Findings on plummeting salmon populations at 8th World Wilderness Congress
...ar information for Pacific salmon. "We know we are losing Pacific salmon species at an alarming rate, but we've been driving blind in our efforts to save them," said Dr. Xanthippe Augerot, co-director of State of the Salmon. "The Atlas will help remedy the chronic lack of information that's been hampering o...Discovery will aid identification of misregulated genes in Rett Syndrome
...hs of age, when they enter a period of regression, losing speech and motor skills. Most develop repetitive hand movements, irregular breathing patterns, seizures and extreme motor control problems. RTT leaves its victims profoundly disabled, requiring maximum assistance with every aspect of daily living. Th...Anthrax stops body from fighting back, study shows
...onders and they never get there, you're fighting a losing battle." And inhalation anthrax works fast, which is one of the reasons why it is usually fatal, according to the CDC. The disease can be treated with antibiotics, but people often don't seek treatment until it is too late,said Philip C. Hanna, an as...Israeli scientists successfully transplant frozen-thawed ovaries in sheep
... attempt to transplant ovaries in women at risk of losing their fertility. "There is a lot of research still to be done, but we hope that it will not take more than a few years for this to become a practicable option for women, such as young cancer patients, who would otherwise be left infertile after thei...Discovery links blood cell defect to common lung disorder, leads to novel treatment
...ia, blood cells become depleted of SNOs, therefore losing their ability to relax blood vessels. More recent ...ients, red cells become deficient for SNO, thereby losing their capacity to relax blood vessels and boost blood flow, Stamler said. Pressure came down in the ...Gene makes muscles in the obese store more fat
...ic program, which could help explain, in part, why losing weight and maintaining weight loss is so difficult," Muoio said. "The good news is it's possible to change your energy balance through exercise. Exercise can enhance muscle's ability to burn fat," Muoio said. "This discovery also provides a potential...Rett gene regulates alternative splicing
...their development stops and they begin to regress, losing the ability to talk. Then they begin to have problems walking and keeping their balance and develop typical hand-wringing behavior. Often they develop a curvature of the spine, difficulty in interacting with other people and mood disorders, among oth...RSRF-funded research yields novel function for Rett syndrome gene
...hs of age, when they enter a period of regression, losing speech and motor skills. Most develop repetitive hand movements, irregular breathing patterns, seizures and extreme motor control problems. RTT leaves its victims profoundly disabled, requiring maximum assistance with every aspect of daily living. Th...Haplotype map offers new insights into human disease, evolution
...ping costs by almost an order of magnitude without losing much power to detect a true association," says de Bakker, a postdoctoral fellow in Altshuler and Daly's group at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Broad Institute. The widely used tool for tag SNP selection was developed by de Bakker and colleag...Giant ape lived alongside humans
...s appetite for bamboo ultimately placed him at the losing end of the evolutionary scale against his more nimble human competition. Rink's research was funded by Canada's Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council. Rink's discovery coincides with an invitation to join the renowned New York-based Expl...New study to find cause of former President's hand disease
A crippling condition that can result in sufferers losing their fingers is to be investigated by scientists in one of the most detailed studies into the genetic causes of the disease ever carried out. Dupuytren's disease or contracture, a condition that affects the hands and sometimes the feet and penis, oc...Innovative research set to push boundaries of cancer care
...e the protein easier to enter cancer cells without losing its cancer-killing activity. First Human Phase I Trial of Plasmid IL-12 Electro Gene Therapy in Patients with Malignant Melanoma (Abstract 3701) In a bid to turn the human immune system against cancer, researchers have tried a number of different ...Scientists find more evidence of resistance to once effective malaria drugs
...rship, said, "Scientists have known the drugs were losing their effectiveness to varying degrees but we lack... then multiply and spread and the drugs will start losing their effectiveness." "A key to keeping track of resistance is to maintain the research capacity in ...Study: Temperate forests could worsen global warming
...arth because they absorb a lot of sunlight without losing much moisture. In one simulation, the researchers covered much of the northern hemisphere (above 20 latitude) with forests and saw a jump in surface air temperature of more than 6 F. Covering the entire planet's land mass with trees led to a more mod...Hearing loss from chemotherapy underestimated
...lt," said Johnson, a Portland resident who started losing his hearing in 1986, about a year after his chemotherapy treatment for the shoulder tumor ended. "What I don't think the general public understands is that surviving cancer isn't the same as a broken leg. Once the leg is healed, you're pretty much ba...Pollination networks key to ecosystem sustainability
...ion networks in the field. These results show that losing a species affects plantpollinator communities, and that such losses may ultimately trigger further reductions in biodiversity, possibly reverberating through the food chain. With as many as 70% of plant species dependent on animal pollinators and at ...Increasing norepinephrine stabilizes breathing patterns in a mouse model of Rett Syndrome
...hs of age, when they enter a period of regression, losing speech and motor skills. Most develop repetitive hand movements, seizures and extreme motor control problems. Irregular breathing patterns characterized by intermittent breath holding, hyperventilation and air swallowing are a particularly devastatin...Overfishing may drive endangered seabird to rely upon lower quality food
...they're getting a double whammy. Not only are they losing their nesting habitat, they're also experiencing a degraded prey environment." The researchers pointed out that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has recently decided to start the process to remove the marbled murrelet from the Endangered Species li...Report shows deforestation threatens Brazil's Pantanal
...d, with some districts in the Paraguay River Basin losing more than 90 percent of their vegetation. "It is extremely important to conserve the areas surrounding the Pantanal lowlands, because they are the headwaters of the rivers that make up the Pantanal," said Sandro Menezes, manager of CI-Brazil's Pantan......versity of Pittsburgh. "The concern is that we are losing habitat really rapidly globally, especially in tropical areas, and losing pollinators there as well," Knight said. "We show that these areas are sensitive to pollen limitati...