From lobster flock to lobster feast?
...t for commercial culture due to its high value and limited availability from wild capture, mostly using traps. Each year, 3 to 4 million pounds of Florida spiny lobsters valued at about $17 million are harvested and account for 11% of the spiny lobsters on the U.S. market. Overfishing of lobster has also led...Pall prion removal technology presented to FDA blood products advisory committee
...no longer afford to view vCJD as a disease that is limited to a few countries but must seriously consider new and better approaches to prevent this devastating problem from escalating here," added Dr. Cervia. "Combined filtration of leukocytes and prions is a cost efficient approach to mitigate potential exp...Highlights of chemical society national meeting in San Diego, March 13-17
...nd the difficulty of making them synthetically has limited their supply and slowed their development. Now, researchers at Stanford University are trying to engineer certain bacteria to overproduce these drug products. The development could lead to increased commercial yields and faster drug development to co...NIH should take decisive steps to promote independence, originality
...ons across all NIH institutes, and it would not be limited to in-house candidates or previous fellowship recipients. On the whole, it would help new investigators jump-start their careers and encourage them to propose novel ideas. The report also recommends the removal of a major barrier to new investigato...South America's vast pantanal wetland may become next everglades, UNU experts warn
...ior to the 1970s, the traditional stakeholders had limited impact on the resources they used and did not have the means to induce major environmental changes, such as altering the flood pulse by building dams or changing water quality by increasing the sediment load in rivers." "As economic development proc...American Society for Microbiology to host 105th General Meeting in Atlanta
... be registered to attend sessions; registration is limited to a maximum of three individuals from a single outlet. Please note that videotaping in session rooms is not allowed....Student work in human subjects protection sought for FDA conference at UH
... in the UH College of Pharmacy. "We intentionally limited the poster session to students so that they have the opportunity to showcase their work to a group of senior researchers. We want to highlight and encourage work in this field and are interested in any work students are doing or have done in the are...Fewer fish discarded after individual transferable quotas offered
...otas, the total allowable catch is divided among a limited number of boats with each quota holder receiving a specific proportion of the total catch. Quota holders then decide how and when to fish, and whether to buy additional quotas or lease or sell their quotas. Such a system was implemented in British C...Researchers add new tool to tumor-treatment arsenal
...ned with possible severe side effects, has greatly limited their broader use." These factors, says Dr. Thomas, have probably contributed to recent reports of the under-dosing of patients and the failure to blunt the disease. When cancer cells are treated with a DNA-damaging agent, a cancer-suppressing gene...Vital step in cellular migration described by UCSD medical researchers
...ell in one place. Until now, researchers have had limited understanding of the molecular mechanism that inhibits Rac activity in the back of the cell, to maintain directional movement. In laboratory experiments with human and animal cells, the UCSD team discovered that the alpha4 integrin recruits enzymes ...Muscle-targeted gene therapy reverses rare muscular dystrophy in mice
...compared to those in which gene expression was not limited to muscle, they found. Moreover, intravenous administration of the muscle-targeted gene reduced the glycogen content of heart and skeletal muscle and corrected individual muscle fibers. The effect persisted for 24 weeks post-injection, the team repor...Urine helps infectious yeast stick
...d perhaps other host environments, there is such a limited amount of niacin that these genes are turned on, allowing the organism to stick to host cells." The new study builds on the lab's discovery in 1999 that C. glabrata sticks to cells that line mucosal tissues and blood vessels thanks to the products of...Chemical compounds present in diet increase risk of colon cancer
... widespread in the environment. Their use has been limited and safety measures for them tightened in the last few years due to their toxic effects in the body. Some of them such as DDT, which was formerly used as an insecticide, have even been prohibited. In spite of that, the organochlorines are persistent ...New miniaturised chip dramatically reduces time taken for DNA analysis
...ing the genetic code of an organism. DNA chips are limited to a certain extent because of some very specific analytical problems, such as establishing the source of microbial contamination quickly and efficiently. The new miniaturised electrochemical genosensors meet the current need for DNA to be analysed a...Statins, other cholesterol depletors, may disrupt hypertension development: UCSD study
...ath in two to eight years, Patel noted. Because of limited understanding of the cellular and molecular determinants of the disease process, current therapy is limited and aimed towards symptomatic relief. He said two factors that contribute to the disease are depende...Society of Nuclear Medicine offers program to meet patients' current, future needs for radionuclides
...arch are either available only sporadically and in limited quantities or not available at all. New radionuclide production for diagnostic and therapeutic uses is not being developed, as the national radioisotope infrastructure is chronically underfunded at the Department of Energy (DOE). The program suggests...For sardine and anchovy, El Nio events do not always have the same effects
...dustrial-scale anchovy fishing, which was strictly limited by quotas and the obligation to practise beyond 5 nautical miles (about 9 km) from the coast ( 4 ). Adult anchovy have therefore adapted to the changes in the environmental conditions, by extending their period of reproduction and staggering their eg...JCI table of contents May 1, 2005
...all and colleagues from the NIH demonstrate that a limited exposure to either IL-7 or IL-15 protein at the time of immunization dramatically enhances immune cell responses. This work provides a compelling basis for use of IL-7 in vaccines to improve the immune response in situations where current vaccines a...U. of Colorado study shows early Earth atmosphere hydrogen-rich, favorable to life
...t is today," said Pavlov. "We show the escape was limited considerably back then by low temperatures in the upper atmosphere and the supply of energy from the sun." Despite somewhat higher ultraviolet radiation levels from the sun in Earth's infancy, the escape rate of hydrogen would have remained low, Tia...Human kidney protein found that regulates heart contraction and blood pressure
...idney disease (ESRD), for which treatment is often limited to dialysis. Elevated blood pressure and cardiovascular disease are commonly associated problems. Renalase is secreted by the kidneys and circulates freely in the bloodstream. Patients with kidney disease have very low levels of renalase, suggesting ...