Major study predicts grim future for Europe's seas
...n isolation from the other environmental issues is unlikely to lead to overall sustainability....Studies to find better ways to preserve human eggs, ovarian tissue under way
... the resulting embryo dies. Plus, fertilization is unlikely since freezing often hardens the eggs outer shell that sperm must penetrate. That is why we have tried to develop technology without freezing, says Dr. Song, who has pioneered use of vitrification in blood vessels, cartilage and heart valves. Vit...Stray penguins probably reached northern waters by fishing boat
...survival difficult in the north. They say it is unlikely the Humboldts swam from Peru to the Pacific Northwest, in part because it would mean traversing climate conditions the birds are not well equipped to handle. There also isn't much chance the birds spotted in the wild were zoo escapees, the scienti...2 million dwarfism study launched
...progress towards this longer-term objective, it is unlikely we will be able to help this generation but we are confident such therapies will be available to the next generation. Certainly, the genetic models we now have will prove extremely useful in helping us to achieve this goal....Research identifies protein that signals flowering in squash plants
...lants floral meristems, indicating that FT mRNA is unlikely to be the florigenic signal in this system. Next, heterografting studies were conducted using flowering Cucurbita maxima (pumpkin) stocks (the stock is the portion below the graft union containing the roots) grafted to non-induced, LD-grown C. moscha...Map predicting spread of avian flu
...e). The authors suggest local control measures are unlikely to be able to halt an unfolding epidemic in these areas. The paper, published in the Open Access journal PLoS Computational Biology, arrives at these conclusions through a computational (or mathematical) modeling method, an approach which has alre...Discoveries thrust cancer-initiating stem cells into a larger role in cancer biology and treatment
... the researchers say, indicates that CD44 alone is unlikely to be the sole indicator of stem cell-ness among the tumor cell population. However, according to Chu, the discovery that high CD44 producing cells have cancer stem cell properties provides an entry point into further research into cancer-causing ste...Should researchers wash their hands of hand washing?
... could draw was that a single teaching session was unlikely to improve hand hygiene even in the short-term. "We desperately need some good research that will begin to show which interventions can bring about change in people's behaviour that will lead to increased hand hygiene," says Dinah Gould, Cochrane R...Study projects effects of forest management in Oregon's Coast Range
...maintained. Widespread recovery of coho salmon is unlikely without improvement in habitats on private lands; habitat conditions for salmon and trout in the Coast Range are more likely to improve on public lands than on private. Recent biodiversity policies have been developed in a largely uncoordinated mann...Ancient coral reef tells the history of Kenya's soil erosion
...nger soil conservation effortsa goal that Kenya is unlikely to achieve on its own because of a lack of economic resources, they noted. However, if soil devastation continues, the socioeconomic consequences could be dire, Dunbar said. "Loss of soils constitutes loss of valuable natural capital for the people o...India's biotech industry emerging as world innovator, collaborator, competitor
...atments for specific developing country illnesses, unlikely to be created by Western-based firms. India needs to take steps to avert this outcome, they say. Published April 9 by Nature Biotechnology, the authors say their study of 21 home-grown firms sheds unprecedented public light on Indias private secto...Overfishing large sharks impacts entire marine ecosystem, shrinks shellfish supply
...e March 30 issue of the journal Science, tying two unlikely links in the food web to the same fate. A team of Canadian and American ecologists, led by world-renowned fisheries biologist Ransom Myers at Dalhousie University, has found that overfishing the largest predatory sharks, such as the bull, great wh...UBC researchers find new superbug weapon for near-empty antibiotics arsenal
... doesn't act on bacteria directly. That means it's unlikely bacteria will become resistant to it." The team found that a peptide, or chain of amino acids, they have dubbed innate defense regulator peptide (IDR-1), can increase innate immunity without triggering harmful inflammation, and offer protection bot...Researchers use poliovirus to destroy neuroblastoma tumors in mice
...gion remains interrupted," said Cello. "And in the unlikely event that the regulatory gene element is deleted, the virus would not be able to reproduce." To test the virus' ability to destroy neuroblastoma the researchers constructed a transgenic mouse model that allows growth of neuroblastoma cells and car...Survey finds emotional reactions to nanotechnology
...ults indicate that another outcome is possible but unlikely unless government, business, and educators take a more proactive approach to nanotechnology public engagement and communication. How people learn about nanotechnologies, from whom, and with what message, will be critical to public perceptions in the ...2-step process filters evolution of genes of human and chimpanzee
... "We found that the same genetic changes that are unlikely to survive early negative selection are the ones that spread most quickly once they gain a foothold," said the studys senior author Chung-I Wu, Ph.D., professor of ecology and evolution at the University of Chicago. "To reach that conclusion, we nee...Mellow in Europe, crazy in America
... will be able to grow in new conditions. But it is unlikely that native species have maintained enough genetic variability to move with rapid climate changes." Invaders persist, natives expire. For land managers, farmers, nursery owners and others the implications of this study are also weighty. It seems li...Local interventions have little effect on metapopulation stability
...eoretical predictions, localized perturbations are unlikely to affect the dynamics of real metapopulations. This study will be published on February 21, 2007 in PLoS ONE, the international, peer-reviewed, open-access, online publication from the Public Library of Science (PLoS)....Novel test identifies lymphoma patients likely to respond to new therapy
...ve access to a potent and specific therapy that is unlikely to cause the side effects associated with chemotherapy drugs," says Dr. Melnick. At the same time, lymphoma patients who dont fit this genetic profile will be spared a drug treatment that would be ineffective for them." ......ur study focused on green swordtail fish, it seems unlikely that this attribute is limited to this one species,' said Dr Craig Walling of the University of Exeter's School of Biosciences. Previous studies have shown that the timing of sexual maturation can be determined by chemical stimulus from other indi...