Money talks: Concern for biodiversity pressed on boardrooms by new breed of fund managers
... be denied access to resources in new sites in the medium and long term, with corresponding risks to revenues, unless they demonstrate high standards with respect to biodiversity conservation."Private sector spending arguably matters to the cause of biodiversity far more profoundly than the relatively small...Examining cardiac performance of tunas at the cellular level
...e addition of 10 % TCA. Aliquots from the reaction medium were taken at times of 3, 5, 10, and 30 min. SDS-PAGE and Western-Blot Analyses: Microsomal preparations from bluefin, yellowfin, albacore and mackerel ventricles were separated by electrophoresis. Proteins were visualized with silver stain. For w...Long-term effects of embryo culture on behavior studied
...nd further refining the composition of the culture medium are two ways that may mitigate risk."...European Virtual Institute for Genome Annotation receives 12 million Euro
...lication of effort. They will also be an important medium for fostering closer collaboration between experimentalists and bioinformaticians. Some of these events will be tailored to industry, whose participation the network is keen to encourage. "The development of methods, tools, and servers in close inter...Yeast helps researchers better understand Parkinson's mystery
...eiro agrees that yeast will prove to be a powerful medium for testing pharmaceuticals. "At the basic level, yeast cells are very similar to mammalian cells. So in a sense, yeast is perfect," he notes. Then, with a grin, "In fact, sometimes we need to remind ourselves that yeast isn't a person."...Researchers call for trials of menstrual cycle monitors used for natural family planning
...ge of reliability and the hormonal computer in the medium range. But, the mini-microscopes had a very low estimated efficacy," said Professor Freundl. "Before undertaking a full prospective clinical trial with all the effort and expense involved, it was essential to perform a primary efficacy estimation ana...EMBO Award for Communication in the Life Sciences 2003 goes to Hungarian scientist
...ion to the public communication of science via any medium and activity. Peter Csermely is the second winner of this award after Ronald Plasterk from the Netherlands. For more information please visit: www.embo.org/projects/scisoc/com_medal.html...New medicines at risk from biodiversity loss
... less than 3500km2 of reef, equivalent to a single medium sized atoll. For example, eight species are unique to the Philippines, the hub of the world's ornamental shell trade. People threaten 97% of Philippine coral reefs and extinctions are inevitable if impacts are not alleviated soon. Habitat loss and es...Microbe from depths takes life to hottest known limit
...0 C (266 F) still grew when transferred to a fresh medium at 103 C (217 F), with each new single-celled member appearing like a tiny tennis ball filled with cytoplasm and covered with about a dozen whip-like flagella....Finding dirty bombs and other radiation threats
...ent depending on whether they were measuring high, medium or low energy radiation sources....Biodiversity depends on historical plant and animal relationships
...d by changing the nutrient concentration of growth medium in ecological communities of microorganisms housed in a laboratory. "Fukami and Morin's study adds an important, new piece to the ecological puzzle that relates ecosystem productivity to species diversity," said Saran Twombly, program director in NSF...Biodiversity's response to ecosystem productivity depends on historical plant, animal relationships
...d by changing the nutrient concentration of growth medium in ecological communities of microorganisms housed in a laboratory. "Fukami and Morin's study adds an important, new piece to the ecological puzzle that relates ecosystem productivity to species diversity," said Saran Twombly, program director in N...Air dried sperm could allow home storage
...-suspended with a large drop of special biological medium (similar to that in which the eggs are held in order to avoid osmotic changes). The present study compared early embryos that had been formed from 24 oocytes subjected to ICSI with re-suspended dried sperm (the experimental group) with 108 oocytes th...Spanish fertility experts bring hope of avoiding serious complication of assisted reproduction
...orks because the multiple extra unwanted small and medium follicles die without stimulation from hCG, but the key large ones remain. Said Dr Garca-Velasco: "We now have excellent pregnancy rates in ART, so we must focus on reducing complications. We have to eradicate OHSS. For now, we have a way of reducing...First evidence that genetic imprinting occurs at earliest stage in test tube-matured eggs
...think it is important now to find the best culture medium and/or physical culture conditions possible that will enable us to develop as good oocytes in the test-tube as exist naturally. This study could also be a marker for researchers to identify optimum culture conditions for in-vitro follicular growth." ...Neural stem cells take a step closer to the clinic
...hemical known as leukemia inhibitory factor to the medium in which the cells were grown. The cells were then subjected to "gene chip" analysis, a powerful method for scanning the activity of thousands of genes at once. Nearly 33,000 genes were monitored across the three cell lines to chart genetic activity....Equine cloning may shed light on human cancer causes
...implanted clones. "We increased the calcium in the medium holding the embryos and saw a seven-fold increase in our week two pregnancy rates," Woods said. "We produced 19 pregnancies; the first baby has been born, and two more pregnancies are in the advanced stages." The team concluded that the increase in c...Highway deaths highest for males Male urban squirrels, that is
...tion in urban landscapes and an effective teaching medium for students learning in a classroom about the population dynamics of wildlife species." Lopez said the research, the first of its kind on urban squirrels in the United States, is important because urban sprawl is pressuring wildlife to adapt to lif...Scientists discover unique source of stem cells
...etter prepared. He placed the tooth into a liquid medium used to culture cells, drove it to the laboratory, and extracted the dental pulp. Soon thereafter, he succeeded in isolating living stem cells from the tissue, a discovery that would lead to the collection of more exfoliated teeth from Julia and oth......ve the teaching of natural science subjects in the medium to long term. The exclusion of certain groups of people is at the centre of the new research training group Gruppenbezogene Menschenfeindlichkeit: Ursachen, Phnomenologie und Konsequenzen (group-related misanthropy: its causes, phenomenology and cons...