North Atlantic right whales headed toward extinction
...nsion point suitable for whales. The agencies will supply this rope free to fishermen and are instituting mandatory requirements for breakaway gear. Efforts are also under way to reduce vertical lines from buoys on the surface to lobster pots on the sea floor by consolidating many pots on one line....MIT engineers an anti-cancer smart bomb
...giogenesis," the theory that cutting off the blood supply can starve tumors to death. That strategy can back...angiogenesis--dropping the bombs while cutting the supply lines. But combination therapy confronted an inherent engineering problem. "You can't deliver chemot...Scientists discover global pattern of big fish diversity in open oceans
...o of different species is a key to maintaining our supply of fish in the long term and the ability of these ...temperature gradients that serve to aggregate food supply such as zooplankton and small fish. "The peak in big fish diversity is at middle temperatures," says...Parasites trigger healthy eating in caterpillars
...terpillar's tissue, using it as an ever-fresh live supply of food. When the fly larvae have eventually consumed and killed their host, they pupate and develop into adult flies. But in the case of the tiger moth, co-evolution between parasite and host has resulted in an arms race involving chemical weapons....Insulin spares intensive care patients from organ failure and death
...thelial dysfunction which causes inadequate oxygen supply to the cellular systems. The endothelium controls vascular flow and trafficking of important biological molecules. The endothelium of patients with prolonged critical illness is protected by strict blood glucose control with insulin and this may pl...JCI Table of contents August 1, 2005
...thelial dysfunction which causes inadequate oxygen supply to the cellular systems. The endothelium controls vascular flow and trafficking of important biological molecules. The endothelium of patients with prolonged critical illness is protected by strict blood glucose control with insulin and this may pl...Report recommends renewed focus on food and agriculture research
...2005 Despite the ever-present threats to the food supply posed by disease, spoilage and the specter of agro... Microorganisms continue to cause harm to the food supply beyond the farm, causing spoilage and, in some cases poisoning and disease. Additionally, the globa...Quantum cascade lasers key to handheld gas and liquid sensors
Terrorists have just laced the water supply of a major metropolis with a chemical so lethal that only small amounts are needed to kill thousands of people. But the chemical never reaches its targets. Tiny liquid phase sensors at strategic points in the city's water mains detect the chemical as...Nitrogen in the air feeds the oceans
...ha source of new nitrogen that rivals the vertical supply of nitrate." Capone said that his project, begun in 1994, has yielded "the mostrobust estimate" of the scale of nitrogen fixation. "It's providing a rigorous assessment of how quantitativelyimportant this process is," he said. The study, published re...... number of different crop plants that collectively supply two-third's of humanity's food supply. "This study revealed thousands of genetic markers or signposts in the rice genome that are of immediate use to plant breeders and others working to improve rice agriculture," says Dr. W. Richard McCombie of Col...Coyotes in the suburbs, bears in the backyard
...their presence and management. Their findings will supply public input and identify educational needs for the state's wildlife managers and policy makers. It will also be of interest to many other regions in North America that are also struggling to deal with rapidly expanding human and wildlife population...Key process in gene regulation occurs in blood platelets, Univeristy of Utah researchers find
...atening disease, such as blocking of arteries that supply the heart; when blood has too few platelets and clotting is impaired, hemorrhaging can occur. Blood platelets are formed in bone marrow when a parent cell, a megakaryocyte, sends out arm-like extensions called proplatelets. Platelets bud off from the...Stem cells bring fast direct improvement, without differentiation, in acute renal failure
...orm of ARF is caused by ischemia, or loss of blood supply to the kidneys caused by shock, blood infection or major cardiovascular surgery, particularly in such high- risk patients as those with diabetes, underlying renal disease, and the elderly. In the kidneys, such "insults" lead to destruction of kidney ...Researchers make 'embryonic-like' stem cells from umbilical cord blood
...earch. Until now, experts have struggled to find a supply of cells in sufficient numbers that does not offen...lls are able to expand faster, giving us a greater supply to work with," Dr Forraz said. "This system provides more cells for more tests, so we have the poten...Past droughts geographically widespread in the West, according to tree-ring data
...versity of Arizona researchers conclude that water supply for those western rivers fluctuated in synchrony d...nting the project's results into operational water supply decision-making. Hirschboeck said the study's findings offered some revelations for the Laboratory o...Crisis in African fish supplies looms, experts warn Africa leaders
...an countries face a major challenge to ensure fish supply to the estimated 200 million mainly poor people re...ns that simply maintaining today's per capita fish supply in sub-Saharan Africa (6.6 kg/year) requires a 20% increase in production within 10 years and a 32% ...K-State eye researchers focus on stopping spread of damaged eye cells
...trying to communicate, normally cells have a blood supply to send nutrients from one cell to the other. For ...t causing damage to the retina. "There is no blood supply that's common in the eye," she said. "The eye and the brain are what we call a blood-brain barrier o...First production of human monoclonal antibodies in chicken eggs published in Nature Biotechnology
...interest to an industry coping with the commercial supply of an ever increasing number of therapeutic antibodies." "We believe the chicken system is an attractive one for therapeutic protein production compared to either plant systems or to other transgenic animal systems," said Robert Kay, Ph.D., Origen Th...'Mad cow' proteins successfully detected in blood
...we need to make sure that beef and the human blood supply are safe, and we need early diagnosis so that when scientists develop a therapy we can intervene before clinical symptoms appear--by then, it's too late."...High doses of vitamin E boost rat survival rate 40%; brain function, neuromuscular gains
... transfer rates and limited respiration and energy supply are the basis of the mitochondrial dysfunction in aging and that mitochondrial dysfunction is the pacemaker of the decline in neurological performances which has a determinant role in survival." Further studies are needed to find the threshold for...