Satellite tracking reveals threats to Borneo pygmy elephants
...flat lands and valleys incur the lowest costs when extracting timber, said Raymond Alfred, Head of WWF-Malaysias Borneo Species Programme. However, the Malaysian governments commitment to retain extensive forest habitat throughout central Sabah, under the Heart of Borneo agreement, should ensure that the maj...Seawater intrusion is the first cause of contamination of coastal aquifers
...ised seawater intrusion areas, reducing pumping or extracting water from either smaller or greater depths become indispensable measures. According to Benavente, artificial recharge of aquifers is another efficient measure to prevent salinisation, as it stops seawater intrusion and increases freshwater levels. I...Strength of connections between brain regions may affect an adolescent's response to peer influence
...wed activity in regions important for planning and extracting information about social cues from movement, but the connectivity between these regions was stronger in children who were marked as less vulnerable to peer influence. These children were also found to have more activity in the prefrontal cortex, an a...Manchester University helps with pharaoh DNA analysis
...team led by Dr Yehia Gad in Egypt in techniques of extracting DNA samples from the mummified remains of the mystery female. The group then compared the DNA samples with those taken from Hatshepsuts royal relatives her grandmother Ahmose Nefertari, the matriarch of 18th dynasty royalty, and her father Thutmos......ke Willerslev, who is the worlds leading expert in extracting DNA from organisms buried in permafrost. His thinking was that perhaps he could reconstruct the environment of the past. Ice-core samples of ancient sediment The icecap itself is comprised of pure ice, but the lower sections are mixed with mud......ssue into specialized cells, Altaner says. After extracting the stem cells from human fat tissue the researchers worked to find a less toxic way to treat colon cancer than the standard-of-care chemotherapy agent, 5-fluorouracil (5-FU), which can produce toxic side effects in normal cells. They expanded the nu...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- June 27/July 3, 2007
...n Japan are reporting development of a process for extracting a commercially-valuable biomaterial from the marin...t. In the new study, they describe a process for extracting high yields of a protein substance called mucin that could be used as a starting material for produc...UC Davis is partner in new $125 million federal bioenergy research center
...ives strength and structure to plant cellwalls. By extracting simple fermentable sugars from lignocelluloseand producing biofuels from those sugars, the potential of the mostenergy-efficient and environmentally benign fuel crops can berealized. "The DOE JBEI will be a center of intellectual thought and provid...Ancient Etruscans were immigrants from Anatolia, or what is now Turkey
...modern-day Tuscans. This will have to be done by extracting DNA from fossils; this has been tried before but the technique for doing so has proved to be very difficult. Interestingly, this study of historical origins will give us some pointers for carrying out case-control studies of disease today, says Pro...Tropical plants go with the flow ... of nitrogen
...lants are able to adapt to environmental change by extracting nitrogen from a variety of sources, according to a new study that appears in the May 7 early online edition of The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. By demonstrating that not all plants specialize in one specific source of nitrogen, ...New imaging approach promises insights into multiple sclerosis
...issue extracted from guinea pigs. The technique of extracting the tissue and then keeping it alive long enough to analyze was developed in Shi's lab. Conventional microscopic imaging techniques require samples to be labeled with dyes, killing the tissues in the process. Being able to analyze living tissue c...First impressions: Computer model behaves like humans on visual categorization task
...arily speaking, however, survival often depends on extracting vital information in one glance, so that we jump out of danger's way before we even realize what we've seen. Cognitive neuroscientists have studied this phenomenon using a rapid categorization task during which subjects are asked to say whether a ...New science of metagenomics 'will transform modern microbiology'
...ntal stewardship." Metagenomics studies begin by extracting DNA from all the microbes living in a particular environmental sample; there could be thousands or even millions of organisms in one sample. The extracted genetic material consists of millions of random fragments of DNA that can be cloned into a for...Study shows metabolic strategy of stressed cell
...ould concentrate all its efforts on a single task: extracting life-supporting energy from nutrients in the mitochondria. Mitochondria are the powerhouses of the cell, so-called because these bags of enzymes host a series of complex biochemical pathways that produce the energy-rich molecule ATPthe cell's "curren...New bird species found in Idaho
... is a group of seed-eating finches specialized for extracting seeds from conifer cones. Fieldwork by Smith has revealed some of the mechanisms that have contributed to the nearly complete cessation of interbreeding between this crossbill and other call types that move into the South Hills every year. Perhaps mo...Press conferences at the year's largest physics meeting
...oil reserves of the Middle East, but in past years extracting the resource has been too expensive to make it fea...ydrate reserves and survey the various methods for extracting natural gas from them. Press Conference, Monday, 3 pm WOODSTOCK 20 The 1987 March APS meeting wa...Largest physics meeting of the year, in Denver
...oil reserves of the Middle East, but in past years extracting the resource has been too expensive to make it fea...ydrate reserves and survey the various methods for extracting natural gas from them. WOODSTOCK 20TH ANNIVERSARY No, not the famous rock concert in upstate New...Making daughters different -- how immune cells take divergent paths when fighting infections
...mice and then infected the mouse with Listeria. By extracting Listeria-specific T-cells from the mouses spleen and using a special dye label, the investigators were able to track the T-cells first divisions upon infection, telling the difference between the original mother T-cell and subsequent daughter cells. ...A dietary supplement protects the lives of farm shrimp
...ed to protect the shrimp from the vibrios (without extracting the compound from the bacteria) and we are currently testing the potential of such microbes in other animal models. Given the fact that PHB can be produced on an industrial scale for a reasonable price, PHB addition to animal diets would be an altern...Technology captures tumors' genetic profile, guides cancer treatment
...profiling gene mutations within cells. It involves extracting DNA from a tumor sample, copying this material thousands of times, depositing segments of it in tiny "wells" on a small plate, and mixing in reagents that reveal whether each segment carries a specific mutation. Automated equipment then reads the pla...