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Cambodian vulture nests offer hope for species
02-06-2007 · EurekAlert!Working in the remote forests of Cambodia, conservationists from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) have just discovered Southeast Asia's only known breeding colony of slender-billed vultures, one of the world's most threatened bird species.
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- Rare soft-shell turtle, nesting ground found in Cambodia
05-16-2007 · EurekAlert!
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. Scientists from Conservation International, World Wildlife Fund, the Cambodian Fisheries Administration and the Cambodian Turtle Conservation Team captured and released an 11-kilogram (24.2-pound) female Cantor's giant softshell turtle (Pelochelys cantorii) during a survey in March.
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- Soft contacts designed for cone-shaped cornea
05-17-2007 · EurekAlert!
Custom-designed contacts improved vision for subjects with keratoconic eyes and offer hope of nonsurgical treatment instead of corneal transplants. University of Rochester researchers describe the custom design techniques and results of visual acuity tests in a paper published in April in Optics Letters.
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- Smithsonian scientists working to save microscopic threatened species
09-26-2007 · EurekAlert!
The Smithsonian's National Zoo recently acquired 12,000 new animals -- microscopic Elkhorn coral larvae harvested by National Zoo scientists in Puerto Rico -- as part of an international collaborative program to raise the threatened species. National Zoo scientists hope to one day return the animals, once they are grown, to their wild ocean habitat.
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- How we can stop stress from making us obese
07-01-2007 · EurekAlert!
New findings on the mechanisms that trigger stress-induced obesity, published today in Nature Medicineonline, could offer hope to millions.
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- New population of Iberian lynx raises hope, says World Wildlife Fund
10-23-2007 · EurekAlert!
Spanish authorities have announced they have discovered a previously unknown population of Iberian lynx, triggering hope for one of the world's most endangered cat species, said World Wildlife Fund today.
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- Could 'hairy roots' become biofactories?
10-30-2007 · EurekAlert!
Rice University bioengineers have reported an advance in tapping the immense potential of 'hairy roots' as natural factories to produce medicines, food flavorings and other commercial products. The study, published in next month's Biotechnology Progress, focuses on a species of periwinkle that produces the anti-cancer drugs vincristine and vinblastine. Scientists hope to use the findings to boost production of the drugs.
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- Glimmer of hope for Tahitian tree snails' survival
07-02-2007 · EurekAlert!
Despite the mass extermination of Tahiti's unique species of tree snails in recent decades, much of their original genetic diversity can still be found in remnant populations that survive on the island, researchers report in the July 3 issue of Current Biology, a Cell Press publication.
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- Rice chemists create, grow nanotube seeds
11-17-2006 · EurekAlert!
Rice University chemists have revealed the first method for cutting carbon nanotubes into "seeds" and using those seeds to sprout new nanotubes. The findings offer hope that seeded growth may one day produce the large quantities of pure nanotubes needed for dozens of materials applications. The research is available online in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
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- Soils offer new hope as carbon sink
05-31-2007 · EurekAlert!
The huge potential of agricultural soils to reduce greenhouse gases and increase production at the same time has been reinforced by new research findings from the NSW Department of Primary Industries'. Trials of agrichar -- a product hailed as a savior of Australia's carbon-depleted soils and the environment -- have doubled and, in one case, tripled crop growth when applied at the rate of 10 tons per hectare. Agrichar is a black carbon byproduct of a process called pyrolysis.
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- Mother birds 'engineer' their offspring
05-22-2007 · EurekAlert!
Bird species that have relatively long incubation periods and short nestling periods for their body size have higher concentration of androstenedione than those species whose developmental time is shifted towards relatively longer stays in the nest than in the egg. This is an advantage depending on the predators. There is a relationship between egg levels of androstenedione and colony size, suggesting that mothers prepare their offspring for the social conditions.
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