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Overfertilizing Corn Undermines Ethanol: Researchers Find Feeding Crops Too Heavily Bad for Biofuel, Environment
31.3.2011 | Press monitoring
The researchers found that liberal use of nitrogen fertilizer to maximize grain yields from corn crops results in only marginally more usable cellulose from leaves and stems. And when the grain is used for food and the cellulose is processed for biofuel, pumping up the rate of nitrogen fertilization actually makes it more difficult to extract...
Human Virus Linked to Deaths of Endangered Mountain Gorillas; Finding Confirms That Serious Diseases Can Pass to Gorillas from People
30.3.2011 | Press monitoring
For the first time, a virus that causes respiratory disease in humans has been linked to the deaths of wild mountain gorillas, reports a team of researchers in the United States and Africa.
Eskimo Study Suggests High Consumption of Omega-3s in Fish-Rich Diet Reduces Obesity-Related Disease Risk
29.3.2011 | Press monitoring
A study of Yup'ik Eskimos in Alaska, who on average consume 20 times more omega-3 fats from fish than people in the lower 48 states, suggests that a high intake of these fats helps prevent obesity-related chronic diseases such as diabetes and heart disease.
Wealth of Orchid Varieties Is Down to Busy Bees and Helpful Fungi, Says Study
28.3.2011 | Press monitoring
Scientists have discovered why orchids are one of the most successful groups of flowering plants - it is all down to their relationships with the bees that pollinate them and the fungi that nourish them.
A Dose of Safflower Oil Each Day Might Help Keep Heart Disease at Bay
25.3.2011 | Press monitoring
A daily dose of safflower oil, a common cooking oil, for 16 weeks can improve such health measures as good cholesterol, blood sugar, insulin sensitivity and inflammation in obese postmenopausal women who have Type 2 diabetes, according to new research.
Children of Mothers Who Smoked During Pregnancy at Increased Risk of Becoming Smokers, Mouse Study Suggests
24.3.2011 | Press monitoring
New research has revealed that prenatal exposure to nicotine increases the vulnerability to nicotine self-administration in adolescent mice. The results support the hypothesis that adolescents with prenatal nicotine exposure are more likely to start smoking earlier than their peers and that they are also more susceptible to the addictive effects...
Fish Know to Avoid the Spear
23.3.2011 | Press monitoring
Fish are not as dumb as people sometimes think. Marine scientists have found that fish that are regularly hunted with spearguns are much more wary and keep their distance from fishers.
Metabolite levels may be able to improve diabetes risk prediction
22.3.2011 | Press monitoring
Measuring the levels of small molecules in the blood may be able to identify individuals at elevated risk of developing type 2 diabetes as much as a decade before symptoms of the disorder appear. In a report receiving advance online release in Nature Medicine, a team led by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers describes finding that...
Some Blind People 'See' With Their Ears, Neuropsychologists Show
18.3.2011 | Press monitoring
Dr. Olivier Collignon of the University of Montreal's Saint-Justine Hospital Research Centre compared the brain activity of people who can see and people who were born blind, and discovered that the part of the brain that normally works with our eyes to process vision and space perception can actually rewire itself to process sound information...
Could Giftedness Be Linked to Prenatal Exposure of Higher Levels of Hormones?
17.3.2011 | Press monitoring
University of Alberta researcher Marty Mrazik says being bright may be due to an excess level of a natural hormone.
