Stuttering Appears To Have Strong Link To Family Genes, Researchers Say
...mon belief, however, has been that the family link came not from genesbut from family attitudes, he said. It's been thought that parents witha family history of stuttering tend to overreact to a child's normal speechrepetitions, causing a reaction that leads to real stuttering. About five in every 100 ch...Bacterium gobbles up chlorinated pollutants
...rs had developed from a sludge sample. The sludge came from Ithaca's old sewage-treatment plant, a microbe-rich relic from the days when dry-cleaning solvents and industrial degreasing agents were flushed down the drain. An anaerobic bacterium, Strain 195, "uses tetrachloroethene much like we use oxyg...Ozone 'Chat Room' Provides Real-Time Air-Quality Research
...consensus-building. Throughout its existence, EPA came up with regulations and enforced them with little input from others, least of which those who face the biggest sanctions. By building consensus beforehand, the stakeholders generally will agree to the basic principles of management decisions before ...Genetic Trickery Offers New Way to Target HIV
...Li,and Rafael Amado. Funding for the research came from the National Institutesof Health and the Ahmanson Foundation....A New Biochemical Link Established Between Stress, Sex And Dominance
...apture. Fernald said that the team's major finding came from an experiment where 20 male and female fish were introduced to a large aquarium, with gravel and potsherds placed over half the floor and the other half left bare as a refuge from territorial wars. The fish were all new to one another; none had ...Researchers To Investigate Years Before Menopause
... of what we know about women's reproductive cycles came from the first cohort of the Tremin Trust," says Mansfield, a faculty member in both Colleges of Health and Human Development and the Liberal Arts. "Information on perimenopause, menopause and post menopause, which is of great interes...E. Coli Genome Reported: Milestone Of Modern Biology Emerges From Wisconsin Lab
...s research. While primary funding for E. coli work came from the NHGRI, critical equipment was provided by the Division of Research Resources of the NIH. Substantial remodeling funds were provided to create the E. coli Genome Center by the WISTAR program of the State of Wisconsin, and research support was...CTC Visualizations Help Ecologists See The Forest And The Trees
...y difficultto do and that's where Catherine's work came in." Initially at least 200 frames were rendered at high resolution for eachsimulation. Final videos included up to 2000 frames per sequence and avideo sequence would consume Gigabytes of space for processing. The MPEGmovies in the site are custom-c...Pharmaceuticals Manufactured In Insect Larvae
... very observant man and because he's observant, he came up with a brilliant idea -- the HeRD system," Wood said. What Hughes observed is that insects prefer getting their footing on the edges of surfaces, not directly on flat surfaces. Hughes developed a box full of close-spaced pillars -- pillars shape...Popular 'Cure-All' Tea Can Cause Toxic Reactions
...d andshe had to be rehospitalized. A third patient came to the hospital complaining of shaking, shortness ofbreath and extreme restlessness after consuming the tea. The patient wastreated for a presumed allergic reaction and discharged the same day. A fourth developed shortness of breath and throat tight...Genetics Debate Suffers From Misinterpretation, Scholar Says
... WallStreet Journal. The endorsement, Hirsch said, came before careful academicscrutiny was done. Jensen and the authors of "The Bell Curve," he said, confuseheredity with heritability. Heredity refers to what parents transmit geneticallyto offspring. Heritability is a statistical concept used in agricul...Common Food Dye Can Cause Severe Allergic Reactions
...nse to an insect sting or injected drug. "She came in with hives, asthma and virtually no blood pressure," Baldwin says. The patient was stabilized and Baldwin learned that her dramatic allergic reaction occurred after she ate a red popsicle. A skin test confirmed the woman was allergic to the ......ain studies, you assumethat the dogma is true. It came as quite a shock to discover that thechimpanzee brains did show the same asymmetry as humans," Dr. Gannon said. He first theorized that the received wisdom might not be true when heconducted magnetic resonance imaging studies of chimpanzee b...... The laboratory's renewed interest in agriculture came in 1995. "TheDepartment of Energy (DOE) and the Department of Agriculture signed a Memorandumof Understanding pledging cooperation in agricultural research activities,"Lemon said. "That event added an agriculture focus to Pacific Northwest'sprocess...Termites' Attraction To Small Amounts Of Carbon Dioxide Lures Pests To Their Deaths
...than those in normal soil. "When a termite came to the point of choosing an arm, it moved itsantennae to one side of the tube, then the other," Bjostad said of theexperiments. "Most of them chose the side containing the carbon dioxide." Bjostad and his colleagues believe termites are natur...Detective Work Uncovers New Tick-Borne Disease In North Carolina And The Southeast
... recorded by the CDC in1995, the majority, by far, came from northern states where the diseaseis carried by the deer tick, which isn't prevalent in the South. Yet similarrashes were also reported by physicians from southeastern states, includingNorth Carolina. But the CDC was unable to isolate the microor...Gene Therapy Enables Transplantation Without Immunosuppressive Drugs
...e NationalInstitutes of Health. Additional support came from the Thomas B. McCabe Fund andthe American Heart Association. The University of Pennsylvania Medical Center's sponsored research ranksfifth in the United States, based on grant support from the National Institutesof Health, the primary fu...Good Ergonomics Is Good Economics
...evaluations and improvements to the C-141's design came at a total cost of less than $500,000 of professio...g its Displaywriter product to customers, a report came back that customer setup of the product was failing. Follow-up by ergonomist Daniel Kolar, president...NIAID Doctor Successfully Treats Longest Case Of Malaria Infection On Record
...es. The woman, a native of Greece, came to Dr. Vinetz attention in February 1996 when her daughter, a resident of Baltimore, brought her mother for evaluation to a Johns Hopkins University clinic where Dr. Vinetz works part time. On examination, the woman did not ......ll had an enlarged spleen. In 1996, the woman came to Baltimore, where her daughter lives, to beexami...e patient, who hadnever left the country until she came to Hopkins, could not have been infected after that year, Vinetz says. "We learned from her sister t...