Healthy in Biological News

K-State researchers say after-school programs should promote activity, healthy nutrition

... programs that offer physical activity and healthy snacks could be the best place for children's ... "Parents should strive to place their children in healthy environments that are supervised by adults and ... food options." The researchers conducted the healthy Opportunities for Physical Activity and ...

Got zinc? New zinc research suggests novel therapeutic targets

... from Florida found that zinc not only supports healthy immune function, but increases activation of the ... either a zinc supplement or a placebo to healthy volunteers to assess the effects of zinc on T ... "As the debate over zinc supplementation in healthy individuals continues," said John Wherry, Ph.D., ...

Disease threat may change how frogs mate

... may be choosing mates differently to those in healthy populations. As Ranavirus is typically ... strategy. With diseased frogs struggling to mate, healthy frogs are likely to be mating more often with other healthy frogs, leaving diseased frogs to mate with each ...

Cancer's distinctive pattern of gene expression could aid early screening and prevention

... patterns of genes turned off or left on in healthy versus cancerous cells could enable early ... in the body's basic building block in healthy colon, breast, brain and lymphatic cells and ... have so many epigenetic changes compared to healthy tissue is one of many mysteries. Whether the ...

Common allergy drug reduces obesity and diabetes in mice

... group; the second group was simply switched to a healthy diet; the third was given cromolyn or ketotifen ... fourth was both given the drug and switched to a healthy diet. While symptoms of the second group ... pathogen they don't become overzealous and harm healthy host tissue in a kind of friendly fire. ...

Results from trials of DHA in Alzheimer's disease and age-related cognitive decline

... was six months, and the compound was tested in healthy people to see its effect on "age related ... of memory and learning, but that study was in healthy older adults, not people with Alzheimer's or ... algal DHA on improving cognitive functions in 485 healthy older people (average age=70) with mild memory ...

Plastics chemical retards growth, function of adult reproductive cells

... she said, "but they're also required for healthy bones, a healthy heart and a healthy mood." BPA is widely used in plastics and is a ...

Single thawed embryo transfer after PGD does not affect pregnancy rates

... which is the time that they start to divide. healthy embryos were cultured in the laboratory for a ... reassurance that a couple's chance of having a healthy child is not reduced by replacing only one ... do have a very good chance of leading to a healthy pregnancy too, and, therefore, patients will not ...

NIH expands Human Microbiome Project; funds sequencing centers and disease projects

... the differences between the microbiomes of healthy patients and those of patients suffering from a ... microbial communities found in samples taken from healthy human volunteers. These samples are currently ... researchers that will sample the microbiomes of healthy volunteers and volunteers with specific diseases ...

Chemical in blood may explain susceptibility to bladder pain

... from cats with feline interstitial cystitis, healthy cats and cats with other diseases, as well as ... from humans with the painful bladder syndrome, healthy humans and humans with other urological ... tryptophan and kynurenine than did samples from healthy cats. Kynurenine is a brain compound produced ...

New guidelines to fight obesity in pregnancy issued

... N.Y. MAY 28, 2009 -- Starting pregnancy at a healthy weight and gaining the right amount during pregnancy is critical to giving a baby a healthy start in life, the March of Dimes said today in ... can be modified. If a woman starts pregnancy at a healthy weight, it can lower the risk of a preterm birth, ...

Report updates guidelines on how much weight women should gain during pregnancy

... number of Americans who are overweight or obese. healthy American women at a normal weight for their ... weight gain affect outcomes and the reality that healthy babies are born to women across a spectrum of ... educate women on their importance for achieving healthy outcomes for their children and themselves. ...

UGA licenses new Bermuda grass that thrives in sun and shade

... that thrives in sun, but also produces healthy turf in areas with less than half the light normally required for healthy Bermuda grass. The new Bermudagrass, licensed ... to 60% less light than is normally required for healthy Bermudagrass growth," said Hanna. Hanna is a ...

Opposites attract -- how genetics influences humans to choose their mates

... likely to be an evolutionary strategy to ensure healthy reproduction. Females' preference for MHC ... and that the subconscious drive to have healthy children is important when choosing a mate." ... this has an important role to play in ensuring healthy reproduction, by helping to ensure that children ...

