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Report: Nearly all native birds in Hawaii in peril

Biology / Ecology

created Mar 20, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Hawaii's native avian population is in peril, with nearly all the state's birds in danger of becoming extinct, a federal report says.





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Transmitting prion diseases in milk

Biology /

created Apr 08, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Scrapie can be transmitted to lambs through milk, according to new research published in the online open access journal BMC Veterinary Research. The study provides important information on the transmission of this prion-associated ...


Study confirms vCJD could be transmitted by blood transfusion

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 29, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The findings underline the importance of precautions against vCJD transmission, such as the Government decision in 2004 to ban blood donations from anyone who had received a blood transfusion since 1980.


Researchers find new bartonella species that infects humans

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jan 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers at North Carolina State University and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have produced the first link between a species of bacteria most commonly found in sheep and human illness.


Variant of mad cow disease may be transmitted by blood transfusions, according to animal study

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Aug 28, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Blood transfusions are a valuable treatment mechanism in modern medicine, but can come with the risk of donor disease transmission. Researchers are continually studying the biology of blood products to understand how certain ...


Rare sheep could be key to better diagnostic tests in developing world, study

Rare sheep could be key to better diagnostic tests in developing world, study

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jul 04, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The newest revolution in microbiology testing walks on four legs and says "baa."


Prion infectivity found in white and brown fat tissues of mice

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created Dec 05, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers from the National Institutes of Health and the Scripps Research Institute have found novel prion infectivity in white and brown fat tissues of mice. The study appears December 5 in the open-access journal PLoS Pa ...


A nano-sensor for better detection of Mad Cow Disease agent

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Mar 03, 2008 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

In an advance in food safety, researchers in New York are reporting development of a nano-sized sensor that detects record low levels of the deadly prion proteins that cause Mad Cow Disease and other so-called prion diseases. ...


Species barrier may protect macaques from chronic wasting disease

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jul 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Data from an ongoing multi-year study suggest that people who consume deer and elk with chronic wasting disease (CWD) may be protected from infection by an inability of the CWD infectious agent to spread to people. The results ...


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Baby's first dreams: Research reveals sleep cycles in early fetus

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Apr 13, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 3

After about seven months growing in the womb, a human fetus spends most of its time asleep. Its brain cycles back and forth between the frenzied activity of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep and the quiet resting ...


Is there more to prion protein than mad cow disease?

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 30, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Prion protein, a form of protein that triggers BSE, is associated with other brain diseases in cattle, raising the possibility of a significant increase in the range of prion disease. Publishing their findings in the open ...



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