Studying substitute animals will not save endangered species
The reasons behind endangerment of one species cannot easily be applied to another, UC Davis conservation biologists warn in a new study. In the December issue of the journal Conservation Biology, professors Tim Caro, John Eadie and Andrew Sih examine the common...Creativity determines sexual success, research suggests
... University's School of Biology, suggested two key reasons for the findings. He said: "Creative people are often considered to be very attractive and get lots of attention as a result. They tend to be charismatic and produce art and poetry that grabs people's interest. "It could also be that very creative ty...Removing egg from nest may help save endangered whooping crane
...s we present in our paper." Boyce suggests several reasons why a chick might survive when an egg is removed from a nest. Sibling aggression has been so strong that some chicks have been observed pecking the later-born bird to death. Also, a pair of chicks is more likely to attract the attention of a predator...Restricting diet may reverse early-stage Parkinson's disease
...ying to protect the system somehow. And one of the reasons dietary restriction is protective may be that it's reducing the activity of particular synapses. That's actually what the data indicates." Matching the upturn in glutamate levels with positive behavioral changes is difficult at this point in the rese...Researchers discover new form of cancer gene regulation
... regulation of the GLI1 gene, for many cancers the reasons for excessive GLI1 protein are not known. The protein levels and activity of GLI1 are likely regulated at levels other than the gene," Iannaccone said. The form of regulation the researchers discovered occurs after the gene makes messenger RNA, the ...Resetting epigenetic code could aid lupus patients
...us symptoms. The new research may help explain the reasons why the treatments work. Without treatment, he said, these mice have an accelerated autoimmune disorder that produces a host of symptoms from arthritis and enlarged spleens to failing kidneys. Half are dead in 24 weeks, primarily of kidney failure. C...Gene expression profile helps predict chemotherapy response in ovarian cancer patients
...e and which will not, and to better understand the reasons for this." Cannistra's group has been working to develop a genetic profile of ovarian cancer that will enable clinicians to more accurately determine a patient's prognosis. As a first step in this process, he and his colleagues last year identified a...An existing diuretic may suppress seizures in newborns
...ies finding that adults taking diuretics for other reasons are less likely to have seizures. Jensen's group has begun discussions about launching a clinical trial of bumetanide in newborns. Although the drug is FDA-approved and has been used in newborns for other indications, a number of safety questions wil...Throwaway society? Truth is, we really care about getting rid of things
... do so, and because we cannot think of good enough reasons to eject them. "This is just as much a problem for many households as the frustrations of the chuck-replace cycle now widespread with goods such as kettles, irons and toasters." The report found that often it is children who force their mothers to d...Conference to set deer-vehicle crash research agenda
...le crash and countermeasures research. "One of the reasons for the center is that we've been implementing countermeasures throughout the United States for decades and don't know whether most of them even work," he says. "In many cases, we don't have very good data to define the significance and location of t...Humble yeast sheds light on promising anti-cancer drug
... these transport proteins in tumours is one of the reasons that anti-cancer drugs such as chemotherapy medicines fail against cancer," says Professor Hogg. "The reason that GSAO is effective is that it targets tumours indirectly by attacking the endothelial cells that lack this transport protein. So GSAO is...Faulty cell cycle checkpoints linked to lung cancer risk in African-Americans
...anced research techniques to look at the molecular reasons for these disparities," Zheng said. "The value of such research is that it can provide new tools for risk calculation." According to a 2002 report by the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER), the incidence of lung cancer in African-Amer...Preventing fetal exposure to popular acne drug
...sequently became pregnant and to identify possible reasons for failure in preventing conception. Led by Julia Robertson of the Birth Defects and Genetics Program at the Utah Department of Health in Salt Lake City, researchers surveyed 34 women who had called a member service of the Organization of Teratolog...Russian 'surrogate' alcohols are a killer
..."During the past decade we have been investigating reasons for the very high death rate among Russians," said Martin McKee, professor of European public health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. "We have been looking in detail at men in Izhevsk, a city in central Russia. While we confir...GSA should stand for 'going strong again' for the UC Department of Geology as always
...o more species in the world as a whole), there are reasons to believe that this might not always (or even typically) be the case. If, for example, species or genera become more widespread (cosmopolitan) in their environmental and geographic distributions at the same time that alpha diversity increases, then ...Highlights from the October Journal of the American Dietetic Asociation
...d they did not eat soy foods, the two most popular reasons were "I don't know how to prepare or cook them" and "I dislike their taste." Other reasons included "I don't believe they are healthier for me than other foods" and "They are difficult to fin...Nocturnal dialysis improves heart disease in patients with end-stage kidney failure
...oups of patients cross-matched for age, gender and reasons for dialysis: 12 conventional dialysis patients, 10 nocturnal hemodialysis patients and 10 healthy patients who do not need dialysis. The four key outcome measures included: Numbers of EPCs circulating in the blood stream; migration function of thes...First report of cancer drug Gleevec as new target therapy for pulmonary hypertension
...The relatively common condition can occur for many reasons such as heart disease and various acute and chronic lung ailments. As a result, the pulmonary arteries thicken and stiffen, causing high blood pressure and right heart hypertrophy. In a translational research approach, taking their research "from be...Sept/Oct 2005 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...ound patients complaining of fever and other visit reasons consistent with primary HIV infection, regardless of risk factors, had a disease prevalence of 0.66 percent, those with rash had a prevalence of 0.5 percent, and those with pharyngitis had a prevalence of 0.16 percent. The author asserts that these ...Experts develop global action plan to save amphibians facing extinction
...ilar level of threat, and one in four mammals. The reasons are varied and all relate to the impact of humans on Earth habitat loss, pollution, over-harvesting of species, and climate change. They often act in combination to exacerbate the declines. In addition, a new and serious threat is a chytrid fungal ...