Report finds cruise industry is protecting the precious places it visits
...ourism, while maintaining the natural and cultural integrity of cruise destinations. "As cruise lines expand their ports-of-call, it is important to not only identify the environmental challenges facing the tourism industry, but to also highlight the sustainable practices that are being employed in these desti...The Amazon in 2050: Implementing the law could save a million square kilometers of rainforest
...ntrol frontier expansion and insure the ecological integrity of the basin. Within the governance scenario, protected areas (parks and reserves) are expanded to 41 percent of the region's forests (as currently planned by the Brazilian government), protected areas are fully enforced, and only 50 percent of the f...Asleep or awake we retain memory
...as learning, and its success depends mainly on the integrity of the striatum and the related motor regions. Compared with the first scan, the cerebral activity during the second and third scan of the auditory attention task was systematically modified by the kind of learning experience that took place between ...APS lecturer shows rare video of 'teacher-student' immune cell interactions in live animal
...Andrian was originally interested in microvascular integrity in the brain. But during a fellowship early in his career, he discovered his interest in the immune system, and made it his life's work. Rare footage highlights presentation A live mouse's T cells and dendritic cells are the stars of the von Andria...Top federal officials to speak at 20-21 April AAAS policy forum
...lu and other global health threats; protecting the integrity of science; use of science and technology to help ...and an afternoon plenary session on protecting the integrity of science with Felice Levine, executive director of the American Educational Research Association; ...Americans love competition, but is it pushing our scientists too far?
...h. -- Serious scientific misconduct that calls the integrity of science into question is only uncovered and rep...e behaviors they regard as most threatening to the integrity of their work. These common problems fall into four categories: the meaning of data the rules of ...Blood pressure medication may revolutionize treatment of Marfan syndrome
...imself, began to call into question the structural integrity of their understanding of the syndrome. One question in particular gnawed at Dietz: How could a disease with such a complicated phenotype - overgrowth of bones, thickened mitral valves, craniofacial deformities, lung abnormalities - only be explained...Diverse tropical forests defy metabolic ecology models
...ic change, with still unknown implications for the integrity of their tremendous carbon stores.......the WRN protein normally works to maintain genomic integrity could lead to new forms of treatment for cancer and age-related pathologies. "One reason we are particularly interested in WRN is because Werner's syndrome is unusual among premature-aging diseases, in that children are born normal and show no sign...New research demonstrates bone-marrow derived stem cells can reverse genetic kidney disease
...old" for cells, thereby maintaining the structural integrity of many tissues. "In normal kidneys, a specialized form of extracellular matrix known as the glomerular basement membrane [GBM], composed primarily of type IV collagen, is the key component of the blood filtration apparatus," says Kalluri. However, ...Bioportfolio: Life-long persistence of erythrovirus DNA genomes in human tissue
...ts. Furthermore, in light of the previously shown integrity and full-length coding potential of the persistent macromolecular viral DNA genomes, the Bioportfolio might provide the desired long-term permanence for gene therapy vectors, which in the future could be designed in accordance with this innate charac...American and Dutch experts to discuss risk of catastrophic levee failure in California
... at Stanford. "In California, the issue of levee integrity and safety is particularly acute," he added. "The 1,600 miles of aging levees in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta are part of a unique, valued and vulnerable ecosystem. Two-thirds of Californians get some part of their drinking water from the delta, ...A tiny protein plays a big role in DNA repair
...ing its physical structure. In most cases, genomic integrity is restored by specialized suites of proteins dedicated to repairing specific types of injuries. One mending mechanism, called nucleotide excision repair (NER), recruits and coordinates the services of roughly 25 proteins to recognize and remove str...Imbalance may trigger advance from fatty liver to liver failure
...constituents of cell membranes undermines membrane integrity and influences progression to the condition known ...as well and leakage results." The loss of membrane integrity damages the cell, leading to the inflammatory response characteristic of NASH, they found. NASH affe...Bedsores and bald hides: Novel roles revealed for a 'scaffolding' protein
...nfluence wound healing and maintain the structural integrity of hair follicles, according to Johns Hopkins researchers. The wound-healing work, published in the May 18 issue of Nature, sheds light on how the body repairs wounds and may have implications for preventing or treating chronic wounds such as pressur...Brazil creates buffer zone around coral reefs off Atlantic coast
... "The buffer zone will guarantee the biodiversity integrity in the Park and ensure that local communities can continue carrying out their means of livelihood through traditional fishing and eco-tourism activities," said Guilherme Dutra, director of CI-Brazil for the marine program. The Abrolhos region, locat...Researchers identify protein associated with severe preeclampsia
...ys an important role in maintaining the health and integrity of the vascular system. "Our further investigations revealed that the extracellular region of the endoglin protein is shed into maternal circulation," explains Karumanchi. "We discovered that this shed form -- referred to as 'soluble endoglin' was c...Diabetes research takes wing thanks to long-lived fruit fly
...y cranks up the anti-oxidants, helping to keep the integrity of genes and proteins intact in the same way people hope substances like vitamins C and E might, few had considered that simply boosting the amount of JNK could have such a broad impact on life span. Then, in another surprise, Jasper and Bohmann show...Rangeland repair enters phase 2
...cies responsible for maintaining the environmental integrity of the land, he said. "We've already got a pretty extensive standard operating procedure already put together in draft form with a lot of recommendations from what we have already done," he said. "We will be adding more specific recommendations. "U...Septum keeps neurons in synch, can reduce epileptic seizures by 90 percent
...eptal impulses may help to maintain the anatomical integrity of other brain structures. Neurons talk The brain's neurons are constantly chatting with each other through electrical impulses but it's a chatter that has to be kept in check, or it can snowball into an electrical storm that marks an epileptic sei...