Duke University Students Devise Devices For The Disabled
...uke studentsalso cobbled out of a fishing net they bought at a WalMart. The stick wassmaller than the adult model he used before, and it also had an easier-to-graspround handle. Daniel was delighted -- and remains so -- reported his mom, Janeen. "Theslider changed things for him by allowing him to stop the...Out On A Limb: Young Burro Receives Artificial Leg At Colorado State
...n resort a decade ago. He acquired so manyprops he bought an old donkey to help carry them and add color. Th...pounds." Lee, who notes that "I could have bought 30 burros for what I've spenton this baby so far," doesn't regret his decision. "Realistica...Center For Future Health Aims To Bring High-Tech, Low-Cost Health Care To The Home
...you're looking at is your brother Bill"; "You have bought milk and eggs,but you forgot the bread"; "This is Oak Street; turn left if you want to gohome." One goal: Allowing such patients to live independently longer. A "melanoma monitor," a passive system that takes an image of your body,perhaps each week ...Genetic engineered crop studies questioned
... this test wasrealistic. "If I went to a movie and bought a hundred pounds of salted popcorn, because Ilike salted popcorn, and then I ate those the salted popcorn all at once, I'dprobably die. Eating that much salted popcorn simply is not a real-worldsituation, but if I died it may be reported that salted...JMU builds supercomputer for national model undergraduate program
...rcomputers cost $20 million or $30 million, and we bought this for $50,000," added mathematics Associate Professor James Sochacki. Sochacki and Pruett are co-directors along with physics Associate Professor Dorn Peterson and Professor William Ingham of an NSF-funded project to develop a national model to ...Mandatory nutrition labeling reduces high-fat purchases
...ppers and almost 50 percent of the salad dressings bought by the most educated shoppers. (Supermarket shopper-club applications provided the demographic data.) Once the high-fat dressings were required to carry labels indicating their fat content, their sales declined about 5 percent. Mathios' findings we......nprofit, medical research organization. Then, they bought the 10-acre site formerly occupied by Menorah Hospital. Construction of the 600,000-square foot complex began in early 1998. The Stowers also followed their initial gift with various other gifts of stock and cash that raised the Institutes endowment ......idential visit to Dublin, his entourage reportedly bought the glass to ensure no one got hold of his DNA....Endangered butterfly needs special environment
... helping to choose sites that could potentially be bought and restored, a combination of public and private land. Schultz and Crone evaluated 150 patches in all. "We analyzed whether or not patches would be colonized and how they might add to the overall system," said Schultz. Patch size and connectivity i...It pays to save: Science study shows huge economic benefits from conserving wild nature
...is difficult, since they include items that aren't bought and sold as part of a market-driven, conventional economy. Instead, economists assign values non-marketed services using a range of techniques, from estimating the cost of replacing these products, to assessing how much individuals and nations would ...Could an anti-marijuana compound hold the key to body weight and appetite control?
...gers. Now they eat a diet that is "entirely store bought and provided by truck." Scientists and anthropologists have observed that in some societies, a high rate of infectious disease seems to be keeping children's weight low or substandard while many of the adults are obese. In effect, very small childre...Pennsylvania chemist wins national award for drug research
...ture. "Then when I was in grade school, my parents bought me a chemistry set and I set up a makeshift lab in our basement," he remembered. "Later I had a really dynamic [chemistry] instructor in high school, and I was hooked for good at that point." Freidinger received his undergraduate degree from the Univ...Max Planck supports open access to research
...ive trade journals.These magazines then have to be bought by libraries, again usingtaxpayers money." It is now hoped that other German universities will follow MaxPlanck's lead in making their institution's research freelyavailable to the worldwide scientific community, and to thetaxpayers that fund it. The...No detectable risk from mercury in seafood, study shows
...rchers say. The Seychelles findings apply to fish bought and sold commercially, at grocery stores, supermarkets, seafood markets, and restaurants. Those fish are already regulated based on their mercury levels. Consumers should carefully follow advisories about eating fish caught in lakes and rivers, since...Mercury in packaged whale meat across Japan may be a major health problem
...health problem" in Japan. The Japanese scientists bought samples from across the country, and found that every single slice of toothed whale red meat Japan's most popular whale product exceeded that country's provisional limit on mercury, with some samples containing almost 200 times the maximum value. T...Expedition will retrace legendary Steinbeck-Ricketts voyage to the Sea of Cortez
...ncredible stuff in the kelp on a diving trip, so I bought the book to help me identify what I'd seen.'' Coincidentally, Baxter also had been assigned to read Steinbeck's Cannery Row, and the more he read about the fictional and nonfictional Doc Ricketts, the more he was convinced to leave engineering and be......st the law," said Vinson, "and they'll say ?Why, I bought that seed. That's my seed and I'll do what I want with it.' "But they know it's a protected variety. It's on the tag. They have to sign a form when they buy it. If a farmer brings wheat seed here for us to clean and treat, they've got to specify what...Current smoke alarms pass life-saving tests
...old items for fire sources and tested smoke alarms bought in retail stores....Stanford study questions identity of alleged Romanov bones
...oad] didn't do the science,'' he said. ''They just bought me the plane ticket and got me the sample. They had no control over the work.'' Continuing controversy Nevertheless, some scientists - several of whom participated in the original DNA analyses - are unconvinced by Knight's conclusions. Mark Stoneki...Light Biology, a biotech company based on UT Southwestern technology, bought by NimbleGen Systems
...otech company based on UT Southwestern technology, bought by NimbleGen SystemsDALLAS March 8, 2004 Light Biology Inc., a startup biotech company based on technology developed at UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, has been acquired by NimbleGen Systems Inc. of Madison, Wis. Light Biology was formed ...