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Links to Zinc: Nutrition Expert Finds Tie Between Trace Mineral, Birth Weights
Some counties in Alabama have infant mortality rates higher than those in some Third World counties. For a UA researcher, this gives added significance to recent findings that low blood zinc levels in expectant mothers can increase by eight times the risk of delivering low birth-weight babies.
June 22nd, 2009 - Filed under: Health | Tagged: Human Development, Journals
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Building a Better Child Safety Seat
A dentist is teaming with two University of Alabama entities in attempts to provide an easy, alternative way to quickly remove a child from a safety seat in an emergency situation.
June 22nd, 2009 - Filed under: Technology | Tagged: Business, Entrepreneurs, Tech Transfer
Researchers Study Stream Ecology in the Arctic
A group of University of Alabama researchers regularly endure the Arctic’s frigid conditions to learn more about the relationships between the area’s free-flowing streams and the organisms that survive, even thrive, because of those streams.
April 17th, 2009 - Filed under: Environmental, Physical/Natural Science | Tagged: Biodiversity, Biology
Research Extras
Be Still My Soul
Dr. Craig Formby's research tests dizziness, caused by inner ear problems, via a rotating chair. Such research helps pinpoint the root cause of balance problems.
February 06, 2009 - Filed Under: Research Extras
