Skull Of Refrigerator-Size Ancient Armadillo Finds A Home At UF
...he beasts, like their smaller modern counterparts, spread to what now is Florida from South America. Ground sloths, tapirs and other exotic creatures followed the same route into the Sunshine State, he said. Unlike today's armadillos that subsist on termites, ants and beetles, the ancient ones, weig...Widespread Genus Of Monkeys Gives Up Genealogical Secrets To Columbia Researchers
...information about how, when and where the macaques spread acrossthree continents over the last 5 million yea.... Because it shows how and where macaques spread most rapidly -- throughoutAsia over the past 5 million years -- the new work will serve as a road ma...Virologists Track New Influenza Threat
...e virus is being spread. If the spread is person-to-person, rather than extremely rare avian-to-person cases, it poses a more serious public health threat. Kawaoka and UW-Madison post-doctoral fellow Peng Gao wi...3-D Structure Of HIV Components May Pave The Way For New Anti-AIDS Drugs
...es have shown that when it is crippled, HIV cannot spread to othercells. New drugs that block the action of... this recognition and binding, and thusprevent the spread of the virus," said Dr. Michael F. Summers, lead author ofthe study and a professor of biophysical a...Hurdle In Ulcer Vaccine Development Cleared
...rty in theWestern world. The bacterium probably is spread by unclean fingers and hands andcontaminated food and water. More than one-third of Americans have thisinfection, and about 20 percent of them eventually develop peptic ulcer disease.Most gastric cancers also occur in people with current or past H. p...Careful Honeybee Breeding Combats Tracheal Mite Pests
...nd their hivefrom invaders. The mites continue to spread because healthy bees from otherhives invade these weakened colonies to steal honey, and they carry trachealmites back with them.” Since the 1980s, bees in the United States have begun to develop theirown resistance -- slowly. Cobey said t...Handfish Steps Back From Brink Of Extinction
...he contributing factors being investigated is the spread of the introduced northern Pacific Seastar throughout the Derwent Estuary. This may be as a result of starfish feeding on egg masses or disturbing seabed communities. However, habitat modification through urban, rural and industrial development...Detective Work Uncovers New Tick-Borne Disease In North Carolina And The Southeast
...intothe skin, the bacteria can migrate outward and spread in the lymph or throughthe blood to other organs. Untreated, the infection can involve the joints,the nervous system and result in chronic disease. Kirkland suspected the campers were being infected by a spirochete bacterium,because the rash resembl...Scientists Work To Restore Native Fish And Habitat To Great Lakes
...alth centers, and two sea lamprey control stations spread across the United States from Wyoming to New York. "Reestablishing native fish populations is a very complicated business," said John Christian, Assistant Regional Director for Fisheries with the Fish & Wildlife Service in Minneapolis. "To succeed,...DT104 Advice:How To Slow Salmonella Spread
...implement management practicesaimed at slowing the spread of Salmonella Typhimurium, including theantibiot...t -- public healthofficials fear the disease could spread to the food supply during theslaughterhouse processing of infected cattle. The results of salmon...Good Ergonomics Is Good Economics
...r profession. Thus, it is up to us to document and spread the word that good ergonomics IS good economics! REFERENCES Association of American Railroads. (1989). Research pays off: Preventing back injuries, AAR program adopted at Union Pacific. TR News, 140, 16-17. Card, S. K., Moran, T. P., & Newell, A. (...UF Researchers: Development Promotes Disease Among Gopher Tortoises
...enses. "This is an ideal situation for the spread of most infectious diseases," she said. Pa...rickets and beetles. "Tortoises can act to spread seeds of plants and also to aerate the soil via their digging action," Brown said. Researche...Fauci: New Findings Help Explain "Rebound" Of HIV In Patients Who Discontinue Triple-Drug Therapy
... cells, while preventing further viral spread with HAART. Dr. Fauci will present his laboratory's new observations at the 5th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Chicago, Ill., on Wednesday, February 4 at 6:30 p.m. in the Sheraton Chi...Salve From Serpents? UD Studies May Explain Why Viper-Venom Protein Stops Tumor Spread In Mice
...an kill, but a protein in their venom prevents the spread oftumors in laboratory mice, and a molecular 'portrait' now under development mayexplain why, according to a University of Delaware scientist profiled in the newissue of Cardiology Today , mailed Feb. 4. Venom from Macmahon's Viper (Eristocophis ma...Microsurgery Made More Accurate With Virtual Measuring Tool
...ecision, or consistency, was rated in terms of the spread of measurement error and was the calculated variance of the error. The overall variance was 0.4 mm, with a 95% confidence interval of 0.3 mm to 0.6 mm. V. Discussion In general, stereoscopic operating microscopes allow for added depth perception th...Corn Rootworm Changing Behavior, Posing New Threat To Crops
...cal conclusion is that the problem eventually will spread tothe Atlantic coast. "Given what we know about prevailing winds andstorm patterns, it's only a matter of time before this rootworm adaptionends up as far east as Delaware," said Scott Isard, a U. of I. geographyprofessor. Given the amount of first...USGS Scientists Implicate Exotic Parasite In Wisconsin Lake Bird Deaths
...nter.The coot migration may enable the parasite to spread to other regions of thecountry. So far, wildlife managers in the area have not reported any otherevents similar to the die-off in Shawano Lake. "We hope something peculiar aboutShawano Lake not only allowed it (L.polyoon) to occur...Johns Hopkins Scientists Designing Compounds To Fight Malaria
...m Central America to Asia and India.The disease is spread by a genus of mosquitos called Anopheles,which pick up the parasite when they bite an infected person. Theinsects then transmit infected blood to other people. Anophelesmosquitos are found in portions of the United States, wherereports of malaria hav...Biotech Approach To Feral Cat Problem Devised
...ulation and raising public health concerns as they spread infectious diseases and alter delicate ecological balances. Controlling the birth rates of feral cats has proven a vexing task, since conventional spay and neuter techniques require surgery in a controlled environment. Animal control experts also n...Drug-Resistant Infection Once Found Only In Hospitals Now Present In Community
...sts a significantchange in the way the organism is spread among the population. We needadditional research focused on the mechanisms of community-acquired infections." The retrospective study looked at the medical records of children hospitalizedfor MRSA at the University of Chicago Children's Hospital. It ...