Imitative parrots just might tell you it's all in the tongue
...oxorgan nestled between the trachea and lungs. The lingering question hasbeen: What happens to that sound as it moves up and out of the throat?Ornithologists and bird enthusiasts have long noticed that parrots bobtheir tongues back and forth while they vocalize, but it wasn't knownwhether the tongue motions co...Chemical Society announces EPA awards for environmentally friendly technology
..., Tenn.) Recycling can be a sticky business when lingering adhesives on envelopes, magazine binding and other materials gum up the machines used by paper mills to turn recycled waste into new products. When built-up adhesives slow down paper machines, mill operators typically apply toxic solvents to the stic...Drugs limit deadly side effects of graft-versus-host disease
...t suppressing the immune response required to kill lingering cancer cells. Scientists at the University of Michigan's Comprehensive Cancer Center are the first to study the effect of these drugs, called HDAC inhibitors, in laboratory mice with cancer after the mice received a bone marrow transplant. Results of...Exxon Valdez oil spill impacts lasting far longer than expected, scientists say
...il spill should lead to a new understanding of how lingering oil deposits affect species over many years, how sublethal, chronic doses compromise health, growth and reproduction and how impaired species interact negatively with one another in "cascade" fashion. "Recognition that chronic exposures of fish eggs ...Hebrew University, German and British researchers develop means to help stress sufferers
...se suffering from recurring stress symptoms due to lingering memories of past traumatic experiences. Until now there has been no drug to treat the core of the post-stress problem, but rather only its symptoms. Working towards creating a commercial medicinal product based on the research is Ester Neuroscience, ...IUB biologist gets $2.6 million to study soybean disease resistance
... benefit from enhanced disease resistance. Despite lingering questions about their ecological effects, the genetic modification of crops presents an alternative to pesticide use -- a prospect that appeals to both farmers and consumers. Soybean (Glycine species) is second only to corn in number of acres planted...Leakey Foundation celebrates 100 years of human origins discovery
...cience, as well as to refocus our efforts upon the lingering questions of the human past." Dozens of the world's leading anthropologists, geologists, biologists and evolutionary scientists including Louis and Mary Leakey's granddaughter Louise Leakey will mark the 100th anniversary of Louis Leakey's birth at...Coping: Plant adaptability to stress discovered
...ink. Not so for plants. Their roots keep them lingering in stressful situations - sometimes to death. Now a Texas A&M University researcher has identified a system in a mutant arabidopsis, a type of weed, that signals to its cells to go on hold until stressful situations pass. The involvement of...World's largest scientific society convenes regional meeting June 8 - 11 in Princeton, N.J.
...ater encountered. The distinct and pervasive odors lingering in the vicinity of lower Manhattan for weeks following 9-11 were prime candidates for eliciting odor-mediated "flash-backs" among workers and residents. The researcher will identify the compounds that are commercially available and may be used to rec...'Kiss-and-run' rules the inner lives of neurons
.... According to Stevens, the latest findings settle lingering questions about how vesicle retrieval occurs. Early electron microscopy images of vesicles in synapses were interpreted as either a kiss-and-run model or one in which the vesicle is completely incorporated into the cell membrane, to be drawn back int...Controlling cell adhesion: Researchers report first evidence of 'catch bonds'
...he body's way of preventing white blood cells from lingering in stagnant backwaters in the bloodstream where there is little flow." While the existence of catch bonds has so far been confirmed in selectin molecules, Zhu believes the phenomenon applies other instances in which adhesive molecules interact in the...Sea Grant News & Notes for March 26, 2003
...Great Lakes for this time of year may combine with lingering El Nino conditions to yield the lowest summertime water levels in decades, according to Philip Keillor, coastal engineering specialist at the University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute. Keillor notes, "This is the first time since the 1960s we've ha...Scientists find evidence for crucial root in the history of plant evolution
...ological fossils, and it could be applied to other lingering questions of paleontology, Cody says. For example, it could be used to determine whether what some scientists have called extremely ancient micro-fossils on the order of 3.5 billion years old are actually biological fossils at all, or just organic ...Scientists confirm age of the oldest meteorite collision on Earth
...strial source. "That pretty well laid to rest any lingering doubts of their impact origin," Lowe recalled. SHRIMP technology To narrow down the timeframe when the meteorite impact occurred, Lowe and Byerly turned to a powerful analytic instrument at Stanford called the Sensitive High-Resolution Ion ...Bacterial alterations source of persistent COPD lung infections
... kept cropping up were just one strain of bacteria lingering in the body for months or years, or whether different strains of the same bacteria would come and go," said Murphy. The study successfully recovered about 4000 separate strains of bacteria. New technology involving DNA testing enabled investigators ...Knocking out SHIP gene improves success of allogeneic bone marrow transplants in mice
... immune cells in these transplants may also attack lingering cancer cells that remain in the body following chemotherapy and radiation, thereby increasing the patient's chances for disease-free survival....Genetic clues for finding and treating cardiovascular disease (CVD)
...y absorb and release its ingestibles, thus causing lingering and toxic effects. Allen Roses, MD, the Worldwide Director of Genetics at GlaxoSmithKline, Inc., is responsible for the companys development of pharmacogenetics, the utilization of a persons DNA to create medications that best respond to their geneti......l symptoms were temporary, and the five men had no lingering changes in their health. Moreover, the men had a strong immune response to the virus during the first few years of HHV8 infection that eventually subsided as the virus was controlled. This included formation of killer T cells and antibodies directed ......he TMI incident. "This study helps put to rest the lingering question of whether the residents of Three Mile Island are experiencing an increase in cancer deaths as a result of the nuclear accident," said Evelyn Talbott, Dr. P.H., associate professor, department of epidemiology and principal investigator on th......ite these unsolved mysteries, the finding erases a lingering doubt about the utility of cloned cells by demonstrating that the process doesn't automatically rob cells of a normal lifespan. In fact, say Lanza and colleagues, cloning could supply a crop of youthful cells for a variety of uses, from medical appli...