Ultra-low oxygen could have triggered die-offs, spurred bird breathing system
...idence suggests that oxygen levels were suppressed worldwide 175 million to 275 million years ago and fell to precipitously low levels compared with today's atmosphere, low enough to make breathing the air at sea level feel like respiration at high altitude. Now, a University of Washington paleontologist theo...Gene-expression atlas will provide new direction for brain and spinal-cord studies
...c Project, will be available online to researchers worldwide at http://www.gensat.org . Data derived from the project could have a have major impact on the understanding of neurological disorders, according to the project's leaders, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator Nathaniel Heintz and Mary...New treatment to beat severe incontinence
... incontinence that means the millions of sufferers worldwide could one day throw away their incontinence pads. ...o commercialise the technology that will address a worldwide potential market of more than A$1 billion per year. Urinary incontinence is the involuntary loss of...Bad Mileage: 98 tons of plants per gallon
...ergy content of all coal, oil and natural gas used worldwide in 1997 equaled 315,271 million billion joules (a unit of energy). He divided that by the typical value of heat produced when wood is burned: 20,000 joules per gram of dry wood. The result is that fossil fuel consumption in 1997 equaled the energy in...Improving the body's 'homeland security' against TB
...isabling and killing any of the two billion people worldwide who are latently infected. When the bug moves out ...s, is becoming more threatening because of growing worldwide multi-drug resistance. "Tuberculosis is an intractable threat to human health," says McKinney. "We w...How many fish in the sea? Census of Marine Life launches first report
...pters of lifes encyclopedia. We invite additional worldwide support and participation to advance this remarkable work."...University of Minnesota receives NSF grant to sequence legume genome
...al fertilizer production was invented, agriculture worldwide depended on legumes to supply the nitrogen needed to make protein. Legumes perform this feat with the help of bacteria that infect their roots and form specialized structures called nodules. Within nodules, nitrogen gas from the air is converted into...NSF awards $31.9 million in grants to study biocomplexity in the environment
...ules to mass changes in climate with potential for worldwide impact. "We have powerful new technologies and tools that now make biocomplexity research possible," said Colwell. "The biggest, most exciting scientific questions are at the interfaces of disciplines, such as computational ecology and environmenta...Researchers discover genes that distinguish human, nonhuman primate brains
...behaviors of primates. Leading researchers located worldwide seek to collaborate with Yerkes scientists.......ghting Blindness. Approximately 1.5 million people worldwide are affected by retinitis pigmentosa, which at the moment has no cure. This disease causes vision loss by progressive degeneration and death of the cells that make up the retina, the portion of the eye that responds to light. "Retinitis pigmentosa i...Temple study identifies molecular mechanisms that may assist gene in blocking lung cancer
..." Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death worldwide and is usually diagnosed at an incurable stage, most likely due to the absence of effective therapies as well as standard diagnostic procedures of early tumoral stages when compared with other cancers types, such as colon, breast and prostate cancers...HIV vaccine in worldwide trial
...bilt University Medical Center is participating in worldwide tests of a potential vaccine that can stimulate important immune responses against the virus that causes AIDS. This is the first candidate vaccine against the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) to be studied simultaneously in so many locations, from...Zengen, Inc. receives patent application approval for proprietary peptide technology
... Zengen holds multiple patents and patents-pending worldwide on its peptide technologies. "This development provides further validation of the efficacy of CZEN 002," said R. Steven Davidson, Ph.D., President and CEO of Zengen. "The approved patent application claims are directed to the novel peptide, which h...JCI Table of Contents, 1 October, 2003
...e prevalence of obesity and diabetes is increasing worldwide and diabetes currently represents the leading cause of blindness, renal failure, and amputation in the USA. However, these conditions can be slowed or prevented by controlling glucose levels within the body. Interestingly, individuals with diabetes h...Study calls for cheaper antitoxins for plant poisoning in less-developed countries
... Michael Eddleston comments: "There is presently a worldwide effort to develop and make available affordable drugs for tropical diseases; however, this effort seems to be passing by poisoning and envenoming. Treatments for poisoning and envenoming should be included in the campaign to increase the availability...National Science Foundation announces $14M planetary biodiversity inventory awards
... of plant-feeding insects in the family Miridae, a worldwide group of insects important in agriculture and as indicators of biodiversity. The scientists will study approximately 5,300 species represented by 550,000 specimens housed in the world's natural history museums, and they will collect an additional 10...Salmon farms pose significant threat to salmon fisheries in the Pacific Northwest, researchers find
...he research team found that, since the late 1980s, worldwide production of farm salmon has increased fivefold, while the market share of wild-caught salmon from Alaska, British Columbia and Washington state has steadily declined. "Farm salmon represents one of the fastest-growing and most lucrative segments of...International scientific body calls for ban on human reproductive cloning
... Failure by the international community to issue a worldwide ban on human reproductive cloning will enable unscrupulous individuals to continue to experiment on humans." At the same time that IAP is calling for a ban on human reproductive cloning, it is voicing strong support for research and therapeutic cloni...SPR Annual Meeting features newsworthy discoveries
...0, SPR is an international scientific society with worldwide membership. The purpose of the Society is to foster research on the interrelationships between the physiological and psychological aspects of behavior. To promote this purpose, the Society publishes scientific literature, including the journal Psycho...Staph aureus bacteremia in ESRD patients associated with substantial illness and higher costs
...revalence. Hospitals and other healthcare settings worldwide face unprecedented crises from the rapid emergence and dissemination of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, according to the National Institutes of Health and the Center for Disease Control. Strains of drug-resistant staph are found in most hospitals, oft...