Study: Device Prevents Epileptic Seizures, Doesn't Damage Hearts
...heir mouth," he cautioned. "Iknew a man once whose wife had a seizure while they were out fishing. He thoughthe was supposed to put something in her mouth, but didn't have anything handy.He put his finger in her mouth, and she bit it off." An X-ray showing the man's finger in his wife's stomach co...Biologist Experiments With His Own Front Yard
...middle of the night. For lab assistant, he had his wife Sue (who has the patience of a saint)and the neighborhood association served as an oversight committee for his lab practices. Wanting to share the rewards of his domestic discoveries, Alcock has written a book about hisexperiences, In a Desert ...Study Shows: Just Say NO To Bone Loss
... WashingtonUniversity, and his team, including his wife Patricia Collin-Osdoby, Ph.D.,added a monoclonal antibody the team isolated and developed to osteoclast cellsbelieving that the antibody would hone in on a target molecule it recognizes inthe osteoclast cells. This target molecule is called an antig...Nitrate Reductase: A Magical Enzyme?
... Inc. The company was started by Campbell and his wife Ellen in 1993 toproduce nitrate reductase using a process they licensed from Michigan Tech. Research and development of nitrate reductase-based products has been funded bySmall Business Innovation Research grants from the EPA , USDA and the MichiganD...Study Finds Russian Women, Children Not Getting Enough Iron In Their Diets
...alth appears Thursday (April 9). Kohlmeier and his wife Lenore, alsoprofessor of nutrition and epidemiology, led the iron research. Co-authors areDr. Michelle Mendez and Hrishikesh Chakraborty of UNC-CH's public health school,Dr. Svetlana Shalnova of the Russian Center for Preventive Medicine and Dr.Arsen...Ground-Breaking DNA Research Leads SFU Grad To The Top
... at BeijingAgricultural University. Li, along with wife Hongjun and daughter Lily, leftChina in the early '90s. Since October, Li has been doing postdoctoral work at Yale University,funded by a three-year fellowship from the Medical Research Council of Canada.There, he's been "challenging" DNA to ...Biologist Wins Simon Fraser University Controversy Prize For 'Silent Spring' Of The '90s
... in 1993 by professor emeritus TedSterling and his wife Nora, honors and encourages work by a member of the SFUcommunity that publicly challenges conventional wisdom on issues of broad socialconcern. In his 1997 book, "Nature Wars: People vs. Pests," Winston does justthat. He presents a persuasiv...UD Education News: HHMI Award Supports Undergraduate Discovery
...Szent-Gyorgimarried (four) and the age of his last wife when he married her (19). Hisstudents can't be stumped. "While this was just a trivia quiz," White notes, "itshows how well information can be retained when it's presented in anunderstandable context." Such anecdotal evidence suggests that active lea...Home owners may sleep better because student overcame her fear of insects
...ten in a tree. "The ants take the food home to the wife and kids and they expire," says Trower."The first year, the ants that fell out of the ceiling were dead. The secondyear there were much fewer of them. This year, I've seen one. And it was dead." Blacksburg homeowner Larry Hincker says it only took ab...Science and Amersham Pharmacia Biotech award Young Scientist Prize
...," said Velculescu. A newlywed, Velculescu and his wife enjoy their free time hiking, skiing, playing tennis, and attending the theater and symphony. Velculescu also moonlighted as a keyboard player for a band called Wild Type, made up entirely of cancer researchers. "I'm semi-retired," he joked. "I didn'...UNC-CH biologists identify new order of marine fungi
...rn United States. To his amazement, he and his wife have discovered more than 100 new species of marine fungi on needlerush alone. About 60 percent of N.C. coastal marshes are composed of that plant, which is a kind of grass. "Normally, you find a maximum of about eight species on a host plant, an...Scientists discover 66-million-year-old dinosaur with a heart
...663-pound, 13-foot-long herbivore Willo, after the wife of the rancher on whose property it was found. Images of the fossil, a video, and further information is available on the Web at www.dinoheart.org, a free site maintained jointly by the university and museum. "Willo's ventricles and aorta indicat...Purdue researchers clean up petroleum spills with plants
...ST LAFAYETTE, Ind., June 26, 2000 -- A husband and wife research team at Purdue University has pioneered the use of plants to help clean up soil contaminated with petroleum products. The Environmental Protection Agency and industry researchers already use methods developed by the Purdue team at several pe...Ancient mediterranean port city may have been holy land way station
...ipment to pinpoint specific ruins, Hohlfelder, his wife Kathryn Barth, a Boulder architect, and CU-Boulder undergraduates Ira Schiff and Chris Laramie were surprised to find shifting sand had uncovered the apse and foundation of a second submerged church since the research team's 1998 visit. Further inve...Oliver Smithies wins major award from Japanese research foundation
...chnique as well. In recent years, along with his wife Dr. Nobuyo Madea, the scientist has been studying high blood pressure -- a major human problem -- with the genetically altered mice. A member of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, Smithies has earned many international, national and st...... complete an anatomic pathology residency. Gartons wife Rachel is currently a resident in dermatology. Adam Lauring graduated from Yale in 1994, with degrees in biology and the history of science. Lauring just completed his graduate work in the molecular and cellular biology program and returned to ...Scholar finds parallels between U.S./Japanese attitudes toward wolves
...d. His interest in wolves is one reason he and his wife moved to MSU from Yale University, Walker added. Walker was teaching Japanese history at Yale, but came to MSU last year to teach Japanese history and become director of the new Japan Studies Program ( http://www.montana.edu/japan ). His wife, Yuka ...Study of poisonous snakes boosts old Batesian principle of mimicry
...oid the mimic." In their experiments, he, his wife Karen and his student Horcombe relied on the striking similarity between deadly U.S. coral snakes and scarlet king snakes. Both species bear bright red, yellow and black bands, but the chief visual difference is that in the coral snake, the red and y...Researchers find large discrepancies in spouses' reports on birth control
...f a couple had discussed family planning or if the wife had a higher-than-average level of education, the chances were better that the two spouses would concur on the contraceptive method. Conversely, concurrence was lower if one or both spouses reported other sex partners. Lead author Stan Becker, PhD, ...Astrobiologist and national security expert Christopher Chyba named 2001 MacArthur
...t the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif. "My wife and I have barely had time to talk about what to do with the award," he added, "although I will have a lot more flexibility now." Origin of life The MacArthur Foundation praised Chybas scientific efforts at reconstructing the conditions that spawne...