A new class of proteins responsible for controlling the way in which the body responds to hypoxic situations (in which insufficient amounts of oxygen are available to conduct regular processes) has just been discovered by a collaboration of investigators in the United Kingdom.
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31 January 2012
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According to a new scientific study, it would appear that even low-scale climate fluctuations can affect the habitability of marine ecosystems to a great extent. The researchers who led the work say that the size and harshness of oceanic dead zones is directly correlated to climate. In the investigation, researchers ... |
17 June 2011
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Experts in the United States anticipated that this year's Gulf of Mexico dead zone will be the largest ever recorded. The phenomenon's usual spread will be augmented by the Mississippi River floods that scarred the central United States earlier this year. University of Michigan aquatic ecologist Donald Scav... |
15 June 2011
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For about four billion years after the Earth first solidified from a ball of molten lava, the world's oceans were oxygen-poor mixtures of various chemicals, boasting levels of acidity that were well beyond those life can thrive in. A new study now shows the challenges early life had to face. Until some 600 milli... |
6 January 2011
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The University of Missouri was awarded a $2.83 million multi-investigator grant, by the National Institutes of Health, for further research on the growing issue of sleep apnea and the consequences of the lack of oxygen.Sleep apnea is a concerning phenomenon that keeps rising among the population, with 12 million Amer... |
5 October 2010
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The Chesapeake Bay area is a very important finfish and oyster habitat, which has over the past few years diminished its return. Experts now seek to analyze the main possible culprit – hypoxia. This is the word used to describe a lack of oxygen in the waters, or an instance in which very low concentrations of t... |
22 September 2010
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According to officials at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, it would appear that no dead zones have developed around the area of the Gulf of Mexico where the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig blew up a few months ago. These conclusions did not come as a surprise for the science team, which was expe... |
8 September 2010
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A team of experts was recently awarded a research grant to investigate the level of hypoxia in Lake Michigan. Land use and climate change are taking their toll on the important lake, and experts from a US collaboration of scientists are scheduled to begin investigating the extent of this influence. The group will loo... |
11 August 2010
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According to a new scientific study, holding your breath for even a couple of minutes significantly increases the number of markers for brain damage in the body. However, the scientists who made the find say, the S100B protein seems to disappear shortly afterwards, which leaves some questions as to whether voluntary ... |
4 August 2009
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Oxygen deprivation can lead to a condition known as brain swelling – or cerebral edema – which seems to have been the culprit in several of the yet unexplained deaths of people escalating Mount Everest, the tallest peak in the world. Thus far, these unfortunate accidents were attributed to Yeti, the snowm... |
10 December 2008
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