Environmental issues center of Inland Northwest Research Alliance 4th Annual Symposium
...nt administration's mission for the department. He stressed while science is at the foundation of the Interior Department's strategic plan, other factors such as traditional ecological knowledge, public desire, laws and regulations also play a factor. He encouraged the graduate students in the audience worki...Men from early middle ages were nearly as tall as modern people
... nations, large numbers of people are biologically stressed or deprived, which can lead to stunted growth," Steckel said. "It's plausible that growing inequality could have increased stress in ways that reduced average heights in the centuries immediately following the Middle Ages." Political changes and stri...UCR earns $1.5 million grant to examine how engineered crop genes stray
... the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, stressed the role of UCR's Biotechnology Impacts Center as "an honest broker" in this debate. "The scientists conducting this research have no stake in the policy outcomes," Angle said. They hold no patents on genetically modified plants. The study will provi...Study: A little help from friends makes wounds heal faster
... the effect social contact had on wound healing in stressed hamsters. Results showed that skin wounds healed n...after injury, the wounds on the socially isolated, stressed animals remained about 25 percent larger than the wounds of the other three groups, and stayed this ...Gene therapy reaches muscles throughout the body and reverses muscular dystrophy in animal model
...l aging, or treat cardiac disease. But Chamberlain stressed that the paper represents one discovery on the lon...s and hopefully eventually humans. But Chamberlain stressed that there are a number of scientific challenges and regulatory requirements along the way, so any t...Research shows oceans are becoming more acidic
...end of this century. Participants at the symposium stressed that although the impact of climate change on the ocean has been much debated, the direct impact of CO 2 itself has largely been neglected. However, they concluded, changes are clearly underway and their effects may be large and may seriously destab...Satellites map volcanic home of Africas endangered gorillas
...s with different scales." Marc Languy of WWF-EAPO stressed the extent of the territory covered: "The map extends well beyond park boundaries, reflecting the fact that the parks cannot be thought of as isolated islands but as part of the larger landscape, addressing the development needs of local settlements ...Need sex? It's probably something about stress
... hot water, the normally asexual organisms get all stressed out and turn sexual. Blame it on the free radicals, says a team of researchers. Colonies of the multicellular green alga Volvox carteri exposed to temperatures of 111 degrees Fahrenheit (42.5 degrees Celsius) had twice the amount of free ra...Discovery of tiny microbes in ancient Greenland glacier may define limits for life on Earth
...ts and little is known about the recovery of these stressed and possibly damaged cells from a frozen environment that subjects them to severe conditions for long periods." Some of the cells that Miteva and Brenchley were successful in cultivating required special conditions and up to six months to form initi...Small, cold, & hungry: Ultra-small microbes from 120,000-year-old glacier ice sample
...ts and little is known about the recovery of these stressed and possibly damaged cells from a frozen environment that subjects them to severe conditions for long periods." Some of the cells that Miteva and Brenchley were successful in cultivating required special conditions and up to six months to form initi...Nanoscale contact optimizes adhesion
...ecause only a small fraction of material is highly stressed at any instant in time. The failure occurs by incremental propagation of crack-like flaws. How to achieve robust and reliable optimal adhesion between different structural components has so eluded engineers. Biological adhesion mechanisms that have b...Researchers identify gene linked to sperm-producing stem cells in mammals
...aceptive that would be reversible." However, Braun stressed that such products are many, many years away and will require considerable research. Researchers also hope to someday be able to reverse the developmental process and create embryonic stem cells from adult germ stem cells. Embryonic stem cells are "m...Study marks increased trends in infectious disease occurrences in our oceans
...ease in thriving populations as much or more as in stressed populations. Probably the most alarming result of our study is the suggestion of fewer diseases in fishes. As we fish stocks down, the remaining individuals may be too sparse to transmit infectious diseases," said Lafferty. The USGS scientist noted t...New study confirms conservation surgery is safe for BRCA breast cancers
... risk of recurrence than other patients, Dr Kirova stressed the importance of long-term follow up as there still remained a possibility of recurrence or new tumours in the same or opposite breast many years after diagnosis. She concluded: "These findings are important, because every new study involving geneti...Deficits associated with prenatal alcohol exposure can be seen as early as infancy
...-exposed infants were chronically more aroused and stressed than non-exposed infants, findings consistent with the behavioral assessment of increased arousal reported by Drs. Kable and Coles. Although it is reasonable to consider that higher arousal and slower responses to stimuli may contribute to poorer l...Aquatic scientists divided on role of sea lice from salmon farms in decline of native salmon in B.C.
...on sick and stressed. "If you happen to be weak or stressed in terms of general health, you tend to be more su...ce you're allowed on your fish." However, McKinley stressed that environmental conditions in Europe are different from those in British Columbia, and he warns a...Current smoke alarms pass life-saving tests
...e enough time to escape most residential fires. It stressed the need for immediate response to an activated alarm and showed that individuals caught in a flaming fire (as opposed to a smoldering fire) have an average of three minutes from an alarm's first warning to escape. "The three-minute escape window for...A shrinking sink? Carbon fertilization may be flimsy weapon against warming
... growth stimulation, Schlesinger said. Schlesinger stressed that planting trees is an effective way to sequester carbon, but "shouldn't expect those trees to grow much faster in the high CO2 world of the future." Ultimately, the Earth's ability to take up carbon will depend on the oceans. The oceans have alre...Gates Foundation commits $82.9 million to develop new tuberculosis vaccines
...both in the U.S. and worldwide," he said. Klausner stressed that as TB vaccine research moves forward, it is also important to increase research on TB drugs and diagnostics, and expand global access to existing TB prevention and treatment efforts. The World Health Organization has estimated that total resour......ponse genes. In vivo experiments with mouse models stressed by UV light exposure resulted in significantly less severe skin damage after avicin treatment. These studies show the potential of a new class of metabolites for the treatment of stress-associated diseases. TITLE: Triterpenoid electrophiles (avicins)...