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Rabies Research Designed for Prevention

By Guest PostSeptember 17, 2013Health, Sciencecdc, heidi brown, hot-spot, human populations, michael acoba, mount lemmon, pima county, pima county officials, prevention, public education, rabies case, rabies research, robert clark, surrounding mountains, university of arizona, viral disease, wildlife

UA undergraduate researcher Robert Clark, his public health mentor and Pima County officials collaborated on an investigation of rabies cases in Pima County.

In a volunteer opportunity turned research project, University of Arizona undergraduate researcher Robert Clark has developed a comprehensive, multi-year snapshot of animal cases of rabies in Pima County.

Clark began working with a mentor in the UA Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health and county officials to learn about the seasonality of rabies in animals and identify exactly where rabid animals were most often found. (more…)

Bing.com and FOX News team up to bring real-time online polling to nightly news; Bing Pulse featured on ‘Special Report with Bret Baier’

By Guest PostSeptember 16, 2013Technologyamericans, bing, bing pulse, Facebook, fnc, fox news, friday editions, josh gottheimer, microsoft corp., opinions, social networks, special report, Twitter, vote

With Bing Pulse, viewers become a part of the conversation.

REDMOND, Wash. — Sept. 16, 2013 — Bing.com and FOX News Channel (FNC) are teaming up on the Bing Pulse online voting tool, enabling viewers to share their opinions and reactions to news commentary in real time online at https://Bing.com/politics. With the new feature, viewers will have the opportunity to interact with the panel segment on FNC’s “Special Report with Bret Baier” (weeknights at 6 p.m. ET) to offer their feedback instantaneously.

“This is a first for evening news,” said Josh Gottheimer, general manager of Strategic and Special Projects at Microsoft Corp. “With the Bing Pulse, viewers get a seat at the table to weigh in on the discussion. It’s the perfect marriage of the Internet, Bing’s big data technology and television news programming.” (more…)

„Die große Chance, die Arktis zu schützen, bevor sie zerstört wird“

By Guest PostSeptember 16, 2013EnvironmentCO2, die arktis, die grosse chance, dms, esperanza, expedition, fjord wasser, geomar helmholtz zentrum, Greenpeace, greenpeace schiff esperanza, groenland, iris menn, kohlensaeure, meeresoekosystem, michael sswat, organischen kohlenstoff, ozeanforschung kiel, ozeanversauerung, savethearctic, universitaet maine, usa, zu schuetzen

Wie wirkt sich die Versauerung der Ozeane in 20, 40 oder gar 100 Jahren aus? Heute hat das GEOMAR Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel die Ergebnisse eines Experiments aus dem Jahr 2010 veröffentlicht – das Greenpeace mit einer Schiffstour in die Arktis unterstützt hat. Iris Menn, Meeresbiologin, erinnert sich im Interview an die Expedition.

Der zunehmende Ausstoß von Treibhausgasen macht nicht nur dem Klima zu schaffen. Unsere Meere nehmen CO2 aus der Atmosphäre auf, das sich im Wasser zu Kohlensäure wandelt. Steigender CO2-Ausstoß lässt auch die Aufnahme in das Meer steigen – das Wasser wird sauer. (more…)

Love thy neighbor: It could lower your risk of stroke

By Guest PostSeptember 16, 2013Healthchristopher peterson, diabetes, eric kim, heart problems, high blood pressure, love thy neighbor, lower, nansook park, neighborhood, neighborhood social cohesion, people, psychological factors, risk of stroke, social climate, social environment, trustworthy, university of michigan

ANN ARBOR — Here’s some neighborly advice for adults over age 50: Stay friendly with your neighbors.

A new University of Michigan study shows that adults in this age bracket who live in a good neighborhood with trustworthy people lowered their risk of stroke up to 48 percent.

Feeling connected with neighbors builds what researchers describe as “neighborhood social cohesion.” The trust and connection with neighbors was associated with a reduced risk of stroke above and beyond the effects of negative psychological factors—such as depression and anxiety, said Eric Kim, a doctoral student in the U-M Department of Psychology and the study’s lead author. (more…)

The final nail in the Jurassic Park coffin

By Guest PostSeptember 16, 2013Sciencecontaminating modern molecules, copal, david penney, dna expert, dna from ambers, dna from insects, dna molecules, dna sequencing, final nail, jurassic park coffin, jurassic park scenario, pcr, polymerase chain reaction, recreating dinosaurs, sub fossilized insects, terry brown, university of manchester

It is hardly possible to talk about fossil insects in amber without the 1993 movie Jurassic Park entering the debate.

