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Fertility Study Looks At Ovulation's Intricate Workings
Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists are getting ever closer to finding out what makes animals tick reproductively. In efforts to boost fertility in beef cattle, researchers have discovered that the follicle--a tiny structure within a cow's ovary that releases the egg--must reach full maturity for pregnancy to have the best chance of success. NOAA Forecasters Predict Critical Fire Weather Conditions In Southwest
Weather conditions on Tuesday have the potential to create a significant fire weather situation across parts of southeastern Nevada, southwestern Utah and northwestern Arizona, according to forecasters with the NOAA Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla. Breastfeeding protects women from metabolic syndrome, a diabetes and h
A new study finds that breastfeeding a child may lower a woman's risk of developing metabolic syndrome, a condition linked to heart disease and diabetes in women, by up to 86 percent. The 20-year prospective study of 704 ethnically diverse women found the protective association of breastfeeding was even stronger for women who had gestational diabetes. This is the first study to measure all components of metabolic syndrome before pregnancy and after weaning. Exclusive Breastfeeding Reduces Risk Of Mother-to-child HIV Transmissi
A study by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the University of Zimbabwe and Harare (Zimbabwe) City Health Department found that exclusive breastfeeding substantially reduces the transmission of HIV from mother to infant and infant death, compared with partial breastfeeding. Infants who were introduced to solid foods or animal milk within the first three months were at four times greater risk of contracting HIV through breastfeeding compared to those who were exclusively breastfed. Gene Therapy Repairs Injured Human Donor Lungs For The First Time
For the first time, scientists have successfully used gene therapy to repair injured human donor lungs, making them potentially suitable for transplantation into patients. This technique could significantly expand the number of donor lungs by using organs that are currently discarded, and improve outcomes after transplantation. It is estimated that the number of donor organs available for lung transplants could easily be doubled with this technique. Fertilizer use not always helpful in revegetation efforts
Revegetation efforts in a subarctic Quebec community show that not all plants respond favorably to the use of fertilizers. Agricultural researchers used organic and mineral fertilizers on three different species of plants with mixed results. Vegetation in the community is damaged because of land development and the use of all terrain vehicles. Centenarians in the United States
"This report focuses on the characteristics of those people identified as centenarians in the 1990 Census of Population and Housing for the United States."Some of the data topics include population by sex, age, race, and Hispanic origin, number of projected centenarians (2000-2050), educational attainment, marital status, poverty status, and disability status and living arrangements. From the U.S. Census Bureau. Opens directly into a PDF file. Handling Turbulence On Titan And Earth
Ever spilled your drink on an airline due to turbulence? Researchers on both sides of the Atlantic are finding new ways to understand the phenomenon -- both on Earth and on Titan. Turbulence plays an important role in Earth?s weather system, and can be more than an inconvenience - hundreds of injuries have occurred on commercial flights due to turbulence. It is studied both in Earth's atmosphere and in that of Saturn's moon, Titan, aided by data from ESA?s Huygens probe. The study of one is helping the other. Vacuum Tube Chess Set Flickers and Glows
Artist Paul Fryer's chess set uses vacuum tubes for the pieces, and this cool board is wired so the tubes light up when they're placed on the squares.
 Brain Patterns Of Former Anorexics Reveal Clues To Disorder's Lasting
Even after more than a year of maintaining a normalized body weight, young women with past anorexia nervosa show vastly different patterns of brain activity compared to similar women without the eating disorder. Studying these differences in brain function could lead to a better understanding of why some young women are at greater risk of developing the disorder.
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