News tagged with oxygen deficiency

Reefs recovered faster after mass extinction than first thought

Metazoan-dominated reefs only took 1.5 million years to recover after the largest species extinction 252 million years ago, an international research team including paleontologists from the University of Zurich ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 30, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Warmer climate not the cause of oxygen deficiency in the Baltic Sea

Oxygen deficiency in the Baltic Sea has never been greater than it is now. But it is not an effect of climate change but rather of increased inputs of nutrients and fertilisers. This is the finding of researchers at the University ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Toward a systems biology map of iron metabolism

Scientists at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine, the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom, and the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech have taken the first steps toward constructing a ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Dialysis patients residing at higher altitude have lower rate of death

Compared to dialysis patients living near sea level, dialysis patients living at an altitude higher than 4,000 feet have a 12-15 percent lower rate of death, according to a study in the February 4 issue of JAMA.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Feb 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0