Equine Medical Center records successful year for neonatal foals
...lizes in providing neonatal intensive care for the fragile baby horses that have entered the world a bit too soon. "It's been quite a successful year," said Martin Furr, the Adelaide C. Riggs Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and the clinical faculty member who coordinates the center's neonatal car...Patient's generosity after death leads to possible clues for lung disease
... purposes, and because of surgical risks and their fragile health, some may not get a biopsy at all." But thanks to warm autopsy donors, tissue studied soon after death can be compared to tissue collected at biopsy usually years earlier. Preliminary analysis has revealed some promising paths for further res...Bedsores and bald hides: Novel roles revealed for a 'scaffolding' protein
...icle die too soon, which results in a thin coat of fragile hair, a condition resembling alopecia or thinning, balding hair. That the hair is fragile is not surprising given that K17 is a keratin protein, known to provide structure and strength, says...Global warming may have damaged coral reefs forever
...ted sites. Reduced biodiversity results in a more fragile and less stable ecosystem. Smaller fish have reduced in number more quickly than larger species but their decreased availability has started to have a more lasting effect on the food chain, and this effect is likely to be amplified as time goes on. ...NAU researchers chirping over discovery of new cricket genus
...osystems are one of the most poorly understood and fragile ecosystems," Wynne added. "The discovery of a new cricket genus from a northwestern Arizona cave emphasizes how little is known about these ecosystems." Cave ecosystems are poorly understood because they are a relatively new avenue of scientific inq...Diverse sea 'bugs' revealed on landmark Atlantic cruise to census zooplankton
...on the gooiest, stickiest, and most transparently fragile animals of the sea which are usually destroyed by net sampling. Special sampling brought up comb jellies, jellyfish, and their meters-long chain-forming relatives in good enough shape to be identified and DNA sequenced. Also captured were over 12...Tiny polyps gorge themselves to survive coral bleaching
...d, if not destroyed, large portions of the world's fragile coral reefs. Scientists point to global warming as the cause and the victims are some of the tiniest creatures near the base of the undersea ecosystem. Despite the apparent sturdiness of coral reefs, the creatures themselves are quite fragile. These...Invasive species harms native hardwoods by killing soil fungus
...e possibility is that invasive species may disrupt fragile ecological relationships that evolved over millions of years." Stinson and her colleagues found that garlic mustard targets arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), which form mutually beneficial relationships with many forest trees. These fungi have long...Mars challenge is protecting humans from long space travel and heavy metal ion bombardment
...quivalent of a 100-year-old person," he said. Such fragile bones could fractures, which would be a most unwelcome challenge. "Another that's less well-known," he said, "is that in deep space there are more highly energetic particles that are ions of metals heavier than iron. On Earth, the only place we see s...Frogs ear canal may provide insights for understanding human hearing loss
... ear canal not only protects A. tormotus' thin and fragile eardrum from the environment, but also lessens the distance between the eardrum and the inner ear, thus allowing the bones of the middle ear to be shorter, and as a result, lighter in weight. Scientists have known for several years that A. tormotus m...Scientists discover reason behind ear canal in Chinese frog: Ultrasonic communication
...ear canal not only protects A. tormotus's thin and fragile eardrum from the environment but also lessens the distance between the eardrum and the inner ear, thus allowing the bones of the middle ear to be shorter, and as a result, lighter in weight. Researchers have known for several years that A. tormotus ...Report finds cruise industry is protecting the precious places it visits
...ough cruise tourism has the potential to overwhelm fragile destinations if not managed effectively, the industry is also a great potential ally for conservation, because many cruise passengers are attracted by the opportunity to experience new places and cultures," stated Russell Mittermeier, president of CI......leen whales and be a significant detriment to that fragile and interconnected polar ecosystem, and that doesn't bode well for other ocean ecosystems in the future. That's the word from University of Miami Rosenstiel School's Dr. Sharon Smith who will speak on "Potentially Dramatic Changes in the Pelagic Ecos...Chromosome rearrangements not as random as believed
...are prone to protrude from the DNA double helix in fragile structures called hairpins and cruciforms," said Hiroki Kurahashi, M.D., Ph.D., corresponding author of the paper. "The hairpins and cruciforms are weak points where the DNA can break and rearrange with DNA from other chromosomes." Chromosome 22 also...CU, USDA team to curb two invasive, poisonous vines
... in forests and fields, threatening reforestation, fragile butterfly populations and bird habitats. The vines are pale and black swallow-wort, and to find a biological control to stem the growth of and their steady conquest of local ecosystems in the northern United States and Canada, Cornell University is t...Expedition discovers marine treasures
...ankers in the area around the submerged atoll. The fragile ecosystems of Saba Bank get damaged by anchors and chains of ships that wait at the atoll to avoid anchoring fees in territorial waters of St. Eustatius. The large ships also endanger local fishermen of Saba in their small boats, forcing them away fr...Stable polymer nanotubes may have a biotech future
...ort in biochemical applications, but are typically fragile and usually collapse within a few hours. The NIST team developed processes for extending the shelf life of polymer nanotubes--considered essential for commercial applications--and forming sturdy nanotube network structures. First the researchers made...Some good news for the world's poor
...starvation but also saved thousands of hectares of fragile natural habitats from falling under the plow to cr... food. Millions of hectares of forests and other fragile ecosystems would have been lost. Between 1.5 and 2 percent more children would have been malnourish...Scientists fetch useful information from dog genome publications
...tially fracture within ancient 'hot spots.' These fragile 'hot spots' contain an unusual number of guanine and cytosine DNA bases and appear to suffer higher rates of mutation." SINEs of genetic diversity Another study appearing in the dog genome section of Genome Research highlights an important sour...UCR environmental scientists propose chemical solution to cleaning California's Salton Sea
...small charged particles become attached and form a fragile structure, called a floc) and enhance salt removal. Used in wastewater treatment, it enhances coagulation and settling. The polymer acts as a coagulant aid by chemically bridging reactive groups and increasing floc size....