October 17th, 2008 - 4:09 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, Oct 17 (ANI): Junk DNA, or repetitive DNA segments previously thought to have no function, have now been found to create exons, which could play an important role in gene ...
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September 2nd, 2008 - 1:27 pm ICT by IANS
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Sydney, Sep 2 (IANS) Pre-natal exposure to farm animals and plants helps protect children from asthma, allergies and eczema, says a New Zealand study. Researchers from Massey University's Centre for Public Health ...
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September 2nd, 2008 - 12:36 pm ICT by IANS
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Sydney, Sep 2 (IANS) Pre-natal exposure to farm animals and plants helps protect children from asthma, allergies and eczema, according to a study. Researchers from Australia's Centre for Public Health Research discovered ...
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August 20th, 2008 - 5:15 pm ICT by ANI
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Nairobi, August 20 (ANI): Stone tools and artefacts found in a region in Tanzania, show that the Hehe - one of the ethnic groups in the region - used the site ...
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August 4th, 2008 - 1:31 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, August 4 (ANI): Scientists have suggested that climate change has pushed many animals to the edge, with temperature-induced habitat loss spelling disaster for them.
Scientists have long pointed to physical changes ...
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July 22nd, 2008 - 5:44 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, July 22 (ANI): A new study by conservation biologists from the University of California, Berkeley, has indicated that allowing public access in wildlife reserves can scare off the native carnivore ...
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July 14th, 2008 - 6:46 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, July 14 (ANI): A new research has determined that smaller families, which are a result of a safer environment, face higher extinction risk than larger families.
According to a report in ...
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July 13th, 2008 - 12:06 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, July 13 (ANI): A new research has determined that smaller families, which are a result of a safer environment, face higher extinction risk than larger families.
According to a report in ...
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July 2nd, 2008 - 5:03 pm ICT by IANS
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Washington, July 2 (IANS) Trafficking in wildlife and unsustainable harvesting, prompted by the demand for traditional medicines, is depleting Southeast Asia's rich and varied biodiversity, according to a new study. Field studies ...
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July 2nd, 2008 - 3:33 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, July 2 (ANI): Two new reports from TRAFFIC, the worlds largest wildlife trade monitoring network, have suggested that rare plants and endangered species such as tigers are at risk from ...
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June 16th, 2008 - 2:46 pm ICT by IANS
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Washington, June 16 (IANS) Crashing asteroids or volcanic eruptions are believed to have wiped out dinosaurs 65 million years ago and caused other mass extinctions. But a new study suggests that there ...
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June 11th, 2008 - 10:57 pm ICT by ANI
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By Girija Shankar Ojha
Daltonganj (Jharkhand), June 11 (ANI): To generate public awareness about the significance of conserving the environment, the Forest Department of Jharkhand has opened a school within the Betla ...
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June 10th, 2008 - 3:42 pm ICT by IANS
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Dubai, June 10 (IANS) Well-known Indian climatologist V. Ramanathan, who has done pioneering work on the effect of pollutants on global warming, was among this year's winners of the Zayed International Prize ...
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May 29th, 2008 - 6:07 pm ICT by admin
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Washington, May 29 (ANI): Researchers at Old Dominion University, Virginia, USA, have found that ships may be inadvertently spreading diseases.
They said that ships are unintentionally carrying trillions of microbial stowaways in ...
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May 5th, 2008 - 6:49 pm ICT by admin
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Washington, May 5 (ANI): Utrecht University researchers studying Japanese mushroom Grifola frondosa have achieved a major breakthrough that may help simplify the study of proteins lying at the root of various ...
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April 22nd, 2008 - 2:03 pm ICT by admin
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New Delhi, Apr.22 (ANI): Chinas Sichuan Province is building the world's largest giant panda breeding centre.
It is expected that the new nature reserve will house about 200 of the endangered animals.
The ...
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April 4th, 2008 - 1:33 pm ICT by admin
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New York, April 4 (IANS) It has been described as the "cockroach of lakes", and it is spreading so fast that it is adversely affecting not only marine life, but humans as ...
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April 2nd, 2008 - 5:58 pm ICT by admin
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Canberra, April 2 (ANI): A new study by CSIRO scientists has determined that due to global warming, many of Australias natural landscapes are bound to be transformed, thus leaving the countrys ...
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February 17th, 2008 - 2:11 pm ICT by admin
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Kathmandu, Feb 17 (IANS) Eight SAARC countries have agreed to work jointly to tackle the region's illegal wildlife trade that has assumed alarming proportions. The countries have come under the banner of ...
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February 8th, 2008 - 4:28 pm ICT by admin
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Washington, Feb 8 (ANI): All eight South Asian nations - Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, have agreed to step up cooperation in thwarting illegal wildlife trade, ...
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February 8th, 2008 - 3:11 pm ICT by admin
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Kathmandu, Feb.8 (ANI): All eight SAARC nations -- Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka -- have pledged to enhance cooperation in curbing wildlife trade in the region.
According ...
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January 15th, 2008 - 4:53 pm ICT by admin
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Wellington, Jan 15 (ANI): A team of evolutionary geneticists has rebuffed the theory that New Zealand sank underwater 26 million years ago, based on DNA samples taken from the native kauri forests ...
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December 22nd, 2007 - 2:53 pm ICT by admin
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Washington, Dec 22 (ANI): Researchers at Kansas State University are working on a project called Epicenter, in order to develop novel mathematical models and simulation software for predicting the spread of epidemics.
These ...
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