and insects such as beetles from the grapes a capability that some wineries already possess in other optical approaches.
For vegetarians printed meat somewhat circumvents concerns about harmful or destructive use of animals for food.
Live animals are used only to provide cells from which cell lines can be grown (though the blood of unborn cows is needed to culture most cells.
Ethical vegans may still object at the use of nonhuman animals for human purposes; while non-destructive it is still exploitative.
if there is no animal slaughter involved. While we typically oeeat with our eyes and printed meat could be made in familiar shapes
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In Asia they are hacking into the signals from tigers'satellite collars to find and kill them.
and infrared goggles to kill elephants in the dead of night. What if unmanned arial vehicle (UAV) developers could imagine their inventions through the eyes of conservation field staff?
Already authorities are using fixed-wing conservation UAVS to successfully keep track of hard-to-see rhinos in Nepal
and to monitor elephant habitat and prevent the illegal expansion of palm oil plantations in Sumatra.
providing future generations with the awe that comes from knowing that iconic animals like elephants rhinos
and tigers continue to roam safely in the wild and with luck seeing them firsthand.
That project which focused on studying mammals in Mars gravity could possibly be adapted for the study of plants.
Finally it would be much easier to transport insects to Mars than to send large animals.
The insects could become part of the Mars culture too. Future settlers on the Red planet would likely come from all over the world
and many would not suffer from the Eeeew factor many Westerners associate with eating insects.
Scientists have synthesized successfully meat using a 3d printer to align stem cells from animals in laboratory Petri dishes creating both hamburger
and enhance their phenolic content as well as extending the life of dragon fruit for up to 28 days.
If it hadn t been for birds I doubt if anyone would have thought even that it might be possible for something heavier than air to get airborne.
The bird s wing performs two separate tasks both of which are essential. By its shape it provides lift
but transferring the power function to an engine and propeller something no bird ever possessed.
if you are a monkey in the wild is about 2%per bone per year. If engineers worked to that standard they would soon be looking for another job.
Another example is the recent news that scientists have discovered an animal that runs faster than any other and it s a mite.
The story no doubt distorting the original science was that this mite runs faster than a cheetah
It is well known that smaller animals can run faster when measured by body size even the humble cockroach beats the cheetah on that measure.
But a simple biomechanical model applying the appropriate scaling laws would suggest that all animals should be able to run at the same absolute speed not the same relative speed.
So the inspiration here will come from asking why are the little guys so slow?#.
Smartphones tablets and chimps On the other side of the world the Jane Goodall Institute an ape-conservation organization founded by renowned chimpanzee researcher Jane Goodall is leading a similar effort.
Video Jane Goodall's Wild Chimpanzees The monitors look for signs of human activity that could endanger wildlife
The villagers also document the presence of more than 20 species with a focus on chimpanzees for instance
if the forest monitors see an animal or its tracks they take photos with their smartphones he said.
Then through Google earth Engine and Google maps Engine the institute's researchers can visualize the multiple layers of data to model the suitability of chimpanzee habitat
and to predict the potential distribution of chimpanzees. Whereas traditional maps are limited to two dimensions Google earth's 3d high-resolution imagery makes it easier for the villagers to recognize the topography
Through this data-collection process the JGI has identified previously unknown threats to chimpanzees. Even in the first few weeks of a forest villager getting his smartphone he reported this trap designed to capture a live primate we think either a baboon
or a chimp and this trap had never been recorded before in Tanzania Pintea said. In the future Pintea hopes to use imagery of the region gathered over the years to track changes in the forests over time.
Eyes on the Forest Other endangered species like the tiger are threatened also by poaching and habitat destruction.
According to the World Wildlife Fund human activities have led to a 93 percent reduction in tigers'historic range.
WWF estimates that 97 percent of the world's tigers have been lost over the past century
and as few as 3200 remain in the wild. In 2011 cameras set up by WWF
and the Indonesian Ministry of Forestry captured images of 12 tigers in Sumatra in an area that was set for deforestation.
