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Researchers Study Myelin to Help Improve Piglet Survival
2014-02-07 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
US - About 10 to 20 per cent of piglets do not survive to weaning, and five to ten per cent are stillborn. Unlocking the effects of myelin production, an important aspect of brain development, in piglets may be one of the keys to their survival.
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Pfizer's experimental breast cancer drug meets study's survival goal
2014-02-03 22:56:16| Biotech - Topix.net
A linear accelerator used to treat cancer is shown at a hospital in Johnstown, Pa., in this September 2012 file photo.
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Corridors to Survival: Charting a Path to Combat Climate Change in the Tropics
2014-02-03 11:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: The concept of habitat corridors in conservation has been around for a while. Its a topic at global climate talks and an issue for NGOs eager to create pathways for survival between protected areas. For all the talk, there hasnt been much research to help execute a plan. A team of scientists at Woods Hole Research Center in Falmouth, Mass., has stepped into this scientific vacuum in the tropics. Using newly available, high-resolution data sets of vegetation carbon stocks gleaned from satellite...
Battle for Survival May Yield the Rain Forests Diversity
2014-01-02 20:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: The diversity of a tropical rain forest can be hard to fathom for people who have not seen one. Three acres of jungle may be home to more than 650 species of trees more species than grow in the entire continental United States and Canada combined. Its tempting to look at all those species living so close together as a picture of peaceful coexistence. But Phyllis D. Coley and Thomas A. Kursar, a husband-and-wife team of ecologists at the University of Utah, see them as war zones. Hordes of insects...
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Orangutans fight survival as thirst for palm oil devastates rainforest
2013-12-15 01:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Even in the first light of dawn in the Tripa swamp forest of Sumatra it is clear that something is terribly wrong. Where there should be lush foliage stretching away towards the horizon, there are only the skeletons of trees. Smoke drifts across a scene of devastation. Tripa is part of the Leuser Ecosystem, one of the world's most ecologically important rainforests and once home to its densest population of Sumatran orangutans. As recently as 1990, there were 60,000 hectares of swamp forest...
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