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Scientists Have Found A Way To Make Junk Food Healthier

...ay and Scotland. The seaweed was processed in the laboratory to produce an extract, alginate, a carbohydrate compound that is a tasteless and odourless off-white coloured powder, reports science portal EurekAlert. The alginate was proved to strengthen mucus, the body's natural protection of the gut wall. It c...

First Bird flu case reported in Turkey

...rth Africa including the Nile delta for winter. If laboratory tests prove that the deaths are caused by H5N1 strains of the virus, then this will be first case of bird flu in Europe, which could send shock waves through out Europe and round the world. As world wide fear is concerned over the possible mutation o...

Monoclonal antibodies show promise in treatment of blood cancer

...a, Yasuhito Hamaguchi and Jonathan Poe in Tedder's laboratory are the co-authors of this report. Basically, mono...ound on the B cells. When this was administered to laboratory mice, the researchers found that this reduced the number of B cells greatly. Significantly they also...

Stem Cells Can Be Used To Kill Cancer Cells

...g cells from the human embryonic stem cells in the laboratory in what could be a revolutionary method of treating several types of cancer//. The report of this discovery is to appear in the October 15 issue of the Journal of Immunology. The researchers were able to harvest "natural killer" cells from the stem...

No link between type II diabetes and aggressive prostate cancer

...t of diabetic patients succumbed to it. "Despite laboratory and epidemiological data suggesting an effect of insulin on prostate cancer growth, in our patient cohort, diabetes did not appear to influence the aggressiveness of prostate cancer at presentation," concluded the researchers....

Cannabis exerts protective effect against cancer

...s differ greatly," Melamede said. He added that in laboratory rats the THC in pot actually "exerts a protective effect", while nicotine accentuates the carcinogenic properties of tobacco. The smoke from tobacco contains 4,000 known chemicals among which at least a dozen are implicated as carcinogens....

Viagra Halves Effect Of Hormonal Stress On Heart

... cardiac effects of chronic high blood pressure in laboratory mice. In the present study, 35 healthy men and women with no overt heart disease were given two separate injections of dobutamine in three hours. This drug increases the heart rate as well as pumping strength. In between the injections, the participa...

Compulsory testing for heavy metal content in herbal medicines

...lease, the manufacturers, who do not have in-house laboratory facilities, will have to get these tested by any approved drug-testing laboratory. Medindia On Drug Toxicity: Drugs are not food but are chemical substances, which alter the body's normal chemistry. Most if not all medications have some kind of ...

Birds Flu Scare Reaches Germany

...Monday evening and take them in metal boxes to the laboratory in nearby Koblenz run by the German state of Rhine...uenza has spread to wild birds in Europe, a German laboratory was testing Tuesday the remains of the dead geese. Stefan Bent, head of the state animal inspection ...

Urine testing for telomerase enzyme for bladder cancer diagnosis

...nd procedures are very costly and invasive, a easy laboratory test like this would help in easy detection. The researchers studied 218 men, 134 of whom had been diagnosed with bladder cancer and tested for the presence of telomerase enzyme in their urine, which is present in most of the cancers. The enzyme ch...

Bulgaria Agriculture Minister ban import of poultry from Macedonia and Croatia

...rth Africa including the Nile delta for winter. If laboratory tests prove that the deaths are caused by H5N1 strains of the virus, then this will be first case of bird flu in Europe, which could send shock waves through out Europe and round the world. As world wide fear is concerned over the possible mutation o...

Vaginal atrophy drug Ospemifene found effective in breast cancer Prevention

...rey P. Gregg, Associate professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at UC Davis, where they reported that Tamoxifen and Ospemifene both inhibited the growth and progression of pre-malignant breast lesions that closely resemble human ductal carcinomas in situ in mouse model. Ospemifene is a Selective Estrog...

New anti-aging molecule could be coming up in way

...h recently carried out on cultured cells (grown in laboratory conditions) and in experimental animals has now revealed that the protein works by increasing the cells ability to inactivate reactive oxygen species. The protein has been found to act by activating an enzyme called manganese superoxide dismutase (...

Reflecting On Personal Values Can Lower Stress Responses

...task or a control task prior to participating in a laboratory stress challenge. It was found that participants who affirmed their values had significantly lower cortisol responses to stress, compared with control participants. Also, dispositional self-resources (e.g., trait self-esteem and optimi...

Pakistani Quake Survivors Face Outbreak Of Diarrhea

...sation representative in Pakistan. "Although the laboratory diagnosis is not yet confirmed, these cases of acute watery diarrhoea should be taken extremely seriously," he said. "Prompt treatment by re-hydration is essential, and we continue to monitor the situation." Diarrhoeal diseases are caused by bacteri...

Diagnostic Procedure For Tuberculosis Made Easy

...s the ingenuity of an innovator in taking a simple laboratory finding and applying it to meet a widespread clinical need. It's just what Alexander Fleming did in 1928 with Penicillin," said Davies Paul Sommerfeld, of the charity TB Alert, said he was "very excited" by the test, but more finance was needed to ...

Avian Influenza: Government to set up expert committee

... The surveillance, which also included laboratory tests, has shown India to be free from bird-flu, he said and added,'There is absolutely no need for any worry on this.' The Department of Animal Husbandry, Dairying and Fisheries (DADF) through State Animal Husbandry departments is keep...

Co-infection of Two genetic diseases makes them susceptible to malaria

...this study shows, findings that come only from the laboratory will be limited unless they are supported by strong evidence from population studies in Africa." Interest in fighting malaria by studying particular genetic factors related to the disease has increased over the past few years following the sequenci...

Sperm stem cells could be an alternative to embryonic stem cells in future

...can also be conferred immortality under artificial laboratory conditions. Perhaps, someday, it might be possible to correct genetic defects in humans such as cystic fibrosis in the near future...

Another Potential Of Stem Cells Discovered: Used For Growing Cartilage

...rocytes or cartilage cells, in Petri dishes in the laboratory in a specialized system that encouraged them to change into cartilage cells. When this was compared with just growing the human embryonic stem cells alone, the mixed stem cells and cartilage were found to have higher levels of collagen, the protein c...

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