Concerned about the potential destruction of this tiger habitat WWF used Google earth to illustrate the effects of deforestation on the Bukit Tigapuluh region a critical tiger habitat.
ranges of animals such as the tiger elephant rhino and orangutan; and floral diversity according to a statement from Eyes on the Forest.
and if it overlaps with known tiger habitat. In addition the Google mapping project has helped WWF build public support to stop irresponsible logging companies that contribute to Sumatra's deforestation said Craig Kirkpatrick WWF's managing director for Borneo and Sumatra.
Although the long time between satellite images makes it difficult to actively search for threats to tigers he said Google technology has been helpful in illustrating the pace of deforestation in the region and its effects on tiger and elephant habitat.
and then gradually the forests will come back and with them tiger populations. Elephant tracks Despite many efforts to curb elephant poaching including a 1989 agreement among CITES (Convention on International Trade of Endangered Species of Wild Fauna
and Flora) members to ban ivory trading demand in Asia continues to fuel the illegal ivory trade.
since the 1980s when an estimated 100000 African elephants were killed each year by poachers these massive mammals face additional threats posed by human activities such as commercial logging
Save the Elephants a Kenya-based organization dedicated to elephant protection and research is using Google technologies to help protect elephants from some of these dangers.
The group uses GPS collars to track elephants in Africa providing the organization with live detailed information about the animals'location and movements.
Save the Elephants then uses Google earth to visualize all of the data: By leveraging the application's satellite imagery researchers can zoom in on certain regions to follow the elephants in real time.
We've been using Google earth as a very easy way to find out what our elephants are up to
and where they are going Save the Elephants founder Iain Douglas-Hamilton said in a video hosted on Google's Outreach page.
It links in perfectly to our remote tracking system so the information is a continuous stream of the elephants'whereabouts.
The real-time updates and alerts are delivered via Save the Elephants'ios and Android apps to researchers in the field or via Google earth to be viewed in more detail on a computer.
With knowledge of the elephants'routes the organization can better protect the animals from poachers
and other dangers and help take action if a threat is detected Douglas-Hamilton said. 12 Strangest Sights on Google earth
When an elephant stops moving we can then send a Google earth file indicating the place where the elephant is stopped he said.
Then the Kenyan Wildlife Service can send out a patrol to go out and investigate. We're at a crucial stage now where we can act
Evidence is emerging that specific wavelengths of light have distinct effects on crop yield quality and even pest and disease resistance.
And because there's no soil there's a lot less need to spray for pests. Fruits and vegetables including cherry tomatoes lettuce cucumbers
Polar-bear protection: The US Fish and Wildlife Service proposed on 22 october to designate around 500,000 square kilometres of critical habitat 96%of which is sea ice for the polar bear.
The bear was listed as a threatened species in 2008 owing to projections of sea-ice declines caused by global warming.
The government is obligated already to avoid actions that jeopardize the bear, but the designation would add another layer of protection by also making it illegal to conduct activities that adversely affect the bear's habitat.
Vaccine report: More children than ever are being immunized, but 24 million infants in the world's poorest nations still do not receive routine immunization, according to a report by the World health organization, UNICEF and the World bank.
The 21 october State of the World's Vaccines and Immunization report says that although four in five children now have access to lifesaving vaccines,
they are talking about apples and oranges and Porsches and whales and moons, he says.
and budget hawks who see the roughly US$6-billion-a-year benefit as wasteful spending on a mature industry.
On 8 december, its reusable'Dragon'capsule was launched on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape canaveral, Florida.
hopes to dock Dragon with the station during its next demonstration launch, scheduled for 2011.
Nations pledge to double tiger numbers Thirteen countries that are home to the world's last wild tigers have pledged to try to double the animal's numbers to about 7
000, and to significantly expand its habitat by 2022 (the next Chinese year of the tiger.
and a loan package from the World bank for some tiger-range countries. One of the challenges will be to prevent poaching
and trade in tiger skins (pictured 墉 a seized skin in Kolkata, India). US energy boost The United states needs to triple its annual federal funding 墉 from US$5 billion to $16 billion 墉 for energy'research, development, demonstration and deployment,
Studies in animals suggest that exposure to bisphenol A a hormone-disrupting plasticizer used in food-can linings
Polar-bear pad The US Fish and Wildlife Service has set aside roughly 484,000 square kilometres in Alaska and the surrounding seas as a'critical habitat'for the polar bear (Ursus maritimus),
more than two years after the species was given a protection status of'threatened'by the US Endangered Species Act.
but federal agencies have to ensure that proposed activities don't jeopardize polar bears and their habitat.
