Coastal dead zones may lead to ecosystem-based fisheries management
...merging evidence that resulting coastal low-oxygen dead zones may reduce fish and shellfish harvests, said...ngs are pointing to various ways that living along dead zone edges may lower growth rates of some Gulf fish and shellfish. "None of these lines of evidence ......raig Smith, from the University of Hawaii, studies dead whales after they have sunk to the seafloor. Know...s in a park except that in Smiths case, they tow a dead whale out to the deep sea, place a transponder on it, and drop it to the sea floor. The transponder ...Scientists will discuss remarkable advances in whale research at the annual meeting of AAAS
... Hawaii, who will describe new studies showing how dead whales support invertebrate life on the seafloor. ''If filmmaker Jacques Cousteau could climb out of his grave and go to a seminar, it would be this one, because when he made his last whale movie, he knew about whales only what he and others could se...Gene therapy converts dead bone graft to new, living tissue
Researchers have created a way to transform the dead bone of a transplanted skeletal graft into living ...of bones in dozens of mice, using both healthy and dead segments, then scanned the surrounding inflammatory tissue for differences in the levels of the acti...Experiments provide proof of how traveling in groups protects insects
...rcent of insects transplanted out of the band were dead because something ate them," he said. "On the other hand, we found no deaths during the same period among the crickets we monitored that stayed with the band." That individuals removed from the group suffered gory deaths was clear from partially chew...Findings suggests that blocking estrogen may be crucial to lung cancer survival
... combined treatment group were comprised mainly of dead and dying cells, while the number of these cells in the single treatment groups was significantly lower. The study suggests that an interaction between treatments that target both ER and EGFR may enhance the anti-tumor effects of therapy over the use...HHMI professor, 138 undergraduates identify essential genes in eye formation
...he problem is, if you mutate that gene, the fly is dead as an embryo. What has to be done, he said, is to "make the eye mutant without making the rest of the fly mutant." The work began with flies that are heterozygous for a lethal mutation. In other words, they have only one genetic copy of the mutant g...The Cochrane Library Newsletter, 2005, Issue 1
...en symptoms. Without treatment the person could be dead in hours. When someone contracts the disease, doctors try to treat all family members and close contacts with antibiotics to eradicate the bacteria and prevent the disease spreading. In addition, antibiotics can be given periodically to 'at risk' gro...Desertification alters regional ecosystem climate interactions
...al structure of ecosystems including the live and dead plants. The data are viewed in 3-dimensions at very high resolution and can give a much broader picture of the processes at work, including carbon cycling and other chemical and biological activities. The entire study region was about 500 square mi...Protein transformation gives new twist to medical research
... or the virus babies would be trapped inside the dead body of the bacterium. Originally, the group set out to study how the Lyz protein gets outside the cell to break down the cell wall. They were looking for a holin, a protein that makes holes in the cell membrane to let the lysozyme out. "Using bio...Stem cell therapy for ailing hearts
...onths of recovery, the size of scar tissue left by dead heart muscle was approximately three times smaller in the HUCB treated rats than in the untreated rats. As a result, the heart's pumping capacity improved to near normal in the treated rats, after an initial decline, and was significantly greater tha...High-flying observatory reveals land changing to desert
...al structure of ecosystems including the live and dead plants. The data are viewed in 3-dimensions at very high resolution and can give a much broader picture of the processes at work, including carbon cycling and other chemical and biological activities. The entire study region was about 500 square mi...Microbe's genome reveals insights into ocean ecology
...in organic matter, typically related to living and dead microbial cells. The study, which appears in the December 16 issue of Nature , was led by scientists at the University of Georgia's Department of Marine Sciences and at The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR), along with several collaborator...Research team discovers first evidence of microbes living in a rock glacier
...wn plant material and metabolizing nitrogen in the dead of winter, Williams said. After the discovery in the Green Lakes Valley, the CU-Boulder research team discovered evidence of microbial life in rock glaciers in southern Colorado and in Wyoming, said Knauf. Other CU-Boulder researchers involved in th...UCSB makes important advances in studies of retinal detachment
...eurons from each other and also destroy and remove dead neurons. The reaction of the glial cells to retinal detachment is critical to the success of surgery to correct retinal detachment. The glial response is part of an important medical condition called "proliferative vitreoretinopathy" (PVR). This ...U. of Colorado research team discovers life in Rock Glacier
...wn plant material and metabolizing nitrogen in the dead of winter, Williams said. Following the discovery in the Green Lakes Valley, the CU-Boulder research team discovered evidence of microbial life in rock glaciers in southern Colorado and in Wyoming, said Knauf. Other CU-Boulder researchers invol...Global bird populations face dramatic decline in coming decades, study predicts
...ecycling of nutrients, leading other scavengers to dead animals and limiting the spread of diseases to human communities as a result of slowly decomposing carcasses," the authors wrote. As an example, the researchers pointed to India, where the collapse of the vulture population in the 1990s was followed ...Birds, butterflies, bacteria same law of biology appears to apply
...imate change to water purification to recycling of dead plants, animals and other matter. "Bacteria, for example, decompose organic material that, among other things, provides the majority of nitrogen needed by the plants we eat," Horner-Devine says. "So understanding the distribution and basic ecology o...New forest technologies for small-diameter timber
...k and restore forest health. Overstocked stands of dead and dying trees are a concern throughout the West because they increase the risk of insects, disease, and wildfire. The Wood Utilization Solutions to Hazardous Fuels conference is scheduled for two locations: December 14 at Spokane's Red Lion at the ...Researchers discover direct link between agricultural runoff and massive algal blooms in the sea
...nough evidence to link farm runoff to red tides or dead zones. Satellite imagery To assess the impact of...n event and a massive algal bloom." Red tides and dead zones According to the researchers, artificially induced algal blooms could have major impacts on r...