Recent experiments show how Avian flu may become transmissible among mammals. In an era of constant and rapid international travel,
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,
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.
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.
They demanded that all its 800 animals (mostly genetically modified mice) be transferred into their care.
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 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.
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.
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.
It also had flattened a beaver tail around the vertical stabilizer an aft cockpit machine gun and no wing armaments.
The Bt endotoxin is considered safe for humans other mammals fish birds and the environment because of its selectivity.
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.
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.
Save the seals choose invitro. Thats the name brand I'll choose Tasty Invitro Meats or TIM'sbeef chicken or Exotic:
Those 28 calories of grass the cow uses to make a calorie of beef are mostly celuloise a long chain poly-sacaride that is indigestable to humans and most other mammals.
#The Odd Way Beavers Impact Climate Changewhen the industrious beaver scurries around being its toothy self cutting down trees
When beavers build a dam impeding the natural flow of water the river begins to overflow more often creating a sediment-rich wetland area known as a beaver meadow.
A new study from Colorado State university geology professor Ellen Wohl finds that these beaver meadows store carbon temporarily sequestering greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.
With reductions in the beaver population we're missing out on a whole lot of potential carbon storage.
Between 60 million to 400 million beavers once lived across 60 percent of North america but European settlers substantially reduced the population through hunting and trapping.
When beaver populations relocate and abandon their dams beaver meadows eventually dry up into grasslands and the wood and organic matter buried there begins to decompose
and release carbon dioxide. This suggests that beavers play an important role in keeping the ecosystem resilient against climate change drought and wildfire the study notes.
Wohl found that the abandoned beaver dams she studied made up around 8 percent of the carbon storage in the landscape
and that if beavers were still actively maintaining those dams the number would be closer to 23 percent.
As such wiping out most of the continent's beaver population during pre-Colonial times probably had quite an impact on the climate.
Beavers: Squirreling away our carbon log by log. The study appears in Geophysical Research Letters.
Science via Phys. org Considering we're at a critical carbon deficit right now it's about time to start wiping these pudgy menaces out for good!
Cute Beaver and interesting article too. Critical carbon deficit? WTF are you talking about?@@Frosttty for most of the history of the world we have had significantly more atmospheric carbon than we do now.
The beaver is a destructive animal that needs to be hunted or exterminated. A single beaver can
and will build a dam that will flood and create a pond anywhere from 2 to 10 acres.
As far as the release of carbon dioxide with the European/Colonial settlement of North america and the beaver trapping that occurred from the 1500's to the 1800's-give me a break.
Beavers continue to cut down trees and brush AFTER their dam and ponds are built-yes the destruction exceeds the pond area.
Beaver teeth grow through out their life like most rodents and they must alway chew/grind on something.
Why doesn't the author try to calculate how much forest was saved (carbon dioxide sequestered) by trapping the beavers?
We could easily return half the world's farmland to wilderness for Beaver and other wetland creatures and live longer healthier lives just by adopting a vegetarian diet.
Reading some of these comments it's clear that it's not enough that beavers sequester carbon raise the water table augment the density
what kind of startling data it will take to convince readers that beavers really are worth a dam!
But the fact is that it takes a lot more than beavers to feed the estimated 7 billion people that populate the earth.
So what does all this have to do with beavers? How many dam beavers would it take to help us out?
And do we even have the room for them on our rivers and streams? And could that land be used instead in better more efficient ways?
Not beavers. Today's magic is tomorrow's technology...aside from dams and environmental'landscaping'they also make great hats and jackets.
On a side note of beavers beaver hat trivial...One of the legends about Daniel Boone is the type of cap
My father Daniel Boone always despised the racoon fur caps and did not wear one himself as he always had a hat.
Instead the aim is to induce one species to grow an organ of the other not a combination of two species. He's done this with mice and rats;
back in 2010 he successfully induced a mouse embryo to grow a rat pancreas by using rat stem cells.
ONE NASA MONKEY OUTER SPACE SHOT FOR THE MOON AND REMOTE ORBIT LUNAR FLIGHT SPLASH DOWNFOR J f k. & JOHN GLENN ONE STALIN GORBACHAVESPUTNIK!
