Want to save gorillas? Enforce laws, experts say
...ng short of a massive global response. Helping to mobilize this must be our first priority," said Richard Parnell, a WCS conservationist. While western gorillas are far more common than mountain gorillas made famous by George Schaller, Dian Fossey and others, population estimates are sketchy at best. Most ...A new weapon to disable bacteria discovered
...ner neutrophils retain the Shigella long enough to mobilize other defenses that can destroy the bacteria. Indeed, neutrophils with inactivated elastase cannot contain Shigella in a vacuole, and the bacteria remains virulent, as shown in collaboration with Steve Shapiro of Harvard Medical School. Interestingly...Fly cells on the move may reveal clues to cancer metastases
...han human genetics, understanding the signals that mobilize the ovary cells may help clarify how human cancer cells invade distant tissues, says Denise Montell, Ph.D., associate professor of biological chemistry in the school's Institute for Basic Biomedical Sciences. "Cells usually hold on to their neigh...New view of bacteria-mineral interface to advance bioremediation
...aminants to determine if the microbes can degrade, mobilize or sequester contaminants," said INEEL chemist Jill Scott, lead researcher for the project. Understanding what environments subsurface bacterial populations prefer is a defining piece of the puzzle for researchers developing environmental remediation...Scientists combine chemistry and bioremediation to clean cadmium from soil
... toxic heavy metals, Vairavamurthy says. One is to mobilize the metals so they can be extracted from the soil and treated. The other is to convert the metals to a stable form that will not migrate into groundwater. To find ways to accomplish one or the other, the Brookhaven team looked for clues from nature. ...Cadmium toxicity threatening wildlife in Rocky Mountains
...tural to the area, he pointed out, mining tends to mobilize potentially toxic metals. "Cadmium poisoning originally was discovered in Japan, with rice acting as a biomagnifier," Larison said. "Elderly women in particular were affected with severe osteomalacia -- a condition not unlike osteoporosis. Trace amo...... effect, but the good news is that we were able to mobilize the clinical and research communities to answer fairly quickly in a large group of children the burning question, 'Does this medication work?'" he said. "Next we have to use this momentum to continue the search for effective and safe treatments for a...