New study warns limited carbon market puts 20 percent of tropical forest at risk
...c twist, 11 countries that have avoided widespread destruction of their tropical forest are at risk of being left out of an emerging carbon market intended to promote rainforest conservation to combat climate change. A study published Tuesday in the Public Library of Science Biology journal warns that the high...Rain forest protection works in Peru
... been key to tempering rain forest degradation and destruction in that country. Scientists at the Carnegie Institutions Department of Global Ecology led an international effort to analyze seven years of high-resolution satellite data covering most (79%) of the Peruvian Amazon for their findings. The work is publ...Penn researchers discover how key protein stops inflammation
...nents of the cell responsible for flagging p50 for destruction and instructing Bcl-3 to perform its vital function....JCI table of contents: August 1, 2007
...gues from Massachusetts General Hospital show that destruction in the kidney of a protein known as dynamin by cathepsin L causes proteinuria in a mouse model of kidney disease. Consistent with this, when mice were engineered to express forms of dynamin that could not be cleaved by cathepsin L they did not develo...Report recommends off-site disposal of secondary waste
...ew on six major waste streams that result from the destruction of chemical agents: spent activated carbon, brine ...y wastes at the completion of the chemical weapons destruction operations. Spent activated carbon represents nearly 35 percent of the estimated secondary wastes....JCI table of contents -- July 26, 2007
...the marginal zone of the spleen, the ingestion and destruction of the dying cells by dendritic cells was irregular and the mice became susceptible to the development of a multiple sclerosis-like autoimmune response. This is the first study demonstrating that macrophages in the marginal zone of the spleen regulat...MicroRNA works with Ago2 protein to regulate blood cell development
...lueprints for proteins and either target them for destruction or inhibit their protein-making output. In order for microRNA to find its target mRNA, it needs the help of the protein Ago2, the only member of the Argonaute family of proteins that has a slicer function: That is, once microRNA binds with its target...Renewable energy wrecks environment
...uare meter of land disturbed. He also compares the destruction of nature by renewables with the demand for space of nuclear power. "Nuclear energy is green," he claims, "Considered in Watts per square meter, nuclear has astronomical advantages over its competitors." On this basis, he argues that technologies s...Geologists witness unique volcanic mudflow in action in New Zealand
... flow for many tens of miles, causing catastrophic destruction along their path. The 1980 eruptions at Mount St. Helens, for example, resulted in spectacular lahar flows that choked virtually all drainages on the volcano, and impacted major rivers as far away as Portland, Ore." Fagents visited stretches of the......lational control of gene expression rather than on destruction of the mRNA targets. This finding may force rethinking of current strategies for the identification of miRNA targets in cells with individual miRNA overexpression or deficiency, explains Dr. Tarakhovsky....Fat horses face health problems
...esses that alter the delicate balances between the destruction and creation of new cells in the body. Oxidative stress is an imbalance between the production of free radicals and reactive oxygen species and the bodys anti-oxidant defense mechanisms, and that imbalance is in favor of the oxidants, said Thatcher...Pumpkin: A fairytale end to insulin injections?
...t feeding pumpkin extract prevents the progressive destruction of pancreatic beta-cells but it is impossible to say whether pumpkin extract would promote regeneration in humans. He added: I think the exciting thing is that this may be a source of a medication that could be taken by mouth. The protective effec...Biocontrol of invasive water hyacinth contributes to socioeconomic and health improvements in Africa
... further. Wind and wave action can accelerate the destruction of the weed started by the insects. No herbicide spraying was used in the Ugandan program, only mechanical removal and biocontrol, yet by 2000, 90% of the weed was cleared from the lake. The result of this remarkable program resulted in reduced ca...Critical protein prevents DNA damage from persisting through generations
...unting down foreign invaders and labeling them for destruction -- they rearrange their DNA to create various surface receptors that can accurately identify different intruders, a process called V(D)J recombination. Now, in an study published online today in the journal Cell, Rockefeller University Professor Mich...UCF professor finds bacterial pathogen may be key to understanding cancer development
... lead to the development of drugs that induce the destruction of Met and are useful in treating Met-related cancers. Ireton is an expert on Listeria monocytogenes, a cause of food poisoning. He has long studied how it enters into cells of the human body, and explains the mechanism in this months issue of the ...MIT tool determines landslide risk in tropics
...vings at the time of construction and later reduce destruction during heavy rains. "Building codes as they are now will specify a maximum building height and certain structural requirements that are standard for the entire country," said Saldivar-Sali. "But in an area with a 66 hazard rating, which is relative...Giant magnetocaloric materials could have large impact on the environment
...nium-silicon bond-breaking transition, causing the destruction of magnetic ordering and leading to the giant magnetocaloric effect of these materials. By combining the novel experimental results with detailed numerical calculations of the electronic structure carried out at Ames Laboratory, the researchers wer...Cancer stem cells can go it alone
... able to specifically target cancer stem cells for destruction while leaving the normal stem cells in the body intact, hopes Zucchi. Dulbecco had isolated the LA7 cells from a rat mammary adenocarcinoma back in 1979. He and Zucchi have spent the last decade studying their ability to generate the different stru...Satellite images show destroyed and threatened villages in Darfur
... well as archival satellite photos documenting the destruction of a dozen settlements in Darfur since January 200...ts as small as two feet across, sufficient to show destruction of huts and other structures. "We provide the geospatial support," Bromley said. "Were just provid...Largest synthetic gene ever built offers insights into anti-malarial drug resistance
... is painting a picture of how the parasite escapes destruction by most of the agents now used against it, he said., When a malaria parasite is transmitted through a mosquito bite, the mosquito injects the parasite into skin or blood, which then travels to the liver within minutes, grows and divides there, an...