Secret ingredient exposed

Work-related asthma in a population exposed to grain, flour and other ingredient dusts.

The purpose of the study was to determine the prevalence and causation of work-related asthmatic symptoms in a population exposed to grain, flour and other ingredient dusts. Where workers complained of asthmatic symptoms which were the result of dust exposure, follow-up aimed to identify whether the symptoms were the result of sensitisation or of non-specific irritation. A questionnaire was pre...

The Secret Ingredient for Social Success of Young Males: A Functional Polymorphism in the 5HT2A Serotonin Receptor Gene

In adolescence, being socially successful depends to a large extent on being popular with peers. Even though some youths have what it takes to be popular, they are not, whereas others seem to have a secret ingredient that just makes the difference. In this study the G-allele of a functional polymorphism in the promotor region of the 5HT2A serotonin receptor gene (-G1438A) was identified as a se...

The Earth's missing ingredient.

IT H KA SN O T The deepest hole humans have ever dug reaches 12 kilometers below the ground of Russia’s Kola Peninsula. Although we now have a spacecraft on its way to Pluto—about six billion kilometers away from the sun—we still cannot send a probe into the deep earth. For practical purposes, then, the center of the planet, which lies 6,380 kilometers below us, is farther away than the edge of...

Ingredient-Metal Based Anticancer Agents

Jeffrey Sachs The essential ingredient

story. Poor countries are poor, in their view, because the poor do not behave like "us". The battle against poverty thus becomes a battle against corruption, wrong ideas and incompetence, and little more. Of course, the morality tale sometimes fits, as in present-day Zimbabwe, where an ageing tyrant, surrounded by rapacious lieutenants, is destroying his country in a vain and desperate attempt ...