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Obesity Risk Greater For Children Of Overweight Or Single Parents

... weight, maternal BMI [body mass index] and family structure confirms the need to find ways of targeting prevention and intervention efforts for childhood obesity at families with overweight parents, particularly under-resourced single parent families....

Gene Responsible for Blindness in Infants and Children Identified

...an Genetics September, 2006). By using the protein structure of CEP290, the investigators were able to discover LCA5, as they have similar structures and functions in the retina. Both the CEP290 and LCA5 genes encode proteins with vital functions in the cilium of the photoreceptors, transporting visual prote...

Young Indians Say Cheers to White Spirits

...oted as saying in the media recently that the duty structure was in the process of realigning to WTO rules. According to market research firm Euromonitor International, the spirits market consisting of whisky, rum, brandy and vodka has been growing at eight-nine percent annually over the last five-six years de...

Recurrent Gliomas: Vorinostat Shows Anti-cancer Activity

...ion of histones -- proteins that help organize the structure of DNA -- vorinostat alters the expression of several important genes and proteins resulting in tumor cell death and stopping tumor growth. Dr. Galanis says that study findings indicate that vorinostat by itself shows anti-cancer activity in gliobl...

Taiwan Skincare Empire Built on 'Natural Beauty'

... where, she says, 'the cultural background, social structure and market conditions were just like Taiwan when I first started my career'. Now Tsai runs a chain of more than 2,000 deluxe spas employing tens of thousands of young women across China. 'I have to cope with market trends and changing consumer be...

Stay Young by Practicing Zen Meditation

...was most prominent in the putamen, a basal ganglia structure that has been implicated in attentional processing in general and attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in particular. These findings suggest that the regular practice of meditation may have neuroprotective effects and reduce the cogn...

New Developments in Rheumatoid Arthritis

... is present, nitrogen is removed from the chemical structure of arginine and it converts into citrulline. Laboratories have developed a test to measure for anti-cyclic citrullinated peptide antibody, or anti-CCP. It is now being used as a diagnostic for rheumatoid arthritis. Scientists are now finding that p...

New Gene Discovery Raises Hope for Childhood Blindness Cure

...as they are long, thin cells with a highly evolved structure on one end (the outer segment) which perceives light and sends signals to the brain, a function requiring a large amount of energy. "LCA is usually a disease where protein function has been lost completely, but carriers of just one copy of the muta...

Altered Protein Structure was Found in Autism Patients

...overed how particular genetic mutations affect the structure of protein complex implicated in autism . These pr... autism. By understanding the three-dimensional structure of the normal protein, researchers can now make predictions about how mutations in the gene affect t...

Cells Responsible for Spread of Breast Cancer Identified

...rst to use a particular cell model that mimics the structure of the human breast to map the spread of cancer. Using this model she identified a rogue cell type that may cause cancer cells to move out of the breast. As it is not possible to study what happens in the real human mammary gland, we developed a m...

Researchers Cracking the Human Genome Function

...archers created a high-resolution map of chromatin structure that pinpointed the locations of thousands of gene-controlling sequences. To handle the massive amounts of data produced by the many ENCODE teams, Stamatoyannopoulos teamed up with Dr. William Noble, UW associate professor of genome sciences and co...

Taiwan Researchers Claim Cancer Therapy Alternative

...ch body, the Academia Sinica, and an expert in the structure and function of sugars. "This is an innovative strategy in cancer treatment. So far, most anti-cancer drugs are associated with side-effects like nausea and hair loss," said Alice Yu, who led a team to validate the compounds. "But the new (compound...

New Clues for Treatment of Disease That Causes Accelerated Aging

...microscope, it leads to visible distortions in the structure of cell nuclei. By studying the mutations that killed the two infants, Miner and his colleagues acquired new perspective on the mutations in progeria. When they compared how much good and bad lamin A was being made in cells from progeria patients a...

American Cancer Society Launches Major New Study

...department with a unique community-based volunteer structure like Relay For Life; we can reach diverse populations nationwide who have a shared commitment to cancer research and to eliminating this disease; and because we are a non-profit organization with the ability to partner with volunteers, we can conduct...

Fertility Rates Felled By Diabetes

...no significant differences in sperm concentration, structure of the sperm or their ability to move, within the two groups. Defective sperm DNA is one cause of male infertility, pregnancy failure and miscarriage yet the implications for sperm affected by diabetes are unknown. Writing in the journal Human Re...

Relationships are Built on Love and Power

... The important thing, she said, was that the power structure be stable. The partners need to balance their interests," Krueger added. "There will always be power disputes in a living relationship." Source-IANS/N...

Humans Aren't the Only Ones With Obesity Problems

...ended in the hoof with connecting tissue forming a structure similar to a swing on a swing set. The extra weight in obese horses forces the connective tissue to tear and the bone breaks through the nail-like texture of the hooves. Veterinarians have yet to find an effective treatment for the condition. In the ...

Cognitive Problems Occur More Rapidly in Female Alcoholics Than in Males

...effects of alcohol on cognitive function and brain structure have been more challenging to assess. However, wit...powerful neuroimaging techniques, changes in brain structure and function can be detected in patients early in the course of alcoholism. Furthermore, neuropsycho...

Brain Structure Changes Years Before Memory Loss Begins

...p dementia or Alzheimer's disease experience brain structure changes years before any signs of memory loss begi...nitively normal. "We found that changes in brain structure are present in clinically normal people an average of four years before MCI diagnosis," said study a...

Fault the School System in US for Massacres, Say Sociologists

...They would not do anything to challenge the social structure that gives rise to horrid bullying sometimes, critics say.Rampant moral hypocrisy that promotes the most two-faced, mean and shallow students to the top of the pecking order and maximally stressed parents who constantly push their children to ever hi...

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