First ever standards linking climate change, biodiversity and poverty seek global peer review
...t enhance landscape management by restoring and/or maintaining local plant and animal species populations, their ... variability, and their habitats, restoring and/or maintaining biological connectivity, and conserving or enhancing water resources. Overwhelming scientific evide...Obesity and hypertension: Two epidemics or one?
...ne, inhibiting monocyte and platelet adhesion, and maintaining fibrinolytic balance. In obesity, the endothelium is exposed to mechanical forces and other cardiovascular risk factors that can alter vascular structure and function. There is increasing evidence that obesity in humans is associated with peripheral ...2004 BP Conservation Programme winners pave the way for protecting wildlife
...servation, species ecology and the role of bats in maintaining biodiversity. The second Consolidation award goes to the 'Mpingo Project' in Tanzania. The East African Blackwood (Dalbergia melanoxylon), locally known as the Mpingo tree, is used to make clarinets and oboes in the West, and is the medium of choice...Scientists discover way to regulate the body's energy expenditure
...gulates the activity of a key gene responsible for maintaining the body's temperature, called uncoupling protein 1 (UCP1). The new protein, called RIP140, blocks the expression of UCP1, and causes the body to use up more energy and store less fat. The team of scientists from Imperial College...Cell growth and death controlled by single pathway in lymphoma cancer model
...genic properties down the signaling pathway, while maintaining its useful functions," she says. "This study may help." The study also is important because it presents the first molecular description of a cancer caused by bacteria, and thus "represents a model system of how the environment and genetics can lead t...'Dissecting sleep' by studying the strange phenomenon of cataplexy
... cataplexy -- the abrupt loss of muscle tone while maintaining a state of complete wakefulness. The majority of narcoleptics suffer from this malady, in which a strong emotion, even a funny joke, can cause them to drop into a state of paralyzed awareness ranging from a few seconds to half an hour. Similarly, in ...VA/UCLA researchers pinpoint role of histamines in waking
...nderstanding of the brain activity responsible for maintaining consciousness and muscle tone while awake," said Dr. Jerome Siegel, senior author on the study. "The findings should aid in the development of drugs to induce sleep and to increase alertness." Siegel is chief of neurobiology research at the VA Greate...Study may improve survival of transplanted livers
...nited States, and a key factor ensuring success is maintaining a healthy donor organ that can function effectively in the recipient. However, transplanted livers typically incur substantial damage when blood flow is restored to the organ after the transplant. This damage occurs when ischemic, or oxygen-deprived......ialization, but that it is no longer necessary for maintaining specialization in some parts of the aphid's range....New research supports theory that indirect transmission of chronic wasting disease
...show that environmentalsources could contribute to maintaining and prolonging localepidemics, even when all infected animals are eliminated," Millersaid. He said the appropriateness of various culling strategiesmay depend on how quickly the CWD agent is added to or lost from the environment....Muscle-derived cells and gene therapy may cure for post-prostatectomy erectile dysfunction
...to damage to the nerves essential to achieving and maintaining an erection. Results of the studies were presented today at the annual meeting of the American Urological Association (AUA) in San Francisco. "While radical prostatectomy can be a cure for early-stage prostate cancer in a large percentage of patients...Sediments in many Central Valley streams contain toxic levels of pyrethroid pesticides
...as not yet been shown, but if we are serious about maintaining stream health, we have to consider the sediments and not limit our sampling just to the water above," said Weston. "While pyrethroids may be preferable to the organophosphates that preceded them, our work shows that the environmental effects of pyret...Molecular mechanism found that may improve ability of stem cells to fight disease
...g any defects is essential to fighting disease and maintaining health. Stem cell transplantation is a common treatment for patients with advanced or recurrent cancers of the blood, such as leukemia and lymphoma. The study was funded in part by grants from the National Institutes of Health. Co-first-authors incl...Jennie Hunter-Cevera wins 2004 USFCC/J. Roger Porter Award
... cultures; her published paper on establishing and maintaining such collections is a model for biotechnology resource centers. Another hallmark of Hunter-Cevera's achievements is her innovative application of existing technologies: at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, she deployed such techniques as infrared mic...New papillomavirus target could lead to specific antiviral drugs for precancerous cervical lesions
...ses are not the only viruses that have the task of maintaining and partitioning their viral genome in a dividing cell. Epstein-Barr and Kaposi's sarcoma herpesviruses face a similar challenge. "To date, none of the mitotic receptors for any of these other viruses has been found," said Howley. He and his colleagu...Mexican farmers effectively cultivate phenotypic diversity in maize
...crop plants. The model currently advanced involves maintaining the varieties to be conserved isolated in reserves... These populations appear as open genetic systems, maintaining the centres of diversity of this major food cereal. The research conducted in this context on the in...Protein-centric drug development and functional glycomics enrich biopharmaceuticals pipeline
... which is expected to accelerate further. However, maintaining adequate manufacturing capacity is a critical challenge. "With around 100 protein-based drugs that are in late-stages of human clinical trials, few are likely to hit the market in the coming years," says Rao. "Hence, raising the demand for produc...Fat cell hormone causes weight loss
...rgans could be harnessed to sustain weight loss by maintaining a high metabolic rate," says Ahima. "This is only a possibility. We're not suggesting at this point that adiponectin will become a drug." In severely obese mice, adiponectin rapidly decreases blood glucose and lipids, while burning fat. Hence, adipon...Biochemist becomes 15th UT Southwestern faculty member serving on National Academy of Sciences
...his protein is important for generating energy and maintaining life and also is active in triggering apoptosis. His continuing research could lead not only to treatments for cancer but also to therapies targeting the abnormal cells in neurological diseases, such as Alzheimers and Parkinsons. Originally from Chin......layer, called the endothelial barrier, is vital in maintaining fluid balance in tissue. Dr. Mehta's lab is investigating the role of Rho regulators in controlling the activation of RhoA. This research will shed light on the mechanisms of inflammation and edema, a hallmark of acute respiratory distress syndrom...