Catastrophic decline of Africa's apes, Nature says
... species-wide crisis on our hands when it comes to saving these animals," said WCS conservationist Dr. Lee White, who has worked in Gabon for the past decade.Dr. Walsh and his colleagues say that aggressive investments in Ebola prevention, law enforcement and protected area management are needed to ensure t...University of Georgia scientists plot key events in plants' evolution
...etely sequenced, such as peanuts, cotton or wheat, saving both time and money. "For example, we can take the 2,000 genes known on the cotton map, compare them with the Arabidopsis sequence and, with this analysis, make good, educated guesses about where the other 48,000 cotton genes are," Paterson said....Warped idea: Ways to stop swayed wood may be around the bend
...raight-forward computer model justaround the bend, saving millions for wood manufacturers and consumers. "Wood is an old material that has been used in construction for thousands of years," saidDr. Zhiyong Cai, Texas Agricultural Experiment Station forest products researcher. "Every placein the world uses ...UC Riverside graduate student wins best poster award at international conference
...numbers on to integers. This has the potential of saving a lot of storage space because discretized values take less space to store than real values. Moreover, the poster showed that our method offers better clustering than traditional methods in the classification of DNA sequences." At present, Figueroa ...UNC HIV-AIDS screening, prevention method could become national model for cutting illness
...ay become a model for cutting HIV transmission and saving lives across the nation. A news report on the program appears in this week's (May 28) issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. Designed and tested by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill medical scientists together with state ...'Reverse CPR' performed on back could better restore blood flow
...s widely recognized that while CPR is important in saving lives from cardiac arrest, the amount of blood flow provided is very low." Although mouth-to-mouth ventilation is a key feature of bystander CPR -- that performed outside the hospital setting -- it is frequently not performed at all or done poorly....Strategy to treat AIDS patients in Africa with less drug, reduced toxicity set for clinical test
...ore patients with the same quantity of drugs, thus saving lives. Individual patients on the protocol in both the developed and developing worlds would benefit from reduced exposure to the toxicities associated with HIV drugs. That's the good news. The bad news is that funding guidelines set by the NIAID do ...NYU scientists develop more accurate mathematical method to analyze genetic data
...curacy of the interpretation of experimental data, saving valuable resources and potentially accelerating the pace of research. Since the human genome was fully mapped, the ongoing challenge for scientists has been to analyze exactly how the different genes and their products interact to give individuals t......rts, but the Large Aral Sea has been judged beyond saving (the shallowness of its eastern section is clear in the image). It is expected to dry out completely by 2020. Towards the bottom right can be seen the sands of the Qyzylqum Desert. Already stretching across an area greater than Italy, this desert is...World Parks Congress: Legacy of sustainable development continues with Brazilian reserve
..."These new reserves represent a giant step towards saving the very heart of the Amazon," said Dr. Steven San...ainable development models that work is the key to saving wildlife and people." said Dr. Andrew Taber, director of WCS's Latin America Program. "Making the re...Madagascar to triple areas under protection
...th that clearly signals Madagascar's commitment to saving its unique and spectacular wildlife and habitats," said Dr. Claude Martin, WWF Director General. "President Ravalomanana should be applauded and recognized as a global leader in nature conservation." Currently, Madagascar's 1.7 million hectares of co...Countries find common ground to protect world's rarest gorilla
...ion and enforcement. Another major success towards saving the Cross River gorilla was the formation of a collaborative partnership between the relevant government departments, WCS, Flora and Fauna International (FFI), the German Technical Corporation (GTZ) and the Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF). WC...NSF awards $68 million for new engineering centers
...r atmospheric hazards, with the goal of ultimately saving lives and reducing property loss. Engineering Research Center for Biomimetic Microelectronic Systems (BMES), headquartered at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, will develop enhanced microelectronic systems to enable implantable ...Wanted: Innovations to feed the hungry
...cultural technologies that are out there right now saving lives. No one rewards these innovators. Prizes would help them spread their ideas to more people, and to develop them further." "Some of the best innovations come from individuals, often working in non-profits and NGOs others come from people in ...AACR and CEO Dr. Margaret Foti receive award for raising public awareness about melanoma
...sight" to rally behind the foundation and its life saving programs. The Pleasanton Unified School District was given the S.unS.afe Kidz®Community Commendation Award for its outstanding implementation of the foundation's Guidelines for SunSafety®. Assistant Superintendent Cindy Galbo accepted the a...Third set of awards are announced under interagency biodiversity program
...al health research agenda including access to life saving medications." James Rodman, program director in NSF's division of environmental biology, added that "since 1993, when NSF joined in the sponsorship of this innovative program, the ICBG projects have been pioneering explorations around the world of th...Researchers develop computer application to 'read' medical literature, find data relationships
...ch data and directly relate them to their studies, saving money and speeding the process of discovery. The computer application is unique because it "emulates the scientific thought process" in researching data, said Dr. Harold "Skip" Garner, professor of biochemistry and internal medicine, who with forme...Planning effective bioterror responses
...should occur, early detection would be crucial for saving lives. But how could local public health officials know whether one patient's symptoms were part of a larger trend? "Historically, disease surveillance has worked by identifying and diagnosing individuals with conditions of interest and reporting th...Citizens, scientists and policymakers debate ways to restore ocean health at AAAS Town Hall Meeting
...nd policymakers to discuss a critical subject like saving our oceans," said Alan I. Leshner, Chief Executive Officer of AAAS and Executive Publisher of Science. "We hope the dialogue that began today continues, and sparks creative solutions to the ocean's problems." Participants considered three main optio...International critical care doctors release first-ever guidelines for sepsis
...en effective at improving care and, in many cases, saving lives," said R. Phillip Dellinger, M.D., Director, Critical Care Section, Cooper University Hospital/Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Camden, N.J, and Co-Chair of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign's Guidelines Committee. "We are pleased to offer thes...