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Study helps assess global status of tuna and billfish stocks

A global study by an international team including professor John Graves of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science has found that several species of tunas and billfishes are threatened and in need of further ...

Biology / Ecology

created Aug 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers study threats to white sturgeon

University of Georgia researchers are working to understand why the nation's largest freshwater fish, the white sturgeon, is struggling in northern California's Sacramento-San Joaquin Bay Delta, an environmentally endangered ...

Biology / Ecology

created Aug 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Is hunting wolves key to their conservation?

Hunters have been credited with being strong conservation advocates for numerous game species in multiple countries. Would initiating a wolf hunt invoke the same advocacy for the carnivores?

Biology / Ecology

created Aug 08, 2011 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

St. Michael's North America first to use novel blood-cleaning procedure for kidney transplant

St. Michael's Hospital today became the first in North America to use a novel blood-cleaning procedure for a kidney patient that will allow him to receive a transplant from a donor with a different blood type.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jul 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Elimination of national kidney allocation policy improves minority access to transplants

A new study published in the American Journal of Transplantation reveals that since the elimination of the kidney allocation priority for matching for HLA-B on May 7, 2003, access to kidney transplantation for minorities has be ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jul 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Obama 2012 campaign to go beyond email, text

(AP) -- Call him the Digital Candidate: President Barack Obama is asking supporters to use Facebook to declare "I'm In!" for his re-election campaign and is using Twitter to personally blast out messages ...

Technology / Internet

created Jun 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

A grain of hope in the desert: Arabian oryx leaps back from near-extinction

(PhysOrg.com) -- The regal Arabian Oryx (Oryx leucoryx), which was hunted to near extinction, is now facing a more secure future according to the latest update of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Its ...

Biology / Ecology

created Jun 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 4

Oral appliance therapy improves craniofacial growth direction and snoring

According to new research that will be presented Saturday, June 11, at the 20th Anniversary Meeting of the American Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine (AADSM), children with enlarged tonsils and adenoids who wore an oral appliance ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New study provides global analysis of seagrass extinction risk

A team of 21 researchers from 11 nations, including professor Robert "JJ" Orth of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, has completed the first-ever study of the risk of extinction for individual seagrass ...

Biology / Ecology

created May 25, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

HIV-infected donors present novel source of organs for HIV-infected transplant candidates

A new study published in the American Journal of Transplantation reveals that HIV-infected deceased donors represent a potentially novel source of organs for HIV-infected transplant candidates that could decrease waitlist ...

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created May 23, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Deepwater Horizon spill threatens more species than legally protected

Marine species facing threats from the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico far exceed those under legal protection in the United States, a new paper in the journal BioScience finds. Univer ...

Biology / Ecology

created May 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

US removes gray wolf from endangered list

The US government said Wednesday it is formally removing about 1,300 gray wolves in the Rocky Mountain region from the endangered species list, capping a legal battle that has dragged on for years.

Biology / Ecology

created May 04, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 90

Wolves to come off endangered list within 60 days

(AP) -- Federal wildlife officials say they will take more than 1,300 gray wolves in the Northern Rockies off the endangered species list within 60 days.

Biology / Ecology

created Apr 16, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 10

US banks, companies issue warning after email hack

Computer hackers gained access to the email addresses of customers of several large US banks and other companies in a potentially huge data breach at US online marketing firm Epsilon. ...

Technology / Internet

created Apr 04, 2011 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

TripAdvisor email list hacked, passwords secure

TripAdvisor said Thursday that hackers had stolen a portion of the online travel site's email list and warned members of the possibility of receiving junk mail messages.

Technology / Internet

created Mar 24, 2011 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 2