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Vaccine Prevents Prion Disease in Mice

...preads when an animal eats the body parts of other animals contaminated with prions. The disease causes demen...cine that decreases the spread of prion disease in animals also reduces the possibility that the disease could infect humans. Source-Eurekalert/...

Tainted Pet Food a Health Risk for Human?

... of the contaminated products. Till date only 17 animals have been reported sick. The human risk is less due to the dilution of the contaminated food. By the time of human consumption the contamination has been diluted to an insignificant level. BIN/B...

Gene Responsible for Ageing Process Discovered – and Calorie Restriction Could Hel

...ppears to be critical in extending the lifespan of animals that are subjected to a calorie-restricted diet -when they are slightly starved of high-calorie food but are given all the other nutrients they need. It is well established that calorie-restricted diets lead to longer maximum life spans in practica...

Drinks and Breast Cancer – How It Happen

...tes for most people), for 4 weeks. In week 2, the animals were inoculated with mouse breast cancer cells, next to their mammary glands. "We found after about 4 weeks that breast tumor size (averaging 1.5 g) almost doubled in mice that drank alcohol compared to control mice given plain water," Gu noted. ...

Correlation Between Bile Duct Obstruction and Ductal Cancer Found

...bile duct cancer cells were placed in the liver of animals with bile duct obstruction, they grew more rapidly than identical cells placed in animals without bile duct// obstruction. In fact, half of the total liver mass of the rats with bile duct ob...

Shortage of Veterinarians Worry Public Health Experts in US

...s arising at a time of continued outbreaks among// animals potentially endangering human health and risking ...red on more than 800 diseases that can spread from animals to humans, such as salmonella and E.coli. Experts also fear an inability to quickly diagnose conditi...

Food Preparation may Play a Bigger Role in Chronic Disease

...e same calories and fat, increased the lifespan of animals when compared with animals fed their usual diet. At the moment, changing one’s approaches to cooking is the only defense aga...

Scientists Make Major Breakthrough in Regenerative Medicine

...ly, sea squirts, like humans, belong to a group of animals called chordates (organisms with some level of spinal cord development), and many scientists believe that sea squirts approximate what the very first human chordate ancestor may have been like 550 million years ago. By studying this modern day repres...

12 Deer Die of Pneumonia in Tripura Zoo

...nclosures in the zoo had forced the deer and other animals to remain under the open sky while it was raining ...tuary, 25 km south of here, is home to about 1,050 animals belonging to 46 different species. An estimated 415 spotted deer reside in the zoo, established in 1...

Norwegian Glacier Shrinks and Marine Life Poisoned as the Globe Warms

...rees Celsius. Meanwhile in California, birds and animals have been washing up on shores from San Diego to S...er species." "There are conceivably thousands of animals being affected," Caron said. An official at the Wetland and Wildlife Care Centre in Huntington bea...

Humans Aren't the Only Ones With Obesity Problems

...d grass we feed horses was designed to fatten food animals quicker." The genetics of horses, like many species, allows for the extra storing of fat in preparation for winter, when there is typically less food available. In nature, horses would eat less in the winter and lose the weight by spring. Under hu...

Researchers Discovers DNA Repair as Key to Huntington's Disease

... replacement repair segments seem stable until the animals reach about 4 months of age. After that point -- w...- the segments expand and continue to do so as the animals age. Researchers also showed that the expansion of the tracts -- an inherited characteristic -- also...

PFOA and PFOS Detected in Newborns

...se tumors and developmental toxicity in laboratory animals at doses much higher than those observed in the Hopkins study. The analysis conducted in Baltimore, Md., detected PFOS in 99 percent of the infant samples examined and PFOA in 100 percent of those examined. The results are published in the April 20,...

Pigs Quarantined in US Farm Following Melamine Contamination

...nt of Food and Agriculture (CDFA). "Although all animals appear healthy, we are taking this action out of an abundance of caution," State Veterinarian Dr. Richard Breitmeyer said in a statement. "It is unknown if the chemical will be detected in meat." Californian officials believe the melamine came from...

High Melatonin can Help Delay Ageing

...lights that chronic administration of melatonin in animals from the moment they stop producing this substance – five months of age in mice – helps counteract all age-related processes. Therefore, daily melatonin intake in humans from the age of 30 or 40 could prevent – or, at least, delay – illnesses related...

Baby Foods That Prevent Obesity and Diabetes in Adulthood to Hit the Market Soon

... that they never get fat or develop diabetes. Even animals fed a high-fat diet remained slim. Leptin, the fat hormone that turns off hunger in the brain, is produced in the body throughout life. Its discovery was heralded as a major breakthrough, but research in adults proved disappointing because individ...

The Origin of the Brain Lies in a Worm

...ystem resembling that of vertebrates today. Many animals have evolved complex nervous systems throughout th...e rise to the diversity of nervous systems seen in animals today is what Detlev Arendt and his group study at EMBL. To do so, they investigate the nervous syst...

Scientists Identify Genes Activated During Learning and Memory

... 'Genes that behave similarly in distantly related animals are more likely to have an important function that has been retained over the course of evolution.' The Carnegie Mellon team has made its findings available and searchable via an open source/online journal. Previous studies on genes associated w...

Two More Pet Food Products Recalled in US

...drawing// two of its brands following reports that animals fed the brands had vomited and also experienced ki... has recalled its products on receiving reports of animals vomiting and experiencing kidney problems, the Food and Drug Administration said Monday. The Natur...

Overuse Of Antibiotics-Creating Monsters Out Of Common Microbes

...biotic argued that similar drugs have been used in animals in Europe without harm, recent data indicates that bacteria resistance has grown not only in livestock but in humans as well. Both the Government and private health organizations seem to agree that careful, limited use of antibiotics is crucial to...

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