Iraq's marshes show progress toward recovery
...es remain poor, which deters many Marsh Arabs from returning to a traditional way of life. Further research is needed--but is not being done, say Richardson and Hussain--to determine how the marshes and agriculture can share water, to identify sites of toxins, and to study insecticide use by local fishermen....Epstein-Barr virus might kick-start multiple sclerosis
...such as lupus. Mnz predicted that Edwards, who is returning to Duke University this summer to complete her medical degree, could help bridge the gap between the research worlds of infectious diseases and autoimmune diseases. "It's an exciting new field to which Nancy could greatly contribute," he said. Whatev...New groundbreaking findings in taste, smell and chemical irritation
...st of their lives in the open ocean feeding before returning to their birth-streams to reproduce. While it's been known for decades that salmon recognize home-streams using their sense of smell, the identity of the odors has been a mystery. It is now thought that bile acids, digestive chemicals released by riv...Next phase reached in definition of Mars Sample Return mission
...nce of landing, operating, launching from Mars and returning back to Earth. The technology developments required to enable a MSR mission are also to some extent common to future lunar exploration missions. ESA recognises the importance of this mission in the frame of the European Aurora Programme, and is now ...Losartan prevents life-threatening insulin resistance in burn injuries
...ly reversed the insulin resistance of burn injury, returning it back to normal levels," Kasper said the study found. Burn-injured rats that did not receive the losartan showed a 124% increase in insulin resistance while burn-injured rats that received the treatment showed no evidence of insulin resistance. "Th...3D ultrasound device poised to advance minimally invasive surgery
...sue, Smith explained. The sensors then pick up the returning echoes and relay them back to the scanner where they produce an image of the moving tissue or organ. The scanner uses parallel processing to listen to echoes of each pulse in 16 directions at once. The laparoscopic ultrasound probes have so far been ...Taking a bite out of a fellow worker helps wasps recruit new foragers
...insects to their nests. A day later, all foragers returning to a nest were removed for at least two hours and until none arrived for at least one hour of continuous monitoring. "The rate of foraging slowed down and stopped completely, placing stress on the colony because materials the colony needs, primarily...Internationally renowned expert discusses growth, development, biological differences in boys/girls
...University, where he served for nine years, before returning to Stanford....Troubling times for embryo gene tests
...ldren's Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati, for returning the wrong results of a fetal genetic test to diagnose trisomy 22, a genetic defect that causes severe mental and physical retardation. Their son, Matthew, was born with the condition in 1997. Surprisingly, there is no American organisation that track...Internationally renowned expert discusses growth, development and biological gender differences
...University, where he served for nine years, before returning to Stanford....Leave it to salmon to leave no stone unturned
...his does replace some of the nutrients that salmon returning from the sea would normally provide, it entirely ignores the fact that live salmon play a diverse suite of roles in streams, including helping to disperse those nutrients."...Carnegie Mellon scientists show brain uses optimal code for sound
...ing leaves and wind rustling through leaves before returning to the laboratory to de-code the information contained in this rich set of sounds. They also discovered what they consider the most "natural" sound: if they play back a random set of spikes, it sounds like running water. "We're very excited about thi......Fish larvae remain at sea for several weeks before returning to the reef to settle and join adult populations. What goes on during this time in the plankton is largely unknown. "What we found is that warm summer waters here are conducive to rapid larval growth, but other factors sometimes interfere, leading to...Pittsburgh researchers discover that certain chemicals in the blood may indicate brain injury
...imize re-injury to infants by preventing them from returning to an unsafe environment. This also can help protect siblings who may be living in the same violent environment." The study involved 98 infants who presented to Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh's Emergency Department with one of the following sympto...Typhoid fever led to the fall of Athens
...t common in developing countries and in travellers returning from these countries. Corresponding author Dr Manolis J Papagrigorakis of the University of Athens says: "Studying the historical aspects of infectious diseases can be a powerful tool for several disciplines to learn from. We believe this report to b...Researchers know what you were about to say; fMRI used to detect memory storage and retrieval
...pus helps sort through the storage bins of memory, returning the brain to its state at the time of the initial experience. Polyn believes that the knowledge of how the brain uses its memories could be applied to designing more detailed models of memory, which could help treat brain disorders such as Alzheimer...Tsunami + 1 year: Reviving exhausted fisheries should trump replacing boats, gear, experts say
...n is that these conditions cannot be met by simply returning fishing capacity to the pre-tsunami state, allowing stocks to continue on their downward spiral and condemning fishers to become even more vulnerable," WorldFish says. "Yet there is a very real risk that this will happen if our rehabilitation respo...Post-Katrina: Lead in disturbed soil may pose heightened health risk
...trina and could pose a heightened health threat to returning residents, particularly children, according to a new study published in the American Chemical Society's journal Environmental Science & Technology . In some soil samples collected from the area, lead levels were as much as two-thirds higher than wha......ourg, Switzerland, he first went to the USA before returning to Gttingen, where he obtained his habilitation in...ecturer, obtaining her Habilitation in 2003. Since returning from a research fellowship at Harvard University in 2004 she has been a lecturer at the University o...Russian River coho recovery project seeing first hopeful signs of success
...conditions. Surveys of prime coho streams found no returning spawners several years in a row. Throughout its entire California range, coho numbers have dropped to between 6 percent and 15 percent of their abundance during the 1940s. In 2001 CDFG biologists captured about 200 juvenile coho from Russian River t...