Tracking sperm whales and jumbo squid
...es find their food above water, and may be seen by man in the act of feeding, the spermaceti whale obtains his whole food in unknown zones below the surface; and only by inference is it that any one can tell of what, precisely, that food consists." The sperm whale remains a challenging research subject...Winner of Tyler Environmental Prize announced
...ttinga can be characterized as a modest and honest man giving highest priority to the quality of life of the billions of poor people on this planet who are deprived of clean drinking water and sanitation." Compared to energy-intensive traditional processes, anaerobic treatment actually produces energy...International Astronautical Federation joins project to protect World Heritage sites
...enefited humanity. Paying tribute to the first man in space in 1961, Briggs quoted Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarins first words spoken there: "I see Earth. Its so beautiful. Indeed, observing Earth from space has truly revolutionised the way we view our home planet. With their unique global perspectiv...Ewwwww! UCLA anthropologist studies evolution's disgusting side
...tomach-turning scenarios, including "a 30-year-old man who seeks sexual relationships with 80-year-old women," "walking barefoot on concrete and step(ping) on an earthworm," "someone accidentally stick(ing) a fish hook through his finger" and "maggots on a piece of meat in an outdoor garbage pail." Bu...Think herbal supplements are safe? Think again, book by Saint Louis University doctor says
...e patient for four or five years, and asked if the man was dealing with any new health problems. The patient mentioned that he was scheduled to go in for cystoscopy in a couple weeks because there had been blood in his urine. The procedure involves inserting the pencil-thin tip of a probe through the u...Could USA presidential DNA trail reveal Middle-Eastern origins?
...Oman, Somalia and Iraq. Its closest match was in a man from Egypt. Could this mean that the President had recent ancestry in the Middle East? A careful survey revealed a few K2 chromosomes in France, Spain and England. Together, the K2s form a diverse group that may, in fact, have been in western Europe ...Obtaining valid consent for doing large genetic studies in developing countries
...iu KH, Wong EHC, Liu KH, Chan JYS, et al. (2007) A man with labile blood pressure. PLoS Med 4(4): e111. PLEASE ADD THE LINK TO THE PUBLISHED ARTICLE IN ONLINEVERSIONS OF YOUR REPORT: http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pmed.0040111 PRESS-ONLY PREVIEW ...Corals -- More complex than you?
...w many of the genes involved in innate immunity in man are present in coral and just how similar they are." The significance of this may lie in the fact that scientists now suspect coral is facing a number of pandemics: black band, white plague, white pox white syndrome and white band are the names of...Testosterone may help men with multiple sclerosis
...t no therapies were administered. After that, each man applied 10 grams of a gel containing 100 milligrams of testosterone to his upper arms once daily for 12 months. "After a year we saw an improvement in cognitive performance and a slowing of brain deterioration, said Voskuhl. During the first nine m...Revelle family endows UC San Diego chair honoring Roger Revelle
...Revelle stated that the burning of fossil fuels by man is measurably increasing the atmospheric carbon dioxide, and that this increase would act, like the glass in a greenhouse, to raise the temperature of the lower air. In 1977, he chaired the National Academy of Sciences Energy and Climate Panel that...Cord blood may preserve insulin levels in children with type 1 diabetes
... isolated from cord blood into making insulin. The man asked UF researchers whether giving a patient his or her own cord blood could have a similarly positive effect. We thought this was a very reasonable question and would be a safe approach as long as we refrained from using chemotherapy, radiation t......lates human semen and seems to determine whether a man will be fertile, according to a new study. Yous... to analyze MIF levels to help determine whether a man will have problems conceiving. About 15 percent of couples attempting to get pregnant for the first ...Cloning the male genome may help infertile men
...ent with that shown in cloned animals. Where the man in a couple has problems making any significant level of sperm, doctors are often confronted with the challenge of retrieving a single viable sperm to inject into each egg. Such a sperm is therefore precious to couples wishing to conceive, said Prof...Male or female factor infertility -- men suffer just the same
...sculating, she says, and it is thought that if the man is the source of the couples failure to conceive he is likely to suffer more emotionally than if the problem lies with the woman. However, she says, most studies have focused on men shortly after their infertility was diagnosed, and few have looked......r issues associated with longer life expectancy in man and his best friend is an increase in the incidence of cancer. Even though they cannot talk it seems dogs might be able to tell us why and how certain cancers develop. In turn that could lead to better treatments for both canine and human cancer pati......BARGOED TO 17 JULY 10:00AM EASTERN DAYLIGHT -- The man history will honor as the father of a green revolution that transformed agriculture in many developing countries in the 1960s has been awarded the highest civilian honor the United States of America can give. The Congressional Gold Medal is reserved ...