Knot in the Loop

Ice slice: can you cut into an ice cube--and keep it in one piece?(hands-on)
SuperScience; 11/1/2009; 760 words; ...plastic bottle with the wire loop that your teacher prepared. Place the loop around the ice cube so the bottle...plastic bottle of water with wire loop setup * * Metal fork * Masking...wire and secure the loop with a knot. Lift the bottle up by the wire...

Study results from K.B. Lintern and colleagues broaden understanding of biological chemistry.
Chemicals & Chemistry; 10/16/2009; 742 words; ...and BMP signals. It was found that Wise binds LRP6 through one of three loops formed by the cystine knot. The Wise deletion construct lacking the LRP6-interacting loop domain nevertheless binds BMP4 and inhibits BMP signals. Moreover, BMP4...

What to do with old cosmetics
Redlands Daily Facts; 10/14/2009; 1862 words; ...stiff hair bow? Tie the bow, spray, and hold the loops out with your fingers in the loops until the spray dries. If dried flower arrangements...bath. Put the slivers into an old sock. Tie a knot in the sock and use it to scrub with in the shower...

Covidien Introduces Revolutionary Wound Closure Device.
Business Wire; 10/12/2009; 759 words; ...quickly and securely without tying knots. The breakthrough V-Loc surgical device is a self-anchoring loop and barb combination that eliminates the need to tie knots, while distributing tension...room, and with the absence of knots, knot-related complications are...

CONKERS AND OTHER GAMES FROM THE PAST sundaybriefing by Deborah Anderson
The Sunday Herald; 10/11/2009; 2348 words; ...about 25 cm long is threaded through and stopped with a large knot. The game is played between two people. One dangles their conker...string figures are created by two people, starting with a single loop of string and then wrapping it around the fingers of both hands...