Conventional plowing is 'skinning our agricultural fields'
... fields, also preserve the soil but are more labor intensive and so are not practical on a large scale, Montgom...No-till farming can build soil fertility even with intensive farming methods, he said, and it could prove to be a major benefit in a warming climate. By stirring...Satellite tracking reveals threats to Borneo pygmy elephants
...eed to survive are the same forests where the most intensive logging in Sabah has taken place, because 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 ...Developing a more effective vaccine for tuberculosis
...nts and adults suffer from. Therefore, there is an intensive research effort designed to develop new, more efficient vaccines that protect all individuals from tuberculosis. In a study that appears in the August issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Steven Porcelli and colleagues from the Albert Ei...JCI table of contents: August 1, 2007
...nts and adults suffer from. Therefore, there is an intensive research effort designed to develop new, more efficient vaccines that protect all individuals from tuberculosis. In a study that appears in the August issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Steven Porcelli and colleagues from the Albert Ei...Aggressive therapy best for certain AML patients
...ologous stem cell transplant, with a few receiving intensive chemotherapy. Of the 24 patients with the mutation, 22 had a complete remission. Of those, 13 relapsed within 1.4 years, but nine (41 percent) remained in remission when the study ended, with disease-free periods ranging from two to almost eight y...2007 EURYI: 20 young researchers to receive Nobel Prize-sized awards for breakthrough ideas
...h excellence. Competition this year has been as intensive as ever, with 474 applications received. The EURYI Awards scheme was developed by the European Heads of Research Councils (EuroHORCS), in collaboration with the European Science Foundation (ESF), to attract outstanding young researchers from anywher...Investigating antibiotic use in acute care patients
...ase prevention is critical in patients admitted to intensive care. However there is currently a major bottlenec...in collaboration with clinical microbiologists and intensive care specialists at Westmead Hospital. ...Parents seeking sex abandon 1 in 3 offspring
...t, roughly a third, are abandoned by both. In an intensive battle of the sexes, male penduline tits often fle...f Biology & Biochemistry. Our findings reveal an intensive conflict between males and females over care that has affected the behavioural evolution of this spe...Gene expression pattern could lead to improved treatment of pediatric septic shock
...em despite todays potent antibiotics and pediatric intensive care units. Consistent with Cincinnati Childrens increased emphasis on personalized and predictive medicine where diagnosis and treatment coincide with a person's genetic predisposition the study involves the largest gene expression analysis to ...Ethnicity plays a role in neonatal deaths
... mortality and morbidity (disease) in the neonatal intensive care units (NICU). Of grave concern is the noted elevation in mortality rate in the NICU among infants of South Asian (East Indian) origin, which is over three times that of Caucasian infants. It was also found that Aboriginal males and East Asian fe......ntenance (IM) treatment strategies, in which brief intensive therapy is used to reduce host viral levels, which is then followed by a simplified and more easily tolerated maintenance regimen. IM approaches remain an unproven concept in HIV therapy. In a study publishing July 13, 2007 in PLoS Computational Bi...Small molecules may explain psoriasis
...common chronic inflammatory skin diseases. Despite intensive research, not enough is yet known about underlying disease mechanisms, which hampers the development of effective drugs. ...Nearly 90 percent of babies receive recommended newborn screening tests
... 29 core conditions. As a result of four years of intensive advocacy efforts by March of Dimes chapters and their partners, that percentage has increased to 87.5, or about 3.6 million babies. While this important expansion of newborn screening is very good news for families, the lives of 500,000 newborns w...Chickens also orient themselves by the Earth's magnetic field
...nd one of four screens, and taught the chickens by intensive training that the mother was always behind the screen that was in the northerly direction. To demonstrate that the chicken senses this compass point by means of its magnetic sense of direction, the researchers set up an artificial magnetic field in a...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- June 27/July 3, 2007
...e plastics from canola oil Biomacromolecules An intensive world-wide effort to develop technology for manufacturing plastics from vegetable oil, rather then petroleum, has led researchers in Canada to a process for making polyurethane (PUR) plastic sheets from canola oil. In a study scheduled for publicatio...University of Pittsburgh researchers culture blood-forming stem cells from human fat tissue
...onstituting the bone marrow of patients undergoing intensive radiation therapy for blood cancers. They are presenting this ground-breaking research at the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS) North American Chapter meeting being held June 13 to 16 at the Westin Harbor Cas...Human activities increasing carbon sequestration in forests
...en produced by automobile engines, factories, and intensive agriculture is often a key, limiting nutrient in forests and other ecosystems. Early forest growth puts a severe nitrogen stress on the ecosystem initially, and then the forest continues to grow and remove carbon from the atmosphere for the rest o...ESA's water mission instrument passes test program
.... The engineers and scientists involved in this intensive testing programme are extremely pleased with the results and the MIRAS instrument is now in the process of being packed up for delivery to Thales Alenia Space (formerly Alcatel Alenia Space) in Cannes, where it will be joined with the PROTEUS platfor...Enzyme delivered in smaller package protects cells from radiation damage
...onvention & Trade Center, Seattle. Combined with intensive chemotherapy, high dose whole-body irradiation often is given to patients with blood and lymphatic cancers to wipe out their bone marrow cells prior to subsequent transplantation of hematopoietic stem cells, bone marrow stem cells or peripheral blood...Small-scale agricultural changes may help eradicate widespread disease
... through 1995, the Chinese government sponsored an intensive praziquantel and niclosamide campaign aimed at dra...irrigation ditches with concrete, researchers used intensive niclosamide treatments as a way to simulate the effectiveness of concrete walls. The pesticide ult...