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Quitting Not Easy for Smokers Born to Smoking Women

...s team exposed pregnant rats to nicotine. Once the offspring grew to adolescence, they were allowed to self-administer nicotine as often as they wanted. To self-administer the drug, the rats pressed a lever that caused a dose of nicotine to be delivered intravenously. Each push of the lever was roughly equival...

FDA Finds Animal Cloned Food to Be Safe

... from clones of adult cattle, swine, and goats—and offspring of these clones—is as safe to eat as food from// c...he FDA's current thinking on the use of clones and offspring in human food or animal feed. Because of limited data on sheep clones, the FDA recommends not using ...

EU States Agree on Clone Food Plan

...that milk and meat from cloned animals //and their offspring should be considered in the same way as any other ...to the cloned food debate because of news that the offspring of a cloned cow had been born on a UK farm. “There will at some point have to be an evaluation by...

Male Fish Cannibalize Its Own Offspring Than Female

...rate that male fish are more likely// to eat their offspring when they have been cuckolded during the act of spawning. "The most drastic decision a father can make is to cannibalize his own offspring," writes Suzanne Gray (Ph.D. candidate at Simon Fraser University), Lawrence Dill (Simon Fraser University), ...

Cocaine During Pregnancy can Cause Behavioral and Neurological Problems in the Child

...tter dopamine. Additionally, these cocaine-exposed offspring showed attention problems as well as insensitivity to stimulants like amphetamine, suggesting that cocaine exposure had altered the development of the dopamine pathways in the brain. 'In collaboration with Dr. Eitan Friedman of the City University o...

Cocaine's Use During Pregnancy May Cause Lasting Cellular Effects

...r dopamine. Additionally, these cocaine-exposed offspring showed attention problems as well as insensitivity to stimulants like amphetamine, suggesting that cocaine exposure had altered the development of the dopamine pathways in the brain. 'In collaboration with Dr. Eitan Friedman of the City University ...

Gender Of Children May Be Linked To Risk Of Prostate Cancer

...t only affect the likelihood of conception of male offspring but also lead to cancer development. Chris Hiley , head of policy and research of the Prostate Cancer Charity said: "This is an interesting study - it certainly attracts the attention, but it doesn't yet translate into useful advice for men until o...

Mother’s Diet During Pregnancy Could Prevent Cancer in Childre

...tent carcinogen, and about 80 percent of their 100 offspring died early in life from an aggressive T-cell lymphoma. Of those that survived to the mouse-equivalent of middle age, 100 percent had lung tumors. By comparison, in a group of pregnant mice given the same carcinogen but who also received the chemop...

Incidence of Stroke on Decline Over Last 50 Years

...d 9,152 Framingham Study original participants and offspring undergoing follow-up for up to 50 years over three consecutive time-periods (1950-1977, 1978-1989, and 1990-2004), with ascertainment of stroke risk factor data every 2 years and active surveillance for occurrence of stroke or death. The researcher...

Pregnant Women- Eat Broccoli And Cabbage

...pplement Indole-3-carbinol or I3C. 80 percent of offspring of pregnant mice that did not receive the supplement, died early in life from T-cell lymphoma. Among those that lived, 100 percent acquired lung tumors in their middle age, the study found. In contrast, only 50% of the mice born to those pregnant ...

Cancer Prevention Begins During Pregnancy

...tent carcinogen, and about 80 percent of their 100 offspring died early in life from an aggressive T-cell lymphoma. Of those that survived to the mouse-equivalent of middle age, 100 percent had lung tumors. By comparison, in a group of pregnant mice given the same carcinogen but who also received the chemo p...

Researchers Create Genetically-Matched Embryonic Stem Cells for Transplantation

... in some animals, in which the female can generate offspring without the contribution of a male. It doesn’t nor... a special way based on whether they are passed to offspring by the egg or the sperm. Because parthenogenetic embryonic stem cells are made from eggs only, they ...

Children of Bhopal Gas Victims Suffer from Deformity

...ve evidence of damage was beginning to show on the offspring of survivors. "Most studies done by ICMR were terminated as early as 1989 and the rest by 1994 without reviewing the collected data and pleas for continuing the studies were ignored. The ICMR's full report on Bhopal too has not been released till d...

Risk Of Breast Cancer Lowered In Offspring Of Mothers Who Eat Whole Wheat

...defatted flax flour or cellulose as a control. The offspring was then exposed to a chemical known to cause brea...less likely to develop breast cancer. In contrast, offspring of mothers that were fed defatted flax flour were at increased cancer whereas those whose mothers we...

Whole Wheat, Wholesome for Pregnant Women and Their Offspring

... oat flour, defatted flax flour, or cellulose. The offspring of these rats were administered a breast cancer-inducing chemical. The study revealed that the offspring whose mothers had been fed the whole wheat diet were less prone to developing breast tumors, while t...

Colon cancer Linked to low-folate diet

...c acid during pregnancy are at a risk of producing offspring with neural tube defects like spina bifida. Rozen however stressed that she's not suggesting people start loading up on folic acid but rather make sure that they get the recommended daily allowance of 400 micrograms by eating foods such as broccoli...

An abused child may grow up to be an abusive parent

...ction is influenced by a mother's treatment of her offspring early in their lives and affects the offsprings's ...non-abusive mothers. That research showed that the offspring of non-abusive mothers were likely to become abusive themselves if they were raised by abusive mothe...

Low Folate Diet increases Colorectal Cancer risk

... birth defects such as Spina Bifida, can result in offspring of mothers with inadequate folate in their diet," says Dr. Rozen. "Obviously, this is not a reason to consume excessive amounts of folate, but rather to ensure that the recommended daily amount is taken through a healthy diet or a vitamin supplement,...

Protein as Potential Tactic to Prevent Tumors

...mbedded in their DNA. The health and well-being of offspring cells depends on accurate genetic code transfer from one generation of cells to the next. The Mayo researchers showed that when errors in genes are irreparable, CDK2 modifies another cellular protein -- FOXO1 -- to send a signal that results in the d...

Old Wine in New Wine Skins!

...rents of a single child or in the case of multiple offspring the norm is to have only two girls to avail this offer. The lack of social security has often been capped as the most common reason for families residing in the countryside to opt for more children. The government has apparently promised to pay t...

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