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New Breed Cats Marketed

...-inducing properties and then promoted the desired trait through breeding. Hence these animals were not transgenic,in other words their genes remain unaltered. Leslie Lyons, assistant professor in the school of veterinary medicine at the University of California, specializes in research on domestic cat ...

New Variety Of Soybean Oil

...ding the genes controlling the elevated oleic acid trait into their varieties with 1 percent linolenic acid that are grown commercially in the Midwest. "Our 1 percent linolenic acid oil does not require hydrogenation and has been adopted by the food industry in a range of products," Fehr explained. "We w...

Study Show Positive Affect Of Music On Intelligence, Mental Health, & Immune System

...hat the ability to learn and reproduce sounds is a trait that is necessary for the development of language, and the scientist feel that many of the sounds that the animals make may be the initial foundation to human music. Another study in the volume looks at whether music training can make individuals s...

Personality Disorders Caused Army To Let Go Of 1,000 Soldiers

...der is not associated with combat trauma, but is a trait that stays throughout life. He added that although soldiers may suffer with the disorder, they do continue to perform their duties....

Definite Connection Between Receptor Levels and Cocaine Abuse Reveals PET Imaging

...t it was not known whether that was a pre-existing trait that predisposed individuals to cocaine abuse or was a result of cocaine use. "The present findings in monkeys suggest that both factors are likely to be true," Nader and colleagues write in a study published online this week in the journal Nature ...

Pain Tolerance Improved By Transcendental Meditation

...odifying various kinds of pain. In time it reduces trait anxiety, improves stress reactivity and decreases distress from acute pain. According to Orme-Johnson, lead author of this research, "Prior research indicates that Transcendental Meditation creates a more balanced outlook on life and greater equanim...

Environmental Toxin Causes Heritable Adult-Onset Diseases

...mental toxin can permanently reprogram a heritable trait also may alter our concept of evolutionary biology. Traditional evolutionary theory maintains that the environment is primarily a backdrop on which selection takes place, and that differences between individuals arise from random mutations in the DNA...

Cancer cell behavior during Metastasis – New finding

...cells from metastasizing, which is the most deadly trait of cancer," said the study's lead investigator, Mariano Garcia-Blanco, M.D., Ph.D., professor of molecular genetics and microbiology. The researchers will publish their findings in the Sept. 19, 2006, issue of the journal Proceedings of the Nationa...

Genetic susceptibility in viral encephalitis

...s susceptibility could be inherited as a monogenic trait resulting in the specific impairment of immunity t...etic lesion that is permissive for an infection: a trait that most would regard as quintessentially environmental in cause. It is likely that other mutations...

Link Between Neuroticism and Depression May be Genetic

... when it comes to the link between the personality trait of neuroticism and vulnerability for depression// ...ion is shared with neuroticism. “The personality trait of neuroticism - perhaps better understood as “negative emotionality” is a strong risk factor of maj...

Brain behind the Selfish and Selfless

...s in the gray matter has offered an insight into a trait so common and natural to humans, and needs no introduction – SELFISHNESS//. Bewildering all the same, why are some people more selfish than the rest of us? While some others believe in being the epitome of selflessness! Scientists have clued in on ...

Cancer Gene Code, Decoded

...n breast and colon cancers have portrayed a unique trait and decoding them have helped understand the manner by which each of the cancer types develop. Scientists will study engagingly in the future to better understand the strategy behind the mutations, which could lead to the birth of high-end drugs....

Edible Food Coating Kills Bacteria And Adds Flavor

..., McHugh says, adding that this can be a desirable trait in salads. Besides apple puree, the antimicrobial films can also be made from broccoli, tomato, carrot, mango, peach, pear and a variety of other produce items. Non-antimicrobial versions of these food wraps are now being made commercially by Calif...

Cardiac Risk is Reduced by Cutting the Sugar in Your Drink

...archers think insulin resistance is the underlying trait that leads to the other metabolic abnormalities," says Ventura. "It is now thought that obesity may be a trigger for insulin resistance, thus creating a cascade of risk." However, the Penn State researcher adds there is little data on the prevalenc...

Potential Threats of Bioterrorism

...l” group. Anxiety was evaluated at the state and trait scores of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), while the Noncontingent Outcome Instrument also was used to measure pessimism regarding uncontrollable events, in order to identify the potential confounder of a general pessimistic outlook that cou...

Children’s Behavioral Problems Not Linked to Marital Discor

... their 2051 children. According to this study, the trait of arguing with one’s partner is passed on to their children and this may pose a threat of causing behavioral problems in children like lying, shoplifting, bullying etc. These findings have been published in the journal, ‘Child Development’. The ch...

Compulsive Gambling Linked to Parkinson's Disease Medications

...edication dosage. This suggests that an underlying trait may interact with the drugs and make an individual more vulnerable to this adverse effect. Valerie Voon, M.D., National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, Bethesda, Md., and colleagues compared the characteristics of 21 patients with P...

Role of Cholesterol in Alzheimer’s Disease Unclea

...n of beta-amyloid plaques. People with the genetic trait that increases the level of a particular cholesterol transport protein have a greatly increased risk of late-onset Alzheimer’s. The urgent question is whether cholesterol-lowering drugs, such as statins, can reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease....

Drug Addicts-you Could Blame Your Genes

...t we are talking about here is a possible physical trait producing vulnerability to drug use. "The next step is identifying the gene or genes that cause this diminished supply of brain receptors. "This may provide important new leads in the search for improved therapies for attention deficit, hyperac...

Scientists Develop Bacteria-resistant Fish

... multi-location trials, will add another important trait to existing improved Jayanti Rohu with higher growth and economic returns to the farmers. However, Sahoo said more research was needed to confirm the findings before farmers use the varieties. "We want at least another two years to carry the study ...

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