SHOT HIS WIFE EVA BRONAND DOG WITH A DEAF EDITH PIAF!>?>AND A War Bunker Phone!
Nazi JOHN BOEHNER Old pomp. ugandas rome fiat dicks. on kissinger wolf blitzerall pissed for fiat hans blix youthennazi's!
ONE NASA MONKEY OUTER SPACE SHOT FOR THE MOON AND REMOTE ORBIT LUNAR FLIGHT SPLASH DOWNFOR J f k. & JOHN GLENN ONE STALIN GORBACHAVESPUTNIK!
SHOT HIS WIFE EVA BRONAND DOG WITH A DEAF EDITH PIAF!>?>AND A War Bunker Phone!
Higher animals such as primates and dolphins evolved in a greenhouse earth. Earth was damaged by an evasive plant species that kicked a series of global catastrophes called icebox earth
Even so I think we should dump Drill baby drill! and start changing Bring on the thorium!
Hansen is a living example of the idea that a chimpanzee randomly typing will occasionally generate something coherent.
Even organisms that eat aquatic organisms should be calibrated to account for this (for example a seal that was dated to be 1400 years old.
Plague-carrying rats and other vermin were destroyed. Disinfectants were used freely and fumigation resorted to when necessary in handling contagious diseases.
which unlike the imported vaccines has been demonstrated to provide protection against bacterium infection in the small ruminants like goats and sheep.
In particular lights that doubled as cellphone chargers helped small businesses in two ways: The lights kept an owner's store illuminated at night driving more traffic to it
and the owner could rent the light as a charger for customers'cellphones. Interestingly the researchers found that in all cases microentrepreneurs tended to prefer products that were not necessarily the cheapest available:
#Human activities threaten Sumatran tiger populationsumatran tigers found exclusively on the Indonesian island of Sumatra are on the brink of extinction.
and locations of the island's dwindling tiger population has been up for debate. Virginia Tech and World Wildlife Fund researchers have found that tigers in central Sumatra live at very low densities lower than previously believed according to a study in the April 2013 issue of Oryx--The International Journal of Conservation.
The findings by Sunarto who earned his doctorate from Virginia Tech in 2011 and co-researchers Marcella Kelly an associate professor of wildlife in the College of Natural resources and Environment and Erin Poor of East Lansing Mich. a doctoral student studying wildlife science and geospatial
environmental analysis in the college suggest that high levels of human activity limit the tiger population.
which could inform interventions needed to save the tiger. Tigers are threatened not only by habitat loss from deforestation and poaching;
they are also very sensitive to human disturbance said Sunarto a native of Indonesia where people typically have one name.
The smallest surviving tiger subspecies Sumatran tigers are extremely elusive and may live at densities as low as one cat per 40 square miles.
This is the first study to compare the density of Sumatran tigers across various forest types including the previously unstudied peat land.
The research applied spatial estimation techniques to provide better accuracy of tiger density than previous studies.
Sunarto a tiger and elephant specialist with World Wildlife Fund-Indonesia collaborated on the paper with Kelly Professor Emeritus Michael Vaughan
and Sybille Klenzendorf managing director of WWF's Species Conservation Program who earned her master's and doctoral degrees in wildlife science from Virginia Tech.
Getting evidence of the tigers'presence was said difficult Kelly. It took an average of 590 days for camera traps to get an image of each individual tiger recorded.
We believe the low detection of tigers in the study area of central Sumatra was a result of the high level of human activity--farming hunting trapping
and gathering of forest products Sunarto said. We found a low population of tigers in these areas even
when there was an abundance of prey animals. Legal protection of an area followed by intensive management can reduce the level of human disturbance
and facilitate the recovery of the habitat and as well as tiger numbers. The researchers documented a potentially stable tiger population in the study region's Tesso Nilo Park where legal efforts are in place to discourage destructive human activities.
The study--Threatened predator on the equator: Multi-point abundance estimates of the tiger Panthera tigris in central Sumatra--indicates that more intensive monitoring
and proactive management of tiger populations and their habitats are crucial or this tiger subspecies will soon follow the fate of its extinct Javan and Balinese relatives.
Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by Virginia Tech (Virginia Polytechnic institute and State university.
Note: Materials may be edited for content and length. Journal Reference e
#2-D electronics take a step forward: Semiconducting films for atom-thick circuitsscientists at Rice university and Oak ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have advanced on the goal of two-dimensional electronics with a method to control the growth of uniform atomic layers of molybdenum disulfide (MDS.
Species of animals that are more vocal in their expression like macaques parrots or the zebra finch used in the Jove article are unique as they provide a landscape for scientists to study song acquisition storage and regurgitation.
and study in laboratories than other vocal animals like apes. By utilizing a high-resolution functional magnetic resonance imaging apparatus (fmri) Dr. Van der Linden
Until recently fmri in small animals was focused mainly on rats and to a lesser extent on mice Dr. Van der Linden explains.
Thus far songbird brains have been studied using electrophysiological and histological techniques. However these approaches do not provide a global view of the brain
In its perfect crystalline form graphene (a one-atom-thick carbon layer) is the strongest material ever measured as the Columbia Engineering team reported in Science in 2008--so strong that as Hone observed it would take an elephant balanced on a pencil to break through a sheet
#Monkey teeth help reveal Neanderthal weaningmost modern human mothers wean their babies much earlier than our closest primate relatives.
and from monkeys at the California National Primate Research center at the University of California Davis. Using the new technique the researchers concluded that at least one Neanderthal baby was weaned at much the same age as most modern humans.
Just as tree rings record the environment in which a tree grew traces of barium in the layers of a primate tooth can tell the story of
what age it was weaned said Katie Hinde professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard university and an affiliate scientist at the UC Davis Primate Center.
and behavior among rhesus macaques at UC Davis. The team was able to determine exact timing of birth
By studying monkey teeth and comparing them to center records they could show that the technique was accurate almost to the day.
The technique opens up extensive opportunities to further investigate lactation in fossils and museum collections of primate teeth.
Yet recent investigations of wild chimpanzees have shown that the first molar eruption occurs toward the end of weaning.
By applying these new techniques to primate teeth in museum collections we can more precisely assess maternal investment across individuals within species as well as life history evolution among species Hinde said.
Also known as elephant grass miscanthus is one of a new generation of renewable energy crops that can be converted into renewable energy by being burned in biomass power stations.
either crystalline or amorphous but these categories were probably more reflec tive of the limitations of imaging methods than the underlying structural organization of the cellulose says Jerome Fox lead author of the Nature Chemical Biology paper
and Fox other co-authors of the paper A single-molecule analysis reveals morphological targets for cellulase synergy were Phillip Jess Rakesh Jambusaria and Genny Moo.
Microorganisms in the rumen--the largest chamber in the cow's stomach--modify most of the ingested fats and turn them into saturated fats.
and Research Project Office Morgan Simpson of NASA Ground Processing Directorate and Ray Wheeler Ph d. of the Surface Systems office in NASA's Engineering and Technology Directorate also provided guidance
or a bat with a short face that gives it the bite force to penetrate hard figs.
The researchers also unveiled an engineering model of a skull that can be manipulated computationally to morph into the shape of any New world Leaf-nosed bat species to help uncover evidence for selection in long-extinct organisms.
Nectar feeding bats comprised one of three evolutionary optima for mechanical advantage among New world Leaf-nosed bats. Photo credit:
The key finding is that in a highly diverse group--New world Leaf-nosed bats--selection for mechanical advantage has shaped three distinct optimal skull shapes that correspond to feeding niches Dr. Dá
The research team investigated adaptive radiation--the explosive evolution of species into new ecological niches powered by natural selection--of New world Leaf-nosed bats.
Their skulls mirror the variety of their diets--bats with long and narrow snouts eat nectar;
snouts of species that eat other foods are intermediate in shape. The team's approach to identifying natural selection for mechanical function combined both evolutionary and engineering analyses.
