Study: Artificial sweetener may disrupt body's ability to count calories
...ty to learn that the taste and feel of food by the mouth suggests the appropriate caloric intake. Much as Pavlov's dogs learned that the sound of a bell signaled food, people learn that both sweet tastes and dense, viscous foods signal high calories. This learning process begins very early in life and perh...Gene linked to cleft lip and palate identified
...egion often involve the upper lip, the roof of the mouth (hard palate), or the soft tissue in the back of the mouth (soft palate). More than 70 percent of babies with cleft lip also have cleft palate. Children wit...Counting foxes before the last tally-ho
...as suspended for nearly a year during the foot and mouth epidemic in 2001. IFAW campaigner Josey Sharrad, said: "This research demolishes arguments by the hunting lobby that foxes need to be killed to prevent a population explosision. It will also allow us to monitor the impact of a ban on this cruel sport...Green tea research leads to gum and other products
...nd has a chronically dry mouth," Dr. Hsu said. Dry mouth also affects some people without cancer, including fully 30 percent of the elderly, Dr. Hsu noted. The green tea gum not only protects the tissue but stimulates the salivary glands to produce more moisture. Healthy people can chew the gum for prevent...K-State's National Agricultural Biosecurity Center receives $1.3 Million from Department of Defense
...e and its infrastructure. "Those include foot and mouth disease, avian influenza and exotic Newcastle disease," she said. Federal, state, non-profit and private industry groups will be contacted, in search of response lessons. An initial list of agencies the National Agricultural Biosecurity Center will c...New fossil sheds light on old mystery
...he prey into their months by rapidly expanding the mouth cavity. Crocodiles and alligators use a different ...other animal. Rather than expand the volume of its mouth to suck in prey, Dinocephalosaurus expanded the volume of its throat, in many ways a more effective ...High resolution satellite imagery assists hunt for infectious 'kissing bugs'
...o bite human skin where it is thinnest around the mouth and eyes. Growing up to five centimetres long, the kissing bugs are harmless by themselves, but carry a microscopic protozoan parasite that causes the wasting and eventually lethal Chagas disease. Secondary sources of infection can include ingesting...Chemical derived from vitamin-E shows early promise as cancer drug
... whether alpha-TEA was administered to the mice by mouth (orally) or via breathing (aerosol), the compound was capable of reducing the primary tumor mass by greater than half. In addition, the compound was capable of reducing tumor lesions (metastases) in the lung that were big enough to see with the na...