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| Nature's Path Expands Support of Amazon Conservation Team with $100,000 Grant (CNW Group via Yahoo! Finance) Nature's Path, North America's No. 1 organic cereal manufacturer, has awarded a $100,000 grant from its EnviroFund to the Amazon Conservation Team , enabling the environmental group to expand its educational and cultural programs focused on the children of the Amazon. us.rd.yahoo.com |
Allegheny County family wants answers (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review) Family members of an Allegheny County man shot and killed in a dispute at a Derry Township campground last summer want to know more. us.rd.yahoo.com |
Nature Helps Build a Backyard Feeding Ground (Washington Post) As winter approaches, drying stalks of snakeroot, black-eyed Susans and coneflowers serve as a buffet of tasty snacks to birds visiting Colleen Traylor's yard in Groveland Township, Mich. us.rd.yahoo.com |
News: Of Ants, Elephants and Acacias: A Tale of Ironic Interdependence Acacia trees are the iconic shrub of the East African savanna. Their thorny thickets house a host of creatures and provide sustenance to the local charismatic megafauna, from elephants to zebras. In light of this continual foraging, the plants have struck a mutually beneficial bargain with several species of ants. The insect armies swarm intrusive browsers in exchange for housing and food. But according to new research in Science, it appears that without such browsing--a state of affairs the acacia might be thought to long for--the trees suffer. rss.sciam.com |
News Bytes of the Week--Get rowdy at this pub and you'll get bounced by a bot [News] Is a cure for Alzheimer's just years away?German researchers report in Science that they developed a drug that may combat Alzheimer's disease, a neurodegenerative disorder that affects some five million Americans. The new therapy targets beta-secretase, an enzyme on neurons around which plaques (buildups of a protein called beta-amyloid) cluster in the brain. (Such plaques are a hallmark of the disorder and their discovery in a postmortem brain is the only way to confirm that a person had the illness.) Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics and the pharmaceutical company JADO Technologies, both in Dresden, Germany, say their drug, which targets beta-secretase erased 50 percent of plaques in test fruit flies and mice within four hours of its administration. The team plans to do more animal testing and, if successful, conduct human trials within two years. (The Telegraph) [More] rss.sciam.com |