New study finds malaria could play key role in mother-to-child transmission of HIV in pregnancy
...s between what are arguably the two biggest health threats facing the continent today." Below are descriptions of other MIM presentations investigating issues related to HIV and malaria co-infection: Modest Mulenga of the Tropical Diseases Research Centre in Zambia will discuss a study on the use of inter...Surprise! Computer scientists model the exclamation point
...at is not in message form. These include potential threats or opportunities. Individuals clearly develop mechanisms by which they devote attention to certain stimuli, while ignoring others, in the flood of information that they receive from their senses. As Itti and Baldi write, "efficient and rapid attentio......e short-list for organisms thought to be potential threats for bioterrorism," said Professor Andrew Lloyd, from the Inflammatory Diseases Research Unit at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). "Loss of the vaccine, Q-Vax, would be a serious drawback for public safety. "Without it, we will be leaving our...Overfishing in inland waters reduces biodiversity and threatens health
...and their fish species should be of broad concern, threats to freshwater fisheries and associated biodiversity have received scant attention from conservation groups and the media, according to author J. David Allan of the University of Michigan and his colleagues. Allan and colleagues refer to the relative ...Satellites in support of World Heritage
...rain and global warming are just some of the major threats to these sites. This is why, in June 2003, ESA and UNESCO decided to come together to call upon international space agencies to join the 'Open Initiative' aimed at helping developing countries improve the conservation of their World Heritage sites by...Yale environment dean wins book award for nonfiction
...rgent action to address global-scale environmental threats or face an era of unprecedented environmental decline. "Time is running out," said Speth, former chair of the Council on Environmental Quality in the Carter Administration and founder of the World Resources Institute. "We are on the verge of reaping ...Research shows Europeans prefer environmentally-friendly seafood
...re quite or very concerned. Knowledge of specific threats to the ocean environment is also high, with 71% of professionals aware of overfishing and more than half of consumers acknowledging bycatch and overfishing. "Seafood retailers like ASDA and others involved in buying and selling unsustainable seafood ...Penicillin, amoxicillin: Step aside for strep throat treatment
...uture attacks, providing the boss immunity against threats that once were formidable. The new results are an extension of a report last year in Pediatrics by Pichichero and Casey, who is clinical associate professor of pediatrics at Golisano Children's Hospital at Strong. There they reported the waning effec...Overfishing may drive endangered seabird to rely upon lower quality food
...rs argue that such a move would be premature. "The threats that have caused marbled murrelets to decline throughout their range have not been remedied," said Beissinger. "Coastal old growth forests will require 50 to100 years of restoration, and prey resources haven't recovered from the sardine fisheries col...UCF, NIH study: Effective, safe anthrax vaccine can be grown in tobacco plants
...f vaccine for anthrax, one of the top bioterrorism threats facing the United States. The new production method also could help the government and health care providers avoid supply shortages, as one acre of plants can produce 360 million doses in a year. "Anthrax vaccine is very much in need, primarily becau...DOE Joint Genome Institute issues new call for large-scale sequencing proposals
...lack Sigatoka--regarded as one of the most serious threats to world banana production. Petrolisthes cinctipes, the porcelain crab, whose heat and cold tolerance will help inform climate change research....Getting an evolutionary handle on life after reproduction
...history of guppies confronting different predatory threats in Trinidad. Individuals facing different mortality threats should evolve different adaptations in their life histories, such as age at first reproduction, inve...Report shows deforestation threatens Brazil's Pantanal
...ture, cattle grazing and coal mining are the major threats to the Paraguay River Basin, a significant hydrographical drainage of the South American continent. Titled "Estimated Loss of Natural Area in the High Paraguay River Basin and the Brazilian Pantanal," the report produced by the Pantanal Program of CI...Climate change drives widespread amphibian extinctions
...t be integrated if we are to understand and reduce threats to species extinctions." But the message goes beyond amphibians, says Scheiner: global warming and the accompanying emergence of infectious diseases are a real and immediate threat to biodiversity and a growing challenge for humankind. The decline of...WHSRN announces three new international sites
...atory shorebirds that face environmental and other threats to their survival. During the migration season, these birds depend on finding food and shelter at each country where they stop along the way. Yet, shorebirds, which are among the most migratory of all species, are in trouble. More than one-fourth o...Bird flu poses threat to international security, Illinois scholar says
...international terrorism, but not at the expense of threats such as avian influenza," Palmore said. "For this reason the threat to human life -- worldwide -- must be prioritized and resources allocated accordingly. By strengthening the surveillance and detection of avian influenza the public health organizati...Argonne researchers contribute 1000th structure
...sing defenses to fight disease and other perceived threats to cell death. Thrombospondins are a family of extracellular glycoproteins that regulate cellular behavior during tissue genesis and repair such as wound healing. These functions are mediated by its interaction with a proteins and proteoglycans in t...Global effort needed to anticipate and prevent potential misuse of advances in life sciences
...ity should broaden its awareness that bioterrorism threats now include, for example, new approaches for manipulating or killing a host organism or for producing synthetic micro-organisms, the report says. "U.S. national biodefense programs currently focus on a relatively small number of specific agents or t...Report lists top 20 most-vulnerable African carnivores
... state of current knowledge on the species, to the threats facing each of them. They also looked at which are...den cat, all of which suffer from the combined key threats of habitat loss and conflict with people over predation on domestic animals. By contrast, a handful...Environmental impact statement planned for USAMRIID facilities at Fort Detrick
...utions to protect our armed forces from biological threats they may encounter on the battlefield. In addition, USAMRIID has been assigned a second mission, namely to leverage these capabilities to support government-wide biological defense efforts by acting as the DoD's lead laboratory for the testing and ev...