Stanford scientists find heat-tolerant coral reefs that may resist climate change

... "The most exciting thing was discovering live, healthy corals on reefs already as hot as the ocean is ... Coral reefs form the basis for thriving, healthy ecosystems throughout the tropics. They provide ... scientists, including Palumbi. Havens of healthy reefs In recent years, scientists ...

American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- May 13, 2009

... about how diabetic platelets differ from those of healthy people. The new study identified 122 proteins ... changes (more than 100) in protein content as healthy donor platelets stored for up to 5 days. These ... of blood transfusions from both diabetic and healthy individuals, the researchers say. ARTICLE #4 ...

Consumers more likely to identify healthy food using traffic light nutrition labels

... Consumers are five times more likely to identify healthy food when they see colour-coded traffic light ... not allow them to quickly and accurately identify healthy products," said Bridget Kelly, whose study was ... the nutritional content of food according to how healthy it is. A common version uses a panel with red, ...

Flow of potassium into cells implicated in schizophrenia

... circuitry and mental processing in perfectly healthy people who carry the risk-associated version of ... Isoform 3.1 was also higher-than-normal in healthy individuals who carried the risk-associated ... a risk-associated version of the KCNH2 gene. healthy controls carrying the risk gene version also: ...

Lithium may help radiation target cancer, spare healthy tissue

... show that lithium promotes DNA repair in healthy cells but not in brain tumor cells. The findings ... lithium treatment could offer a way to protect healthy brain tissue from damage that may occur during ... brain cancers. Radiation-induced damage to the healthy cells of the hippocampus, a brain structure ...

Study validates means to measure possible leukemia marker

... leukemia (CLL) cells compared with their healthy counterparts, immune cells called B lymphocytes. ... in histones in 40 CLL patients and four healthy patients. It showed significant changes in the ... histone H2A variants in CLL cells compared with healthy B cells and suggested a correlation between these ...

New mediator of smoking recruits

... smokers with different types of lung diseases, healthy smokers, and healthy non-smokers. They found high levels of ... patients with interstitial lung disease, whereas healthy smokers had lower levels, ...

Annual Michael & Susan Dell lectureship in child health

... Michael & Susan Dell Center for Advancement of healthy Living at The University of Texas School of ... Michael & Susan Dell Center for Advancement of healthy Living, Steven H. Kelder, Ph.D., M.P.H, professor ... Michael & Susan Dell Center for Advancement of healthy Living is committed to bringing national leaders ...

New therapeutic strategy could target toxic protein in most patients with Huntington's disease

... Huntington's disease without damaging that gene's healthy counterpart, which maintains the health and ... Huntingtin gene. Huntingtin is required for healthy nerve cells, but the mutant gene makes a toxic ... The problem was that the disease gene and its healthy allele are almost identical, and Zamore told ...

Vitamin D deficiency related to increased inflammation in healthy women

... a negative response of the immune system, in healthy women. Increased concentrations of serum ... impact inflammation and immune response, even in healthy women," said Catherine Peterson, assistant ... correlated with serum 25(OH) D concentrations in healthy women," was published in the Journal of ...

Malfunction of the respiratory epithelium is a cause of allergy?

... nasal epithelium of allergic patients but not of healthy subjects within one minute after the exposure. An ... finding was that the immune response of in healthy controls to pollen exposure was strong, and ... the epithelium of allergic patients but not of healthy subjects. This kind of transport mechanisms are ...

Potential new HIV drug may help patients not responding to treatment

... fight infections which would be innocuous in healthy individuals. Currently, the 'gold standard' ... and SIV use to hold the immune system back. In healthy people, IDO prevents the immune system from ... find out how this works," said Dr Boasso. In healthy people, the IDO enzyme controls allergic ...

Living long, living well

... conference of the Brandeis Lifespan Initiative on healthy Aging (LIHA) Friday, April 3, 2009, 8:30 a.m. to ... showcase Brandeis' interdisciplinary research on healthy aging, focusing on biomedical, behavioral, and ... or scholarly interest in cutting edge research on healthy aging, from students and consumers of all ages, ...

