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Female Ducks Develop Complicated Genitals to Outwit Aggressive Males

... a third of all matings. Yet only 3 percent of the offspring are the result of forced matings. “To me, it means these females are successful with this strategy,” she said. Dr. Brennan suspects that when the females of a species evolved better defenses, they drove the evolution of male phalluses. “The males h...

Alcoholism Develops Cognitive Problems in Women

... is likely to Result in an increased proportion of offspring who will be exposed toThe genetic liability of two alcoholic parents. "The offspring willHave a greater chance to inherit such genes than in the case of randomOr non-assortative mating,...

Drug Therapy can Reduce Preterm Births and Decrease Lifetime Medical Costs

...duce both short-term and lifetime medical costs in offspring by $2 billion per year. The results of their study...th 17P, discounted lifetime medical costs of their offspring could be reduced by more than $2 billion annually. The potential societal savings from Medicaid cove...

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

...e difference boils down to energy expenditure. The offspring of leptin-treated mothers burn up more energy. 'The infants are permanently inefficient in terms of using energy,' says Cawthorne. Leptin-based products may also find their way into the pet obesity market. Edinburgh researcher Jonathan Seckl sa...

Drug Used to Prevent HIV Transmission from Mother to Child Damages DNA

...days of gestation and examined the tissue of their offspring two years later. They found clear evidence of an AZT-induced increase in the incidence of hemangiosarcoma (cancer originating in cells that line the blood vessels) in male mice and mononuclear cell leukemia in female rats. There was also some evide...

Drug Used to Prevent HIV Transmission from Mother to Child Damages DNA

...days of gestation and examined the tissue of their offspring two years later. They found clear evidence of an AZT-induced increase in the incidence of hemangiosarcoma (cancer originating in cells that line the blood vessels) in male mice and mononuclear cell leukemia in female rats. There was also some evide...

Switching Genes to Overdrive Improves Muscular Dystrophy Symptoms in Mice

... females in mouse and in humans.) As a result, the offspring of these matings had muscular dystrophy but also h...s, the researchers compared muscle function in the offspring with MDX mice having no additional PGC-1alpha. Both sets of rodents were run on a treadmill for on...

Harmful Effects Of Glucocorticoids On Newborns Owing To Prenatal Exposure

...ation, they show that although the birth weight of offspring born to nonhuman primate African vervet monkeys tr...m mid-gestation onward did not differ from that of offspring born to untreated animals, the high levels of prenatal dexamethasone impaired postnatal growth, impa...

Scientists Develop Bacteria-resistant Fish

...under progress. Besides, we also need to check the offspring if they inherit the same quality before going for its field applications,' he said. Source-IANS...

EU Considers Allowing Cloned Meat, Milk on Market

...atic cell nucleus transfer (SCNT) technique, their offspring and of the products obtained from those animals." ...d that milk and meat from cloned animals and their offspring should be considered in the same way as any other novel food, such as genetically-modified organisms...

EU to Look at Cloned Meat Safety

...derived, in particular from traditionally produced offspring of cloned animals, might therefore be available to...re needed to assess legal requirements relating to offspring of cloned animals. Source-Bio-Bio Technology...

Pregnant Smokers Raise Their Child's Risk of Stroke, Heart Attack

...99-2000. Uiterwaal and colleagues found that adult offspring of the 215 mothers who smoked during pregnancy had...icker CIMT by young adulthood when compared to the offspring of mothers who did not smoke in pregnancy, researchers reported. Even after the researchers adjus...

Milk from Cloned Cows is Not Welcome at the Nation's Biggest Milk Company

...any did not say whether it would use milk from the offspring of cloned animals. Cloning companies say the purpo...genetic copy of a superior animal and then put its offspring into the food supply. Source-Bio-Bio Technology...

CMV Vaccine Prototype Successfully Tested in Guinea Pigs

...ere less likely to transmit the infection to their offspring than were female guinea pigs not receiving the vaccine. The vaccinated group (10 litters) produced 28 live pups and 4 dead pups—a mortality rate of 13 percent. The control group (8 litters), which received a vaccine for the flu, produced 9 live pup...

Be Careful What You Touch, It can Make You Fat

...ng every bite it gets and utilizing it. When the offspring enters the world of ample food, the genes overplay, resulting in utilizing every bit of food it ingests, and hence causing obesity. Says vom Saal, "Certain environmental substances called endocrine-disrupting chemicals can change the functioning ...

Pregnant Women Must Eat Fish-experts Warn

...mothers with the development and behavior of their offspring up to the age of eight. It was seen that mothers who ate more seafood than was considered to be safe according to US guidelines had children who were more advanced. They had higher IQs, better social skills, were more communicative and more physic...

Wartime Raises Stress, BP Rates in Military Offspring

...stilities had ceased. At both points, adolescent offspring of military personnel self-reported higher levels ...te that the physical impact of the war on military offspring merits attention. 'We are not aware of any studies examining the impact of the onset of the war on b...

Children’s Behavioral Problems Not Linked to Marital Discor

Fighting genes may be passed from parents to their offspring while behavioral issues in children are not due to marital disharmony. //This was disclosed by a research conducted by University of Virginia along with few universities in U.S. This study had observed 1045 adult identical and fraternal twins and t...

Researchers Investigate Gene Linked With Circadian Liver Clock

...lements specifically in liver cells. In transgenic offspring fed with tetracycline-like doxycyline (Dox), Rev-e...tioned normally. In the absence of Dox, transgenic offspring overexpressed REV-ERBa, and Bmal1 was inactive, effectively turning off the liver clocks. When th...

Exercise Has No Effect on Knee OA: Study

...Framingham Offspring cohort, which consists of the offspring of the original Framingham cohort. Persons were questioned about recent physical activity they had engaged in on a regular basis, and between one and two years later (1993-1994) had knee X-rays. They were also asked questions about knee symptoms s...

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