Microchip saves rare turtle from soup-pot
...matra (Indonesia), Thailand, and Cambodia. Hendrie warns that every day thousands of turtles are smuggled across international borders in the region, many of these ending up in China where turtles are eaten or used in traditional medicine. "The population in Sre Ambel is small and every turtle counts" say...How fish hear and make sounds at same time
...outside sounds. Just prior to a voicing, the brain warns the ear it should become less sensitive. When analyzed closely, the vocalizations can be broken down into a series of impulses separated in time by only milliseconds. The system is timed only to block out sound at the exact moment when the fish voca...Clear rules needed to govern deep sea bioprospecting: UNU
...rotection from unfettered commercial exploitation, warns a new report from the Japan-based United Nations University Institute for Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS). Increasingly recognized as important to humankind for their potential medical and other uses, deep sea resources are now more accessible and vulnera...World's largest study on changes to Earth's ecosystems released on May 19
...ocial scientists from around the world. The report warns that harm to our ecosystems over the last 50 years has put the well-being of future generations at risk if current patterns of biodiversity loss continue. Conference headliners will include Thomas Mulcair, Quebec environment minister, Jacques Hurtu...What makes someone your sister or brother? No easy question in 2005
... more than blood ties and living in the same home, warns a new study sponsored by the ESRC. As 21st Century children and young people create their own, complex understandings of who and what is a sibling, the important social implications need to be taken on board, says a working paper from a team led by P...Scientists discover odd-ball rodent
...es of striped rabbit from the same region in 1999, warns that habitat protection and regulations to reduce unsustainable commercial hunting are vital to safeguarding remaining populations of the Kha-Nyou and a gallery of other unusual species. "Skeptics might say that if we are still discovering such amaz......e illegal animal trade as the primary threats, and warns that failure to respond will bring the first primate extinctions in more than a century. The golden-headed langur of Vietnam and China's Hainan gibbon number only in the dozens. The Horton Plains slender loris of Sri Lanka has been sighted just f...Scientists' pied piper approach may have found Nemo faster
...elfish and cardinalfish in the Pacific Ocean, also warns that 'unnatural' noises created by shipping and drilling may be depleting fish stocks in sensitive areas. Previous research has shown that the larvae of coral reef fishes develop in open seas, away from reefs where predators lurk. Despite spending we...Community MRSA is re-emergence of 1950s pandemic, study suggests
...r and be more widespread than previously expected, warns an international team of researchers who have been studying the bacteria. First isolated in Australia and Canada in 1953, type 80/81 penicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteria caused skin lesions, sepsis and pneumonia in children and young a......g to the Food and Drug Administration. The agency warns that unless problems are detected early and swift action taken to find substitute drugs, previously treatable diseases could again emerge in more virulent forms. Public health officials cite antibiotic resistance as a growing problem for a host of di...Ecological destruction fuels emerging diseases
... is more than a looming environmental catastrophe, warns a Canadian zoologist. This ecological damage also endangers human health by turning parasites into "evolutionary land mines." Dr. Daniel (Dan) Brooks, a parasitologist at the University of Toronto, says the decline of global biodiversity is linked to...Scientists rid stem cell culture of key animal cells
...bility of contamination" from animal pathogens, Xu warns that the continued use of serum replacement and Matrigel means that contamination remains a concern. The ultimate goal, he says, would be to culture stem cells in media completely free of any animal products....Scientists discover how climate change causes the simultaneous boom or bust of multiple populations
...part of their abundance cycles." Hudson's research warns of the rapid ecological consequences of extreme and short-term fluctuations in weather conditions. "One of the characteristics of global climate change is that we are getting increased variation in temperature extremes -- sometimes we get colder win...Rethinking new therapies for Crohn's disease at U.Va.
...tuberculosis in some patients. Cominelli also warns that anti-cytokine therapy in general may increase the long-term risk of cancer, and blocking some cytokines may reactivate asthma. "An effective treatment strategy for such patients might involve the blockade of multiple cytokines in order to interv...Early life stress can inhibit development of brain-cell communication zones, UCI study finds
... to well-developed brain-cell dendrites. But Baram warns that much more research is needed to see if this blocker can work in animal models or in humans. The Baram group is continuing its study to learn if CRH is involved in adult dendrite atrophy. In previous studies, several research groups have found th...