Ray of hope for vultures facing extinction
...used in place of diclofenac. "This research is an excellent example of international collaboration in response to an urgent conservation problem," Said Dr Debbie Pain, Head of International Research at the RSPB and a co-author of the paper. Fellow-author Dr Rhys Green, Principal Research Biologist at the RSP...New 5 year Metvix-PDT data demonstrate long-term efficacy & reliability for NM skin cancer treatment
...rior after MAL-PDT compared to surgery (84% vs 36% excellent or good cosmetic outcome)8 Commenting on the trial results, Dr Colin Morton, Department of Dermatology, Falkirk Royal Infirmary, Scotland said: "The potential for the use of MAL-PDT as a standard treatment for non-melanoma skin cancers has been cl...Finding life on Mars and outer space begins by examining Earth's inner space
... jump right into calculus." "Mono Lake provides an excellent example of an extreme environment on Earth, a livi...te deposit, making evaporative lakes like Mono, an excellent analog for Mars." "Despite the harsh conditions, Mono Lake is a highly productive biological environ...JCI table of contents, February 1, 2006
...ty of Wisconsin writes, "These findings provide an excellent illustration of a causal relationship between the interaction of the environment and genetic background in SIDS. For families of SIDS victims, a clear delineation of risk factors, both genetic and environmental, will be instrumental in identifying ch...Genetic cause of sudden infant death in African Americans
...ty of Wisconsin writes, "These findings provide an excellent illustration of a causal relationship between the interaction of the environment and genetic background in SIDS. For families of SIDS victims, a clear delineation of risk factors, both genetic and environmental, will be instrumental in identifying ch...Early California: A killing field
...tions in the distant past. Jack Broughton makes an excellent case that native peoples living in the San Francisco Bay area harvested enough birds to deplete populations and even cause some local extinction, perhaps as long as 2,000 years ago." While bird researchers emphasize human-caused environmental damage...UC Riverside researchers release new variety of asparagus
... previous varieties of the vegetable and boasts an excellent spear quality, marked by a high percentage of marketable spears. Higher yield of marketable spears reduces the impact of high land and labor costs, thereby making the asparagus more profitable without raising consumer prices. Named "DePaoli" after ...New compound may protect against liver cancer
...uch low doses, Kensler believes that CDDO-Im is an excellent candidate for cancer prevention use in humans. "If this compound can produce such a potent and dramatic reduction in the number of pre-cancerous growths, it should have an equally dramatic impact on the development of actual cancers," he said. In add...High-tech tags on marine animals yield valuable data for biologists and oceanographers
... Ocean. California sea lions are proving to be an excellent platform for monitoring oceanographic conditions along the California coast, Costa said. State-of-the-art tags developed at SMRU can now capture an animal's location, swim speed, and the depth and duration of dives, as well as the temperature and sal...First wolverine radio-collared in Pacific Northwest
...ne we collared weighed about 19 pounds, and was in excellent health and condition. She hasn't had kits yet, and is probably just a year old," said Aubry. "It's likely that her parents and possibly siblings are in the same general area, so chances are good that we will collar additional individuals in the trap...Genes involved in cell growth and cell division identified
...onal Genome-Scale Biology. Drosophila cells are an excellent model system to also understand the regulation of ...n growth regulators. This set of genes provides an excellent starting point for future studies concentrating on the interactions between genes involved in cell g...The European Institute of Technology
...ties. The EIT must be a liaison office between the excellent research centres Europe possesses and the industrial/business community to turn our ideas into products, into market value". Dr. Chatzimarkakis and Prof. Buzek also highlighted that the nature, roles and aims of the EIT and ERC (European Research Co...UMaine researcher puts new date on early agriculture
...s has made in Peru, the microfossil remains are an excellent example of Sandweiss's multidisciplinary approach to archeology. "By bringing in as many different kinds of people as possible who can bring their expertise to bear in what we are doing, we are able to find unexpected but significant results that mig...Barbara Turnbull Award honours leading spinal cord researcher
...ence Canada. "We congratulate Dr. Culotti for his excellent work, and thank Barbara Turnbull for her untiring efforts to raise awareness about the devastating impact of spinal cord injuries, and the need to accelerate the pace of neuroscience research." Barbara Turnbull is a well known Toronto journalist and ...More evidence mammals, fruit flies share make-up on function of biological clocks
... reinforce that notion that fruit flies provide an excellent model for understanding the human biological clock that drives sleep/wake cycles and many other processes that contribute to our overall health," said Blau....NYU scientists ID key factor in how fruit fly color receptor cells 'decide' their type
...he arrangement of receptors for color vision is an excellent model for considering this area. The research in the Nature paper focuses on the cell's 'decision' about what type of cell it wants to be, and, with spineless, for the first time we have identified a factor that controls a cell autonomous stochastic......ated with disease." "The current vaccines provide excellent protection against pneumococcal disease, but only that caused by some of the 90 serotypes, and it is important that we keep a watch on the development of this organism. Our work in describing all known variants will help in that surveillance" Two v...'Genetic network' guards against lethal DNA damage
...e Hopkins School of Medicine. The yeast cell is an excellent model for this kind of study because 25 percent of human disease genes are also found in yeast, according to Boeke. Therefore, the discovery of this network of genes could help to identify mutations whose combined deleterious effects cause human dise...Evolution in action: Why some viruses jump species
...her. "We found the carnivore parvoviruses to be an excellent model for studying the molecular changes that accompany host-switching," she said, "because it's one of the very few viruses for which we have adequate sequence data before and after the cross-species transfer." Colin R. Parrish, a parvovirus expert ......y, much like the Martian environment, making it an excellent test bed." Nitrogen is essential to DNA, RNA, and protein. All life depends on it. The scientists looked at how a certain type, or isotope, of nitrogen was distributed in soils, water, rocks, plants, and in microbes. They found that nitrogen quantiti...