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Scientists Discover Key to Manipulating Fat

... at Georgetown University Medical Center have been able to use non-toxic chemical injections to add and r...mice, and they say this pathway -- which they were able to manipulate -- may explain why people who are chronically stressed gain more weight than they shou...

Snack Foods Fortified With Fiber

...m the flour.Alavi said snack food producers may be able to use this precooking method to add fruits and vegetables to snack foods. "With fruit- and vegetable-based snacks, it's still hard to process the dough, so you really don't see those kinds of products out there," he said. The research was carrie...

An Inconvenient Truth-Coal to Liquid

...hale and coal, at the current rate of usage, to be able to generate petroleum substitutes for the United States for the next 200 years," Davis says. "The dominant reason petroleum is what we use today is, its the most efficient (fuel)," Davis notes. "Its a matter of time, as I see it, until the two (pet...

A Mechanical Prosthetic Close to the Real Thing

...y taken care of by a firm in California, but it is able to make only a few fingers a week. Investment will expedite production, Didrick hopes. The finger, however, is only the beginning. Didrick is already working on an entire hand articulated in similar fashion using the wrist, and has been approached ...

Flu Outbreak Among Children Feared in Western Australia

...condary bacterial pneumonia," he said. "We'll be able to confirm that over the next few days." The third child did not receive hospital treatment. It is not known if there are more children suffering from the virus in Perth or if it had moved across to the eastern states....

New Blood Vessels can Be Created from Bone Marrow Stem Cells: Study

...individual. "If true, this means that you may be able to develop a universal cell source for smooth muscle cells, so that you could potentially make these vessels into an 'off-the-shelf' product, available to any patient," Dr. Andreadis said. The tissue-engineered vessels have already been found to wo...

The Hospital Superbugs

...tor is doing until it isn't there. You need to be able to inactivate, 'knock-out', the gene responsible, ...ce we know what factors are important we should be able to develop methods of preventing C.diff causing disease. As well as knocking out genes the ClosTr...

Prescription Costs More for Older Men Than Women

...56% of total prescribing costs. This research is able to pinpoint the future resources required by the Italian Regional Health Authorities according to the demographics of specific regional populations. Contact: Janet Till, Marketing & Communications Manager Henley Management College Tel: +44 (0)14...

A New Therapy to Protect Cancer Patients Against Infertility

...asing hormone (GnRH) antagonists were likely to be able to protect the ovary in women receiving potentially toxic doses of chemotherapy. We are now hoping to carry out a randomised controlled trial to assess the long term protective effect of this treatment, she said. GnRH analogues are commonly used in...

Now, Fibre-enriched Tasty Snacks in the Making

...he flour. Alavi said snack food producers may be able to use this precooking method to add fruits and vegetables to snack foods. "With fruit- and vegetable-based snacks, it's still hard to process the dough, so you really don't see those kinds of products out there," he said....

Women are the Real Bosses at Home

... least for relatively satisfied couples, women are able to take some responsibility and are able to exert some power-but it's hard for us to say why that's so," Vogel said. "Women are responsible...

Now, Dads to Get Text Alerts on How to Raise Their Children

...new initiative, "Parent Know-How", parents will be able to receive SMS and instant messages with information on a range of issues from obesity to bullying to academic performance or seek advice from other parents on social networking sites. The scheme will also organize existing resources such as websi...

Watch 'Live Earth' Concerts Simultaneously on the Net

...ors of the mega-musical event 'Live Earth' will be able to switch from Keith Urban's performance outside N...endous amount of supporting content. Users will be able to watch all their favourite performances, but we've also made it easier to learn more about the art...

Hydrogen Fuel Is It a New Fuel for the Future?

...r on the methanol car, that both versions are only able to have two seats. There are many obstacles to over come before hydrogen can be used as fuel. While hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe, it rarely exists in its pure form in the environment, preferring instead to bond with other e...

NanoSensors Provides Update on Its Biosensor to Detect E.coli and Salmonella

...onnel and financial resources, it has not yet been able to commence field testing the prototype of its bio...o assurances can be given that the Company will be able to locate a third party with which to pursue the commercialization of its biosensor, that any negoti...

Role of MicroRNA in Cancer Suppression Identified

...e world class team at Weizmann Institute have been able to show that the overexpression of this specific microRNA is directly linked to tumor suppression. Moreover, the results suggest the potential that a synthetic miR-34a-like agent could be used as a cancer therapy. We strongly believe this research co...

Deep Insights into Type2 Diabetes by Wesley Researchers

...iabetes sufferer Ms Deborah Lennon said that being able to access advice from pharmacists would be extreme...ensive to get an appointment to see my GP so to be able to access a pharmacist for advice and information would be absolutely brilliant, she said. I have ...

Nanospectrometer Aids in Identifying Nutrient Cycle

...eded as a nutrient. Capone and Nealson also were able to observe cellular differentiation: as the single-stranded organism grows, the nitrogen concentration in the cell halfway between two existing heterocysts falls below a threshold. Its basically allowing us to image elements at very high resolution. ...

High-risk Patients Need Better Guidance on What is and Isnt a Heart Attack

...writers say ideally they would like patients to be able to tell the difference between the two types but in reality they do not. In particular, high-risk patients with ischaemic heart disease (IHD) - which causes a reduction in the blood supply to the heart, usually felt as angina - are given varying ad...

Traffic Control Boxes to Help Road Monitoring

...sing fewer than 10 signals a day, the software was able to accurately calculate traffic speeds with greater than 90 percent accuracy, compared to situations when all the data were sent. "We found that, even though we were sending a lot less information, we could still get the same picture of what was ha...

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