Differences in neighborhood food environment may contribute to disparities in obesity

... restaurants -- although far more abundant than healthy ones -- were not significantly associated with ... while 82% lived within a half-mile of a healthy food outlet, with an average density of four ... and restaurants were far more abundant than healthy ones, but the density of these unhealthy food ...

Healthy food availability could depend on where you live -- so does the quality of your diet

... The availability of healthy food choices and your quality of diet is ... School of Public Health. Researchers examined healthy food availability and diet quality among ... Md., residents and found that availability of healthy foods was associated with quality of diet and 46 ...

Detecting disease in greenhouse plants

... Understanding how to keep greenhouse plants healthy can translate to increased revenue for producers. ... High NIR and low red values are typical of healthy vegetation because light is being reflected in ... a range of symptoms were chosen to compare with healthy leaves of the same species and photographed using ...

Stress disrupts human thinking, but the brain can bounce back

... attention from one task to another than other healthy young men who were not under the gun. Previous ... they are back to normal. "The message is that healthy brains are remarkably resilient and plastic," ... worse on attention-shifting tasks than similar healthy adults who claimed to be taking it easy. The high ...

Gene switch sites found mainly on 'shores,' not just 'islands' of the human genome

... tends to be more methylated compared to normal, healthy cells. However, comparing the tumor and healthy colon cells' entire genomes, including CpG ... methylation sites differ in colon cancer and healthy tissue may eventually help researchers develop ...

Scientists can now differentiate between healthy cells and cancer cells

... at destroying malignant cells without killing healthy cells in the process. But a new study by McMaster ... carefully target cancer, while sparing normal healthy cells Mick Bhatia, scientific director of the ... cancer stem cells first, and spare the normal healthy ones," he said. "McMaster is uniquely ...

Modified gene targets cancer cells a thousand times more often than healthy cells

... times more protein in cancer cells than in healthy cells. The findings may help address the prime ... forcing cancer cells to kill themselves while healthy cells remain largely unaffected. Though trials ... is enough to destroy tumors without harming healthy tissue, the initial findings, published in ...

First-ever socioeconomic study on coral reefs points to challenges of coastal resource management

... on the social and economic ramifications of healthy coral reefs in 27 tropical nations and points to ... socio-economic data looking at the importance of healthy coral reef for communities located along the ... improve education and awareness of the value of healthy coral ecosystems. "None of these ...

Unique transatlantic tie-up to understand the aging process

... For society to cope and for more people to enjoy healthy and active older age it is crucial that we ... or elsewhere, and we can only hope to enjoy healthy and active older age if scientists are able to ... addition to furthering our understanding of the healthy biology of ageing the ageing research effort on ...

Hypertension develops early, silently, in African-American men

... BETHESDA, Md. (Nov. 17, 2008) − Young and healthy African-American men have higher central blood ... even though both groups were young and equally healthy and fit. The vascular damage they looked for ... can damage the organs over time. Both groups healthy The study included 55 young men, 30 white and ...

American Dietetic Association releases 2008 nutrition trends survey

... physical activity and are taking steps to eat a healthy diet and engage in exercise, according to the ... people's overall attitudes toward maintaining a healthy diet and getting regular exercise: I'm Already Doing It: Consumers who feel that maintaining a healthy diet and regular exercise are very important; are ...

UC Davis researchers discover a key to aggressive breast cancer

... cancer. They found that, when compared to healthy breast tissue, the regulator is significantly ... tumors, but it was not over-expressed in adjacent healthy tissues that also carried extra copies of the ... average, 33 percent lower in tumor tissue versus healthy breast tissue. "There was a clear inverse ...

Scientist clears hurdles for muscular dystrophy therapy

... In gene therapy, mutated genes are replaced with healthy genes. However, even with gene therapy, the healthy genes must reach every muscle in the body. ... have experimented using viruses to deliver the healthy genes. However, these earlier studies were ...