Duke University Students Devise Devices For The Disabled
...seat that he could push from side to side with his hands and arms.As he pushed, he deftly maneuvered a special goalie's stick the Duke 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...Since losing his hands and forearms in a 1994 industrialaccident, George ...veloped a "safer" handgun that does not fire inthe hands of an unauthorized user; an infrared mouth-held devicethat allows a quadriplegic to operate a comput...First Salmonella Vaccine For Poultry To Be On The Market Soon
...he genes, we make sure that the salmonella has its hands tied behind its back," Curtiss explains. "With those two genes, the salmonella could defend itself against the chicken's natural host defense system, its antibodies, and possibly kill the bird. But by giving the bird the weakened strain contained i...Experts: Public Will Accept Irradiation In Wake Of Meat Recall
...Linton recommends thoroughly cooking meat, keeping hands and cooking utensils clean, and avoiding cross-contamination. He says 1 tablespoon of bleach per gallon of water is a good sanitizer for food preparation areas. Some over-the-counter cleaning solutions are OK, he says, but consumers should read label...Brain-Activity Data Clarify Contradictions In Earlier Anxiety Research
...responds to aperceived threat with heart pounding, hands sweating, light-headedness and/ordizziness. "It's been right there in the literature. Most of the studies thatfound more right-hemisphere activity were looking at panic or some kindof stressful state," she said. "Most of the studies that foundmore...Hurdle In Ulcer Vaccine Development Cleared
...acterium probably is spread by unclean fingers and hands andcontaminated food and water. More than one-third of Americans have thisinfection, and about 20 percent of them eventually develop peptic ulcer disease.Most gastric cancers also occur in people with current or past H. pyloriinfections. Although sto...China And USGS--Working Together On Environmental Issues
Children with deformed limbs, hands and feet covered with scaly lesions,cancerous growths--these distressing sights are all too common in GuizhouProvince in southwest China. Although these health problems have beenattributed to the burning of impure coal, they are in reality the conse...... estimate of totalbacteria, researchers have their hands full just listing the number of bacterialspecies. In the meantime, consider this problem: Because the number of bacteriais so large, events that would occur once in 10 billion years in the laboratorywould occur every second in nature....Teaching Great White Sharks To Link People With Food Is A Recipe For Disaster
...sharks as cold-blooded killers andplaying into the hands of those who would wish to slaughter them. The South African government is aware of the problem, and in Augustimposed a temporary moratorium on cage diving in the Dyer Island channel. ButFerreira doubts that regulations proposed to control s......t of whetherthat language is expressed through the hands or the voice." Corina noted the surprising finding that stimulation to areas nextBroca's area resulted in movements of the mouth and lips, but not the hands. "This study also strongly suggests that the supramarginal gyrus plays acriti...Molecular Mechanism For Evolution Described
...ght spot at theright time. That's why you have two hands and two feet instead of fourhands," says Lindquist. During times of stress, however, all sorts of proteins start to unfold,and Hsp 90 is recruited away from its normal duties to help out. The signaltransduction pathways are then 'sensitized' to small...Could A Nasal Vaccine Finally Get Rid Of The Black Death?
...emic. The disease could also become a weaponin the hands of bioterrorists. Many researchers pin their hopes on an effective vaccine. The onlyvaccine now licensed for plague, which consists of killed bacteria, protectsjust half its recipients. Clinical trials of a vaccine that may be moreeffective w...Cheap, Soy-Based Antibodies Prevent Genital Herpes In Mice
...ve touniversal precautions, just like washing your hands after you use the bathroom,brushing your teeth after you eat, and having safe sex." Toxicology studies will begin soon, Whaley said, adding that he expectshuman trials to begin once the lubricant is proven safe. Biophysicists at Hopki...Scientists Show For The First Time How Leprosy Bug Targets Peripheral Nerves
... of leprosy arise from loss of allsensation in the hands and feet, to the extent that accidental burns or injuriesare not noticed, which leads to extensive scarring or even loss of fingers ortoes and facial disfiguration. Deformities brought about by nerve damage arelargely responsible for the horror and d...Virginia Tech Research Looks At The 'Human Dimensions' Of The Forest
...community. It wascondemned and taken from private hands years ago. Now it is changing from remoteAppalachia to a place of tourism and retirees as people head there for thequality of life. Mount Rogers is also an example of local initiative applying the nationalresearch agenda to improve the quality of lif...Gene Identified For Heart Defect That Causes Sudden Death In Young People
...ptoms of heart failure -- including swelling ofthe hands and feet and shortness of breath -- in their 30s and 40s, and usuallydie within a few years. In ARVD, the heart muscle in the right ventricle, the side of the heart thatpumps blood to the lungs, dies and is replaced by fat cells and fibrous tissue. T...AAAS Report Attributes Majority Of Killings In Guatemala To State
...ala over a 36-year period of armed conflict in the hands of the government regimes that ruled the country. ...ence isclear -- tens of thousands have died at the hands of the state." According to thereport, the level of state terror peaked in 1982, under the regime o...Human Neural Stem Cells Advance Distant Prospect Of Reseeding Damaged Brain
... areas from stem cells-if only theycould lay their hands on a neural stem cell with similar abilities.That, says Snyder, would expand the current paradigm of neuraltransplantation-which generally involves adding fetal tissue to a small area ofnerve degeneration-to the broader goal of "reseeding" the entire...Gold Finds Life, Energy, Controversy In Earth
...oil reserves are far greater thanpredicted. In the hands of anyone other than Gold, the reaction to all this might be askeptical raised eyebrow. But Gold, as ever the Cornellian gadfly, makes hisargument with erudition and conviction. Founder and director of Cornell'sCenter for Radiophysics and Space Res...Researchers Discover Genetic Mutation For Rare Form Of Dwarfism
...-- a growth hormone disorder characterized bylarge hands and feet -- was invited by Brazilian researchers to consult onseveral families of giants seen at the University of S o Paulo Hospital clinic. There, Levine noticed two patients in the waiting area who were unusually small. While he continued to look ...