The idea of recreating dinosaurs by extracting DNA from insects in amber has held the fascination of the public for two decades. Claims for successful extraction of DNA from ambers up to 130 million-years-old by various scientists in the early 1990s were only seriously questioned when a study at the Natural History Museum, London, was unable to replicate the process. The original claims are now considered by many to be a text-book example of modern contaminant DNA in the samples. Nonetheless, some scientists hold fast to their original claims.

Research just published in the journal The Public Library of Science ONE (PLOS ONE) by a team of researchers from the Faculty of Life Sciences at The University of Manchester can now confirm that the existence of DNA in amber fossils is highly unlikely. The team led by amber expert Dr David Penney and co-ordinated by ancient DNA expert Professor Terry Brown used highly-sensitive ‘next generation’ sequencing techniques – the most advance type of DNA sequencing – on insects in copal, the sub-fossilized resin precursor of amber. (more…)

Wohnungsputz für Meise und Kleiber

By Guest PostSeptember 15, 2013Naturebrutzeit, guten stube, kleiber, meise, nabu, voegel, vogel nistkaesten, waldmaus, wohnungsputz

Der Spätsommer ist die richtige Zeit, die Vogel-Nistkästen zu reinigen

Im September hat der auch der letzte Vogelnachwuchs die Nistkästen verlassen. Nun gilt es, alte Nester mitsamt den darin lebenden Parasiten wie Vogelflöhen, Milben und Zecken aus den Kästen und Höhlen zu entfernen, damit die Vogelbrut im kommenden Jahr nicht übermäßig befallen wird.

Zum Reinigen dürfen niemals scharfe chemische Reinigungsmittel oder gar Desinfektionsmittel verwendet werden. Es reicht, wenn der Kasten gründlich ausgefegt wird. Bei starkem Parasitenbefall kann man auch mit klarem Wasser und gegebenenfalls etwas Sodalauge ausspülen. Anschließend sollte das Kasteninnere gut austrocknen können. Schließlich muss der Nistkasten nicht unsere Hygiene-Vorstellungen der eigenen “guten Stube” erfüllen. (more…)

How Yale doctors are making CT scans safer for kids

By Guest PostSeptember 15, 2013Healthct scan radiation, pediatric ct scans, pediatric imaging, pediatric radiation, radiation exposure, radiation induced cancer, yale doctors

Greater awareness and careful usage are bringing down the numbers of pediatric CT scans and cutting radiation exposure. Parents should weigh the benefits and risks.

(September 2013) If your child had a CT scan last year—perhaps to assess damage from a hockey injury or rule out appendicitis—he or she added to a huge statistic: more than 4 million pediatric CT scans were performed in the U.S in 2012. (more…)

Movement of marine life follows speed and direction of climate change

By Guest PostSeptember 15, 2013Environmentbering sea, biological data, british columbia, changes in temperature, climate change, climate data, climate velocity, daniel pauly, direction, geological features, gulf of alaska, jorge sarmiento, malin pinsky, marine life, movement, ocean temperature move, predictions, princeton university, Rutgers University, simon levin, speed, survey data, temperature change, united states, university, warmer oceans

Scientists expect climate change and warmer oceans to push the fish that people rely on for food and income into new territory. Predictions of where and when species will relocate, however, are based on broad expectations about how animals will move and have often not played out in nature. New research based at Princeton University shows that the trick to more precise forecasts is to follow local temperature changes.

The researchers report in the journal Science the first evidence that sea creatures consistently keep pace with “climate velocity,” or the speed and direction in which changes such as ocean temperature move. They compiled 43 years of data related to the movement of 128 million animals from 360 species living around North America, including commercial staples such as lobster, shrimp and cod. They found that 70 percent of shifts in animals’ depth and 74 percent of changes in latitude correlated with regional-scale fluctuations in ocean temperature. (more…)

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