Innovations needed to monitor kidney health
...ronic kidney disease (CKD) is an increasing health threat in Europe. Presently already 12 % of population suffers from some degree of CKD. The most immediate challenge is to better understand the connection between CKD, diabetes and cardiovascular risks. The risk of sudden death in cardiovascular causes i...Most extensive survey ever of world's tropical forests shows upward trend in sustainable management
...ntries to do so." Tropical forests have been under threat for several decades. Currently, some 12 million hectares of tropical forests are cleared every year to make way for agriculture, pastures and other non-forest uses, with many more hectares degraded by unsustainable/illegal logging and other poor land...... normal social networks may fail at predicting the threat and propagation of diseases like a pandemic flu. Researchers in Germany have now devised a model of social networks that takes into account the fact that we are likely to sever ties to infected people and add ties to uninfected people to reduce our r...UGA study reveals a new way of looking at vaccine development
...e sugars so that body recognizes the bacteria as a threat and mounts a defense. "What you'd really like is to control either the broadness of the immune response so that you can take one vaccine and protect against multiple strains of the bacteria," said Woods, lead author of the study and associate profes...Himalayan forests disappearing
...ees in more remote regions, while the more serious threat is deforestation by villagers, they suggest. These "miscalculations" in land-use decisions could have severe repercussions. "More than 80 per cent of proposed hydro-projects in India are located in the Himalaya," says Pandit. "Diversion of forest lan...Five Spanish hospitals in international phase III trial with H5N1 influenza pandemic vaccine
...the scientific community are mobilised to face the threat of a possible pandemic provoked by avian influenza. Whereas there is no need to alarm the population, we must design tools in order to fight influenza in case it develops. According to historical data and to the high genetic variability of influenza ...American and Dutch experts to discuss risk of catastrophic levee failure in California
...three-part series on the Sacramento Valley's flood threat in 2004. The Shah Family Fund, named for Professor Emeritus Haresh Shah, former chair of the Stanford Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, was established in 1995. It provides annual fellowships for students in civil engineering, an ann...Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute sign agreement...
... compelling need for new ways to tackle the global threat of infectious diseases. It also represents what we see as a highly innovative framework for new partnerships in the public health arena." He added: "By signing this agreement, we are creating an enabling environment that allows VBI's strengths in com...Biodesign Institute participates in first-of-its-kind 'coyote' disaster preparedness drill
... During one scenario, an explosive and bioterror threat was discovered within the sprawling, General Dynamics site. All GD employees were evacuated and Scottsdale police, SWAT, K9 and other early responder teams activated and deployed. The 161st Air National Guard, using specially equipped Black Hawk heli...Computers to save unique type of American red squirrel
... red squirrel population. Here, the reds' biggest threat is the introduced grey squirrel, which out-competes them for food and transfers a deadly virus. In the US, the new computer model, which mimics population dynamics in response to different threats, will help evaluate and refocus existing efforts to ...Coral reef resilience: Better feeders survive bleaching
...ion to overfishing. Scientists say the biggest new threat is global warming. Because corals are highly sensitive to temperature, even small amounts of warming can trigger bleaching. When water temperatures rise, coral expel single-celled algae called zooxanthellae, which live inside coral tissue and give co...Tiny polyps gorge themselves to survive coral bleaching
...s that Montipora's resilience doesn't diminish the threat that bleaching events hold for the world's coral reefs. While it might survive while other species may not, on a global scale it is unlikely to re-colonize areas where less-resilient species died. "Recent projections suggest that with the current ra...Invasive species harms native hardwoods by killing soil fungus
...habitat caused by human activity is the number one threat to biodiversity, there is great concern over the impact of accidental and intentional dispersal of alien invasive species across the globe," says Kristina A. Stinson, a plant population biologist at the Harvard Forest, Harvard's ecology and conservat...Penn professor to present research on radiation-induced cancer on 20th anniversary of Chernobyl
...ose that are occurring now." Chernobyl is still a threat to this day. The lead and steel sarcophagus initially built around the Number Four Reactor has decayed. A replacement structure is in the planning stages. This replacement will take four-five years to assemble, cost over $800 million and be the large...Global warming capable of sparking mass species extinctions
...ling and even surpassing deforestation as the main threat to biodiversity. The study expands on a much-debated 2004 paper published in the journal Nature that suggested a quarter of the world's species would be committed to extinction by 2050 as a result of global warming. This latest study picks up wher...Nature's strongest glue could be used as a medical adhesive
...d produces no human toxins, C. crescentus poses no threat to human health. Engineer L. Ben Freund wrote the model used to perform complex mathematical analyses of experimental forces. Peter Tsang and Guanglai Li of Brown University performed experiments and analyzed data. The research was funded by grants f...People prefer belonging to groups in which members can punish freeloaders
...sapprove of those who pollute the environment, the threat of informal forms of punishment such as social exc...uring the later rounds of the game, apparently the threat of punishment induced cooperative behavior, the authors say. The new Science study should spur res...Monkey-dung study offers clues about land-use, wildlife ecology
... disturbed areas and may represent an unrecognized threat for the conservation and management of various habitats." Gillespie, who also holds appointments in the anthropology department and the Program in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Illinois, and Chapman, also a researcher for the Wildlife Conservat...Albatross study shows regional differences in ocean contamination
...e Pacific," Finkelstein said. The biggest current threat to albatross populations in the North Pacific is the longline fishing industry, which kills significant numbers of both black-footed and Laysan albatrosses. But the contaminants measured in this study may also take a toll. Comparable levels of these ......eighted nets across the bottom to be the greatest threat to cold-water corals. Now, however, a new study published in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment suggests that human activities could be threatening cold water reefs in another way. Lead researcher John Guinotte, a marine biogeographer at Marin...