Word: culprit
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Groopman’s retelling, the sixth doctor saves the day by questioning the simple diagnosis, discovering that the symptoms were the result of an unlikely culprit: a tumor...
...result, single women with children are three times as likely to file for bankruptcy as single women without children. It's not too hard to figure out that the high cost of raising kids, not women's urge to nurture, is the culprit...
...Still, the FDA says it cannot be sure melamine is the culprit. Here are the chief unanswered questions in the continuing pet-food mystery...
...growing number of complaints about sick and dying animals who ate only dry food, which typically does not contain wheat gluten, is another reason some authorities question whether melamine is the real culprit. Bruce Friedrich, Vice President of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has urged the FDA to test for excessive levels of vitamin D; last year a manufacturing error led to too much of the vitamin in Royal Canin pet food, causing kidney failure and death in several animals. But Goldstein says excessive vitamin D is unlikely, since blood tests would show high calcium levels, which...
...beat 'em, change 'em. With malaria causing almost 3 million deaths each year worldwide and mosquitoes being the primary culprit, researchers at Johns Hopkins University genetically engineered insects that were resistant to the malaria parasite. But don't trade in your long-sleeved shirts yet; so far, the mosquitoes have been tested only against a version of the malaria bug that sickens mice...