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Animals cope with climate change at the dinner table
| 2/9/2010 | Some animals, it seems, are going on a diet, while others have expanding waistlines. It's likely these are reactions to rapidly rising temperatures due to global climate change, speculates Prof. Yoram Yom-Tov of Tel Aviv University's Department of Zoology, who has been measuring the evolving body sizes of birds and animals in areas where climate change is most extreme. Changes are happeni... [Comments] |
Flower power can still calm the masses
| 2/9/2010 | Feeling stressed? Try chamomile! This 'traditional' remedy has been around for years, but how much truth is there behind this old wives' tale? In an evaluation for Faculty of 1000, Michael Van Ameringen and Beth Patterson draw attention to the first randomized controlled trial of chamomile for the treatment of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). The study, recently published in the Journ... [Comments] |
New international satellite observations help assess future earthquake risk in Haiti
| 2/9/2010 | Virginia Key, Florida--Scientists at the University of Miami have analyzed images based on Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) observations taken before and just after Haiti's earthquake, on January 12. The images reveal surprising new details. The images were obtained using data from Japan's... [Comments] |  |
New study examines the impact on children of food product placements in the movies
| 2/9/2010 | LEBANON, NH- (February 5, 2010) New research from the Hood Center for Children and Families at Dartmouth Medical School (DMS) for the first time sheds light on the significant potential negative impact that food product placements in the movies could be having on children. The study, which appears in the current edition of the journal Pediatrics , shows that most of the "brand placements"... [Comments] |
Anorexics found to have excess fat-- in their bone marrow
| 2/9/2010 | Boston, Mass.-- People with anorexia nervosa, paradoxically, have strikingly high levels of fat within their bone marrow, report researchers at Children's Hospital Boston. Their findings, based on MRI imaging of the knees of 20 girls with anorexia and 20 healthy girls of the same age, appear in the February issue of the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research . "It's counter-intuitive that an... [Comments] |
Comprehensive study using bioinformatics predicts the molecular causes of many genetic diseases
| 2/9/2010 | It is widely known that genetic mutations cause disease. What are largely unknown are the mechanisms by which these mutations wreak havoc at the molecular level, giving rise to clinically observable symptoms in patients. Now a new study using bioinformatics, led by scientists at the Buck Institute for Age Research, reports the ability to predict the molecular cause of many inherited genetic d... [Comments] |
Scripps research team reveals how an old drug could have a new use for treating river blindness
| 2/9/2010 | LA JOLLA, CA--Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have discovered a potential new use for the drug closantel, currently the standard treatment for sheep and cattle infected with liver fluke. The new research suggests that the drug may be useful in combating river blindness, a tropical disease that is the world's second leading infectious cause of blindness for humans. The study i... [Comments] |
Modeling Toxoplasma focus of workshop
| 2/9/2010 | Toxoplasma gondii ( T. gondii ) is considered as one of the most successful parasites for its unusual ability to infect a wide range of intermediate hosts, including all mammals and birds. Up to 11% of the human population in the US and 20% in the world are chronically infected. The National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS) is now accepting applications for... [Comments] |
New era of pain drugs advanced by Barrow researcher
| 2/9/2010 | Research led by a scientist at Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center has opened the door for the advancement of a new category of painkillers, called TRPV1 antagonists. These drugs block the transient receptor potential vannilloid-1 (TRPV1) channel, which is the same receptor responsible for the sensation of hotness from hot peppers. However, clinical tri... [Comments] |
Research identifies gene with likely role in premenstrual disorder
| 2/9/2010 | Scientists have identified a gene they say is a strong candidate for involvement in premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) and other maladies associated with the natural flux in hormones during the menstrual cycle. In a paper published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , Rockefeller University researchers detail experiments in mice showing that a common human varian... [Comments] |
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