Professor uses satellites to protect Amazon forests, global climate
...btaining permits from that country's environmental protection agency. While the practice, known as selective log...ngovernmental organization, Brazil's environmental protection agency, NASA and the U.S. Forest Service - have spent five years developing a remote-sensing system ...Plant pathologists express need for plant pathology-related microbial culture resources
...ld be a valuable tool advancing the goals of plant protection for the United States and the world," said McCluskey. More on this subject, including funding opportunities for collections, the variety of collections in existence, and trends in organization, is available in this month's APS feature article that...HPV testing could be future strategy for primary screening for cervical cancer
...randomised trials that will assess the duration of protection conferred by a negative HPV result and the efficacy of a Pap-centered triage approach. A paradigm change, if necessary, will represent far more than a technicality. It will mean that cervical cancer screening will shift from a morphology-based approa...A new hope for heavy metal contaminated soils
... of great interest economically as well as for the protection of human and environmental health. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology in Potsdam and at the Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry in Halle have now made pioneering progress in the understanding of the molecular mec...Pittsburgh researchers engineer and successfully test SARS corona vaccine in animal model
...the delivered SARS antigens, ultimately conferring protection against the disease. Also, the induced immune reac...l-mediated immune responses, equally important for protection from viral infections, were detected in the test animals," he said. Dr. Gambotto went on to say tha...War on termites heats up with worlds largest test site
..., so our research is directed to maximising timber protection in buildings. "To do this, a multi-faceted approach to timber protection, is required so that customers have confidence in timber-built housing. This includes incorporating appropriate building design with effective timber protection, chemical and ...Taming Jaws: Scientists lift great white sharks from ocean to fit with satellite tags
...ountries' waters, and therefore need international protection through organizations such as CITES. However, Bonfil says such work doesn't come cheap each tag costs around $3,500 (U.S.) which is why his program currently seeks sponsors. "We plan to put many more tags on white sharks, but that will depend on f...Symposium on scientific misconduct
...rking group is to be set up to deal with improving protection for whistleblowers. At the same time, experience with cases of scientific misconduct is to be gathered into a collection of closed cases in order to identify problem areas and present and further develop approaches to solutions. On the second day of ...Physics tip sheet #39 - Nov. 17, 2003
...ke carbon can provide the nanometer-thin corrosion protection layer necessary for ultra-high density magnetic storage devices, report the authors of this paper. As magnetic hard drives increase in density, they need ever-thinner protective carbon films, which must be must be continuous, dense, and free of holes...Liberia announces protection of 155,000-acres of forest
... DC/Monrovia, Liberia Liberia today announced the protection of more than 155,000 acres of mostly intact forest. The increased protection helps safeguard the world's largest known population of the Critically Endangered Western Chimpanzee...ESA's first step towards Mars Sample Return
...rom the landing site and deliver it to a planetary protection facility where the samples will be removed to await analysis by eager scientists. The design of the capsule will ensure that the structural integrity of the sample container remains intact, even if the parachute fails to open and a crash landing occ...With flu season coming, don't forgetexercise?
...artially dependent on the route of administration; protection following oral administration results primarily from certain effects of ingestion, for example. A New Study The authors of a new study, entitled "Effects of Moderate Exercise and Oat -glucan on Innate Immune Function and Susceptibility to Respirato...High heart risk for lupus patients linked to death of cells lining blood vessels
...y's ability to repair the affected vessels, so the protection usually offered by the cells suffers." Says senior author and U-M rheumatologist Mariana Kaplan, M.D., "Even in the absence of other risk factors, these women have a tremendously high risk of dying young from cardiovascular events. Heart disease is t...Study explores safety of low-dose radiation
...s that nobody knows about yet that are involved in protection from radiation" and the zebrafish is perfect for t... nice, but we want to look at what provides actual protection to the organism," he says....Experimental hantavirus vaccine elicits strong antibody response in primates
...3, 4, or 5 after challenge survived. The level of protection dropped significantly when the antibody was administered on day 6 or later. While all but one of the post-challenge survivors were infected with Andes virus, no deaths were observed. "Aside from the immunogenicity of the vaccine in nonhuman primat...New vaccines may address need to protect newborns in the developing world
... vaccines have both been shown capable of inducing protection against a dangerous virus in newborn mice. If the ...t viruses. Between the waning of maternal-antibody protection and the development of a fully functional immune system in the infant, a period of relatively poor d...Using plants and microbes to purify polluted industrial wastewater
...n by conventional methods. Such results meet water protection standards laid down in EU directives, and make the re-use of industrial wastewater possible. Different industries produce different pollutants, and INDCONWET is tailoring the design of constructed wetlands to specific needs. "The efficiency of a con...HIV protein attacks body's innate protection system that could prevent virus' replication
...ss viral protein and our long-misunderstood innate protection system. Ultimately, the protein seizes and destroy...sm by which this destruction occurs say our innate protection system could have a leg up in the mle if drugs can be developed to target the HIV-encoded viral prot...New book says Northwest salmon could face same fate as those in Northeast, England
...l strategy. He began to explore accounts of salmon protection in earlier times and concluded that history was being repeated in the Northwest, that the region's salmon were on a perilous course. His book quotes a variety of historic documents, starting before the decline of European salmon. The natural history......r." The immune system must ride a fine line in its protection of the lung, whose surface area covers an area about the size of a tennis court. It must quickly sound the alarm when it detects a potentially harmful organism or molecule. But it must also tolerate a certain amount of irritation without calling out ...