Holiday gluttony can spell disaster for undiagnosed diabetics
...amatic weight loss, fatigue, frequent urination or blurry vision. The holidays also are a perfect time to start getting healthy, she said, offering these tips: Set consistent meal times. Avoid fast food. At parties, cut food portions in half or don't eat large portions of food, even healthy food...New 'implanted contacts' designed to fix nearsightedness
... known as myopia, by bending light rays to improve blurry distance vision without the need for glasses or contacts. Dr. Bowman said the lens currently is approved only for nearsightedness, but it may eventually be available for farsightedness and astigmatism. It has been used for nearsightedness for severa...The transparent organism: EMBLEM and Carl Zeiss give labs a unique look at life
...long different directions, further eliminating the blurry and unwanted light which prevented scientists from looking deep into tissues in the past. The entire procedure is very fast and in a computer supported post-processing step, one or more stacks of images are assembled into a high-resolution film. Ano...Elusive HIV shape change revealed; Key clue to how virus infects cells
..."Without very well-ordered crystals you get a very blurry picture," explains Harrison. "It took a very long time, and lots of computational work, to get that picture to sharpen up enough to get an answer." One of the lab's first steps will be to determine which shape of gp120 ?bound to the CD4 receptor, or...