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Worm discovery could help 1 billion people worldwideManchester, UK (SPX) May 06, 2011 Scientists have discovered why some people may be protected from harmful parasitic worms naturally while others cannot in what could lead to new therapies for up to one billion people worldwide. Parasitic worms are a major cause of mortality and morbidity affecting up to a billion people, particularly in the Third World, as well as domestic pets and livestock across the globe. Now, University of Manchester researchers have, for the first time, identified a key component of mucus found in the ... read more |
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  Battle scars found on an ancient sea monster Scars on the jaw of a 120 million year old marine reptile suggest that life might not have been easy in the ancient polar oceans. The healed bite wounds were probably made by a member of the same sp ... more | .. |
  'Barcoding blitz' on Australian moths and butterflies In just 10 weeks a team of Canadian researchers has succeeded in 'barcoding' 28,000 moth and butterfly specimens - or about 65 per cent of Australia's 10,000 known species - held at CSIRO's Australi ... more | .. |
  New study reveals when livestock can transmit foot-and-mouth disease A new study of foot-and-mouth disease shows that cattle afflicted with the virus are only infectious for a brief window of time-about half as long as previously thought. This finding suggests that t ... more | .. |
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 Researchers propose whole-system redesign of US agriculture Transformative changes in markets, policy and science, rather than just incremental changes in farming practices and technology, will be critical if the United States is to achieve long-term sustain ... more | .. |
  Tests show new biosensor can guide environmental clean ups Tests of a new antibody-based "biosensor" developed by researchers at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science show that it can detect marine pollutants like oil much faster and more cheaply than cu ... more | .. |
 Expert panel calls for transforming US agriculture A group of leading scientists, economists and farmers is calling for a broad shift in federal policies to speed the development of farm practices that are more economically, socially, and environmen ... more | .. |
 Seed Mixtures And Insurance Pest Management Are Future Norm In The Corn Belt As the use of biotechnology increases and more companies move forward with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's approval to begin full-scale commercialization of seed mixtures in transgenic in ... more |
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China emissions flat in third quarter as solar surges: study
Conference travel emissions exceed research energy use
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 It Takes a Community of Soil Microbes to Protect Plants From Disease Those vegetables you had for dinner may have once been protected by an immune system akin to the one that helps you fight disease. Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley N ... more | .. |
  Effects of climate change in the Arctic more extensive than expected A much reduced covering of snow, shorter winter season and thawing tundra. The effects of climate change in the Arctic are already here. And the changes are taking place significantly faster than pr ... more | .. |
  Vietnam troops 'use force' at rare Hmong protest Vietnamese soldiers clashed with ethnic Hmong after thousands staged a rare protest in a remote mountain area calling for greater autonomy and religious freedom, a military source said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Syria troops exit one protest hub, enter another Syria pulled its troops from a 10-day clampdown in Daraa on Thursday and deployed them in another protest hub as activists vowed a "Day of Defiance" to press their anti-regime campaign. And as ... more |
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  Pirates seize Chinese-crewed cargo ship: Xinhua Pirates have seized a Panama-registered bulk cargo ship with 24 Chinese sailors on board in the Arabian Sea, state media reported. ... more | .. |
  VA program ties veteran health to genetics The U.S. Veterans Affairs Department hopes to transform veterans' healthcare by tying veterans' health issues to genomic research, an official said Thursday. ... more | .. |
  Arctic warming could raise oceans 5 feet Arctic warming, occurring twice as fast as the global average, could raise sea levels more than 5 feet in 90 years, an official multinational study forecast. ... more | .. |
 Rare-disorder baby has 7-organ transplant A 19-month-old San Antonio girl with an often-fatal disorder keeping her from eating is ready to go home after having a seven-organ transplant, a doctor said. ... more |
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Geopolitical instability and AI drive transformation in EO market
'Western tech dominance fading' at Lisbon's Web Summit
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  Super-healing researcher follows intuition A renowned U.S. biophysicist exploring super-healing and age reversal attributes his breakthroughs more to his sixth sense than to logic and critical thinking. ... more | .. |
 Post-Mubarak Egypt signals policy shifts Egypt's military-backed interim government is seeking to restore the country's former geopolitical clout as a regional powerbroker it lost under ousted President Hosni Mubarak's pro-Western strategy. ... more | .. |
 Berlusconi sends troops to tackle Naples trash Italian soldiers will head to Naples to help clean a city that is again filled with garbage despite government efforts to ease the area's recurring waste problem, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said Thursday. ... more | .. |
  US says to raise rights in China talks The United States said Thursday that it would raise human rights concerns with China during high-level talks next week despite Beijing's warnings against foreign comments on its wave of detentions. ... more |
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  Japan hit by powerful aftershock: USGS A powerful aftershock has rocked an area of Japan still reeling from the deadly March 11 earthquake and tsunami disaster, the US Geological Survey said on Friday. ... more | .. |
Nuclear leak forces Russian icebreaker back to port Russia launched an urgent rescue mission on Thursday after one of its atomic-powered icebreakers developed a nuclear leak in the frozen seas of the Arctic and was forced to abandon its mission. ... more | .. |
  Workers enter reactor building at Japan nuclear plant Workers entered a reactor building at Japan's stricken nuclear plant Thursday for the first time since an explosion hit the facility a day after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, officials said. ... more | .. |
 UN climate meet must not be talking shop: Zuma The next round of UN climate talks in South Africa must not be a talking shop, but push for concrete decisions, President Jacob Zuma told the World Economic Forum on Africa. ... more |
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Tiangong hosts dual crews after debris impact delays Shenzhou-20 return
Dust and Sand Movements Reshape Martian Slopes
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China rejects foreign protests over Ai Weiwei China said Thursday that other countries should stop commenting on the detention of prominent artist Ai Weiwei, after Austria this week joined a growing international chorus calling for his release. ... more | .. |
 Climbers leave rare plants' genetic variation on the rocks Rock climbers are having a negative impact on rare cliff-dwelling plants, ecologists have found. Writing in the British Ecological Society's Journal of Applied Ecology they say that in areas popular ... more | .. |
 Grazing as a conservation tool Rotational grazing of cattle in native pasturelands in Brazil's Pantanal and Cerrado regions can benefit both cattle and wildlife, according to a new study by the Wildlife Conservation Society. ... more | .. |
  First rainforests arose when plants solved plumbing problem A team of scientists, including several from the Smithsonian Institution, discovered that leaves of flowering plants in the world's first rainforests had more veins per unit area than leaves ever ha ... more |
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 Removable cloak for nanoparticles helps them target tumors MIT chemical engineers have designed a new type of drug-delivery nanoparticle that exploits a trait shared by almost all tumors: They are more acidic than healthy tissues. Such particles could ... more | .. |
 Scientists track evolution and spread of deadly fungus New research has shed light on the origins of a fungal infection which is one of the major causes of death from AIDS-related illnesses. The study funded by the Wellcome Trust and the BBSRC, shows ho ... more | .. |
  Portable tech might provide drinking water and power to villages Researchers have developed an aluminum alloy that could be used in a new type of mobile technology to convert non-potable water into drinking water while also extracting hydrogen to generate electri ... more | .. |
  What lies beneath the seafloor An international team of scientists report on the first observatory experiment to study the dynamic microbial life of an ever-changing environment inside Earth's crust. University of Miami (UM) Rose ... more |
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