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February 10, 2016

Researchers find new Zika clues to birth defect in fetus study

Reuters: Science - Posted: February 10th, 2016, 5:42pm UTC
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Researchers on Wednesday reported new evidence strengthening the association between Zika virus and a spike in birth defects, citing the presence of the virus in the brain of an aborted fetus of a European woman who became pregnant while living in Brazil.br clear='all'/br/br/a href="http://rc.feedsportal.com/r/247391120020/u/49/f/654220/c/35217/s/4d7fe69c/sc/14/rc/1/rc.htm" rel="nofollow"img src="http://rc.feedsportal.com/r/247391120020/u/49/f/654220/c/35217/s/4d7fe69c/sc/14/rc/1/rc.img" border="0"//abr/br/a href="http://rc.feedsportal.com/r/247391120020/u/49/f/654220/c/35217/s/4d7fe69c/sc/14/rc/2/rc.htm" rel="nofollow"img src="http://rc.feedsportal.com/r/247391120020/u/49/f/654220/c/35217/s/4d7fe69c/sc/14/rc/2/rc.img" border="0"//abr/br/a href="http://rc.feedsportal.com/r/247391120020/u/49/f/654220/c/35217/s/4d7fe69c/sc/14/rc/3/rc.htm" rel="nofollow"img src="http://rc.feedsportal.com/r/247391120020/u/49/f/654220/c/35217/s/4d7fe69c/sc/14/rc/3/rc.img" border="0"//abr/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/247391120020/u/49/f/654220/c/35217/s/4d7fe69c/sc/14/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/247391120020/u/49/f/654220/c/35217/s/4d7fe69c/sc/14/a2.img" border="0"//abr/a href="http://adchoice.feedsportal.com/r/247391120020/u/49/f/654220/c/35217/s/4d7fe69c/sc/14/ach.htm"img src="http://adchoice.feedsportal.com/r/247391120020/u/49/f/654220/c/35217/s/4d7fe69c/sc/14/ach.img" border="0"//aimg width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/247391120020/u/49/f/654220/c/35217/s/4d7fe69c/sc/14/a2t.img" border="0"/img width="1" height="1" src="http://pi2.feedsportal.com/r/247391120020/u/49/f/654220/c/35217/s/4d7fe69c/sc/14/a2t2.img" border="0"/img width='1' height='1' src='http://reuters.us.feedsportal.com/c/35217/f/654220/s/4d7fe69c/sc/14/mf.gif' border='0'/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=Y7ZANAp3u7w:LXOqO_NvJgA:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=Y7ZANAp3u7w:LXOqO_NvJgA:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?i=Y7ZANAp3u7w:LXOqO_NvJgA:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=Y7ZANAp3u7w:LXOqO_NvJgA:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?i=Y7ZANAp3u7w:LXOqO_NvJgA:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/scienceNews/~4/Y7ZANAp3u7w" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

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World's top scientists pledge to share all findings to fight Zika

Reuters: Science - Posted: February 10th, 2016, 5:05pm UTC
LONDON (Reuters) - Thirty of the world's leading scientific research institutions, journals and funders have pledged to share for free all data and expertise on Zika to speed up the fight against an outbreak of the viral disease spreading across the Americas.br clear='all'/img width='1' height='1' src='http://reuters.us.feedsportal.com/c/35217/f/654220/s/4d7fe69b/sc/31/mf.gif' border='0'/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=92kmB37C1oA:Gih8XvRxRzg:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=92kmB37C1oA:Gih8XvRxRzg:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?i=92kmB37C1oA:Gih8XvRxRzg:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=92kmB37C1oA:Gih8XvRxRzg:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?i=92kmB37C1oA:Gih8XvRxRzg:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/scienceNews/~4/92kmB37C1oA" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

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Maths link to future locust dispersal

Reuters: Science - Posted: February 10th, 2016, 7:34am UTC
(Reuters) - A mathematical model of locust swarms could help in the development of new strategies to control their devastating migration, according to British researchers.br clear='all'/img width='1' height='1' src='http://reuters.us.feedsportal.com/c/35217/f/654220/s/4d7d1505/sc/28/mf.gif' border='0'/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=qq89wzL6BCM:RNfnQzNuLNw:yIl2AUoC8zA"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=qq89wzL6BCM:RNfnQzNuLNw:F7zBnMyn0Lo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?i=qq89wzL6BCM:RNfnQzNuLNw:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?a=qq89wzL6BCM:RNfnQzNuLNw:V_sGLiPBpWU"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/scienceNews?i=qq89wzL6BCM:RNfnQzNuLNw:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/scienceNews/~4/qq89wzL6BCM" height="1" width="1" alt=""/

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