury and snuggle up to those neurons teetering on the brink of death," says Kerr, whose results will appear in the Journal ...Rutgers receives $22.6 million to investigate genetics of mental disorders
...r and to establish whether certain groups could be helped by medications tailored to their genetic makeup. This will involve university research and clinical studies in concert with the pharmaceutical industry. "This award reflects the great strides already made by Rutgers scientists and their colleagues i...Volcanologist Richard S. Fiske receives award
...m for volcanoes to the general public. In 1986, he helped arrange the production of the motion picture, Inside Hawaiian Volcanoes, by the late volcano cinematographer Maurice Krafft. Then, working with a colleague, he produced a shorter video version and developed a companion teacher's guide that is still b...July 4 fireworks: Why they're brighter than ever
...ireworks were limited to booms and a few sparkles helped along by iron filings or some copper and zinc. The colors were yellows, oranges and the occasional white-hot. It wasn't until the 1800s that chemists began to use synthesized compounds that burned in reds, greens, blues and purples. The colors chang...WCS biologist George Schaller reports surprising increase in Tibet's wildlife
...g Tang Reserve, an enormous wildlife sanctuary WCS helped create in 1993. Back then, poaching was rampant, particularly for chiru, whose wool is turned into shahtoosh shawls, sold illegally in the U.S. and Europe.But Schaller reported that ten years later, Tibet's Forest Department has clearly made protec...Scientists find protein that controls prostate cancer's spread
...esearchers heard of another piece of evidence that helped strengthen the case for RKIP as a metastasis suppressor gene. Members of the International Radiation Mapping Consortium, part of the Human Genome Project, reported that they had found that the chromosome region 12q24 -- the same region where RKIP was......what we're doing anywhere, and I think that really helped in (obtaining) the career award." Oliver knows his hard work has the potential of hitting real pay dirt, with discoveries that have significant commercial impact, and probably very soon. "We're working hard on it. I don't think it will take anything...Twice as many predicted genes in 'finished' rice chromosome
...search (TIGR), says the "finished" sequence which helped researchers identify about 1,700 additional rice genes shows the importance of completing a draft DNA sequence. "This work clearly demonstrates the importance of finished sequence," says Buell. "The finished Chromosome 10 sequence of rice will be a m...Rutgers research takes aim at world hunger
...supplying matching funds, Reinvest in Rutgers also helped Waksman scientists win a $4.3 million National Science Foundation (NSF) grant in support of maize genome research. Rutgers' consortium partners received their rice genome funding from NSF, U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Department of Energy...Affymetrix to support AAAS Newcomb Cleveland Prize
... Cleveland Prize, now supported by Affymetrix, has helped to uphold the highest possible standards for scientific integrity and research quality, by rewarding the most innovative research published in Science each year," said Monica Bradford, Science's Executive Editor. "We are grateful to Affymetrix. Their...Researchers identify fatty-acid oxidation as additional source of nutrients in the placenta
...s at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas have helped discover that an expectant mother's placenta nourishes her fetus by oxidizing fatty acids in addition to providing the developing fetus with glucose previously believed to be the placenta's only energy source. The findings will appear in the June is...Emory's CancerQuest wins top Web award from Scientific American
... enrolled in his upper-level cancer biology course helped to research and produce some of the material presented. Several of those students have continued to work on the site and have produced additional content and graphics. Current work on the site is being supported by the Winship Cancer Institute, Emor...