Scientist threatened Animal-rights activists mailed razor blades and a'threatening note'to neuroscientist David Jentsch at the University of California, Los angeles, in November, the university said last week.
because the regulations for GM plants derive from the Federal Plant Pest Act, a decades-old law intended to safeguard against plant pathogens from overseas.
The Plant Pest Act was completely inappropriate for regulating biotech crops, but the USDA jury-rigged it, says Bill Freese, science-policy analyst at the Center for Food safety in WASHINGTON DC.
Now we can foresee this loophole getting wider and wider as companies turn more to plants and away from bacteria and other plant-pest organisms.
which carried multiple genes for insect and herbicide resistance, were stable in the field. I would expect that by the end of the decade,
Recent experiments show how Avian flu may become transmissible among mammals. In an era of constant and rapid international travel,
The development of new countermeasures, from diagnostics to antibiotics and antivirals to respirators, will help protect human lives in the face of new bugs and superbugs.
Animals engineered with pinpoint accuracytwo genetically engineered farm animals reported today illustrate how far from Frankenstein s stitched-together monster animal biotechnology has come.
One of those animals, a cow, secretes milk that lacks an allergy-inducing protein because researchers accurately blocked its production using the technique of RNA interference1.
In mice, they discovered a short chunk of RNA, called a microrna, that targeted beta-lactoglobulin MESSENGER RNA directly to prevent its translation.
and cows can now be thought of as big mice, but we are moving in that direction,
Originally, engineered animals were produced with the aim of making food safer, healthier and more abundant.
Yet despite years of investment, almost no animal has been approved by regulatory agencies around the world. Wagner says he has tasted not the milk from his special cow
Kevin Wolf/APENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCYDEPARTING: Lisa Jackson On entering office in 2009, Jackson (pictured) laid the groundwork for climate regulations by formally declaring carbon dioxide a dangerous pollutant.
or a cell culture or a transgenic animal and using it to generate thousands more to sell again at a fraction of the original price."
Primate carriers Vietnam Airlines said on 19 april that it will no longer transport primates used in research experiments, effective from 1 may.
It was one of the last major carriers to transport primates for research: only Air france and Philippine Airlines say that they still do so.
Animal activism Animal-rights activists occupied an animal facility at the University of Milan in Italy on 20 april.
They demanded that all its 800 animals (mostly genetically modified mice) be transferred into their care.
After 12 hours of negotiations, the activists agreed to leave with fewer than 100 animals,
but mixed up some of the remaining animals and cage labels to disrupt experiments. Researchers say they have lost years of work.
The HSRC says that the iron was intended to fertilize phytoplankton, boosting ocean productivity and salmon populations.
The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), the branch of the agriculture department responsible for overseeing GM CROPS,
has stuck so far to a strict interpretation of a 1957 law designed to protect agriculture against plant pests that was coopted in 1986 to regulate GM CROPS.
a bacterial pest that can insert DNA into plant genomes. In 2011, APHIS regulators announced that a herbicide-tolerant Kentucky bluegrass would not fall under their purview,
because the lawn-and-garden company developing it did not use Agrobacterium or any other plant-pest DNA to engineer the grass.
The company, Scotts  Miracle-Gro of Marysville, Ohio, instead used a gene gun to fire DNA-coated gold particles into plant cells.
and was just a test case to see how APHIS would respond. That is not the case for other groups that have been told that their GM products would not be regulated.
Sally  Mackenzie, a plant biologist at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, contacted APHIS about the high-yield offspring of a transgenic sorghum grass plant
In 2012, APHIS regulators invited Mackenzie to the organization s headquarters in Riverdale, Maryland, and questioned her about this hypothesis. APHIS eventually notified her that it would not regulate her plants a decision that Mackenzie says has accelerated her research
and may allow her to launch a company to develop her grass variety. Agricultural giants Monsanto, based in St  Louis, Missouri,
Have you been through APHIS? says Mackenzie. Other companies are gauging their prospects with different DNA-modification tools,
In 2010, APHIS told Dow Agrosciences of Indianapolis, Indiana, that it would not regulate a herbicide-tolerant maize (corn) made using zinc-finger nucleases.
