Food Bacteria-Spice Survey Shows Why Some Cultures Like It Hot
...netically, and thatincludes taste receptors in our mouths and our taste for certain flavors. People who enjoyed food with antibacterial spices probably were healthier,especially in hot climates. They lived longer and left more offspring. And theytaught their offspring and others: 'This is how to cook a ma...Study Shows Athletes Get No Kick From Nasal Strips
... subjects wore separate masks over their noses and mouths during the exercise tests so researchers could measure air flow and ventilation at both sites. They also measured performance, based on power output. Results showed that wearing a nasal strip appeared to have no effect on the switch point, or o...Plant Doctors Find Genetic Solution For Papaya Growers
...idly spreads when aphids pick up the virus ontheir mouths while feeding on infected plants and continue to feed on healthyplants, was first detected in Hawaii in the 1940's and virtually eliminatedlarge papaya production on Oahu in the 1950's. The papaya industry relocated tothe Puna district on Hawaii isla...New Studies Shed Light On Facial Features Of Popular Dinosaurs
...ftheir jaws and hide the lizards' teeth when their mouths are closed. However,this isn't necessarily so with tyrannosaurs. These dinosaurs had skin thatprobably extended to the margin of their jaw but didn't extend to cover theirteeth. "Lips on a tyrannosaur are important if you're making a movie or...Estuaries Vital To The Productivity Of Southeastern U.S. Fisheries
...ir livesthere, in the bays, tidal creeks and river mouths that pocket the Southeasterncoastline. In contrast to the winter months, when offshore Gulf Stream waters arecomparatively warmer and richer in nutrients, estuaries offer juvenile marinelife better sanctuaries and more plentiful food suppl...UF Researcher: New Techniques Help Reconstruct Ancient Diets
GAINESVILLE --- Out of the mouths of long-dead animals come stories of vanished landscapes, ancient weather and the way the creatures lived and died. With a unique combination of two scientific techniques, UFpaleontologist Bruce MacFadden and colleagues analyzed fossilized ho...Tip Sheet: Papers At IADR Meeting
...t people withpoorly-controlled diabetes have drier mouths than either people without diabetesor people with well-controlled diabetes. However, for reasons that aren'tunderstood, these people don't complain of mouth dryness. These findingsunderscore the importance of controlling diabetes and of dentists pa...Harbor Branch Scientists Discover Bioluminescent Octopus
...oluminescence appears as a glowing ring around the mouths ofbreeding females - glow-in-the-dark lipstick perhaps? What makes the light producing abilities of this particular octopus,Stauroteuthis syrtensis, particularly surprising is where the light comes from,the suckers! In fact Widder and Johnsen's fi...Reversible bone shrinkage documented in Galapagos iguanas
...#147In shrinking, they also get slimmer, and their mouths get smaller, making them more efficient at harvesting the tiny amounts of available algae,” Wikelski said. “They shrink to reach a body size where survival is high. If they shrank a centimeter or so, they already increased their survival ra...Can heavy alcohol use lead to some kinds of cancer?
... weeks after birth; many live and grow in people's mouths on a platonic basis, but some are harmful, such as those producing tooth cavities or those producing acetaldehyde. The study found that ALDH2-deficient Asians were exposed to two to three times higher salivary acetaldehyde levels than either Caucasia...Food chain length depends on size of pond
...have found that food-chain length -- the number of mouths food passes through on the way to the top predator...od chains from the bottom to the top and count the mouths along the way, they essentially counted backward from the top. In tissue samples of fish in each lak...Caffeine in colas: 'The Real Thing' isn't the taste
...udy session; subjects were required to rinse their mouths with water after tasting each sample. The "warm up" trials were added to heighten the ability to taste a difference. Subjects were chosen in part because they were regular cola drinkers who believed they preferred caffeinated colas because of their...Cell studies may further gene therapy prospects for head and neck cancer
...the normal tissue that lines the inside of humans' mouths and throats. This allowed a more realistic investigation of a widely studied gene transfer technique that uses a common cold virus - adenovirus - to infect cells and deliver therapeutic payloads. "If you take cells out of the body and put them in...NASA space technology shines light on healing
...intravenously because of the severe sores in their mouths have been able to eat solid food, " said Dr. David Margolis, an oncologist at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin in Milwaukee and an assistant professor of pediatrics at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Margolis, whose pediatric cancer patients are p...Sea grant study indicates potentially harmful human viruses in coastal waters
... be significant, according to a survey of 12 river mouths in Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego counties conducted by assistant professor Sunny Jiang at UC Irvine. In the 1999 survey, also funded by California Sea Grant, Jiang reports that four of the 12 sites sampled tested positive for the presence of the...Feeding fish use crossflow filtration
...ook as if they are just swimming around with their mouths open, but what goes on inside those mouths is a lot like a high-efficiency industrial filter, according to mathematician Angela Cheer at the Un...Dinosaurs' large noses may have been key to physiological processes
... were much farther from the eyes and closer to the mouths than previously depicted. By comparing tell-tale markings on bones from their present-day relatives, he has shown that many dinosaurs had large nasal passages that might have been important for heat exchange and other key physiological processes. Wi......ing up mud, engulfing invertebrates in their large mouths and dislodging weeds, which float to the surface and die. This makes the fish particularly troublesome in the shallow waters of wetlands that border the river. The Murray's flow was always episodic, and these wetlands periodically flooded and drained...Clues from analysis of fish bones supports theory of climate shift 5000 years ago, onset of El Nio
...ar shore in relatively small areas away from river mouths where fresh water can complicate the oxygen results. "Otoliths act like miniature temperature recording devices," said Crowe. "Throughout the life of a fish, they grow concentrically larger, and the ratio of oxygen isotopes in each individual growth...