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KiOntey Turner

Thoracic diaphragm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • The diaphragm separates the thoracic cavity (heart, lungs & ribs) from the abdominal cavity and performs an important function in respiration.
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    Description of the Diaphragm in the human body and it's functions.
Richard Omoniyi-Shoyoola

Study: No-fat, low-fat dressings don't get most nutrients out of salads - 0 views

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    now-fat, low-fat dressings for a saled. are they benefiting you or putting even more calories in your body.
KiOntey Turner

SpringerLink - Book Chapter - 0 views

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    This link is used to inform the reader of how chest injuries occur in the human body and to sell a product. Do not use this tag to find reliable information.
Daphne Emrick

Putting teeth into forensic science - 0 views

  • Livermore researcher Bruce Buchholz and colleagues at the Karolinska Institute are looking at victim's teeth to determine how old they are at the time of death. Using the Lawrence Livermore's Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry, Buchholz determined that the radioactive carbon-14 produced by above-ground nuclear testing in the 1950s and 1960s remains in the dental enamel, the hardest substance in the body. The radiocarbon analysis showed that dating the teeth with the carbon-14 method would estimate the birth date within one year. Age determination of unknown human bodies is important in the setting of a crime investigation or a mass disaster, because the age at death, birth date, and year of death, as well as gender, can guide investigators to the corr
Marquise Middleton

Molting Cleanses Water Fleas - Science News - 0 views

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    Molting cleanses water fleas Losing a carapace means also losing parasitic bacteria Web edition : Wednesday, April 11th, 2012 Getting naked may help to protect a species of tiny water flea. When Daphnia magna molts, its discarded body armor can carry away harmful bacteria, a new study finds.
Marquise Middleton

Sweets on the brain | Science News for Kids - 0 views

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    Sugar-free sweeteners fool the body's internal computer Diet soft drinks usually have no sugar, but that doesn't mean they're not sweet. These beverages often contain ingredients that mimic sugar's sweetness without the big calorie count. In a new study, psychologists from San Diego report that the sugar-free sweeteners confuse not only taste buds but also the brain.
Becky Cook

Water Quality Standards Determination for Portion of the Mississippi River around St. L... - 1 views

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    Fact sheet; October 2009 EPA is determining that Missouri needs new or revised recreation designated uses, i.e. whole body contact recreation, for a 28.6-mile portion of an existing 190.5-mile segment of the Mississippi River that flows from Dam 27 to the confluence with the Ohio River.
Tasha Dickerson

Missouri Supreme Court Ruling Makes Midwifery Legal | Our Bodies Our Blog - 0 views

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    Yesterday, the Supreme Court of the State of Missouri reversed a lower court ruling in a 5-2 decision and upheld a 2007 law that would allow legal midwifery in the state.
Daphne Emrick

Survey: Teens more accepting of out-of-wedlock pregnancy - USATODAY.com - 0 views

  • Among teens in the USA, the percentage who have had sexual i
  • tercourse or say they'd be pleased if they or their partner were to get pregnant hasn't changed much since early in the decade, and there appears to be a growing acceptance of having babies outside marriage, a government report
  • said Wednesday. From 1995 to 2002, "it was pretty much across-the-board improvements in those risk factors," says lead author Joyce Abma, a statistician at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics. "It is a source of concern to see that forward movement kind of stalling
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  • Based on in-person interviews with 1,381 girls and 1,386 boys ages 15 to 19 in 2006-2008, more than four in 10 never-married teens in the USA have had intercourse at least once, Abma and her co-authors estimate. That's a slight drop from 2002, the last time the National Survey of Family Growth was conducted, but it was not statistically significan
Thomas Bailey

Smart Textiles Blend LEDs, Circuits and Sensors | Gadget Lab | Wired.com - 0 views

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    article on future clothes
Adeola Adewale

How old is too old to have a baby? - CNN.com - 0 views

  • Bhateri Devi, 66, gave birth to triplet after receiving fertility treatment
  • No upper age limit in India for those who want to have children using fertility treatments
  • Doctor Bishnoi Anurag says he's successfully impregnated a 70-year-old woma
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  • ritics question what happens to children when they grow older and parents die
  • science behind
  • it is seemingly simple and has been around for more than 20 years.
  • Bhateri Devi is post-menopausal and has no more eggs. In her case Dr. Bishnoi says he fertilized a young woman's egg with sperm from Devi's husband in a Petri dish and then injected the fetus into his 66-year-old patient's uterus.
  • "Medically it is possible, but medically it is also possible to use the same technique in a pre-pubescent girl.--Dr. Sohani Verma
  • Before the procedure, patients have to take a few months of hormone treatment to prepare the body. This is known as in vitro fertilization, or IVF, a technique being used all over the world.
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    This is a credible site because it is global site. They attribute a local scientistso its sort of like a BBC report.
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