The researchers first built the three-dimensional finite element model to simulate bat skulls with myriad combinations of snout length and width.
and engineering (dark blue) models for the base model of the omnivorous bat Carollia perspicillata (B) and the morphed models for the nectar-feeding Glossophaga soricina (A)
and the specialized fig-eating Short-faced bat Centurio senex (C). They then analyzed the models to determine structural strength and mechanical advantage--the efficiency and hardness of the bats'bite.
Finally they studied the engineering results across hundreds of evolutionary trees of the bats to uncover the three optimal snout shapes favored by natural selection.
Nectar feeders have very low mechanical advantage--a trade-off for having long narrow snouts that fit into the flowers in
Distribution of hypothetical species based on snout length and width. A single model was morphed to represent species within the entire space
#Morphing bat skull model: Using engineering plus evolutionary analyses to answer natural selection questionsintroducing a new approach that combines evolutionary
valos of Stony Brook University and support from the National Science Foundation studied the evolutionary histories of the adaptive radiation of New world leaf-nosed bats based on their dietary niches.
They set out to tackle this by examining almost 200 species of New world leaf-nosed bats that exploit many different food niches:
Species with long narrow snouts eat nectar while short-faced bats have exceptionally short wide palates for eating hard fruits.
Species that eat other foods have shaped snouts somewhere in between. Dumont explains further We knew diet was associated with those things
She and colleagues built an engineering model of a bat skull that can morph into the shape of any species
and used it to create skulls with all possible combinations of snout length and width.
Analyzing the engineering results over hundreds of evolutionary trees of New world leaf-nosed bats revealed three optimal snout shapes favored by natural selection they report.
One was the long narrow snout of nectar feeders the second was the extremely short and wide snout of short-faced bats
which is a trade-off for having long narrow snouts that fit into the flowers in
The old way of doing it was getting pot from your dealer down the street who maybe got it from a source that grew it in a relatively unsavory environment like a garage where you're dealing with chemicals, molds, mice.
of course--but the major environmental pollution problem at the turn of the century was the millions of pounds of manure in city streets produced by horses used for transport.
It may not be quite as visible or an assault on our senses as horse manure but it's just as significant.
Scientific efforts to resurrect mammoths and other extinct species through cloning technology point toward a cheaper solution,
Joseph Wolf (1898), via Wikimedia) But returning to the merits of Mulligan's proposal, remember that resurrecting dead
Russian and Japanese scientists announced early in December that they hoped to clone a mammoth within five years,
So we're using cellulosic biomass waste streams--corn cobs, treetops and limbs, dead pine trees from pine beetles.
The emerging trends are corn cobs--that's what Dupont, Denisco and Verenium are using.
Corn cobs are easy to break down into sugar. But that's not a solution to the cellulosic fuel problem.
They have the lion's share of water rights. With low-flow irrigation and other off-the-shelf devices, we're reducing it by 50 to 70 percent.
and mice for the purpose of adding bite marks to pieces. Instead of relying on a quick dirt rub for faked pottery,
Intricate designs and seals (red marks made with printing stamps which appraisers have placed traditionally great importance on as a way to authenticate objects) can be copied by lasers with great precision.
if we lost the diversity of life, the monkeys, jaguars, whales for instance. They are all in trouble too.
oebig Dog Robot, The Stanley self-driving car (originally covered in THE FUTURIST in May-June 2006.
'hack'has been given a more positive connotation by Gensler: to change or improve an office building. In Gensler concept, a hackable building is oean existing structure that has been adapted beyond recognition quickly incorporating a diverse mix of multiple uses within a one.
Hacks range from tenant-driven changes to investments made by owners to reposition their asset.
Large-scale hacks can create spaces beyond standard amenities like cafes and fitness centers to oeattractors-or unique building amenities-like fabrication labs,
and the public. oethe building owner can perform hacks as incentives for existing tenants to remain,
Building hacks vary from low-cost additions and renovations to larger, strategic investments in the existing structure. oethe rapid influence of technology on how everyday work tasks are completed has decentralized many of the office-centric activities that governed North american office building design,
< Back - Next >
Overtext Web Module V3.0 Alpha
Copyright Semantic-Knowledge, 1994-2011