ESA calls for federal leadership to control invasive species
...e West Nile virus, harmful, non-native species are spreading into U.S. lands and waters at an accelerating pace. Their damage to economic activity, ecosystems, and human welfare is accumulating. Without an improved national strategy based on science, these invasive species will cause increasing damage to the...Ocean 'dead zones' trigger sex changes in fish, posing extinction threat
...g the coasts of the major continents, and they are spreading over larger areas of the sea floor, Wu says. The United Nations Environmental Programme estimates nearly 150 permanent and recurring dead zones exist worldwide, including 43 in U.S. coastal waters. In the Gulf of Mexico, for instance, a dead zone th...Study shows drug blocks breast cancer migration to bone
...to block RANKL's activity may prevent cancers from spreading into the bone. Roughly 120 years ago, scientists predicted that bone tissue might manufacture certain molecules that entice cancer cells to lodge there. More people die of metastases -- secondary tumours that develop elsewhere in the body -- than fro...Duke to test bird flu vaccine dosing
...e is no risk of volunteers contracting bird flu or spreading it to others," Walter said. The vaccine is designed to protect against the H5N1 strain of bird flu that has infected poultry in Asia, Europe and Africa and killed 101 humans. Initial trials in healthy adults showed the vaccine was safe and produced ...Single cell amoeba increases MRSA numbers 1000- fold
...persed by air currents, providing another means of spreading any trapped bacteria. "We need more research into the role of amoeba in the spread of MRSA hospitals should aim to eradicate amoebae as well as the bacteria themselves" said Prof Brown of the Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, University of Ba...Sexual competition stimulates premature and repeated ejaculation in a mammal
...bing females' re-mating behavior and increasing or spreading the transfer of sperm. In the new work, researchers show that elevating the perceived risk that male house mice will encounter sexual competition causes them to adjust key aspects of their copulatory behavior. When a sexual competitor was present, ma...International scientists to present MRSA research in Liverpool
...ent people from carrying it in the first place and spreading it to others. Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a term used to describe examples of the bacterium that are resistant to many of the most commonly used antibiotics. Until recently these strains were mostly found in hospitals and ...From climate dynamics to educational research...
...ow made it possible to study processes such as the spreading of aerosols over long periods of time and at great distances. The use of HALO will put German atmospheric research at the leading edge of international atmospheric research. (Coordinator: Prof. Jost Heintzenberg, Institute for Tropospheric Research (...Sludge recycling sends antiseptic soap ingredient to agriculture
...ycling nutrients contained in biosolids, we end up spreading a known reproductive toxicant on the soil where we grow our food. The study shows just how important it is to consider the full life cycle of the chemicals we manufacture for use in our daily life." Halden's previous research determined that tricloca...Can senile amyloidosis spread from mother to offspring?
.... These fibrils were first seen in the intestines, spreading later to liver, spleen and other organs. Interestingly, when mice born to injected mothers were nursed by control mothers (no fibrils injected), only one of nine pups had amyloid fibrils at 6 months. However, pups born to control mothers but nursed ...A step toward halting Alzheimer's: Using FDDNP PET to detect disease progression, MCI
...athology (or the nature of the disease) as well as spreading of pathology within the brain of the same person as the disease worsens over time," added the co-author of "Detection of MCI-AD and Control-MCI Conversions in Alzheimer's Disease Patients With [F-18]FDDNP PET." Alzheimer's is the most common form of...Research links protein to breast-cancer migration
...ial to offer alternative therapies to stop cancers spreading to other organs in the body." News of the scientific breakthrough comes as the University announced Breast Cancer Campaign funding for two other research projects worth nearly 300,000. Dr. Andrew Gilmore, also in the Faculty of Life Sciences, has bee...Three million babies born using assisted reproductive technologies
...her document the fact that the technique of IVF is spreading rapidly around the world, not only in Europe, but everywhere, although there are still inequalities in availability and efficacy between countries. ART is being used increasingly in India and China and we look forward to them contributing data in the...NIH selects Pittsburgh institute as leader for HIV/AIDS prevention efforts
...for their partners. "The global HIV epidemic is spreading among women and young girls at an alarming rate," said Dr. Nicholas Hellmann, acting director of HIV, TB and reproductive health programs at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. "By accelerating the development of new prevention methods such as micro...Prion find points way to test for human 'mad cow' disease
...JD is, and keep contaminated blood and organs from spreading it further." Creating such a test is a high priority for Soto, who is also director of UTMB's George and Cynthia Mitchell Center for Alzheimer's Disease. "We're now working with natural samples, both from humans and cattle but mostly from humans," ...Fundacin BBVA and IDIBAPS reassess the intermittent treatment efficiency against malaria
...his treatment has as a prophylactic to prevent the spreading of malaria were already demonstrated on a small scale in Tanzania, with a study that demonstrated that the intermittent treatment with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine administered with the collaboration of the WHO's vaccination programme, improved survival...Gene breakthrough heralds better prospect for malaria solution
... is maternally transmitted, this has the effect of spreading the infection through the insect population. Researchers around the world have secured millions in research funding to help develop malaria control strategies that use genetically modified Wolbachia that would spread through mosquito populations an...UGA study explains peaks and troughs of dengue epidemics
... is allowing the species primarily responsible for spreading dengue (Aedes aegypti, also known as the yellow fever mosquito) to expand its range. Population growth in developing nations is pushing more people into substandard housing in mosquito-infested areas. And the ease of travel brings the virus to areas ...New hope for Hepatitis C research
...interferon stimulates PKR to try to stop the virus spreading throughout the body." HCV replicates at a very high rate approximately one trillion viral particles are produced each day in aninfected person. Professor Williams' research will provide a better understanding of how this replicationoccurs and how ......cer Research. Since secondary tumors, ignited by spreading malignant cells, and not the primary breast cancer...t the woman's treatment so that it will target the spreading cancer early, said Winfried H. Albert, Ph.D., chief scientific officer of AdnaGen, the German biotec...