Angola’s Home Affairs minister, Roberto Leal Monteiro “Ngongo”, Saturday in Luanda called on chiefs of the Southern African Police to outline efficient mechanisms of fight against crime, aiming the stability of the region.
The Government official was speaking at the opening session of the third meeting of police officials of the Southern African Regional Police Chiefs [...]
According to the findings of a new study, published in the January issue of Academic Emergency Medicine, CO also causes direct damage to the heart muscle, separate from the effects of oxygen deprivation, which reduces the heart’s pumping capacity and permanently impairs cardiac function.
These findings suggest that heart damage caused by carbon monoxide may have [...]
Our results suggest that an autonomous glial mechanism may drive circadian rhythms in the activity of a Drosophila protein known as Ebony, says F. Rob Jackson, PhD, director of the CNR and professor of neuroscience at TUSM. Ebony activity and the glia containing that activity explains Jackson, function independently of, or in concert with, other [...]
As this video explains, one factor in the disappearance of birds could be due to the decrease in their natural habitat due to urban sprawl. However, what the video fails to realize is that since 1984 there has been a literal explosion in cell phones and information carrying radio waves, which can clearly disrupt the [...]
Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), which are used as fire retardants in items such as televisions, computers, toasters and sofas, are being found in alarming concentrations in human blood and breast milk.
Research using rat tissue shows that PBDEs disrupt mechanisms that are responsible for releasing hormones in the body. PBDEs also alter calcium signaling in the [...]
New research may help explain why some women experience terrible symptoms with their monthly periods while others do not.
Findings from a small, but intriguing, new study from Japan show significant differences in heart rate variability among women, suggestive of a critical role for the nervous system in [...]
A new study has determined that the bones of people with high body fat are eight to nine percent weaker.A research team conducted advanced three-dimensional bone scans on 115 women aged 18 and 19 with normal (less than 32 percent) and high (greater than 32 percent) body fat. After adjusting for differences in muscle mass, [...]
The potato cyst nematode (PCN), Globodera pallida, attacks potato crops all over the world and is particularly devastating in developing countries where the potato is a subsistence crop. A %26pound;1.7 million project led by the University of Leeds to fully sequence its DNA, hopes to shed light on the mechanisms that make the tiny worm [...]
Animal migration fascinated the ancients and continues to fascinate researchers today. An often highly complex, synchronized suite of changes in behavior, morphology, and physiology enables journeys that may be epic in scale. These feats of endurance and navigation are widely regarded as some of the most astonishing of nature’s spectacles. Researchers have gained some important [...]
Bernd Schultes and colleagues from the University of Lubeck induced hypoglycemia with insulin under controlled conditions and then assessed sleep with polysomography. A fall in plasma glucose to 2.2 mmol/l, which provoked an awakening response in most healthy control participants, did not provoke awakening in most patients with T1DM. On a control night, with no [...]