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Researchers discover mechanism that explains how cancer enzyme winds up on ends of chromosomes
Jul 10, 2008 |
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Human cancer cells divide and conquer. Unless physicians can control that division with surgery, chemotherapy or radiation, the wildly dividing cells will eventually destroy a person's life.
Researchers discover biological basis of 'bacterial immune system'
Nov 25, 2009 |
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Bacteria don't have easy lives. In addition to mammalian immune systems that besiege the bugs, they have natural enemies called bacteriophages, viruses that kill half the bacteria on Earth every two days.
Researchers discover biological basis of 'bacterial immune system'
Nov 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Bacteria don’t have easy lives. In addition to mammalian immune systems that besiege the bugs, they have natural enemies called bacteriophages, viruses that kill half the bacteria on Earth every two days.
Project succeeding to relocate Caspian terns
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Jun 16, 2008 |
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A major initiative to create alternative nesting sites for the largest colony of Caspian terns in the world – and to help protect juvenile salmon and steelhead in the Columbia River – is finding early success.
Town beach between canal and a hard place
Mar 30, 2008 |
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Jetties built decades ago to protect the Cape Cod Canal in Massachusetts appear to be starving nearby beaches, threatening them with erosion.
Flourishing eagles feast on Maine's rare seabirds
May 16, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Bald eagles, bouncing back after years of decline, are swaggering forth with an appetite for great cormorant chicks that threatens to wipe out that bird population in the United States.
Restoring fish populations leads to tough choice for Great Lakes Gulls
May 14, 2008 |
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You might think that stocking the Great Lakes with things like trout and salmon would be good for the herring gull. The birds often eat from the water, so it would be natural to assume that more fish would mean better dining. ...
Rising sea threatens coastline
Jan 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Experts at The University of Manchester are to produce a detailed picture of the public’s views on the uncertain future of a 250-mile-stretch of coastline.
Why do birds migrate?
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Mar 01, 2007 |
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Why do some birds fly thousands of miles back and forth between breeding and non-breeding areas every year whereas others never travel at all?
Scientists look for reasons behind herring decline
Sep 15, 2009 |
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In an ominous environmental sign, California regulators this month closed all herring fishing in San Francisco Bay for the first time ever, shutting down the last commercial fishery in the Bay.
Rare soft-shell turtle, nesting ground found in Cambodia
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May 16, 2007 |
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One of the world’s largest and least studied freshwater turtles has been found in Cambodia’s Mekong River, raising hopes that the threatened species can be saved from extinction.
Ecological Impact of Bridge Design Is Not Trivial, UB Professors Say
May 05, 2008 |
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The latest delay in the construction of a new Peace Bridge between Buffalo and Ft. Erie, Ontario, may be trying the patience of Western New Yorkers, but the region has more to lose than time if it erects a bridge that destroys ...
Salmon smolt survival similar in Columbia and Fraser rivers
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Oct 28, 2008 |
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A new study by researchers in Oregon and British Columbia has found that survival of juvenile salmon and steelhead during their migration to the sea through two large Northwest rivers – the Columbia and the Fraser – is remarkably ...