Massachusetts, says that he would rather be regulated by APHIS to earn the public s trust.
In April 2012, APHIS told him that the agency would regulate his variety in spite of the fact that the genes he introduced came from other apples.
The attack came from Chrysler the smallest of Detroit's Big Three automakers in the form of a television commercial for the new Dodge Charger.
In the ad the Charger is traveling through a long gloomy tunnel the camera tracking with it.
They drove teams of horses herds of goats drifts of sheep. Animals Smith argues are autonomous.
Thus in the eyes of the law an autonomous vehicle is arguably similar to a horse-drawn buggy.
And under the Geneva convention a basic legal requirement for drivers whether of animals or of cars is the same.
The driver must have control. Who has control of a driverless car? For the autonomous vehicle that now drives Levandowski to work the answer (according to Smith) is logical:
and oversight to guard against situations like a deer running into the road; the car must be able to hand back control with no warning.
while napping like a dog having dreams about chasing squirrels except I think that day I literally had a dream in which
and a LEYBOARD AND MOUSE and an extra monitor and typing this on a cracked 3-inch screen like an idiot12:
I hope the texture is like the fur of an Australian brush tail possum. 1: 20 commenter says I do not understand how this guy still has a job...
and full of bias--an example being the ones on the wolves --and they were written by Dan.
while the backyard trash pile behind a Flordia trailerpark is reabsorbed almost yearly (though decomp rust and racoon).(
They're just a cabal making fat-cat bucks looking to protect their income of major dough.
and coral is beneficial to other species (note that the era where cartiledge fish like sharks developed was a high free carbon era
Out of sight the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) an oceanographic workhorse called a Remus begins gliding through the lagoon in a pattern that resembles the long linear passes of a mowed lawn.
The strength of the reflected waves also helps distinguish metal from mud or coral. For a group like Bentprop the use of advanced oceanographic instruments is a huge technological leap forward
if the features are purely biological like coral heads or actual wrecks. Moline pauses on an image with an oblong shape.
On closer inspection it seems to have intact wings and a tail. We got a plane!
Terrill uses a laser pointer to indicate the newest find. The hard edges provide bright scatter he says.
He then shifts his pointer to a spherical object about 45 meters away and wonders if it could be the pontoon of a floatplane.
There are rounded edges at the tail. But if it is a floatplane the only U S. airplane it could be would be amphibious.
The shape looks like a Kingfisher. Flip Colmer a former Navy pilot who now flies for Delta also with Bentprop reaches for the book Floatplanes in Action
The Kingfisher O'brien explains was flown typically for observation and to rescue downed pilots. If they were in this deep it would have been on a risky endeavor.
Bentprop knew that two Kingfishers on reconnaissance missions had disappeared during the war and the western lagoon seemed the most likely location for them to have ended up.
Well it's not a Kingfisher he says. After descending to the plane O'brien noticed that the windscreen on the cockpit was located behind the wing.
In Kingfishers it was situated in front. He'd also detected a subtle distinction in the shape of the fuselage near the tail.
I strap on a scuba tank and jump into the water with Scannon who wants to see for himself.
Long gangly strands of black coral grow up and through the corroded metal. The front motor and propellers have broken away from the body of the plane
It also had flattened a beaver tail around the vertical stabilizer an aft cockpit machine gun and no wing armaments.
a large bulbous coral head has taken up occupancy in the cockpit. Originally painted blue with a white star
Also note the FAO APHIS and FDA all acknowledge the risks involved with GMO's. Their adverse affects on environment have been shown
(i e. they don't die from) pest and herbicides that are sprayed on them. Tomatoes Tomahtoes I guess
because it is highly effective at controlling Lepidoptera larvae caterpillars. It is during the larval stage
when most of the damage by European corn borer occurs. The protein is very selective generally not harming insects in other orders (such as beetles flies bees and wasps.
For this reason GMOS that have the Bt gene are compatible with biological control programs
because they harm insect predators and parasitoids much less than broad-spectrum insecticides. The Bt endotoxin is considered safe for humans other mammals fish birds and the environment because of its selectivity.
