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An ancient bathtub ring of mammoth fossils

... Washington, where the elephantine corpses came to rest as water receded from the temporary but repeatedly formed ancient Lake Lewis. PNNL geologists are plotting the deposits to reconstruct the high-water marks of many of the floods, the last of which occurred as recently as 12,000 to 15,000 years ago. ...

Does amateur boxing cause brain damage?

...ed after a fight and then again three months after rest from boxing. The study also included 10 healthy m...eased levels returned to normal after three months rest from boxing. In addition, the increased levels after a fight were significantly higher among amat...

Hearts of male and female rainbow trout are different

...lied by only deoxygenated blood returning from the rest of the body. Not surprisingly, the authors expect there to be corresponding layer differences in energy production and function. Methodology Uniform ventricle strips or transverse rings were cut from 10-12 month old, hatchery raised, sexually...

Pistachios lower cholesterol, provide antioxidants

... of pistachios as a snack and by incorporating the rest into such foods as pistachio muffins, granola and pistachio pesto. "We had really good compliance and participants were generally pleased with the diets," says Gebauer. Standard blood tests determined the various cholesterol levels in the part...

Adult stem cells from human cord umbilical cord blood successfully engineered to make insulin

...ecipients to take immune-suppressing drugs for the rest of their lives. Huge numbers of stem cells are thought to be required to create new organs. Researchers might remove thousands of donor cells from an individual and grow them in the laboratory into billions of cells, Denner explained. Then, for a ...

Revealed -- Mosquito genes that could be controlling the spread of killer viruses

...d discovered that they evolve much faster than the rest of the genes in the genome. Identifying which of these key genes are implicated in the transmission of viral diseases is an area of future research that could lead to new ways of combating these diseases. One possibility would be to affect the activi...

Male circumcision overstated as prevention tool against AIDS

... a whole has four times as many prostitutes as the rest of the word and they are more than four times as infected. Some southern Africa countries have as many as 7% of their adult females infected and working as prostitutes while in the developed world typically this percentage of infected prostitutes is ...

Warning from Asian bees

... America. However, this is in contrast with the rest of the local industry, beset by poor yields and low prices, brought on by the drought. “The bee industry had a reasonable summer honey crop, but domestic prospects for the next two years look very bleak,” Dr Somerville said. “There will be very...

Study shows lizard moms dress their children for success

..." their progeny in patterns they will wear for the rest of their lives. The mother's influence gives her progeny the patterns most likely to ensure success under the conditions they will encounter as adults. In a paper published June 10 in the online early edition of the journal Ecology Letters (and in a...

Undergraduate research shows leaderless honeybee organizing

...older workers gave signals to the queen and to the rest of the colony that it was time to swarm and leave the hive. Later, they were able to observe inside the swarm itself and see workers give the queen a signal, known as “piping” that tells her to fly. “Researchers have never reported worker piping b...

Brightening prospects of using fluorescent nanotubes in medical applications

...parate the strongly fluorescent SWNTs from all the rest in large quantities. Nanotube soot is insoluble in water. So researchers routinely mix it with special soap and give it a dose of ultrasound to break apart clumps of nanotubes and force them to dissolve. The result is a dark liquid that is routinel...

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