To save dolphin's dorsal fin experts combine medical technology and teamwork
...a saltwater lagoon environment for the time it was expected to take for the soft tissue to sufficiently regenerate. The medical team employed a specially designed sling custom-made by Otter Bay Wetsuits to protect the extracellular matrix patch. Drs. Stone and Sweeney lead the team that performed the procedu...Large-scale forces shape local ocean life, global study shows
...as a surprise. At the start of the project, Witman expected to find that forces specific to a small area of ocean predation, species competition and disturbances such as hurricanes or landslides would play a central role in limiting the number of species found there. But Witman and his team found that ...ENCODE consortium publishes scientific strategy
...d a production phase. In the pilot phase, which is expected to last three years, ENCODE researchers are devising and testing high-throughput ways of efficiently applying known approaches to identify functional elements. Their collaborative efforts are centered on 44 DNA targets, which together cover about 1 p...Wendell Berry to give 'Renewing Husbandry' lecture during scientific meetings in Seattle
.... More than 4,000 delegates from 100 countries are expected to be in attendance. These include scientists, researchers, academia, extension agents and students. Featured scientific topics include: Farming for More Nutritious Foods Genomics and Plant Breeding Plant Diversity Fertilizing Crops Precision ...Emory study details dolphin brain evolution for the first time
...ssessing brains that are significantly larger than expected for their body sizes and second only to those of modern humans. "A description of the pattern of encephalization in toothed whales has enormous potential to yield new insights into odontocete evolution, whether there are shared features with hominoi...Safer medical implants, more comfortable fabrics among research items at Rochester meeting
...will be presented and more than 850 scientists are expected to attend the meeting at the Hyatt Regency Hotel & Riverside Center. Some of the highlights of the meeting are: Coating technologies promise safer medical implants Advances in coatings can mean safer medical implants that are less likely to be rej...Solutions to stop fishermen returning dead and dying marine animals back into sea - study
... with discards. The findings of the research are expected to inform European Union policy about discards. Discards are mainly young or damaged fish or sea life that cannot be sold because there is no market for them, or, if taken back to shore, would exceed the fishers' catch quota. Almost one million ton...Agrobiosecurity and You: Topic of scientific meeting in Seattle
.... More than 4,000 delegates from 100 countries are expected to be in attendance. These include scientists, researchers, academia, extension agents and students. Featured scientific topics include: Farming for More Nutritious Foods Genomics and Plant Breeding Plant Diversity Fertilizing Crops Precision ...Humans and dolphins: If brain size is a measure, we're not that different
...brains are four to five times larger than would be expected for their body size when compared to another anima... extremely large brains significantly larger than expected for their body sizes and second only to those of modern humans. "A description of the pattern of...Mail-order drugs exposed to extreme heat become less effective
...asthma medication, delivered less than half of its expected dosage and showed significant physical changes after being exposed to 150F for 4 hours. "Inhaled medications are calculated to deliver a specific dosage for each use. Extreme temperatures can affect medications in just a few hours, causing them to d...Iraqi civilian deaths increase dramatically after invasion
...that 100,000 more Iraqis died than would have been expected had the invasion not occurred. Eighty-four percent of the deaths were reported to be caused by the actions of Coalition forces and 95 percent of those deaths were due to air strikes and artillery. "There is a real necessity for accurate monitoring of...First human trial of bioartificial kidney shows promise for acute renal failure
...ponsored by Nephros Therapeutics Inc. The study is expected to expand to additional centers later this year. UMHS researchers also have planned, for late 2005, a phase I/II trial to investigate the safety of the RAD for people with end-stage chronic renal failure. Investigators are not looking for volunteers ...Scientists raise concerns about second wave of 'mad cow' prion infection
...es both leukocytes and prions in a single step, is expected to be introduced commercially in Europe early next year followed by submission to the U.S. FDA. Paul M. Ness, M.D., Director of Transfusion Medicine at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, editor-in-chief of Transfusion and former president of AA...Scientists find acid rain an unlikely ally in the battle against a greenhouse gas
...for the increase in methane emission that would be expected as wetlands become warmer. In this way, acid rain acts like a temporary lid on the largest methane source. Gauci is cautious about the image presented by acid rain. "We wouldn't want to give the impression that acid rain i...Cranfield collaborator receives multi million dollar financing
...ounding in 2001. Pelikan's first product, which is expected to be launched in the spring of 2005, is the Pelikan Sun lancing device. Based on the company's "one-step, one-button" approach, this lancing device is the first fully-automated, electronically-controlled, self-contained system that allows a patient ...Look at past sea-level rise points to troubling future
...he trend toward slowing rates of sea level rise is expected to reverse this century, as global warming pushes rates back up. According to estimates by the International Panel for Climate Change, rising ocean temperatures this century will add about 30 centimeters to sea level, and glacial runoff from Antarcti...Global warming's impact on US plants, animals determined from review of dozens of studies
...t. The larger the change is, the fewer species are expected to be able to biologically adjust to the new conditions. "With warming for the next century projected to be two to 10 times greater than the last, we're heading toward a fundamental and potentially irreversible disruption of the U.S. landscape and w...New Royal Society journal studies
...t vulnerable prey to reduce energy loss, preys are expected to advertise their escape ability. We recorded the distress calls (those screams emitted in conditions of the utmost danger) of a small passerine, and examined the relationship between call physical properties and caller nutritional and immunological...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory
...use site. The cooling, heating and power system is expected to operate at 70 to 80 percent efficiency, compared with 55 percent efficiency in the best central power plants. The system will be monitored over the two-year demonstration by the ORNL-Austin Energy-Burns & McDonnell team and the University of Texas...... found that the extinction of species is generally expected to reduce the amount of sediment mixing, and consequently diminish the oxygen concentrations that sustain bottom-dwelling life. The amount of change, according to the study, depends on the reasons species are going extinct and the order in which anim...