Wildlife markets and disease transmission
...t wildlife is unhealthy might cause them to try to remove the threat by killing the wildlife. Shooting flying foxes was proposed in Southeast Asia when they were thought to be carrying nipa virus, even though the link has not been definitively proven and the disease is rarely found in flying foxes. Large-sc...First proof that polycystic ovarian syndrome is more than twice as common in lesbian women
...ianism. Dr. Agrawal said: "In 1973 the decision to remove homosexuality from the list of mental disorders was made and since then the focus has shifted from the 'cure' of homosexuality to the physical and psychological health concerns of these individuals. We do not view lesbianism as a disease that is in n...Study links amyloid plaques in Alzheimer's brains to genes vital to normal memory
...revent the further formation of amyloid plaques or remove some of them from the brain. But, Dr. Morgan said, by the time memory loss becomes apparent the toxic plaques are probably accumulating too quickly to eliminate enough amyloid needed to restore normal memory. "Our study suggests a new approach to tre...New study demonstrates bone protein can reverse kidney failure
... mechanically filtering blood through a machine to remove waste products must be performed several times a week for a period of three to four hours per visit, posing risks of infection and other side effects. Furthermore, the procedure is extremely costly. The kidneys function as a filtration system, keepi...Alien earthworms changing ecology of Northeast forests
...o make it work, we have to convince farmers not to remove the crop litter from the previous year, and discourage them from tilling the soil, because that has a detrimental effect on the worms," Amador said. "Farmers know they can till and add fertilizer and get a good crop, but how long can they do that be...Phage therapy could remove foodborne disease from livestock
... virus found in the feces of some sheep could help remove the dangerous foodborne bacteria Escherichia coli O157:H7 from livestock. Researchers from Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington present their research today at the 103rd General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology. "Here w...Study shows ulcerative colitis patients achieve remission with probiotic composition VSL#3
...ercent of patients with UC will require surgery to remove their colon at some time during their illness due to lack of response to treatment. Within twelve months following the surgical intervention and pouch formation, up to 37 percent of patients experience pouchitis, a syndrome characterized by increase...Arsenic in New England wells more widespread than thought
...s know how many residents use treatment systems to remove or reduce the arsenic concentration, Ayotte says. He and his associates are currently exploring these issues. But there's good news: Current or prospective users of private wells can have their water tested for arsenic by state officials or private c...Whale study links genetics and reproductive success
...genetic samples collected with biopsy darts, which remove a small piece of skin from the backs of these marine mammals. If current trends continue, the humpback whale population of the Gulf of Maine could show shifts in genetic variation over the next 75 years, with some maternal lines becoming more common ...Membrane separation technology produces myriad applications in numerous industries
...n fact yielded advanced membrane technologies that remove carbon dioxide from flue gas and send it to greenh... Research has also yielded other technologies that remove sulfur from gasoline. Gas separation applications and the natural gas, oil, and petrochemical indust...Yellowstone wolves, grizzlies and moose 'dysfunctional' study says
...l Biological Conservation warns that a proposal to remove grizzly bears and wolves living in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem (GYE) from the Endangered Species List is premature, because neither species may be fully recovered. Federal officials are now moving to delist the largest carnivores of the Greater...Difficulties with primate cloning: A religious comment
...lenging but less problematic morally. Its time to remove the cloning monster from the debate so that medical research using embryonic stem cells can move forward with strong support. What are the implications at the level of religious and cultural concerns? It is almost as if nature does not want us to cl...Natural approach to cleaning up toxic freeway runoff urged
...o filter into the soil, the top layer of soil will remove both heavy metals and PAHs, Stenstrom said. "You can trap them there for many, many years and the PAHs will biodegrade over time," Stenstrom said. "There are organisms that will detoxify PAHs if you just keep them in the soil." Such a method could tr...Underserved US minorities face 'unequal burden of cancer' that must be corrected
...fforts to reduce disparities, we must identify and remove all of the barriers that prevent the benefits of research from reaching all of the people," wrote Harold P. Freeman, M.D., director of the Ralph Lauren Center for Cancer Care and Prevention in New York City and director of the Center to Reduce Cancer...A new class of catalysts will help boost production, quality of transportation fuels
...xplained, is an important refining process used to remove S and N from hydrocarbon fuels. The removal of S ...the mechanism of reaction of the catalysts as they remove the S and N pollutants," Oyama said. "This entails studying the molecular pathways of reaction." T...A subtle tool to study mankind's diseases
...and medical science is the ability to artificially remove and add bits of DNA to an organism's genome. This has helped scientists to understand problems caused by defective genes, for example, which have now been linked to thousands of human diseases. So far the technology has been limited to small segments...Atomic force microscope powerful new tool for measurement of particle attraction
... bulk-scale column experiments to determine how to remove contamination. "Neither approach explains what happens at the smallest scale," says Cail. And the results of column experiments, in which water composition is studied before and after it passes through a soil-packed column, can not be extrapolated f...UCSD biologists discover key to blocking inflammation
...tion in low oxygen environments," he adds. "If you remove that, you've limited the ability of the cell to function. But by blocking this pathway, you've also blocked unwanted inflammation."...WWII discovery may counter bioterrorists
...of Emergency Medicine. BAL is a medical therapy to remove metal poisonings from the body. "BAL was secretly developed more than six decades ago by biochemists at Oxford University and is still stocked in many hospital pharmacies and used occasionally by emergency physicians," says article co-author Joel A. ......vors are opposed to having them disturbed, even to remove potentially damaging oil cargoes.The lack of concerted action means little is known about the threat the wrecks pose. SPREP is carrying out its own study: finding out which ships were sunk during the Second World War, where and when they sank and wha...