Detaining patients is justified to contain deadly TB strain in South Africa say experts
...ortionate response in defined situations given the extreme risk posed." On September 01, 2006, the World Health Organisation announced that a deadly new strain of XDR-TB had been detected in Tugela Ferry, a rural town in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal, the epicentre of South Africa's HIV/AIDS ...Putting a face on the earliest modern Europeans
...ca some 150,000 years ago, spread temporarily into extreme southwest Asia and into southern Africa, and then through northern Africa into Europe around 40,000 years ago. This skull is from the first 5,000 years of the apparent occupation of Europe by modern humans. The cranium has no expressly Neandertal t...Environments resilient in the face of hurricanes, but questions remain, says journal special issue
...Louisiana, large sections of wetlands were lost in extreme storm events. "A major research goal is to use th...ricane scale for predicting the coastal impacts of extreme storms," noted issue contributor Abby Sallenger of the St. Petersburg, FL, office of the U.S. Geolo...USGS examines environmental impacts of aircraft de-icers
...ing and anti-icing application often occurs during extreme weather conditions including periods of snow, freezing rain, and high winds. This occasionally makes it difficult to contain the spent fluids and they are released to the environment. While they are a necessity for aviation safety, these products are...Dramatic results from combo therapy surprises Krabb-disease researchers
...r research with Twitcher mice had shown that under extreme treatment conditions bone marrow transplantation could extend the lives of these mice to an average of about 80 days (untreated Twitcher mice live to approximately 38 days). "Lysosomal enzymes are located inside the cell, and at first glance, there'...Annual plants may cope with global warming better than long-living species
...fic Ocean, and climate models predict frequent and extreme fluctuations in precipitation along the coast, which likely will affect plant life. "If we go out today and collect a large number of seeds and freeze them, they will be a resource available to the next generation of scientists," Weis said. "Because...How trees manage water in arid environments
... to the National Climatic Data Center. Moderate to extreme drought conditions were evident in about 40 percen...during a three-year period during which there were extreme drought conditions in the semi-arid southwestern United States." Brown's measurements showed that ...JCI table of contents: January 2, 2007
...ttributed to carvedilol's ability to induce a more extreme conformational change in the Arg389 variant of the receptor, resulting in significantly dampened cAMP signaling in cardiac cells. In an accompanying commentary, Brent DeGeorge and Walter Koch from Thomas Jefferson University comment that "the impli...Genetic mutation alters response to heart failure drugs
...ttributed to carvedilol's ability to induce a more extreme conformational change in the Arg389 variant of the receptor, resulting in significantly dampened cAMP signaling in cardiac cells. In an accompanying commentary, Brent DeGeorge and Walter Koch from Thomas Jefferson University comment that "the impli...Antarctic research within the International Polar Year IPY 2007/08
...anisms and their adaptations to climate change and extreme environmental conditions are the centre of the researcher's attention. One example is the investigation of algal growth under high light intensities with simultaneous low temperatures by scientists of the Alfred Wegener Institute, in collaboration wi...Feinstein Institute and Cold Spring Harbor Lab join forces, seek manic depression genes
... disorder is characterized by periodic episodes of extreme elation, elevated mood or irritability (also called mania) countered by periodic depressive episodes. "This collaboration brings together the major elements necessary to understand a complex illness such as BPD," said Dr. Watson. "The clinical and ...Shotgun sequencing finds nanoorganisms
...tand how the extremophiles - microbes that live in extreme environments - live together and generate the acid drainage that makes such mines toxic hazards. The green runoff from the mine, captured and treated by the Environmental Protection Agency, is a hot 108 degrees Fahrenheit, as acidic as battery acid, ...Bungee-powered backpack can lighten your load, University of Pennsylvania researcher says
...during running it's three times as large, exerting extreme forces on the joints. The backpack shifts the timing of how force is applied as the wearer takes a step. "Essentially, the bungee cords permit the load to stay at nearly constant height from the ground while the wearer walks or runs around it," Rome...New ergonomic backpack lightens the load
...ning, as when the backpack is not moving, exerting extreme forces on the wearer's shoulders and joints. By using stretchy bungee cords, Rome's ergonomic backpack suspends the load and allows it to stay at a nearly constant height from the ground while the wearer walks or runs. This reduces the vertical disp...Stanford discovery may help predict when toxoplasma can be deadly
...ng' host, the result is a system out of kilter and extreme disease. It's the bull in the china shop." The origins of the more virulent strains of Toxoplasma were first documented in a 2001 Science paper from Boothroyd's group; the researchers found that the recombination of two relatively benign strains of...Microbe fixes nitrogen at a blistering 92 degree Celsius
...rchaea are single-celled organisms that live under extreme environmental conditions, such as the high temperatures and crushing pressures below the seafloor. If heat-loving archaea were the first life on the planet, they would have needed a usable source of nitrogen, Baross says. Known as FS406-22 because o...Study helps explain why botulinum toxin is so deadly
...y processed. Botulinum toxin is the reason for the extreme danger from bulging cans of food. Researchers have been working on the unique nerve-blocking ability of the seven individual botulinum toxins for decades, says botulinum expert Edwin Chapman, UW-Madison professor of physiology and a Howard Hughes Me...Self-assembling nano-ice discovered at UNL -- Structure resembles DNA
...new and often unanticipated behaviors of matter in extreme environments, and those discoveries have been published several times in major international scientific journals. Their findings, though, have been so far ahead of existing technology that their immediate practical impact was essentially nil -- until...Extreme life, marine style highlights 2006 ocean census
...aking discoveries and revelations that stretch the extreme frontiers of marine knowledge were achieved by the...and clams. All somehow tolerate an environment of extreme temperature changes within a few centimeters and high concentrations of heavy metals from the vent f......that the vaquita has always been rare and that its extreme loss of genomic variability occurred over evolutionary time rather than recently owing to human-caused mortality. Instead of those factors, the smoking gun in this instance is accidental mortality in fishing gear, something popularly known as bycatch...