The last wild hunt -- Deep-sea fisheries scrape bottom of the sea
...ng." Ecosystem Impacts Ancient deep-sea corals suffer collateral damage from bottom trawlers. "In some places skippers have replaced their nets with chains, to take out the corals so they don't tear the nets. Then they go back and scoop up the fish," says Murray Roberts of the Scottish Association for M...Folate and B12 may influence cognition in seniors
...o undetected, causing people with the condition to suffer neuropsychiatric consequences. But in our study, the people with low vitamin B12 who also had high serum folate were more likely to exhibit anemia and cognitive impairment than subjects with low vitamin B12 status and normal serum folate. So although...Surprising airbag hazards among research findings at hearing safety conference
...to car airbag deployment in the United States will suffer some permanent hearing loss. Price will also describe research that concludes, counterintuitively, that having car windows rolled up when airbags are deployed is actually less hazardous to the ear than rolled-down windows. Previously experts thought ...Woven scaffolds could improve cartilage repair
...urrently have a satisfactory remedy for people who suffer a cartilage-damaging injury," Guilak said. "There is a real need for a new approach to treating these injuries. One of the beauties of this system is that since the cells are from the same patients, there are no worries of adverse immune responses or...Researchers discover master metabolism regulator with profound effect on fat metabolism
...ies that is lacking in an essential amino acid may suffer from stunted growth, developmental disorders, or e...lth of millions of children all over the world who suffer from amino acid deprivation associated with protein malnutrition."...Man-made proteins could be more useful than real ones
...effective pharmaceuticals, protein drugs generally suffer from storage and stability problems outside the body and from degradation inside the body. -peptides may be more stable than traditional protein drugs and would not be recognized by the proteases that destroy proteins in the cell." Schepartz said t...Researchers earn $200,000 prize for filtering arsenic from water wells
...ter that contains toxic levels of arsenic. Victims suffer skin lesions, cancer and even death. WHO calls the phenomenon the "largest mass poisoning of a population in history." "Cupful by cupful, the people of Bangladesh and other developing countries are being poisoned by drinking water from tube wells,"...Stanford-led study closes in on genes that may predispose some people to severe depression
...logical traumas. Some 10 to 15 percent of people suffer from severe depression at some point in their lives, and 3 to 5 percent have it more than once. Women are twice as likely to develop depression as men, although the reason is not yet known. "We don't think depression is entirely genetic, by any mea...JCI table of contents: Feb. 1, 2007
...P2 stop mice getting fat Obese individuals often suffer from the metabolic syndrome, which is a combination of medical disorders that increase an individual's risk for cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. Deregulation of a protein known as mTOR (which is a nutrient sensor that when activated increa...Rats on a road trip reveal pollution-heart disease risk
... bus or car or cycling to work were more likely to suffer a heart attack within one hour of their morning commute. Rochester researchers placed aged hypertensive rats in a mobile laboratory for six hours on Interstate 90 in western New York for a total of 320 miles. The rats inhaled aerosols that any moto...Huddling and a drop in metabolism allow penguins to survive the South Pole cold
...es. This depression explains why the birds neither suffer from hyperthermia despite the very high ambient temperatures within the huddle, nor become hypothermic due to the harsh cold....Low-pathogenic forms of bird flu do cause illness among birds
... avian influenza. Wild birds were thought not to suffer from mild forms of avian influenza. But new data s...st Jan van Gils from NIOO, "Infected swans clearly suffer from their mild disease. The late departure from the wintering grounds could lead to late arrival in......rst, and that people with a beta spectrin mutation suffer a form of anemia. The Utah biologists showed in nematode worms ? frequently used as genetic stand-ins for humans ? that loss of beta spectrin leaves neurons (nerve cells) prone to breakage. They found the microscopic protein acts like a tiny Slinky...The time it takes to reassemble the world
...rstanding the mechanisms that fail in patients who suffer from this disorder....Families do not cause anorexia nervosa
...g anorexia. In fact, they are often devastated and suffer from the consequences of this illness." Anorexia nervosa is a serious and potentially lethal illness, with a mortality rate greater than 10 percent. It is characterized by the relentless pursuit of thinness, emaciation and the obsessive fear of gai...2nd annual Albert Szent-Gyrgyi Prize for Progress in Cancer Research awarded to Webster K. Cavenee
...significant long-term impact on those patients who suffer from cancer around the world. That is the real prize," said Dr. Cavenee. "The support of the National Foundation for Cancer Research over the years both for this Prize and for basic cancer research has been a vital part of many significant researc...Training breathing muscles improves swimming muscles' performance
...pe of training also may be useful for patients who suffer from respiratory stress....JCI table of contents: January 2, 2007
...mans with a mutation in the gene encoding ARH (who suffer from autosomal recessive hypercholesterolemia) are...th mutations in their genes encoding the LDLR (who suffer from familial hypercholesterolemia) are not. In an accompanying commentary, Robert Mahley and Yado...Tweaking the treatment for restless legs
... studies. "Ultimately, there is hope for those who suffer from restless leg syndrome," Richard said. "But until theres an effective drug we can use long term without interruption, for many patients hope lies in a merry-go-round of medications, not a single drug. Patients and physicians must be braced for th...Cluster of journals publish findings on dangerous parasite, Toxoplasma gondii
...une systems, but on rare occasions, healthy people suffer serious eye and central nervous system problems from toxoplasmosis. Their babies can have birth defects. White said toxoplasmosis also may be linked to some cases of schizophrenia and bipolar disease. It can kill livestock and has devastated efforts ...