Cooperation to create a new tuberculosis vaccine
...s and develops novel vaccination strategies; it is amongst the leading groups in Tuberculosis immunology research world wide. MOLOGEN focuses on proprietary DNA technologies to develop treatments for non- or inadequately treatable diseases. With more than 2 million deaths and 9 million new infections annual...Government development policies, not communities, main threat to forest conservation projects
...But, the study points out, there is now a backlash amongst conservationists against this approach on the basis that such schemes have failed and cannot work in the long term because local populations will always grow and pressure on natural resources will increase indefinitely. Those taking this view argue t...Safety and immunogenicity data available for new pertussis booster vaccine candidate for adolescents
...ated that is on the rise in the U.S. particularly amongst adolescents. However, there is currently no pertussis vaccine recommended for people age seven or older. GlaxoSmithKline is pleased with the results of this study, which demonstrate the potential to add pertussis protection to the currently recommend...EU researchers in US want more contact with Europe
...s working in the US, and organise regular meetings amongst themselves. Janez Potocnik, European Commissioner for Science and Research said "Allowing researchers the chance to work abroad is important for keeping a flow of ideas within our science community. ERA-Link will provide European scientists in the US...Researchers reveal the infectious impact of salmon farms on wild salmon
...conditions for the breeding and spread of sea lice amongst the adult fish. For the migrating wild salmon, the farm is a concentrated point source of infectious lice larvae. "We found lice levels exceeded what we would find normally, extending for 30 km even though the farm is only about 0.2 km long," says J...Ume researchers have mapped the dams of the world
...cience on April 15, 2005. The research project has amongst others been funded by WWF Sweden, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)/World Water Assessment Programme, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and World Resources Institute. Christer Nilsson was last autumn ...What makes someone your sister or brother? No easy question in 2005
...es on the longstanding practice of 'going for kin' amongst African-American communities. In this, non-blood relations regard each other as brother, sister, mother, father and so on. Professor Edwards said: "This raises the importance of such things as culture, language, and social and emotional experiences i...Allergies affect 15 million people in UK, says Professor
... world, especially in UK which now ranks as having amongst the highest levels of these conditions. Professor Aziz Sheikh says: "The rarer, potentially more serious systemic allergic disorders such as food allergy, nettle rash (urticaria), swelling of the tissues (angioedema) and the potentially life-threate...Geneticists oppose singling out Jewish women in European breast cancer patent
...ike the BRCA1 patents, is generating major concern amongst European geneticists, which has led to the current reaction of the ESHG. ...Salivary bacteria as indicators of oral cancer?
...ear survival rate for this form of cancer 54% is amongst the lowest of the major cancers. Of the 400,000 new cases diagnosed each year worldwide, the disease kills one person every hour more people than cancers of the cervix, brain, ovary, liver, kidney, malignant melanomas or Hodgkin's lymphoma. Currentl...New theory tests sex ratios under asymmetrical local mate competition among parasitoid wasps
..., in particular whether brothers will be competing amongst themselves to mate with their sisters. This situation becomes increasingly likely in species with very structured populations, where only one or a few females will produce offspring locally, and related males and females will be mating with each othe...... apparent despite the frequency of such infections amongst children....Bioinsecticide for combating a pest that affects the tomato and the green bean
...to place alternative control measures, outstanding amongst which is the biological control with baculovirus, a virus exclusive to insect pathogens, and which show a great number of properties favourable to being developed as bioinsecticides. Contrasted experience There currently exist some 40 products avai...... Once the animals get to port they are distributed amongst the specialists according to their group. In our case, at the Leioa campus of the University of the Basque Country in Bizkaia, two groups of vermes or sea worms are taxonomically analysed. The aim of this is to identify the species, to find out if th...Chernobyl: The true scale of the accident
...ohorts were subjected to higher doses of radiation amongst all the people exposed to Chernobyl radiation. The estimated 4000 casualties may occur during the lifetime of about 600,000 people under consideration. As about quarter of them will eventually die from spontaneous cancer not caused by Chernobyl radia......r diverse pigmentation. This diversity is greatest amongst perching birds (order Passeriformes: 60% of all bird species), which include many familiar species including tits and warblers. Despite intense interest, the purpose, in most species, of these patterns was unknown. Most passerines lay eggs speckled ...Hygienic surfaces, biocidal and self-cleaning coatings
...t enable the obtaining of these biocidal surfaces, amongst which are the incorporation of nanoparticles in organic resins (in ceramic matrixes), as well as the deposition in plasma-vacuum with incorporation of nanoparticles. An INASMET-Tecnalia research team has led the proposal for the project known as "Dev...A study of the ectomychorrizal community amongst Quercus rubra L. plantations
...specific wealth, have proved to be more homogenous amongst each other than the non-mature ones. As regards ectomycorrhizals, 90 morphotypes have been described: 6 of these were identified at a species level; 1 was ascribed to a hitherto unknown morphotype and 7 to a genus. As regards the number of morphotype...'Acid rain' and forest mass: Another perspective
... the atmosphere, produce acids that are deposited, amongst other places, on the forest biomass. Also, intensification in the cattle sector, together with stabling and grouping together of herds, have given rise to the concentration of ammonia emissions in certain zones. This compound, deposited close to the ......, are responsible for spongiform encephalopathies, amongst these being bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE ...rain, where they act upon such perineuronal nests, amongst other structures. According to the researchers' comments, extrapolating these results from the rat ...