Iraq's marshes show progress toward recovery
...er. The researchers point out that water inflow is unlikely to be sufficient to maintain the encouraging trends in coming years. Fish catches remain poor, which deters many Marsh Arabs from returning to a traditional way of life. Further research is needed--but is not being done, say Richardson and Hussain--t...A tumour suppressor in mice and men
...eration with p50 and p52. All in all, it seems not unlikely that Cyld functions as a tumour suppressor in mice and in humans. In humans, there is evidence that a defective Cyld gene can have negative consequences, like the largely benign tumours of cylindromas. The researchers also found very little, or no, C...Plague agent helps UT Southwestern researchers find novel signaling system in cells
...he bacterium that causes bubonic plague would seem unlikely to help medical scientists, but researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have harnessed it to uncover a new regulatory mechanism that inhibits the immune system. Three species of the Yersinia bacteria, known to cause plague and gastroenteritis, ...Studies shed new light on why exercise can protect against skin and bowel cancers
...of cancer in these mice, but that the mechanism is unlikely to be related to body composition, IGF-1 or corticosterone." Dr Conney emphasised that it was not known yet whether exercise decreased the risk of sunlight-induced skin cancer in humans, and clinical trials were needed to investigate this further. H...Tiny polyps gorge themselves to survive coral bleaching
...ile 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 rate of warming, as much as 60 percent of the world's coral reefs could be lost within the next 10 to 30 years," she said. "We have a delicatel......ights from beachfront developments, where they are unlikely to survive. Night-migrating songbirds may fly into brightly lit buildings and radio towers, leading to deaths sometimes numbering in the tens of thousands. Challenges of this sort make cities an ideal laboratory for evolutionary biologists to watch a...New evidence questions the simple link between prion proteins and vCJD
...bsorbed across the gut, it also shows that this is unlikely to occur in real life. In addition, the results show that the places in the gut that do take up these disease-associated proteins are different from the locations where infectivity is known to be amplified. The findings will be published in the Journ...First clinical trial of gene therapy for muscular dystrophy now under way
...emonstrating that minidystrophin gene transfer was unlikely to harm and could ultimately benefit muscles affected by DMD, approval was granted March 3, 2006, to proceed with the human trial. "After years of encouraging pre-clinical results, I'm excited that AskBio will help bring this promising new therapy in...Ocean 'dead zones' trigger sex changes in fish, posing extinction threat
...es. As these predominately male fish mature, it is unlikely they will be able to reproduce in sufficient numbers to maintain sustainable populations, Wu says. Low oxygen levels also might reduce the quantity and quality of the eggs produced by female fish, diminishing their fertility, he adds. In their exper...Environmentalists' 'marine reserve' proposals misguided, report suggests
...on Tyne, suggest that these 'drastic' measures are unlikely to be feasible and would require a significant policy shift for them to be implemented. They also acknowledge that there is an 'information deficit' regarding the costs and benefits of MPAs, particularly in the case of the North Sea, and call for mo...Moderate lifetime reductions in LDL cholesterol dramatically reduce risk of heart disease
...s, suggesting that a longer course of treatment is unlikely to introduce harmful effects. Finally, Hobbs said, PCSK9 is itself a good candidate for pharmacological intervention. Statin therapy increases the quantity of PCSK9 produced by cells, which in turn leads to degradation of the LDL receptor. This mol...Troubling times for embryo gene tests
...00-fold greater chance of developing cancer. It is unlikely that Jordan will live past her early twenties. Flynn and her husband wanted to have more children, partly because a bone-marrow transplant from a healthy sibling would be Jordan's best shot at survival. They decided to undergo pre-implantation geneti...Mass extinctions a threat from outer space or our own planet's detox?
...cidence?", ask Saunders and Reichow. While this is unlikely to be pure chance, the Leicester researchers are interested in precisely what the kill mechanism may be. One possibility is that the gases released by volcanic activity lead to a prolonged volcanic winter induced by sulphur-rich aerosols, followed b...Smallest Triceratops skull ever found provides clues to dinosaur's growth
...and frill are present from a very early age, it is unlikely they were used exclusively for sexual display, he said. "The baby Triceratops confirmed our argument that the horns and frill of the skull likely had another function other than sexual display or competition with rivals, which people have often argue...Sex: Why bother? Evolutionary mysteries probed at UH
...hile a switch to asexual reproduction is extremely unlikely to happen in humans due to a genetic quirk of mammals called genomic imprinting, asexuality can and has re-evolved many times in animals such as reptiles, fish and insects. However, despite its many costs, sexual reproduction is widespread and asexu...A better tool to study role of iron in Alzheimer's, Parkinson's
...anna Collingwood of Keele University, turned to an unlikely facility: the synchrotron at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago. The synchrotron is an electron accelerator that produces the most powerful X-rays in the nation. Also known as the Advanced Photon Source, it is us...Oceans are 70 percent shark free
...t of a shark is at 3,700m. They believe it is very unlikely that major new populations will be discovered in a...deep sea. All we see, is all there is, it's highly unlikely we are going to find anymore."...Summer research programs for undergraduates evaluated nationally
...el, the major professor provides oversight, but is unlikely to be the 'bench' mentor - most likely the post-docs and current graduate students will be mentoring the summer intern at the bench." An important bonus is that there seems to be an increase in self-reported independent learning throughout the follow...Organic Center symposium examines children's pesticide risks
...ntial, but in the current political climate, it is unlikely that the EPA is going to alter its current tentative and deliberate course in implementing the FQPA." The results of a 2005 consultant's report to the EPA's Office of Inspector General are drawn upon in estimating the trends in dietary risks from 199...Ernst Mayr's theory illustrated in genetic epidemiology studies
...on, a rather radical adaptive change that would be unlikely to happen if you had just natural selection in a large population alone," Templeton said. "It's kind of like you stirred the pot at random, but then it goes off in a new direction due to natural selection. So, that was a very controversial idea when ...