Births Of Rare Lemurs At Duke Primate Center
...ng with thebirth of an unusual number of babies of rare species. This spring's infant crop include:..."highlysuccessful" birthing period for these three rare species. "The number of births is especially large for the aye-aye, because ofthe lengthy pe...Invasive Weeds Pose Major Threat To American Landscape
...sive non-native species often deal a harsh blow to rare species-- about two-thirds of all endangered species are threatened by non-nativespecies, the report said. As the native plant species decline, the animals thatdepend on them for food and habitat may also be jeopardized. The book was developed b...Rice Names Matthews Dean Of Natural Sciences
... "Professor Matthews is one of those rare individuals who has developed her gifts to the fullest in everything she has attempted," Gillis said. "Not only is she a renowned scholar, but she is also a celebrated teacher of undergraduates, superb mentor of...Pediatric Academic Societies Report Progress In Children's Health
....Working in mice bred to lack a gene that causes a rare but serious metabolicdisorder called Ornithine Transcarbamylase Deficiency (OTCD), the researcherssucceeded in injecting normal copies of the OTC gene into the bloodstream, wherethe new gene served as a blueprint to correct the enzyme deficiency tha...Reports Mesh To Clarify Proteins' Importance For Cancer
...l, and appeared in the April 24 Science. NBS is a rare genetic disorder, similar and probably related to the more commonataxia talangiectasia (AT). Patients with both diseases are extremelysusceptible to cancer and can become severely ill if they undergo radiationtherapy. In everyday life, cells experien...... more than a year to partially correcta patient's rare metabolic liver disease. The procedure, which is r...rlsuffering from Crigler-Najjar Syndrome Type I, a rare disease in which the liverdoes not make the enzyme that allows bilirubin, a blood cell byproduct, to...Press Events At Spring Meeting
..., no theorysatisfactorily explains this relatively rare occurrence. (Meeting sessions onauroral phenomena will be held Friday afternoon.) 3:30 PM. Gathering scientific data in the harshest climate on Earth. Pressconference. Automatic Geophysical Observatories (AGO's) are unstaffed stationsworking yea...Researchers Identify A Gene That Causes Juvenile Polyposis
...finding may reach beyond FJP. "FJP is a relatively rare disease. However, 75 percent of colon cancer caseshave chromosomal losses from this region of the genome," Howe says."Understanding this gene may increase our understanding of colorectal cancer ingeneral, and could provide insights into its diagnosis......rt that made this study possible. Neuroblastoma is rare enoughthat it required coordination among many medical centers to conduct a randomizedtrial, they said. "The reward for this cooperation is that we have shown that this is animprovement over standard chemotherapy, a way to improve the survival a lit...New Treatment Successful With Hepatitis C
...ding: difficulty in concentration,constipation and rare cardiac symptoms in some elderly patients. Anotherdrawback of interferon treatment is that only 50 percent of the patientsrespond to it, according to Smith. Half of those responders relapse afterthey stop the six months of therapy, dropping the effec...USGS Responds to Amphibian Declines With Program In Great Smokey Mountains National Park
...elly salamander. A lucky visitor may even find the rare Junaluska salamander or hear the chorus of serenading American toads after a severe spring storm. These are just a few of the 40 species of amphibians--that is, frogs, toads, and salamanders--that U.S. Geological Survey scientists will survey over th...Duke Researchers Call Gene Therapy A Promising Strategy For Sickle Cell Anemia
... would be sicklecell patients who have developed a rare condition called alloimmunization. Patients with severe sickle cell disease often require blood transfusions toreplenish their supply of healthy red blood cells. Some of these people developantibodies to elements in transfused blood, making further t...Seeing Blue-Yellow Color Perception For The First Time
...igning artificial retinas and better understanding rare eye diseases. Usingthe intact retina of a macaque, the scientists created a three-dimensional mapof the location of the blue-yellow cells by taking electron micrographs of 320cross-sections of the retina. "We photographed the mosaic of retinal cells...Evidence From Old Tumors Foretells Which New Breast Cancer Patients Will RequireAdditional Treatment
A rare medical archive -- which combines preserved breast cancer tissueswith long-term follow-up information on each patient -- has enabled researchersfrom the University of Chicago Medical Center to determine how precisely twotumor characteristics can pred...Native Fish Found In U.S. Lake Ontario For First Time In 50 Years
...ian portion of Lake Ontario, the fish is extremely rare -- only six deepwater sculpin have been repor...nt in Lakes Huron, Michigan, and Superior and rare in Lake Ontario. O'Gorman said that although the fish was plentiful in Lake Ontario in the earl...Alstrom Syndrome Genetics Studied At Jackson Laboratory
...when only nine individuals were known. The rare inherited syndrome, first described in 1959 by Swedishphysician C.H. Alström, is a disease of the young, causing progressively severeconditions such as blindness, hearing loss, kidney disease, scoliosis, obesity,heart disease, and non-insulin-dep...UF Discovery Of Chicken Gene Mutation Aids Study Of Rare Inherited Eye Disease
...n chickens, helping researchers better understanda rare human eye disease that causes blindness at birth. Sue Semple-Rowland, an associate professor of neuroscience in UF'sCollege of Medicine and the UF Brain Institute, has established a specifictype of the Rhode Island Red chicken as the animal mode......ys earlier, a stagesometimes crucial to catching a rare glimpse of the earliest stages ofvertebrate development. This work is described in a July issue of Developmental Biology andfunded by the National Institutes of Health and the Howard Hughes MedicalInstitute. Editor's Note: Dr. Mullins can be ...Study 'Gone With The Wind' Provides Stellar Ecological Example
...Losos, Schoener study lean toward aconclusion that rare catastrophic events may plan an important role and have along-lasting effect on an ecosystem's content. "To my knowledge, this is one of the best documented studies of theeffect of catastrophic disturbances," said Losos. "We have before-and-......h preserving native species because the relatively rare and highly diversevegetative areas, which were thought to be the most robust and resistant toinvasion, are apparently not. High native species richness does not preventexotic plant species invasions. ("Hot Spots of Native Plant Diversity: Addition...