Study finds no evidence hormone benefits autism
...thers, including parents. They also tend to behave oddly and develop language and other social skills far more slowly than normal. Severely affected patients can never lead independent lives and may need to be institutionalized. Strains on families often are enormous. With special attention and schooling, ...Asteroid devastation possibly worse than feared
...the ultraviolet spring they envision. That impact, oddly enough, hit a portion of the Earths crust that was rich in anhydrite rocks. This produced a 12-year sulfate haze that blocked much of the ultraviolet radiation. But it was a lucky shot - that type of rock covers less than 1 percent of the Earths surf...Genes or environment: what shapes the sensory homunculus?
...ionships remain accurate but suddenly Norway looks oddly large next to little Sweden and Finland. Similarly, the mice's body map is basically intact but shifted in scale (see image). That was surprising, because in the visual system ephrins are known to help incoming neurons faithfully maintain these neigh...... the politically acceptable alternatives would be, oddly enough, clearing all vegetation of the right-of-way and keeping it mowed," says Mumme. "Then the jays will be able to see well and will find less food on the road.......e observed an unexpected product in our tests, and oddly enough, it turned out to be really important," Agrawal said of her research experience. "It was one of those serendipitous moments in scientific investigation, when a big puzzle piece suddenly falls into place." Found in all jawed vertebrates, from s...Study uncovers structure of key molecule responsible for clearing drugs from the body
... While PXR is chemically "promiscuous," it also is oddly specific, the UNC scientist said. Other groups have shown that while human PXR binds to many compounds that threaten humans, the mouse version of the molecule binds to a different set of chemicals that threaten mice. "The fact that these differ...Diet study focus of TAES research in effort to help save giant panda
...nt Station's Grazingland Animal Nutrition Lab, and oddly enough, the work doesn't have anything to do with livestock. But what researchers learn from the nutrition of a giant panda could be applied to livestock and other wildlife. For many years the laboratory has analyzed fecal matter taken from livestoc...Splitting hairs: GATA-3 function in hair follicle development
...of pharmacologically rescued GATA-3-null mice were oddly bent, and displayed irregular thickenings and delayed emergence through the skin. However, for as unusual as their whiskers appeared, the remainder of the epidermis of these pharmacologically rescued GATA-3-null mice appeared to function properly. W...