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Genetic Flaws Leads to Diabetes

...ical School, said: "We now have significantly more pieces to the jigsaw that will help us understand the mechanisms behind type 2 diabetes."...

To Understand the Big Picture, Give It Time -- and Sleep

...ke logical "big picture" inferences from disparate pieces of information – is dependent on taking a break fr...ool (HMS). "It's not enough to have all the puzzle pieces – you also have to understand how they fit together." Adds lead author Jeffrey Ellenbogen, MD, a ...

Massive Recall of Magnetic Toys in US

... incidents of magnets separating from the building pieces have been reported. Of the 33 cases, the childre... incidents of magnets separating from the building pieces have been reported. “CPSC is deeply concerned about the dangers that small, powerful magnets can p...

Kiss a Chocolate and Tell

...heir heart activity. They were asked to bite into pieces of dark chocolate and a while later they were to kiss their respective partners. The study showed that the melting point of chocolate was higher than the melting point of a kiss. Chocolates made the hearts beat faster. Kissing also did, but in the r...

Study Finds Dietary Fat Interacts With Genes

...a healthy BMI. Whether they eat cheesecake or four pieces of whole wheat bread will not make a difference in their body weight if the foods have the same amount of calories. “We have all known people that do not watch what they eat, but usually don’t see any effect on their weight,” says Ordovas. “This is...

Scientists Receive Patent for Development of "combination" Proteins to Produce Vaccines for Lyme Disease

...ase. The genetically engineered proteins combine pieces of two proteins that are normally present on the s...ent parts of the organism’s life cycle. "Combining pieces of these two proteins into one chimeric protein should trigger a 'one-two-punch' immune response mor...

Deflecting Damage: Flexible Electronics Aid Brain Injury Research

...first working stretchable circuits by linking tiny pieces of traditional semiconductors mounted on a rubbery membrane with thin pieces of gold. Even when stretched, the circuits maintained their ability to conduct electricity. Resear...

Eritrea Bans Female Circumcision

... Razor blades, scissors, kitchen knives and even pieces of glass are used, often on more than one girl, which increases the risk of infection. Anesthesia is rarely used. Some girls die as a result of hemorrhaging, septicemia and shock. It can also lead to long-term urinary and reproductive proble...

Brain Tissue Reveals Possible Genetic Trigger for Schizophrenia

...ese tiny strands of RNA act by binding to matching pieces of the protein coding mRNA, thus preventing the translation of mRNA to protein. When a cell needs certain proteins, the microRNAs may disconnect, thus allowing protein expression to resume. Using postmortem prefrontal cortical brain tissue of peop...

Not Parkinson’s Disease Alon

...olism is a complex disorder and we are identifying pieces of the puzzle that help us to understand why some individuals develop alcohol dependence and others do not," said Foroud. "The role of SNCA is only one of these pieces." Source-Eurekalert AN...

Hospital Equipment Unaffected By Cell Phone Use

...Articles Explore Concerns for Patients Two other pieces in the March issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings also address whether technological devices interfere with patient care equipment. Unlike the cellular phone study, the other reports detail technological devices that caused patient care equipment to malf...

Common Ingredient in Big Macs and Sodas Can Stabilize Gold Nanoparticles for Medical Use

... and treatment may be in gold nanoparticles - tiny pieces of gold so small they cannot be seen by the naked eye.// The potential of gold nanoparticles has been hindered by the difficulty of making them in a stable, nontoxic form that can be injected into a patient. New research at the University of Missouri...

More Bones of Aborted Fetuses Recovered from Hospital Premises

...e hospital, taking the figure to 437 from 391 bone pieces found Saturday night. "Two people, Williams and sweeper Jairam, were detained Sunday for interrogation. Jairam is in police custody and police are trying for his remand for further interrogations," a police official told IANS by phone. The polic...

Master Switches Found for Adult Blood Stem Cells

...roRNAs, Georgantas sifted through thousands of RNA pieces with a custom-built, computer software program. Its algorithms let the software, fed data from samples of blood and bone marrow from healthy donors, match RNA pairs. The outcome was a core set of 33 microRNAs that match with more than 1,200 of the la...

Immune System Gears Up by Specific Enzymes

...g such a battle. The team also showed that cleaved pieces of LAG-3 do not contribute to T cell control, but are rather “waste” products that are swept away later. Source-Erekalert SRI...

Buckyballs Used as 'Passkey' into Cancer Cells

... techniques used by viruses, we're using non-toxic pieces of protein, and we're incorporating buckyballs as a passkey." The passkeys that Barron and colleagues developed contain a molecule called Bucky amino acid that was created in Barron's lab. Bucky amino acid, or Baa, is based on pheylalanine, one of...

Children's Killer Preyed On Victims For Two Years

...two men would strangle the children, cut them into pieces and bury the bodies in a two-feet deep ditch behind the house," said the police official. "We have recovered blades from the house that must have been used as cutters." "Both the men have admitted to their crime," added Rathore. The duo would lur...

Inflammatory Genes Linked to Salt-Sensitive Hypertension

...nse and consequent inflammation. “There are many pieces of evidence and we are trying to link them together,” says Dr. Zhu. Her research team is looking at genetic variations of four inflammatory genes in 500 15- to19-year-olds with normal blood pressure. The teens, already enrolled in studies at MCG’s...

Some Brands of Ready Meals Recalled After Glass Scare

...ls//, because of fears that they may contain small pieces of glass. Customers are also being asked to return...ountry's biggest food processors. The company said pieces of glass were found in rice supplied from abroad. The company is now pursuing the matter with the US...

Aggressive Stem Cells Might Improve Transplant Outcome

... CD34+ cells by adding both of these antibodies to pieces of human thymus glands. The pieces of thymus glands used in the study had been removed from children during operations unconnected to t...

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(Date:12/2/2008)... Media in general is boosting rates of obesity, o... 2 (HealthDay News) -- There,s a strong link betwe...nd sexual activity, according to U.S. researchers ...cted over the past three decades. , According t...that higher amounts of television and other media ...
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(Date:12/1/2008)...tional Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) today called fo...ue that could bolster efforts aimed at pulling mil...cientists use radiation to produce improved high-y...ons such as drought or flood, or that are resistan...ation induction, the technique is safe, proven and...
(Date:12/1/2008)...meaning of a rare mineral that can be used to trac...t Tim Lowenstein is helping climatologists and oth...ver the next century or two as global warming begi...e life as we know it. , "I think the earth will...rs or so, and that many species will adapt to it a...
(Date:12/1/2008)... California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have... show, for the first time, the connection between ... human heart contracts. , More precisely, they s...he inner chambers of the heart in a helix--is actu...ontraction of the heart travels. , Their finding...
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