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A cure for baldness?

James Rodger
Birmingham Mail
Thu, 13 Jul 2017 20:36 UTC
Bald Man
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Scientists have made a breakthrough that could eventually help lead to a cure for baldness.

They discovered that in animals individual hairs communicate with each other to form an even covering all over the body, vital for furry creatures to survive in different climates.

But, in humans, that signalling pathway appears to break down in certain areas, such as the front of the scalp and the crown in men, leading to bald patches alongside lush hair growth.

By identifying the mechanism that allows hair to 'talk' to each other, the researchers from University of California, Irvine, hope to find a way to restore it in humans to eliminate hair loss and balding.

They also hope to be able to use their discovery to find a way to help those who suffer from too much hair in certain parts of the body, lead researcher Maksim Plikus told the online journal eLife.

Plikus, assistant professor of development and cell biology, worked out the interaction between hair follicles on a system called the 'Wnt-BMP signals' along pathways in the body.

A study of mice shows this is how different parts of the body communicate with each other to use proteins to regenerate or regulate hair growth.
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Dead humpback whale washes up on beach in Coonarr, Australia

Ashley Clark
News Mail
Wed, 12 Jul 2017 19:28 UTC
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When Matt Stoker and his camping friends were driving down the beach at Coonarr on Monday, what they thought were logs in the distance turned out to be something much bigger.

The friends had come across a giant whale carcass washed up at the Theodolite Creek end of the beach.

"It definitely wasn't there when we arrived but the next day, as we were driving back down the beach, we saw what looked like logs in the distance," he said.

"As we got closer we realised what it was.

"None of us have ever seen anything like it - it was massive."
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Hiker survives vicious bison attack at Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota


New York Post
Tue, 11 Jul 2017 14:12 UTC
Charging Bison
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An Alaska man is recovering after being attacked by a bison while hiking in western North Dakota's Theodore Roosevelt National Park.

Park official Eileen Andes said the 65-year-old hiker encountered the large animal on a trail after taking photos of a sunset. He tried to walk around the bison but didn't provide a wide enough berth, the Minot Daily News reported.

The bison apparently threw the man into a bush, knocking him unconscious, Andes said. When the man regained consciousness, he was bleeding from a leg laceration but made his way to the trailhead. When he saw more bison, he climbed several feet up a butte.

"The guy kept yelling, 'help, help, and help,'" said Christopher Velazquez, one of three airmen from Minor Airforce Base who were camping nearby and heard the man's faint calls.
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Two shepherds mauled by bear in Romania; 7th attack for the country this year


The Sun Daily
Sun, 09 Jul 2017 13:46 UTC
Bear attack
Two shepherds were seriously injured in a bear attack Saturday in Romania's remote Carpathian mountains, reigniting debate over a government decision to suspend an annual culling programme.

The men, whose injures are not thought to be life-threatening, were tending their sheep when they were attacked in the central Harghita region, according to a local official quoted by the Agerpress news agency.

One of the men was bitten on his head, hip and genitals, the official said.

Romania is home to around 60% of Europe's brown bears - some 6,000, a quarter of which roam the mountains around Harghita.

There have been seven bear attacks there in 2017 alone, prompting anger among locals.
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Dog pack kills 79-year-old man in McCreary County, Kentucky


wkyt.com
Tue, 11 Jul 2017 08:46 UTC
canine attack
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Kentucky State Police are investigating the death of a 79-year-old man who was attacked and killed by a pack of dogs in McCreary County.

The body was discovered Tuesday morning laying in a yard off Highway 1651 near Whitley City in McCreary County. After further investigation, Kentucky State Police looked at security footage and saw a pack of dogs attacking Vinson Tucker of Stearns. The coroner pronounced Tucker dead at 10:23 Tuesday morning.

Investigators found the dogs, which were then put down.

"He was just a good guy," Tucker's cousin Mike Hines said. "That's all I can say about him is he's just a good guy. I hate to see a 79-year-old man go that way. It's just sad and nothing you can do about it."
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Marines struggle to shift the body of fin whale after it washed up on Mexican beach

Sophie Inge
Daily Mail
Tue, 11 Jul 2017 08:24 UTC
Marines were filmed struggling to move a huge dead whale that had beached itself on Mexican shores
Marines were filmed struggling to move a huge dead whale that had beached itself on Mexican shores
Footage shows marines struggling to move a huge dead whale that had beached itself on Mexican shores.

