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Sick fish may get sicker: Climate change and other stresses expected to affect entire populations of fish
Aug 03, 2009 |
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Entire populations of North American fish already are being affected by several emerging diseases, a problem that threatens to increase in the future with climate change and other stresses on aquatic ecosystems, according ...
Songs raise awareness about aquatic invasive species
May 06, 2009 |
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A new initiative at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is using music to raise public awareness about aquatic invasive species in the state.
New protein identified in bacterial arsenal
Mar 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Nearly a billion years ago, bacteria evolved an insidious means of infecting their hosts — a syringe-like mechanism able to inject cells with stealthy hijacker molecules. These molecules, ...
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Scientists link fat hormone to death from potentially deadly blood infection
Oct 23, 2009 |
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A new Canadian study has found that lower-than-normal levels of a naturally-occurring fat hormone may increase the risk of death from sepsis—an overwhelming infection of the blood which claims thousands of lives each year.
Microbes and their hosts -- exploring the complexity of symbiosis in DNA and cell biology
Jul 28, 2009 |
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The unique association between microorganisms and their hosts, whether insects, plants, or mammals, provides a fascinating view into how microbial symbionts adapt to changing biological environments. Insights into the diversity ...
Findings challenge common practice regarding glucose control for critically ill patients
Aug 26, 2008 |
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An analysis of randomized trials indicates that for critically ill adults, tight glucose control is not associated with a significantly reduced risk of death in the hospital, but is associated with an increased risk of hypoglycemia, ...
New ballast treatment could protect Great Lakes fish
Jun 04, 2008 |
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A Michigan Technological University professor has developed a new water treatment that could help keep a deadly fish disease out of Lake Superior.
Deadly fish virus VHSV spreading throughout Great Lakes Basin
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May 18, 2007 |
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A lethal fish virus in the Great Lakes and neighboring waterways is approaching epidemic proportions, according to Paul Bowser, Cornell professor of aquatic animal medicine in the College of Veterinary Medicine. ...
Deadly fish virus reaches Wisconsin lake
May 15, 2007 |
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State biologists weren't sure how a deadly fish virus would affect the fish population of Wisconsin's Lake Winnebago system.
Most Widely Used Organic Pesticide Requires Help to Kill
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Sep 26, 2006 |
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The world's most widely used organic insecticide, a plucky bacterium known as Bacillus thuringiensis or Bt for short, requires the assistance of other microbes to perform its insect-slaying work, a new study has found.
British infants to get meningitis vaccine
Aug 28, 2006 |
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British health officials are beginning an immunization program designed to prevent infants and young children from contacting meningitis and septicemia.
Rabbit flu takes British farmer's life
Aug 21, 2006 |
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A 29-year-old farmer is believed to be Britain's first fatal case of rabbit flu.
FDA: Don't eat oysters from Northwest
Aug 01, 2006 |
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued an advisory against eating raw oysters from the Pacific Northwest.
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