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Environmental Conservation

Gannet Population Decline Linked to Global Warming Effects

In a paper published in Marine Ecology Progress Series, Dr Keith Hamer of the University’s Faculty of Biological Sciences reports that diminishing fish stocks…

Life & Chemistry

New Control Switch Enhances Protein Activity in Cells

Our bodies could not maintain their existence without thousands of proteins performing myriad vital tasks within cells. Since malfunctioning proteins can cause…

Studies and Analyses

U-M and Israeli Scientists Uncover Colon Cancer Gene Links

A 10-year study involving thousands of Israeli Jews and Arabs, led by researchers from American and Israeli institutions, has yielded important new information…

Health & Medicine

Flavonoids in Orange Juice: A Healthy Choice Despite Sugar

The study appeared in the June 2007 issue of Diabetes Care.Flavonoids suppress destructive oxygen free radicals — also known as reactive oxygen species, or…

Environmental Conservation

NASA Aids Texas in Tackling Historic 50-Year Flooding

The aircraft had been flying a sensor developed by the University of Colorado at Boulder, NOAA and U.S. Department of Agriculture that could provide detailed…

Environmental Conservation

Satellite Tracking Reveals Insights Into Penguin Travels

University of Washington scientists will attach satellite tracking devices to the backs of six penguins that have been treated at two centers in northern…

Health & Medicine

Elsevier Partners With Tissue Viability Society for Journal Launch

Under the agreement, Elsevier will assume publication of Journal of Tissue Viability, official journal of the Tissue Viability Society (http://www.tvs.org.uk/)…

Life & Chemistry

Real-Time Footage Unveils DNA-Enzyme Interactions

The film is available to view at: http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/media/pressreleases/video_enzyme_unravelling_dna.htmlThe research, funded by the Biotechnology and…

Physics & Astronomy

Life on Mars 'pregnancy test' successfully launched

The new approach is based on technology similar to that used in pregnancy test kits. The so-called immunoassays are embodied in the “Life Marker Chip” (LMC)…

Life & Chemistry

New System Enhances Safety of Leishmaniasis Drugs

Leishmaniasis is a parasitic disease found largely in the tropics which the World Health Organisation has estimated infects 12 million people worldwide each…

Health & Medicine

Innovative Computerized Training Enhances Working Memory in ADHD

Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), a state of serious impairments in both learning ability and…

Information Technology

Support for Overcoming E-Illiteracy in New Technology

NIACE, the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education, will use the findings of the Penceil (How People Encounter E-Illiteracy and how they can take…

Studies and Analyses

Rethinking Genetic Ancestry Testing: Examining Its Limitations

“Because race has such profound social, political and economic consequences, we should be wary of allowing the concept to be redefined in a way that obscures…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

New Info Platform Empowers East African Farmers Today

The development comes as a result of an internet platform, www.infonet-biovision.org, launched today by icipe – African Insect Science for Food and Health and…

Environmental Conservation

Black-Spot Map Aims to Protect Amphibians and Reptiles

The research, carried out by professors Juan Manuel Pleguezuelos Gómez and Jesús Caro (University of Granada) and Ricardo Reques (of the company Ornitour), has…

Life & Chemistry

Poxvirus' ability to hide from the immune system may aid vaccine design

The study’s authors say the finding will help efforts to design new vaccines for use against cowpox, monkeypox and, if it ever became a concern again,…

Life & Chemistry

Sensing Microbes: Genetic Insights into Innate Immunity

The fundamental challenges.Infections have always been among the principal causes of death in the human species. In the developed world, microbes may be…

Information Technology

DILIGENT Team Processes 37 Million Images via EGEE Grid

The DILIGENT team used the EGEE computing Grid to process 37 million images from the online Flickr database in just 16 weeks. This computation generated…

Information Technology

CU-Boulder Supercomputer Sheds Light on Missing Matter

The study indicated a significant portion of the gas is in the filaments — which connect galaxy clusters — hidden from direct observation in enormous gas…

Physics & Astronomy

Gliese 581: New Insights on Potentially Habitable Exoplanets

More than 10 years after the discovery of the first extrasolar planet, astronomers have now discovered more than 250 of these planets. Until a few years ago,…

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