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Importance of knowing the source of our food

...rds to allow consumers and regulators to trace the path of food products from field to table. Hence, we remain unaware of the production, shipment, handling and distribution of these products. This problem still continues, 5 years after the 9/11 tragedy. Suppose, a terrorist successfully contaminates a...

SWAN system for navigation

...s to the bone phones to guide the traveler along a path to the destination. The 3-D cues sound like they...ch as using a cane to identify obstructions in the path or a guide dog. The researchers' next step is to transition SWAN from outdoors-only to indoor-outd...

Processed foods – "the" cause of obesity!

...gy use in the body.In this way, insulin blocks the path of another hormone, leptin, which tells the brain about the energy requirement. This ends up in the body going into starvation mode -- the brain thinks it isn't getting enough energy, so it needs more calories and it needs to save energy. "It's bec...

Personal Growth and Success Dependent on Prenatal Health

A path breaking study from the Journal of Political Economy has shown that in utero health has a great bearing on how the child shapes //up in adulthood. This study is important because of its ramifications on health programs that seek to make changes in th...

Research Leads to First Treatment for Drug-Resistant HIV

... said. Ghosh's work has opened the door to a new path for antiretroviral therapy. "Earlier, researchers were unsure of how to deal with drug-resistant viruses," he said. "Problems that arose with treatments developed in the 1990s were disheartening. There was no concept on the horizon. We created a co...

Finally, The First Ever Treatment for Drug-Resistant HIV

...he said. Ghosh's work has opened the door to a new path for antiretroviral therapy. "Earlier, researchers were unsure of how to deal with drug-resistant viruses," he said. "Problems that arose with treatments developed in the 1990s were disheartening. There was no concept on the horizon. We created a c...

Radiation Cocktail May Reduce Risk of Damage To Other Organs In Breast Cancer

...plex ways with its environment, making their exact path to the tumor region hard to predict. Nonetheless, physicists can calculate the probability for a given beam to follow a desired trajectory. Therefore, Li and Ma use computers to simulate billions of trips of each beam to the unique landscape of eac...

Discovery of Agile Molecular Motors Could Aid in Treating Motor Neuron Diseases

...otor, termed myosin V, moves cargo with a variable path short distances along another type of cellular track called actin. This flexibility could help myosin V navigate crowded regions of the cell where the actin filaments criss-cross and where other cellular components would otherwise pose an impediment ...

Cancer Research: Yet Another Milestone

...o chemotherapy. This finding is a milestone in the path of research striving towards increased effectiveness of chemotherapy. Their paper will be published online in advance of its scheduled August 1 publication date (www.genesdev.org).Using an approach that randomly alters expression of mammalian cel...

High Blood Pressure Could Result In Structural Damage Of Heart

...es to block the mechanism. The article opens a new path for the understanding of cardiac insufficiency in hypertensive patients, as well as early detection and possible prevention of cardiac damage. 5 years after first diagnosis, the survival rate is less than 50%As is known, cardiac insufficiency is the...

Stress – Buster : Hormonal Nasal Spra

...esearchers are confident that they are well on the path leading to a breakthrough in handling stress and conflicts. Although the oxytocin hormone, administered as a nasal spray, could be a boon to warring couples, the researchers were nowhere near discovering a 'wonder' drug that would be a harbinger of...

Prevalent Prescription Drugs Abuse in the US

...ation is dangerous and can lead to the destructive path of addiction. The initiation rates show we must continue our efforts to help the public confront and reduce all drug abuse.", he said....

Laryngeal Cancer Added to Asbestos’ Crime Lis

...r: 1. The larynx lies anatomically in the direct path of inhaled asbestos fibers. 2. Squamous-cell carcinomas of the lung and larynx are both clinically and histologically similar. 3. Inflammation or damage to the vocal folds could disrupt the smooth flow of inhaled and exhaled air and allow asbesto...

Western Region Tops in Indian Biotech Growth

...ceiving more recognition. India's drug development path is improving by rapid strides," Shaw said. In terms of investment, the biotech sector attracted Rs.16.5 billion in the last fiscal (FY 2006) as against Rs.12.2 billion in FY 2005, marking an increase of 36 percent. About 320 firms were registered...

To Ape or Not To Ape? Bridging Missing Links in Medical Research

... experiments on primates, scientists have not made path breaking strides in certain human diseases like HIV or AIDS, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, epilepsy, Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s disease, or cancer—which have been experimented threadbare on primates. Perhaps the basic loophole in conducting such exp...

Personalized Genetics: Unraveling the Secret Code to Good Health.

A path breaking research by American scientists in the area of personalized genetics will soon enable people with the esoteric knowledge of their distinct biological make-up. //This will be possible by scanning and deciphering the genome, and list out an in...

An After-Dinner Nap Is A Natural Thing, Scientists Proved

...Burdakov put interest on the subject and enlighten path for future studies. ...

GSK’s New Anticancer Drug A Huge Success In Drug trail

...take several years to complete, and this makes the path ahead for GSK still very long. Meanwhile, Herceptin has been approved by the European Commission earlier in the week for its use to fight early-stage breast cancer, and is likely to be cleared in the UK soon. This news promises relief to many suffere...

Autoimmune Diseases – Newer Preventive Measure

...a development process but via a somewhat different path than that of other T cells. MCG researchers have learned medullary epithelial cells in the thymus are critical to proper iNKT cell development. A defective Aire gene disrupts this natural nurturing relationship by disrupting medullary epithelial cell...

Administering Polio No Mean Task In U P

...ch lapse, the state could not have been put on the path of polio eradication,' he added. Singh said the drive against polio was in the last stage and there was no fresh case of the affliction in Kanpur so far. He said a case has been registered against the person who had pushed down the woman employee i...

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