Mass vaccination unnecessary in the event of a large bioterrorist US smallpox attack
...e secretary of Health and Human Services wanted to settle such issues regarding smallpox containment once and for all, and this was our charge." While the researchers did find that mass vaccination would slightly reduce the number of deaths from smallpox, they also found that the rate of severe illness and ...News tips from the Journal of Neuroscience
...s controversial. This week, Ackman et al. tried to settle the issue by combining two methods for assessing the generation of new neurons. The authors injected the cerebral cortex of postnatal rats with a green fluorescent protein (GFP)- tagged retrovirus that only integrates into the genome of dividing cell...Mixing exploitation and conservation: A recipe for disaster
...ce that dredging disturbs the silt cockles like to settle in, as well as their feeding conditions, which in turn reduces their quality as a food resource. Based on prey quality and densities, van Gils et al. predicted the energy intake rate for knots with an average-size gizzard at each site (all sites w...Scrap tires can be used to filter wastewater
...at upon backwashing the particles, the larger ones settle at a greater rate than the smaller. The Penn State researcher explains that this causes the top of the filter bed to hold the smallest medium particles and the bottom to hold the largest with the small medium particles or top layer of the filter ten...With fruit fly sex, researchers find mind-body connection
...ntrol courtship and receptivity. McKeown wanted to settle the debate. McKeown suspected that multiple genes shape behavior and that doublesex played a role. But experimenting with doublesex is difficult. When both copies of the gene are removed a powerful way to test gene function flies have the physica...Squid-inspired design could mean better handling of underwater vehicles
...out to resolve the trade off that many researchers settle for, which is a faster, but less precise, vehicle or a boxier one that is not as fast and more difficult to transport to work locations." Manned and unmanned underwater vehicles enable scientific researchers to explore ecosystems around the globe,...The secret women keep from themselves
...almost every area of their lives, too many of them settle for mediocre sex. Dr. Clayton, who is one of t...n women of all ages and orientation are willing to settle for mediocre sex; How a woman's attitude toward motherhood can upset her biological and psychologic......rm of the protein, more research will be needed to settle the debate, he adds. A Broken Path to Nerve Cell Diseases? Earlier research showed beta spectrin makes red blood cells flexible so they don't burst, and that people with a beta spectrin mutation suffer a form of anemia. The Utah biologists sho...UCSB study on sibling detection mechanism highlighted in Nature
... sexual desire, say the authors. It also helps to settle a long-running debate in anthropology about whether family relationships are socially created purely by culture, or whether evolved mechanisms in the brain play a role. The results of the study could also have implications for health care professio...Investigating the trochus 'El Dorado'
...produce microscopic larvae that disperse and later settle to become juveniles, they tend to attribute the control of fish populations to other factors, including supernatural forces," he says. While these beliefs remain and the pressure to harvest continues, Dr. Foale argues that these gaps in knowledge i...Robotic cameras join search for 'Holy Grail of bird-watching'
...e photographic evidence of the woodpecker, it will settle a debate that has become heated in recent years and fascinated millions of people around the world, from bird-watchers and environmentalists to Arkansas farmers and duck hunters. In the meantime, the new robotic video system provides detailed video...Paper challenges 1491 Amazonian population theories
..." Bush doesn't expect that his new findings will settle the debate, however. "There's just too much passion on this issue. People who are inclined tobelieve what we're talking about will say this is very strong evidence,and say 'let's have more.' The archaeologists will say this study onlyexamines two d...Transport interrupted -- Texas A&M biologists trace cause of early blindness to tissue defect
...ential therapies. But at the very least, it helped settle the controversy of why photoreceptors are failing and why people go blind. Knowing the right cell type to target is half the battle, and were saying its the RPE, not the photoreceptor, and that the functional gene can potentially be added back to the...Why do oysters choose to live where they could be eaten?
...n by cannibalistic adults, oyster larvae choose to settle in areas of high oyster concentrations to take adv...out to find: (1) if oyster larvae are attracted to settle on oyster reefs among adults of the same species because of the potential benefits to group-living, ......patches. We knew that pied flycatchers prefer to settle near tits, and to patches with tits rather than without, Forsman said. These cavity-nesting birds share the same predation risk, along with much of their other breeding ecology, and they have been shown to compete with each other. If patch and microh...