Bt has been available as a commercial microbial insecticide since the 1960s and is sold under many trade names.
or animal that has been modified genetically through the addition of a small amount of genetic material from other organisms through molecular techniques.
Currently the GMOS on the market today have been given genetic traits to provide protection from pests tolerance to pesticides
and Chemical Toxicology found that rats fed on a diet of 33 per cent NK603 corn
and digestive problems. www. english. rfi. fr/americas/20120920-monsanto-gm-maize-may-face-europe-ban-after-french-study-links-cancersincerely-Joewww. joesid. compoor rats...
The study cited in the article was a 2-year toxicology study of rats fed Monsanto's Roundup-resistant NK103 maize (corn) and the herbicide Roundup.
It turns out that the Sprague-Dawley rats in the study have a lifespan of about 2 years
In other words SÃ Â ralini is accused of scientific malpractice for not including a high enough sample of rats in the study to control for naturally occurring tumors and cancers.
http://dotearth. blogs. nytimes. com/2012/10/19/six-french-science-academies-dismiss-study-finding-gm-corn-harmed-rats/?
After proposing the use of rats in long-term experiments it exposed that Monsanto and every other case study did not do a long-term study.
Because they all use rats. The very rat that is in question in SÃ Â ralini's work.
How can anyone claim that the food is safe if you only test it for 90 days?
The rats they used in the test are used in every lab experiment across the country. They are the most common lab rat in use today
It's because of this rat dilemma they have highlighted another study that used a different animal for 5 years.
and the case has been highlighted because of the use of rats. The Sprague-Dawley (SD) rat strain that SÃ Â ralini used is used also in long-term 2-year toxicity
If this was the wrong type of rat for SÃ Â ralini to use it was the wrong rat in all these other studies
GMO versus NON GMO www. momsacrossamerica. com stunning corn comparison gmo versus non gmoknown to Kill Cows Castrate Wildlife Induce Spontaneous abortion in Lab Rats...
and sold in the world today affects the fertility of mice. The mice which were fed the GMO corn had significantly lower fertility rates than the mice fed natural non-GMO corn.
Disturbingly this declining ability to have continued babies down through future mouse generations as well. ÃÃÚÂ Ã 2. A comparative analysis published in the International Journal of Biological sciences examined the health effects of three different varieties of Monsanto-developed GMO corn on mice.
While the specific effects differed depending upon the variety of GMO corn that was eaten the dose that was consumed
and the sex of the mammal all three varieties of GMO corn caused damage to the animals major detoxifying organs namely the liver and the kidneys.
Other effects were also found in the heart adrenal glands spleen bone marrow lymph nodes and other blood-making organsã¢Â#Âll of which are signs of severe toxicity. 3. This past year Food Chemical Toxicology published the results of a two-year study conducted by scientists at the University of Caen
and female rats the death rates for the animals fed GMO corn was two to three times higher than the animals eating non-GMO corn.
The GMO-fed mice were also four times more likely to develop tumors. GMO-eating females developed more mammary tumors as well as pituitary gland and hormonal abnormalities.
Other studies are beginning to discover certain insects that are adapting to GMO corn s inherent insecticide abilities.
While one study found that 0. 97 ppm of formaldehyde is toxic to mammals GMO corn was found to contain 200 times that amount. these comments...
To print the liver tissue at Organovo Vivian Gorgen a 25-year-old systems engineer simply had to click run program with a mouse.
Then they graduated to larger mammalian cells farmed from Chinese hamsters and lab rats. After printing 90 percent of the cells remained viable
There are some pretty significant species differences between animals like rats and humans says Organovo's Presnell.
So you can get a lovely answer from a rat that says'Yeah go forth!''And in reality in a human it would not do well.
At Stanford researchers have tried to get around this problem by breeding mice with livers made up mostly of human cells.
A study published in October showed the mice predicted how well a drug for treating hepatitis C would be metabolized by humans.
People normally do a reaction purify the chemicals take the drug add it to cells look at the response formulate maybe do animals
The same would be found in cuticles of the fingernail âÂ#ÂTHE thing here is that to grow new STUPH cell division must take place.
or fingernail cuticle (instigating cell division) would help in cell division of cells in a packed state.
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