Children, Pets Who Swallow Post-1982 Pennies At Risk For Stomach Upset, EvenUlcers
... "The high zinc content in recently minted pennies poses a potentiallyserious problem when ingested," O'Hara said. "Most likely a single coin wouldpass through the stomach, but if it does lodge there, it can quickly becometoxic. Pediatricians and radiologists should be alerted to consider thispossibi...Cheap, Soy-Based Antibodies Prevent Genital Herpes In Mice
...ing the costs for preventativeapplications down to pennies per application. As a public health product, thiswill be the biggest bang for the buck." The creation of soy-based antibodies actually occurred several years agoat Monsanto's Agracetus division in Wisconsin and Protein Design Labs inMountain ...Heavy metal research is music to biologists' ears
...a gooddietary source of copper. Yes, the stuff of pennies is crucial for life--themetal copper is an important helper to many cellular enzymes, includingsuperoxide dismutase (SOD), which sops up dangerous "free radicals" thataccumulate inside cells. Defects in SOD have been linked to some inheritedforms of...Future uses of MicroElectricalMechanical (MEM) systems to be featured at Santa Clara show
...grain of pollen, fabricatedthousands at a time for pennies apiece. Sandia National Laboratories is a leaderin the development of microsystems, and seeks partners and contributors forresearch into MicroElectricalMechanical Systems (MEMs) that meld traditionalengineering disciplines. Current projects are being...New Knox company has big plans for ORNL technology
...appropriate treatment at the physicians office for pennies per test," said Chuck Witkowski, chief executive officer and president of QGENICS. "Such a device would save doctors and patients valuable time and enable more accurate, more effective treatment options." In the area of drug discovery, the dramatic r...Supplement reduces risk of aflatoxin-related liver cancer
...hs might be preventable with supplements that cost pennies a day." The double-blind study was directed by Thomas Kensler, a professor of environmental health sciences at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. In it, 180 healthy adults participated from Qidong, China, a region with extraordinarily ...Tiny tango: Device sorts microscopic particles with speed and precision
...rticles along completely predetermined paths, like pennies and dimes rolling through a child's coin sorter. Previous attempts required the particles to diffuse randomly so that bigger particles slowly drifted one way and smaller ones another. Researchers had believed that fixed paths were not possible in par...