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...only sexual education program teaches that condoms fail 14 percent of the time, contrasted to the three percent accepted by the wider medical community and cited by medical journals, according to Kay. The same program’s pamphlet states that HIV/AIDS can be contracted through tears, sweat, and saliva. “The [current] Administration actively promotes these kinds of programs without any sort of evidence base,” said Jodi Johnson, the executive director and founder of the Maryland-based Center for Health and Gender Equity. “This issue is cash money for the Bush...
...they turn into massive domes and spires. The largest mounds hold upward of a million insects working in blind harmony. Mounds can reach 7 m high and 12 m around the base, and may have taken a century or more of painstaking construction. The termites mix a drop of saliva with soil, plant matter and excrement and deposit it like a tiny brick; somehow, in the darkness, each knows where to place its contribution to form the maze of tunnels and chambers that harden like concrete...
...such as cancer.Lieber explains in an e-mail that his device consists of several hundred silicon wires, each measuring only around 10 nanometers in diameter, each containing a receptor for a specific protein—for instance, a cancer marker.The new detector allows for real-time monitoring of blood, saliva, and urine using as little as one drop, whereas current detection involves sending several milliliter samples to a lab and waiting several days for results, Lieber says.Lieber says he believes the device is ready for production and is waiting for the stars to align.“It will depend...
...stating "injuries consistent with being sexually assaulted vaginally and anally." Nifong is also still awaiting results of DNA analysis from a private lab in North Carolina to compare with those already received from the state's own crime lab. Blood was taken from the three captains of the team. Saliva cheek swabs were used to gather DNA from 43 players; the lone black player on the team was not tested, as the African-American accuser has said her attackers were white. So far none of the Duke players have been subpoenaed to appear before the grand jury as witnesses...
Researchers then took daily saliva samples from the women to measure their levels of estradiol, a female fertility hormone that increases the chances of pregnancy, she said...