The naval servicemen are seen using ropes to haul the animal back to the sea as the beach filled with onlookers to witness the attempt.

The fin whale (Balaenoptera Physalus) had unfortunately died, so they decided to drag it to its watery grave.

The Federal Environmental Protection Agency (Profepa) in coordination with the Navy administration (Semar), quickly arrived on the sombre scene at Nuevo Vallarta beach.

But they found that the stranded whale was already in the advanced stages of decomposition, so it was not possible to extract tissues for analysis.
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Mummified bodies in Peruvian desert stirs debate


Sputnik News
Wed, 12 Jul 2017 18:40 UTC
Alien
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Researchers have found mummified bodies of unknown creatures in the Nazca desert, Peru. The finding caused vivid debate about whether the bodies belong to humans or aliens.

The mummies are about 168 cm big, completely white, with three fingers and toes. Their bodies, which were defined as belonging to female species, have no ears and noses.

Sputnik Mundo talked to a number of experts and government agencies to shed light on the alleged extraterrestrial origin of the mummies.

In an interview with Sputnik, Konstantin Korotkov, professor with the National Research University in St. Petersburg, who took part in the international expedition that discovered the unusual finding, expressed his opinion on the issue.

According to the expert, the most important thing at this stage is to "compare the genes of the mummy with the genes of different people."
"After that, it will become clear whether it is a Cro-Magnon, namely, a mutation of our species, or it's another kind of creature. At the moment, we can't draw deeper conclusions," Korotkov said.
Commenting on the idea about the extraterrestrial origin of the mummies, the professor noted that he does not share this hypothesis.
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At least 76 shearwaters found washed ashore on Long Island beachs

Jackie Pape
The East Hampton Star
Thu, 29 Jun 2017 15:11 UTC
Great Shearwater
Great Shearwater
Unusually high numbers of emaciated great shearwaters, which spend most of their time far out at sea, have been spotted on Long Island beaches in the past week. A member of the Procellaridae family and the largest of the Puffinus genus, shearwaters have distinctive dark-brown caps, white throats and necks, and are between 16 and 20 inches long.

Pauline Rosen, a volunteer at the Evelyn Alexander Wildlife Rescue Center in Hampton Bays, reported seeing 48 washed-up shearwaters while walking along Montauk and Napeague beaches. The Wildlife Rescue Center had found 28 dead birds, making 76 in all.

"We alerted the D.E.C. that we were getting calls about the mass numbers of dead birds, but we don't know the cause," Amanda Daley, an assistant at the center said. "They were not coming in with any injuries, they were coming in ill."
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Removal of dead cows and onions overwhelming disposal infrastructure

Adapt 2030
You Tube
Tue, 11 Jul 2017 13:59 UTC
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Butter prices hit all time highs in the UK, they are even warning of a butter shortage by Christmas 2017. Additionally with the heat wave in the western USA, disposing of dead cattle is overwhelming the disposal facilities. As dead cows sit in the heat, methane from internal rot is causing cows to explode. Back in May 2017 disposal facilities were overwhelmed by 100 million tons of rotted onions due to excessive snowfalls and collapsed storage facilities. We as a planet haven't even gotten into low-mid losses, yet the facilities to dispose of infectious ag and cattle pathogens are paralyzed. We need to quickly rethink these "procedures" moving forward into the grand solar minimum. What happens when we experience high losses?


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Nearly 170 dolphins die off Russia's Black Sea coast over 4 months


Kyiv Post
Thu, 29 Jun 2017 13:25 UTC
Trainers prepare for a dolphin therapy session in a dolphinarium in the Crimean resort town of Alushta, on April 24, 2014.
© AFPTrainers prepare for a dolphin therapy session in a dolphinarium in the Crimean resort town of Alushta, on April 24, 2014.
The number of dead dolphins washed up on the Black Sea beach, from Sochi to Anapa, has reached 167, Krasnodar Territory prosecutor Sergei Tabelsky said.

"Mass dolphin deaths have been registered beginning in March of this year. The highest number of animals washed up ashore was discovered in May - 84 cases, in June - 16 cases. Scientific organizations concluded that in 99 percent of cases, the mammals died not in the coastal areas of Krasnodar Territory. They were simply thrown ashore by the sea," Tabelsky said at a regional prosecutors' forum on local environmental safety issues on June 27.
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