UC Davis study finds high arsenic levels in herbal kelp supplements
...y ofherbal therapies, including a kelp supplement, fish oil, ginkgo biloba andgrape seed extract. The kelp...humanexposure to arsenic from food sources such as fish does occur, it isusually significantly lower than anything approaching toxic levels.How-ever, dietar...Apple consumption during pregnancy reduces risk for childhood wheezing and asthma
...researchers found that children of mothers who ate fish had a lowered incidence of doctor-confirmed eczema. According to the research, "The present study suggests beneficial associations between maternal apple intake during pregnancy and wheeze and asthma at age five years." They add that their findin...Want to monitor climate change? P-p-p-pick up a penguin!
...ual animal behaviour, such as altering patterns of fish and bird migration. However, scientists at the Uni... us something about the availability of particular fish in regions of the Antarctic. We may be able to assess the pressure exerted by king penguins on this ...Bony vertebrate evolution: Elephant sharks closer to humans than teleost fish
...entially during the evolution of human and teleost fish lineages. Interestingly, the human and elephant sh...y and sequence conservation than human and teleost fish (zebrafish and fugu) genomes, even though humans are more closely related to teleost fishes than to ...Cultured fish cell lines and organs such as gills, heart, liver ...being used to investigate the effects of toxins on fish such as freshwater trout and carp in a move to cut down the number of experiments carried out on liv...Something fishy in human blood could save lives
...ng ammonia from the body, this study describes how fish gills are able to excrete ammonia at the molecular level using Rh proteins. This finding, when combined with the presence of Rh proteins in numerous organisms, adds a piece to the evolutionary puzzle, by suggesting that Rh proteins were developed ver...The great escape -- fleeing fish fall in line
...hat during a predator attack it is a case that all fish escape at once in the desperate hurry to escape as...h indicates that this is not the case, and in fact fish in schools escape using a relatively fixed chronological order. This research was carried out at the...Omega-3 fatty acids affect risk of depression, inflammation
...s allow up to two servings each week of cold-water fish the best source of omega-3 such as salmon or tro...e greater about the heavy metal contamination such fish might contain. Omega-3 is also available as nutritional supplements "This study has shown that eve...Ewwwww! UCLA anthropologist studies evolution's disgusting side
... an earthworm," "someone accidentally stick(ing) a fish hook through his finger" and "maggots on a piece of meat in an outdoor garbage pail." But before asking the expecting women to rank how disgusting they found these scenarios, he asked a series of questions designed to determine whether they were e...'Dipstick' test could reduce risk of food poisoning by rapidly detecting spoilage
...sted these polymer biosensors against a variety of fish samples, including fresh salmon, fresh tuna and ca...he specific pathogen present, he notes. Although fish were used in this study, a similar approach can be applied to other foods, including other meats as ...Changing ocean conditions led to decline in Alaska's sea lion population
...an currents determining the abundance of available fish for the sea lions to eat. Changes in prey led to a decline in the sea lion population. Using interdisciplinary research methods was key in determining the root cause of the sea lion decline. The need for such research is echoed in a related repor...20 of world's 162 grouper species threatened with extinction
...he basis of the multimillion-dollar live reef food fish trade based in Hong Kong and comprise one of the m...st valuable groups of commercial fishes in chilled fish markets of the tropics and sub-tropics. Around the world, consumers pay up to $50 per kilogram for g...New species of snapper discovered in Brazil
...lington, Virginia (March 13, 2007) A popular game fish mistaken by scientists for a dog snapper is actual...mangroves. "This discovery that a large, popular fish is a species new to science shows how little we know about the oceans that surround us," Moura said....First new waterborne aquaculture drug in 20 years approved
...inistration (FDA) of the first waterborne drug for fish diseases in more than 20 years. The drug, 35% PER...d recently for use in three diseases of freshwater fish and their eggs that, left untreated, cause significant losses to the $1 billion (2006) U. S. aquacu......interactions. While it's known that some marine fish and invertebrates use night camouflage as an anti-...tuned camouflaged patterning implies strongly that fish predator vision at night is keen as well." Visual predation at night is an unstudied phenomenon in...Tracking sperm whales and jumbo squid
...al movement is that the squid were following small fish and other prey that migrate toward the surface at night and then return to deeper waters during the day. Unlike squid, however, the sperm whales did not alter their diving pattern at night. Instead, they continued to spend about three-fourths of th......ld have large-scale effects on the availability of fish and carbon saturation in oceanic regions. Though the paper covers many of the potential problems associated with the oceans uptake of inorganic carbon dioxide that may arise over the next century, it also provides some insights into what we can do ...Farmed salmon could become an invasive species in forest streams
...n have plummeted and, there is concern that farmed fish may become the next invasive species. "Farmed fish escaping from marine net pens might become an invasive species in British Columbia, Washington or Al...Biology professor helps others go with the flow of dam removal
... and federal managers rid the waters of non-native fish that flourished in the disturbed river below the d...te students, helped the managers remove all of the fish and only return native fish to the restored creek. NAU graduate students worked side by side with st...Fish extinctions alter critical nutrients in water, study shows
...s teased out how the disappearance of a freshwater fish can affect the availability of certain nutrients t...t the base of the food chain, for example, rely on fish to cycle back into the water such nutrients as nitrogen and phosphorus, which are otherwise locked u...