Children With AD/HD Have Significant Functional Disabilities Related to Attention Deficit
...sity at Buffalo and Children's Hospital of Buffalo have shown that children diagnosed with attention deficit/ hyperactivity disorder (AD/HD) have as much functional disability as children with mild mental retardation and are not merely exhibiting...Hot 'Lanta: NASA, School Kids Team To Study How Trees Help Cities Keep Their Cool
...ryone talks about the weather, but it turns out we have been doing something ... notice it. And fixing problems that we have caused may start with planting a few trees downtown and using the same...Researchers Find Production Point Of Key Protein In Fragile X Syndrome
...f genetically inherited mental impairment in males have been bolsteredby researchers who have found that the synthesis of a key protein occursin an unexpected location in the brain. Scientists ......ity, including one who is himself adouble-amputee, have invented equipment to grant Rickels'wish. Students...ineering skills they've learned in class, but they have to beable to present an oral report and a written report. They had todo a lot of research to find ou......r foraging mate to return. Often, the parents will have only enough food for one chick, and the sibling is...n for food, that the numbers of temperate penguins have been slowly diminishing over the years. The Punta Tombo colony declined by about 20 percent between ...Duke researchers find existing drugs can stop fungus that attacks AIDS patients
.... -- Researchers at Duke University Medical Center have discoveredthat an existing class of drugs used to ...t said. "Ironically, our successeswith antibiotics have helped foster this increase. Patients are survivingbacterial infections only to then develop fungal ...Munching Microbes Make A Meal Out Of Toxic Substances
...n widely implemented because few on-site engineers have the knowledge or experience." One of Nies' project...d in bioremediation efforts. Nies and his students have taken samples from the contaminated site and are trying to determine the behavioral characteristics ...First Planned Release Of Captive Lemurs In Madagascar Wilds Expected In Fall
...chairmanand director of the San Francisco Zoo. "We have come full circle --from old fashioned menageries t... species' severe decline in the wild, these lemurs have beenfound to breed very successfully in captivity, Katz and Welch said. More than 250 black and whi...Scientists Use Magnetic Field As Alternative To Space-Based Zero Gravity
... room for frog eggs. Brown University scientists have used a magnetic field to levitate embryosof a small frog. The maneuver suggests an Earth-based alternative to expensivespace missions for observing how living plants and animals develop in alow-gravity environment. The Brown scientists think that u...Everyday Technology Underlies First DNA Computer Logic Gates
... "There is absolutely nothing fancy in what we have done," Ray says. "The techniques we've used are t...p to now, the only logic gates used for computing have been electronic structures that detect signals coming from transistors. Ray and Ogihara'...Newly Identified Tomato Gene Appears Key To Fruit Softening
...ry. However, subsequent molecular genetics studies have indicatedthat while pectin may determine other asp...," said Rose. "It appears, then, that expansinsmay have a totally different role during ripening." The researchers found the LeExp1 gene only in the fruit,...Enzymes Targeted As Key To Understanding Drug Interactions
... drug may render another ineffective? News stories have highlighted the problem of pharmacists who failed ...mong thousands of drug combinations. "Pharmacists have had to remember hundreds of pairs of drugs that interact," said the program's director, Dr. Rene Lev...Houseflies May Transmit Ulcer Bug
...come into contact with human food andexcrement and have been reported to be involved in the dissemination ...ot surprising that as many as six million bacteria have beenfound on the exterior surface of a single feeding fly and more than 100species of pathogenic org...New understanding of crab populations may not bring fishermen's delight
...le the actual data. Then,the modelers believe they have pinpointed some essential dynamics that couldhelp ...tes, egg-laying rates and cannibalism,all of which have been identified by field researchers as effective internalforces that help crabs rebuild populations...Low Iron Levels Cause Weakness In Women Who Are Not Anemic
... in developing countries -- Cornell nutritionists have determined that work capacity and physical perform... iron-depleted without anemia, low iron stores can have dramatic consequences on a woman's ability to do physical work and make a living," said Haas, who st...Early Tests Indicate Motor Skills Unharmed In Consumers Of Tainted Fish
... years of consuming PCB- and DDE-contaminated fish have had anynegative effects. The study, when complete...2 of a group of men and women older thanage 50 who have consumed 24 or more pounds of sport-caught Lake Michiganfish annually since the 1960s. A comparable ...Stuttering Appears To Have Strong Link To Family Genes, Researchers Say
...ional and cognitive development. Researchers long have known that stuttering tends to run in familiesand that persistent stuttering is much more common in males than females,by a ratio of 4 or 5 to 1, said Yairi, a persistent stutterer himself. Thecommon belief, however, has been that the family link cam...New Evidence For Corn's Ancestry Could Lead To Insect And Drought Resistant Crops
...rs. Because they don't know where they are goingto have an outbreak, they now have to treat all their fields with extremelytoxic chemicals." Tripsacum is drought resistant too, and...Bacterium gobbles up chlorinated pollutants
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