What we can learn from the biggest extinction in the history of Earth
..., has dubbed this event "the greatest biodiversity crisis in the history of life." An unusually long period of time passed before biological diversity began to reappear. Scientists disagree on the causes of this extinction. However, nearly all explanations cite the high levels of greenhouse gases, including...A new brake on cellular energy production discovered
...chondrial function gives rise to a cellular energy crisis and probably plays an important role in a number of common diseases such as diabetes, heart failure and Parkinsons disease, as well as in normal ageing.......if, as seems likely, all our efforts to head off a crisis come to nothing." He adds that, "Our impending demise is in this sense the ultimate in a social problem and it requires a collective solution." ...Desertification: UN experts prescribe global policy overhaul to avoid looming mass migrations
...ation shows no sign of abatement: An environmental crisis with major impacts UNU says the main barrier to expanding isolated successes at combating desertification is the lack of effective management policies. In some countries where policies are deemed conducive to addressing desertification, enactment...Damon Runyon names new class of rising stars in cancer research
... fundamental knowledge to frame the growing health crisis of obesity. Ryan C. Heller, PhD, with his sponsor Stephen P. Bell, PhD, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, is identifying the determinants of proper DNA replication - a key issue for understanding how mistakes i...Biotech breakthrough could end biodiesel's glycerin glut
... construction, the industry is facing an impending crisis over waste glycerin, the major byproduct of biodiesel production. New findings from Rice University suggest a possible answer in the form of a bacterium that ferments glycerin and produces ethanol, another popular biofuel. "We identified the metabo...Satellite images show destroyed and threatened villages in Darfur
... California, Berkeley. Ariela Blatter, director of crisis prevention and response for Amnesty International USA, and Bromley of AAAS will discuss the project during a session from 2:00 to 3:30 p.m., U.S Pacific Time. The Darfur images are being collected by a AAAS program, begun in January 2006, that has ...Creation of an international industrial chair in life cycle assessment
...three long-term global issues: the energy resource crisis and climate change, universal access to energy, and biodiversity protection. This is why, in its production and commercial activities, and in its research and development directions, the EDF Group intends to provide and carry out the choices that bes...US control strategies may make flu epidemics worse, UCLA study shows
...cials say it is not a question of if such a health crisis will come but when. Are we prepared? In a word, sa... to the researchers, the severity of such a health crisis could be reduced if programs were to provide several years of free vaccinations to individuals who p...US control strategies may make flu epidemics worse, UCLA study shows
...cials say it is not a question of if such a health crisis will come but when. Are we prepared? In a word, sa... to the researchers, the severity of such a health crisis could be reduced if programs were to provide several years of free vaccinations to individuals who p...Wellcome Trust and GlaxoSmithKline announce partnership to target drug-resistant hospital infections
...ty to tackle drug-resistant infections is reaching crisis level with few new antimicrobial agents on the horizon," says Dr Ted Bianco, Director of Technology Transfer at the Wellcome Trust. "Antibacterials are expensive to develop and may be held in reserve, limiting their market potential. It can be diffic...Map predicting spread of avian flu
...r analyses of epidemic control options both during crisis and in peacetime" says Boender. ...Will nanotechnology revolutionize medicine?
...ding nanotechnologys ability to address the energy crisis and demand for clean water. *** Webcast LIVE at www.wilsoncenter.org/nano *** Who: Dr. Samuel I. Stupp, Board of Trustees Professor of Materials Science, Chemistry, and Medicine Director, Institute for BioNanotechnology in Medicine at Northwes...UBC researchers find new superbug weapon for near-empty antibiotics arsenal
...0 deaths every year in the U.S. We're looking at a crisis in 10 years as most bugs will be resistant to most antibiotics. There's an urgent need to develop new tools," says Brett Finlay, a UBC microbiologist and an author on the paper. He and Hancock co-founded Inimex, which conducted many of the experiment...Public agrees global warming exists, but divided over seriousness of problem
...ng a small minority of scientists who discount the crisis equal play with the "99 percent of experts who agree we have a serious problem." Krosnick dubs the result "balance as bias," and it leads most Americans to believe that the scientific community itself is divided over this critical issue. Ongoing s...Preliminary results of largest scan of autism DNA information
...ention have called autism a national public health crisis for which a cause and cure remain unknown....US needs to plan for climate change-induced summer droughts
...vernmental and societal response is through ad hoc crisis management, pointed out Shaun McGrath, of the Western Governors' Association. "Providing adequate supplies of clean water is a challenge when there is normal precipitation," McGrath said, "and extended times of drought and water shortages create fur...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- January 24, 2007
.... K., with fake anti-malaria drugs causing a major crisis in eastern Asia. Verification can be difficult, the researchers explain, because medications must be analyzed without opening the product package. Once a drug package is open, the product usually cannot be marketed. The investigators describe devel...Dangerous wheat disease jumps Red Sea
... of the continent's spring wheat crop. Out of this crisis came a new form of international cooperation among wheat scientists worldwide, spearheaded by Nobel laureate wheat scientist Norman Borlaug. This international alliance of scientists led to the development of wheat varieties which resisted the onslau...Experts advise world policies to cope with causes, rising consequences of creeping desertification
...ences of desertification a creeping environmental crisis that threatens an estimated 2 billion people living in arid places, and a growing concern worldwide due to its global health, economic and migration impacts. Convened by the United Nations University's Canadian-based water programme, with 10 partner...