New dynamic brace developed to advance clubfoot treatment
...itation at the University of Iowa, involves weekly casting and manipulation of the clubfoot soon after birth....body for three to four years following the initial casting treatment. The brace has open-toed, high-top shoes attached to a shoulder-width fixed metal bar. Bec...Immune antibodies penetrate neurons to clear Alzheimer's-linked amyloid
...he use of immunotherapy against Alzheimer's, while casting intriguing new light on other disease processes," says senior author Dr. Gunnar Gouras, associate professor of neurology and neuroscience at Weill Cornell Medical College and associate attending neurologist at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Corn...Corals -- More complex than you?
...ch were thought to have evolved much later is also casting new light on evolution. It appears that all animals lose genes during evolution; those with fast generation turnover times like fruit flies shed genes particularly fast. Corals which take at least 5years to reach sexual maturity (compared with th...No need to thank dinosaur-killing asteroid for mammalian success
... major diversification well after asteroid strike, casting into doubt the role the dinosaur die-off played in the success of mammals. "The previous evidence showed that we did see a die-off of the dinosaurs and an increase in the rise of the mammals roughly 65 million years ago," Gittleman said. "But the f...Lizards 'shout' against a noisy background
... with branches and leaves waving in the breeze and casting patterns of light and shade. "They have to have a strategy to get their message across," Ord said. Ord videotaped two species of anole lizards, Anolis cristatellus and Anolis gundlachi, in the Caribbean National Forest in Puerto Rico. He found th...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory
...e extended the life of steel industry rollers, die casting molds at a wheel plant and even blades to cut 11 billion ketchup packets each year. The trick is applying rare-earth and other metal oxide films at low temperature (450 degrees Celsius) in a variety of combinations at the nano-scale. The films bond t...Mass extinction's cause: 'Sick Earth'
...ong before species began to die off, Bottjer said, casting doubt on the meteorite strike theory. "People in the past used to think this big mass extinction was like a car hitting a wall," he said. Instead, Clapham's interpretation of the geological record shows "millions of years of environmental stress." ...How parachute spiders invade new territory
...distances of hundreds of miles over open ocean. By casting a thread of silk into the breeze spiders are able to ride wind currents away from danger or to parachute into new areas. Often they travel a few metres but some spiders have been discovered hundreds of miles out to sea. Researchers have now found tha...NJIT students take top awards at a national design contest
...e of Technology (NJIT) spent a semester building a casting device that a paraplegic could use to cast a fishi...nical clutch and two 18-volt motors to build their casting device. All a disabled person need do to cast the line 30 feet is push a few buttons. And if he can'...Deep-sea jelly uses glowing red lures to catch fish
...rare, it uses deception to attract fish instead of casting a wide net to capture them." After discovering lures on this new species of siphonophore, Haddock and his coauthors looked at several related species and noticed similar glowing structures. He believes that these structures also serve as lures, but...ORNL nanoscience center 'jump starts' medical compound device
...nds of times to get the right answer, but its like casting a large net to capture a small solution," Matteo said. "If you've pointed the device in the wrong direction, you'll need to cast again. "With a serial approach, if you can learn something every step of the way, you can very efficiently find a soluti...DOE JGI announces 2006 Community Sequencing Program portfolio
...nergy source a viable option. DOE JGI also will be casting deep into the aquatic gene pool--sequencing genes from two species of catfish, the Channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) and the blue catfish, (I. furcatus). Catfish is a two billion dollar industry annually in the United States alone, representing 6...Radio-tracking associated with 'dramatic shift' in water vole sex ratio
...shift" in the sex ratio of the animals' offspring, casting doubt on the assumption that radio-tracking does not fundamentally affect the biology of radio-collared water voles. The water vole (Arvicola terrestris) is an endangered species in the UK, and ecologists Dr Tom Moorhouse and Professor David Macdonal...New AAAS report cites 'serious concerns' with electronic voting
...nting out that problems can arise with any form of casting votes, the panelists noted that new touch-screen computer technology has come under sustained attack because most such systems leave no paper trail to verify the final count. An interim report was released last month. Reflecting the breadth of the is...... improving the efficiency of smelting, foundry and casting operations. For links to longer project descriptions for each of the 32 awards go to: http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/releases/atpaward09-04.htm ....