Scientists discover a protein that naturally enhances wheat resistance to head scab
(American Phytopathological Society) Fusarium Head Blight is caused by a fungus that produces heat-stable trichothecene mycotoxins, which help the disease spread. To stop the spread, plant breeders are working to develop cultivars with improved resistance to FHB. A team of plant pathologists primarily based at Rutgers University recently generated wheat overexpressing two non-specific lipid transfer proteins and found that this enhanced protection against the fungus and led to a reduction of one of the major mycotoxins.
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - May 25, 2021 Category: Biology Source Type: news

Effect of daylight saving time clock shifts on white-tailed deer-vehicle collision rates - Abeyrathna WANU, Langen TA.
To devise effective measures for reducing hazardous wildlife-vehicle collisions, it is necessary to know when during the year accidents occur most frequently, and what factors cause the seasonal patterns. Daylight Saving Time (DST) 1-h clock-shifts around ...
Source: SafetyLit - May 22, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Distraction, Fatigue, Chronobiology, Vigilance, Workload Source Type: news

Researchers show new holistic approach to genetics and plant breeding
(University of Copenhagen - Faculty of Science) A group of researchers has discovered a new approach to cereal plant breeding that takes into account the internal " calculator " of plant seeds that makes them continuously reorganize themselves (global coherence). The approach includes unforeseen and unintended changes in the plant when genetically manipulated by the plant breeders. The researchers expect that the method can be used to improve the world's crops much more efficiently.
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - April 27, 2021 Category: Biology Source Type: news

Exclusive: Inside the Facilities Making the World ’s Most Prevalent COVID-19 Vaccine
If you’ve been vaccinated for COVID-19, chances are pretty high that you’re benefiting from a product made by BioNTech. The German biotech company, co-founded by a husband-and-wife team of scientists, developed the vaccine that became not only the first to earn authorization in the U.S. for COVID-19 in December but also the first ever based on a new technology involving the genetic material mRNA. In interviews in December and March, co-founders Ugur Sahin and Ozlem Tureci spoke about their whirlwind year and their partnership with U.S. pharmaceutical company Pfizer to test and manufacture the vaccine. Over thre...
Source: TIME: Health - April 19, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Alice Park and Aryn Baker/Marburg, Germany Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Exclusive feature longform Magazine photography Source Type: news

Steve Zahn's teenage obsessions: 'De Niro in The Deer Hunter was acting on a different level'
The actor and comedian discusses his early days in musical theatre, his love of U2 and his passion for fly fishing
Source: Reuters: Health - April 15, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Rogers Behavioral Health proposes $7.2 million residential facility in Brown Deer
Rogers Behavioral Health proposes adding a 32-bed residential treatment center to its existing inpatient hospital in Brown Deer.
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - April 13, 2021 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Rich Kirchen Source Type: news

PREVEXXION ® RN: Marek’s disease vaccine available in EU UK
PREVEXXION ® RN: the next generation of Marek’s disease vaccines now available in the EU and the UKPREVEXXION ® RN is the results of unprecedented engineering design in vaccinology which brings optimal safety and efficacy balanceThe product ’s early Marek’s disease onset of immunity from five days of age provides full protection of broilers, layers and breeders against the most virulent Marek’s disease virus strainsIt is also fully compatible with VAXXITEK ® HVT+IBD and available in the same ampoule for added convenience
Source: Boehringer Ingelheim Corporate News - April 8, 2021 Category: Research Source Type: news

Temporal patterns of roe deer traffic accidents: effects of season, daytime and lunar phase - Steiner W, Sch öll EM, Leisch F, Hackländer K.
Wildlife-related accidents, especially deer-vehicle accidents, pose a serious problem for road safety and animal protection in many countries. Knowledge of spatial and temporal patterns of deer-vehicle accidents is inevitable for accident analysis and miti...
Source: SafetyLit - April 4, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Environmental Issues, Climate, Geophysics Source Type: news

Video captures deer flying through a school bus windshield - BBC News
Source: Reuters: Health - April 2, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Study of chilli genetics could lead to greater variety on our plates
(University of Bath) Scientists investigating the genetics of chilli pepper species have discovered a whole host of new chilli hybrids that can be grown by crossing domesticated peppers with their wild cousins. This will allow plant breeders to create new varieties that have better disease resistance and could increase productivity.
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - March 24, 2021 Category: Biology Source Type: news

The lambs break their silence
(Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit ä t M ü nchen) A study of ancient bones shows that Early Neolithic sheep-breeders were faced with high levels of mortality among young animals in their herds. A statistical model, partly developed at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich, allowed the age distribution of the bones to be precisely determined.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - March 23, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Responding to natural and industrial disasters: partnerships and lessons learned - Symanski E, An Han H, Han I, McDaniel M, Whitworth KW, McCurdy S, Perkison WB, Rammah A, Lewis PGT, Delclos GL, Craft E, Bondy M, Walker CL, Hopkins L, Cedeno Laurent JG, James D.
OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to provide insights learned from disaster research response (DR2) efforts following Hurricane Harvey in 2017 to launch DR2 activities following the Intercontinental Terminals Company (ITC) fire in Deer Park, Texas, in ...
Source: SafetyLit - March 20, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Disaster Preparedness Source Type: news

Young white-tailed deer that disperse survive the same as those that stay home
(Penn State) Juvenile white-tailed deer that strike out to find new home ranges -- despite facing more risks -- survive at about the same rate as those that stay home, according to a team of researchers who conducted the first mortality study of male and female dispersal where deer were exposed to threats such as hunting throughout their entire range.
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - March 8, 2021 Category: Biology Source Type: news

Poking the paradigm
(University of California - Santa Barbara) Deprive a mountain range of its wolves, and soon the burgeoning deer population will strip its slopes bare. " I now suspect that just as a deer herd lives in mortal fear of its wolves, so does a mountain live in mortal fear of its deer, " wrote ecologist Aldo Leopold in his landmark 1949 title " A Sand County Almanac. "
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - February 17, 2021 Category: Biology Source Type: news

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