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Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 21:28:07 -0800
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Wolves, wild reindeer reduce domestic herds in Siberia
The Associated Press
MOSCOW, March 4, 1998
Reindeer breeders in northeastern Siberia voiced alarm Wednesday over
the shrinking numbers of the animals they depend on for food and
clothing.
Breeders representing more than 500 reindeer farms gathered for a
meeting in Anadyr, the capital of the Chukotka autonomous region, about
4,700 miles northeast of Moscow. They said their combined flocks had
declined from 500,000 animals a few years ago to 150,000 today, the
ITAR-Tass news agency reported.
Some 30,000 animals were lost in 1997 alone, they said. Valery Dzirkala,
press secretary for the region, said wolves had killed more than 12,000
reindeer last year.
Migrating wild reindeer had also taken a toll by "luring" domestic
reindeer to join their herds, ITAR-Tass said.
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 21:34:52 -0800
From: Andrew Gach <UncleWolf@worldnet.att.net>
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Subject: Of mice and women
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Better wombs may improve intelligence, report suggests
Reuters News Service
LONDON, March 4, 1998
Genes may not be the only factor in determining intelligence -- better
wombs can produce smarter children, New Scientist magazine said on
Wednesday.
Victor Denenberg and colleagues at the University of Connecticut in
Storrs and the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, found that
genetically identical mouse embryos implanted in different wombs
performed mental tasks at different levels.
"Denenberg thinks that the difference could be due to some subtle
biochemical factors in the uterus," the magazine said.
The scientists say the research is the first to clearly implicate the
womb in a child's long-term cognitive abilities and could have important
implications for maternal health, surrogate motherhood and the
development of artificial wombs.
"Maybe we ought to think more seriously about the physiology of
gestation," Denenberg told the magazine. "Are there ways to prepare a
non-pregnant uterus for pregnancy?"
Research on identical twins separated at birth and raised apart had
previously led scientists to suspect that development in the womb
affected intelligence, but Denenberg's study on mice offers further
evidence of a link.
The researchers used a genetically identical group of mouse embryos
suffering from an auto-immune disease similar to lupus in humans. They
transplanted one third of the embryos in mice without the disease and
another third in the wombs of other auto-immune mice.
The mice were raised by mothers not affected by the disease and, after
they were weaned, Denenberg and his team put them through a battery of
five learning tests.
"All the mice showed competence in learning, but in four of the five
tests, the mice that developed in the womb of a mouse with no
auto-immune disease did better -- even if they had inherited the brain
abnormalities associated with the auto-immune disease," the magazine
