Once this is completed, PIJAC and the federal government again will have a powerful tool to help pet owners recognize how they can stop their pets from
becoming invasive species.
We host on our website public - facing and retailer - focused standards of care and zoonoses prevention education documents, and our Fish & Wildlife Services - partnered Habitattitude effort educates the public on how to prevent their pet from
becoming an invasive species.
That prompted Quinn and her colleagues to come up with a white list of potential species that were appropriate for biofuel use and had low risk of
becoming invasive.
It's very difficult to predict how they might perform, and they can
become invasive species.»
A few environmental watchdog groups voiced concern that artificial life might somehow escape the laboratory and
become an invasive species or pose dangers as yet unforeseen, and President Obama asked the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues to explore the implications of Venter's work.
As melanoma develops, these cells are eventually reprogrammed, lose their differentiated features and
become invasive, migratory cancer cells.
Native to the U.S. West Coast, the well - traveled snail
became an invasive species in Japan, and now has returned to America on Japanese debris.
If these newcomers become established, they have the potential to
become invasive, disrupting native marine habitats, says study coauthor James Carlton, a marine scientist at Williams College in Mystic, Conn..
This kind of lesion is not harmful unless it progresses past that stage and
becomes invasive, but it is treated just as aggressively as invasive cancer.
Widespread breast screening has led to early detection and a new dilemma: whether to aggressively treat noncancerous lesions that may never
become invasive or whether to «watch and wait.»
That information may explain why other nonnative species
become invasive and may suggest new ways to tame them.
However, when the microbial populations become unbalanced, these otherwise beneficial bacteria become a liability, similar to garden plants that
become invasive and push out competing species, he explained.
According to the results, MRIs found a pancreatic lesion in 16 patients (40 percent): intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasia, which can
become invasive cancer, in 14 patients (35 percent) and pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma in two patients (5 percent).
It is vital that we get a better understanding of the biology of DCIS as well as what makes it return in some women and
become invasive breast cancer.
Snakeheads are prompting fears that it could
become an invasive species and cause ecological damage.
«Factors such as escape from natural enemies including herbivores, predators, pathogens or parasites were thought to explain how species
become invasive,» says Colautti, an NSERC Banting Postdoctoral Fellow with the UBC Department of Botany, who started the research in 2007 as a PhD student at the University of Toronto.
These newly separated cells would then
become invasive.»
Why do certain exotic plant species
become invasive — while others do not?
But Willis notes that he chose two thoroughly studied species that were unlikely to
become invasive.
The tree has moved around the world as an ornamental plant and has
become invasive in several states and countries, including Florida, Texas and Hawaii as well as Australia, New Zealand and some Caribbean islands.
It also established that the number of non-native species that have
become invasive with high ecological impacts are 44 in the NE Atlantic and 15 in the less well studied south - western Atlantic.
Even the non-tumor-forming breast cells
became invasive and more closely resembled cancer cells.
The company works closely with farmers, even helping to plant and harvest the crop to ensure the species does not
become invasive.
In areas where WTB has
become invasive, researchers found evidence of hybridization of the two genetic lineages.
Even though the walnut twig beetle (WTB) is likely native to Arizona, California, and New Mexico, it has
become an invasive pest to economically and ecologically important walnut trees throughout much of the Western and into the Eastern United States.
Is it likely to
become an invasive weed?
Some breast cancers will never
become invasive and don't need treatment.
These species were introduced by people at different stages in the island's human history and
became invasive, negatively impacting wildlife populations and island food security for the small human population.
You have a precancerous phase where you can attack and fix it so it does not
become an invasive cancer,» he said of classic precancerous changes in the cervix, which are detected by Pap in this slowly evolving cancer.
Will the noninvasive cancer
become invasive?
What we have learned is that the environment — or terrain — of the body influences whether or not cells can
become invasive cancer.
Researchers further state that, «The great majority of the tumors remain small and circumscribed and even from those few tumors that grow larger and
become invasive OPCs only a minimal proportion will ever become a clinical carcinoma» (6, p. 531).
In those who eat a high carbohydrate diet which provides the yeast and other bacteria and fungi in the body with an abundance of glucose, not only does candida survive, the fungi overpopulate and can potentially
become an invasive and even dangerous organism.
The candida is thought to grow and
become invasive, even digging into intestinal walls and leading to leaky gut and more.
Some progress to become freely proliferating entities without function (benign cancers) and a few may
become invasive and spreading (malignant cancers).
As it's a member of the mint family, it can
become invasive so is best confined to a pot rather than in the ground
It is designed to assist governments, the pet industry, and their partners in establishing programs and policies that prevent the release or escape of pets into the natural environment, where they can
become invasive species.
Pet Pathway Toolkit assists governments, the pet industry, and their partners in establishing programs and policies that prevent the release or escape of pets into the natural environment, where they can
become invasive species.
Some of these species have
become invasive on Santa Cruz Island, and continue to expand their ranges and numbers rapidly.
The companies are also working with FWS officials to come up with ways to identify species, not yet in commerce, that might
become invasive; this risk assessment could be a stopgap approach to screening out potential wildlife diseases and would «say to the pet trade: «Beware — don't deal with these,»» Meyers says.
«If we don't know what animals are coming in, how do we know which are going to
become invasive species or carry diseases that could affect livestock, wildlife or ourselves?»
More and more of the fresh produce that's shipped to the islands is being peeled first — we heard an anecdote about a huge load of potatoes with no skins on them — which has the added benefit of reducing some of the pests that can travel with food, take up residence on the islands, and
become invasive and harmful to native and endemic species here.
Not exact matches
The company's growing footprint globally has driven strong sales abroad, where these kinds of minimally
invasive heart procedures are
becoming more popular.
In fact,
becoming an expert in minimally
invasive spine surgery required a great amount of time and commitment — challenging myself to
become facile and agile in the operation room when performing complex surgical techniques.
Then, over the last decade, this form of marketing
became seen as insufficient — or rather, the rise of digital media made a more
invasive form of marketing too irresistible.
Breakthroughs in medicine are slow — it can take 12 years to launch a new drug, it took minimally
invasive surgery a century to
become mainstream, and it...
But I can not help be a little grateful to him for the reminder that points out how big and how
invasive our security apparatus has
become, as regards citizen privacy.
If the provitamin A trait is transferred by out - crossing from GR2E rice into other cultivated or weedy rice, progeny plants will not exhibit an altered selection advantage that could cause them to
become more weedy or
invasive in managed or unmanaged ecosystems.
Organic agriculture is an important source of income for island residents, especially as fisheries
become depleted, and organic crops help reduce the need to import so much fresh food and minimize the introduction of
invasive species that arrive in these shipments.
Invasive plant species have
become dominant in some sections, parking is limited, the trails do not meet Mass Audubon's current standards for accessibility, and the town - maintained storm water drainage system does not always function as designed.