Dogs keep dying: Many owners unaware of toxic dog food
...e to the liver, serum cholesterol, total bilirubin concentration and the activity of the anticoagulant proteins antithrombin III (ATIII) and protein C. The coagulation protein tests, which have been adapted for dogs by Cornell researchers, have high value in detecting affected dogs but require collection of a spec...Protein tests to diagnose pet food-poisoned dogs
...o the liver, serum cholesterol and total bilirubin concentration (bilirubin examines for jaundice) and the activity of the anticoagulant proteins antithrombin III (ATIII) and protein C. Even though Diamond, Country Value and Professional dog food brands have been recalled for containing highly toxic aflatoxins, th......atest effect on climate, after carbon dioxide. The concentration of methane in the atmosphere has almost tripled in...ence rising global temperatures and carbon dioxide concentration have on the production of methane from plants. Answers to these questions are important for understa...Environmental exposure to cadmium associated with increased cancer risk
...ured until June 30, 2004. At baseline, the average concentration of cadmium was 12.3 nmol/day for those from the hi...cantly associated with a doubling of the excretion concentration of cadmium. This association remained after accounting for exposure to inorganic arsenic. Dr Staesse...Fat overload kills mammalian cells key culprit identified
...tate, a fat abundant in Western diets. At the same concentration of palmitate, normal cells still producing EF1A-1 rapidly died. The study will be published in the February 2006 issue of Molecular Biology of the Cell. "When lipids (fats) accumulate in tissues other than adipose tissue, cellular dysfunction or cel...New software tool helps protect nation's drinking water
...re in the contaminant's path, and when and in what concentration the contaminant will reach the intakes. Developing ICWater draws upon the extensive expertise of the USDA Forest Service in water research as well as data sources from several other agencies. The ICWater command tool is currently used by water utili...More to learn about soybean rust in the 2006 growing season
...o numerous hurricanes and tropical storms, but the concentration or viability of spores may not have been great enough for disease development in the Midwest. "Based on the knowledge gained from this year and next, we will continue to refine forecast models, warning systems, and provide management programs tailore...Of mice, men, trees and the global carbon cycle
...in their tissues, the one with the higher nitrogen concentration had a higher respiration rate. Conversely, a big plant and a small plant with the same total nitrogen content would put out equivalent amounts of carbon dioxide over the same time period. The universal rule linking plant metabolism to nitrogen can al...Chronic oil pollution takes toll on seabirds along South American coast
...areas studied, and that also was where the largest concentration of adult birds was found, which suggests that chronic oil pollution there could be reducing the adult population, Boersma said. In addition, even a small amount of oil reduces penguins' reproductive success. Female penguins lay two eggs per breeding ...UC Riverside researchers identify clay as major contributor to oxygen that enabled early animal life
...to explain the difference is an increase in oxygen concentration in the atmosphere, which is necessary for animal life and was likely too low through most of Earth's history." To establish a change in clay abundance during the late Precambrian, the researchers studied thick sections of ancient sedimentary rocks in...Olfactory nerve cells expressing same receptor display a varied set of reactions
...perceive odors with unchanged quality over a broad concentration range....NJIT professor discovers better way to desalinate water
... region of high to low concentration. Pressure or concentration differences on both sides of the membrane cause the actual separation to occur. As pore size decreases, the membrane's efficiency and selectivity increases. Membrane separation processes are used in biomedical, biotechnology, chemical, food, petroch...New compound may protect against liver cancer
...valuation of the rat livers showed that the lowest concentration of CDDO-Im led to an 85 percent reduction in pre-cancerous lesions, abnormal growths that have a greater likelihood of developing into actual cancers. "This compound has a much greater effect at a far lower dose than any other compound currently used...Anthrax spores may survive water treatment
...ility of anthrax spores to survive in water with a concentration of 1 milligram of chlorine per liter (typical tap water has a concentration of 1 to 2 milligrams per liter). After 60 minutes in the water, there was no significant decrease i...Kereos presents at AAAS, discusses nanotech-based disease diagnosis and treatment
... that it can deliver 20-times the chemotherapeutic concentration to the tumor using only 1% of the standard dose. Kereos is also developing its technology for the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular disease and presented some of the first data regarding the application of nanotechnology to indications such ...There's something fishy about human brain evolution
...grey matter, and also, says Dr. Cunnane, a greater concentration of DHA per pound than at any other time in life. Aquatic foods are also rich in iodine, a key brain nutrient. Iodine is present in much lower amounts from terrestrial food sources such as mammals and plants. It was this combination of abundant shore...Arctic marine mammals: The new canaries?
...ox and coastal human residents and the increase in concentration of pollutants such as mercury, cadmium, and selected chlorinated pesticides a process called biomagnification - from one part of a food web to another in these predators and their prey. "Understanding contaminants in marine mammals is critically imp...... found a clear increase from south to north in the concentration of phosphorus in forms that can be used by the seaweed and a corresponding expansion of fleshy seaweeds. They also found a complementary decrease in the number of species and extent of coral and reef fishes from south to north. These data were corro...Weighting cancer drugs to make them hit tumors harder
...dding a "macromolecular weight" that increases its concentration and staying power inside the tumor. The heavier mo...in the tissue longer, giving the patient a greater concentration of the drug. If you balance the two factors with a precise weight, you get optimal drug concentratio......owth, freezing them at the desired size. The lipid concentration can then be increased without limits. "We form an 'army' of uniform capsules, and then we can use them in a military fashion," said Granick, who also is a researcher at the Frederick Seitz Materials Research Laboratory and at the Beckman Institute fo...