UNC-CH Ligament-Tendon Structure Discovery May Lead To Better Treatment, Scientists Explain
...stiffen because collagen fibers stick together and restrict normalmovement in hips, shoulders and knees, for example. The Aileen Stock Orthopaedic Research Fund supported the UNC-CH medicalstudies....Researchers Grow Healthy Human Placental Cells For Drug Research
...lls reproduce very quickly when the researchers restrict the amount of oxygen in the bioreactor. Kniss said that makes sense, since during the first few weeks of pregnancy, as an embryo travels down the mother’s fallopian tube to the uterus, it acquires very little oxygen. Yet this is...Study Demonstrates High Conservation Potential Of Logged Rainforest
...es, which Cannon noted are not rigorouslyenforced, restrict logging activities to trees at least 50 centimeters (about1.6 feet) in diameter as measured at chest height. Thinking ahead to the nextgeneration, Cannon, with help from his co-authors, decided to do detailedinventories of smaller trees, between 20 a...Horses Prefer Bridles That Have A Bit Missing
...he horse's head and neck meet-the "poll"-and often restrict theanimal's breathing and movement in the same way as a bridle with a bit. Kerstin Alford, welfare officer with the British Horse Society, hasgiven Buck's invention a guarded welcome. "Some horses do resent having a bit intheir mouths. If thi......ains highly controversial. Laws and policies often restrict their access to such services. In Kenya, the Roman Catholic church has vigorously opposed sexuality education in schools. A second area where progress is lagging is the incorporation of AIDS education into family planning and maternal health servic...National Network Provides Update On Devastating Corn Disease
...s in combination with crop rotation willdefinitely restrict yield losses." Although the fungus which causes this disease, Cercospora zeae-maydis, has beenaround since 1925, its incidence didn?t accelerate until corn acreage wasincreasingly placed into conservation tillage during the 1980?s. However, Lippsins...Infants, Toddlers Should Not Restrict Fat Intake, Experts Say
...ns and Hennig, however, suggest that we should not restrict fat until 5 years of age, and then reduce it gradually throughout childhood and teen years. They say that limiting dietary fat to less than 30 percent of total calories in young children may reduce growth and lead to nutritional shortages. The relati...Scientists Find New Trigger For Nerve Cell Death
...loss and prevent nerve cells from dying. Thismight restrict damage to the initially injured area of the brain or spinal cord,allowing patients to recover more fully. Yu got his idea by considering how apoptotic cells differ from those inthe throes of necrosis -- sudden death at the focus of an ...Restoring Farm Land To Natural Wetlands Key To Stemming Flood
...rmenand residents against landowners who sought to restrict access to bottomlandponds, lakes and sloughs previously regarded as "commons." "Private hunting clubs and, later, drainage and levee districts,built fences and levees in the bottomlands of the Illinois River and appropriatedthe right to hunt, fish a...... to strictregulation..." Such a listing would not restrict trade, but would require that mahoganiesbe monitored and that producing nations define sustainable harvesting levelsand issue logging permits, she said.......el of air pollution generated by vehicles and to restrict the amount of external air pollution (particularly...y in the United States, have moved to pass laws to restrict air pollution from cars. However these measures have been undermined by the limitations in current...