Solutions to stop fishermen returning dead and dying marine animals back into sea - study
...ould exceed the fishers' catch quota. Almost one million tonnes in weight and many millions of pounds worth...th Sea discards could potentially support over six million seabirds. The team is calling for fisheries management authorities to restrict access to certain are...NIH funds rare childhood disease to provide insights into the origins of adult cancer
...'s Hospital (SCH) to announce the awarding of a $1 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to expand research into a rare blood disease called Diamond Blackfan anemia (DBA), which researchers have found to be associated with an increased risk of cancer and a high rate of birth defects. The five-y...Humans and dolphins: If brain size is a measure, we're not that different
...d in dolphins and their relatives over the past 47 million years, and how these species evolved in relation t... cetacean brain size relative to body size over 47 million years," says Rich Lane, program director in NSF's division of earth sciences, which funded the resea...Genetically endowed worm may substitute for rodents in some toxicology testing
... large a rat study. "It can cost a company $10 million and it may have to go through 100,000 rats over a ...f weeks to maybe a month." Freedman has a $2.4 million three-year contract with the National Toxicology Program (NTP) to evaluate the feasibility of such a...Military hazards are greater for Native Americans, according to sociological research
...rrently estimated to contaminate between 20 and 50 million acres of formerly used defense installations throughout the country. Comparing U.S. Army Corps of Engineer rankings of the hazards posed by each closed site to the proximity and acreage of Native American-owned lands in each location, the study found...Paratek Pharmaceuticals presents multiple sclerosis data at Society for Neuroscience annual meeting
...tiple sclerosis (MS). Affecting approximately two million people worldwide, MS is a chronic, inflammatory condition of the nervous system and the most common, non-traumatic, neurological disease in young adults. Dr. David McKenney, a Paratek scientist, will present the findings during an oral presentation ...Darwin's greatest challenge tackled: the mystery of eye evolution
...ill resembles early ancestors that lived up to 600 million years ago. Arendt had seen pictures of this worm's brain taken by researcher Adriaan Dorresteijn (University of Mainz, Germany). "When I saw these pictures, I noticed that the shape of the cells in the worm's brain resembled the rods and cones in the...UCLA and Univ. of Utah researchers identify how a hormone regulates iron
...atosis, a major genetic disorder affecting about a million people in the United States. "For the first time we understand what happens in the disease hemochromatosis," said Dr. Tomas Ganz, Ph.D., M.D., one of the study's principal investigators and professor of medicine and pathology at the David Geffen Scho...Reed biology professor receives $227,500 for E. coli research
...hia coli (EPEC), responsible for an estimated 1 million infant diarrheal deaths in the developing world each year. Mellies' research team will continue studying how the master regulator protein LER controls the disease process on the molecular level. The long-term goal of the laboratory is to use this kn...ASU gets grant to develop high speed DNA sequence reader
...ion to complete in 2002. Today, it costs up to $50 million to sequence 3 billion base pairs. That may soon c... the National Institutes of Health, awarded a $1.7 million grant to a team of researchers led by Peter Williams, professor of chemistry and biochemistry at Ari...Diabetic damage to eyes, heart, nerves, kidneys may be explained by controversial theory
... American Diabetes Association estimates that 18.2 million Americans have diabetes. Diabetes' links to heart attack and stroke make it the sixth leading cause of death, and it is the leading cause of new cases of blindness among adults 20-74 years old. Diabetic nerve damage is a major contributor to non-trau...Hurricane damage creates pecan shortage
...s," he said. Georgia, which normally produces 120 million pounds of pecans annually, lost an estimated 50 percent of its already reduced pecan crop. Alabama, which took a direct hit from Hurricane Ivan, lost 80 percent of its total crop. Damage to the pecan trees include pecans blown prematurely from the li...Stress impairs thinking via mania-linked enzyme
...s, as occurs in bipolar disoder, which affects two million Americans. Abnormalities in the cascade of events that trigger PKC have also been implicated in schizophrenia. Amy Arnsten, Ph.D. and Shari Birnbaum, Ph.D. of Yale University, and Husseini Manji, M.D., of NIMH, and colleagues, report on their discov...Fat buildup found in hearts of obese or diabetic heart failure patients
...rgets for treating heart failure, which afflicts 5 million U.S. patients annually. Researchers examined 27 failing hearts that were removed during transplants and compared them to eight donor hearts that were not failing but were otherwise unsuitable for transplant. Eight of the failing hearts (30 percent...Gene found to defend against environmental pollutants and pulmonary emphysema
...lmonary disease (COPD), which affects more than 16 million Americans and is the fourth highest cause of death in United States. COPD, the only disease among the top 10 causes of death with a rising incidence rate in the United States, is predicted to reach worldwide epidemic proportions. Tirumalai Rangasamy...UGA scientist Moran receives $2.6 million from Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation for marine research
...n Moran has been awarded a grant of more than $2.6 million by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to continue her research on marine bacteria that are important in the cycling of carbon and sulfur in the coastal ocean. Moran, a professor in UGA's marine sciences ...Gene that blocks free radical damage protects against emphysema
...structive lung disease, which affects more than 16 million Americans and is the fourth highest cause of death in the United States. This disease is primarily cigarette smoke induced, but oxidative stress, a harmful condition that occurs when there is an excess of free radicals, has recently been alleged to p...Electronic records to improve care for children with asthma
Yale University has received a $1.2 million three-year grant from the United States Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research for the ERICCA Project (Electronic Records to Improve Care for Children with Asthma). Funding will help Yale and a group of community partners implement a shared ele......ver Formation of the upper most Miocene, about 6.5 million years ago. "It is an understudied period," Barbour Wood said. She is also interested in other time periods, but is collecting this one to make sure it is represented in the literature. "I want to compare the Eastover to other time periods to see how ......o and colleagues reported finding thousands of 600 million year old embryo microfossils in the Neoproterozoic... the tubes," Xiao said. "These organisms lived 600 million years ago before big animals. This the very first moment of animal evolution preserved in the fossi...