Give thanks for the cranberry, say dental researchers
Families gathered around the Thanksgiving dinner table might consider giving thanks for the bacteria-busting ability of cranberry juice, say dental researchers who have discovered that the beverage holds important clues for preventing cavities. A team led by oral biologist Hyun (Michel) Koo, D.D.S., Ph....UF scientists find sugar may have a sour side
...t all starts with fructose, found in fruit, honey, table sugar and other sweeteners, and in many processed ...t's in soft drinks, jellies, pastries, ketchup and table sugar, among other foods, and is the key component in high fructose corn syrup, a sugar substitute i...Bioenergy - I: From concept to commercial processes
...eparing Posters. There will also be time for round table discussions and other technical activities that will enhance and enrich the technical program....Vinegar increases killing power of bleach
...h environmental surfaces as counter tops, desk and table tops, and floors, for example, virtually every household has a sporicidal sterilant available in the form of diluted, acidified bleach." Miner recommends first diluting one cup of household bleach in one gallon of water and then adding one cup of ...There's something fishy about human brain evolution
...ch early humans evolved. Dr. Cunnane points to the table scrap fossil evidence collected by his symposium co-organizer Dr. Kathy Stewart from the Canadian Museum of Nature, in Ottawa. Her study of fossil material excavated from numerous Homo habilis sites in eastern Africa revealed a bevy of chewed fish bo...International policy workshop on nitrogen in Paris March 8 10, 2006
...ientific and business leaders who can bring to the table the broad experience of lessons learned in our quest to attain sustainability and see ways of moving forward with this topic; academics specializing in the fields of law and economics with specific ideas on coping with global environmental problems i...Potential vaccine developed for deadly leishmaniasis disease
...This candidate vaccine brings something new to the table and may be of use not only in humans but also for pet vaccines. Dogs get leishmaniasis, particularly in Southern Europe and a vaccine is urgently needed there, as well." Carbohydrate vaccines already are used in everyday medicine, including vaccines ...MIT chemist discovers secret behind nature's medicines
...ne of the elements from the column of the periodic table containing chlorine, bromine and iodine. In the lab, that's a very challenging task, but nature accomplishes it almost nonchalantly. The trick involves using a turbo-charged enzyme containing iron. A clue to how these enzymes operate emerged from a 2...Beaver dams create healthy downstream ecosystems
...d with smaller floods; they also elevate the water table to sustain plant and animal life during the dry summer season. "This study broadens the view of the importance of beaver in the valley bottoms beyond the upstream ponds," Westbrook said. "We found that upstream ponds were not the main hydrologic effe...ACS News Service weekly press package -- June 5, 2006
.... Humid summer weather often frustrates diners, as table salt cakes and sticks inside saltshakers. Round sa...avnagar, India, is developing the new free-flowing table salt in collaboration with a major food company in India. ARTICLE #2 "A Practical Approach to Prod...Eavesdropping fringe-lipped bats spread culture through sound
..."aahs" of a customer eating the same dish the next table over, frog-eating bats learn to eat new prey by eavesdropping on their neighbors as they eat, report biologists from The University of Texas at Austin. Rachel Page and Mike Ryan, studying fringe-lipped bats at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Instit...U of T researchers find glycemic index effective in composite meals
...s and carb-counters. The glycemic index (GI), the table that lists the quality of carbohydrates in more th...y Professors Thomas Wolever and David Jenkins. The table has become an important tool for the management of non-insulin diabetes and a reference point for po...ENDO 2006 offers breaking research on the metabolic syndrome, obesity, hormones in women and more
...armaceutical industry The Hormone Foundation round table on Menopause Management with national experts And the results of three clinical trials covering treatments of female sexual dysfunction, growth hormone therapy in children and hyperparathyroidism. This year's press schedule will feature highlights...Tyrannosaur survivorship -- tough times for teens
...produce the first age-standardized ecological life table for a non-avian dinosaur population. They selected fibulae or metatarsals from individuals and used growth line counts to estimate ages at death. They found that the complex survivorship pattern is remarkably similar to that seen in living large ma...Deadly cone snails liven up Philadelphia Shell Show, Oct. 7-8
...e Philadelphia region--of a newly published coffee table book called Sailors' Valentines: Their Journey Through Time will be available to sign copies of the book. For years Olivera has been working with cone snail venom to develop a drug that would provide relief to people with chronic pain. He also has b...New textbook uses real disease outbreaks to teach undergraduate microbiology
...es handy information about antimicrobial agents in table format. Each of the nine sections of the book features a college perspective and a global perspective case study. The college perspective provides a direct and practical link between the microbiology course and the daily lives of students. The glob...ACS news service Weekly PressPac -- August 16, 2006
...iodic table. Of course, the traditional periodic table is far more than a listing of all the known chemic...mical behavior. "Even if this nascent nanoparticle table contains only a smidgen of the explanatory and predictive power of the traditional element table, it...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- August 30, 2006
... reporters. To reach the listing, which includes a table of contents and a means of obtaining newsworthy papers published in the journal, go to: http://www.eurekalert.org/jrnls/acs/index.php?page=chemicalbiology . Led by Editor-in-Chief Laura L. Kiessling, Ph.D., Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry ...Pregnant prehistoric fossil offers clues to past
... this valuable discovery had sat under a ping pong table for 25 years," said Dr. Michael Caldwell, paleonto...s ended up in several boxes underneath a ping pong table in the science undergraduate lab. When Caldwell arrived in 2000, he started renovations, found the b...... be indicative of widespread lowering of the water table throughout low-lying landscapes in Interior Alaska, write the authors. A lowered water table negatively affects the ability of wetlands to regulate climate because it enhances the release of ca...