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Chemical maps hint at drug's effects on schizophrenia

... gain and diabetes. Schizophrenic patients were found to have lower levels of the lipids used to make membranes involved in storing and communicating information in the brain. These lipid changes were partially reversed in patients treated with antipsychotic medications, said Joseph McEvoy, M.D., associ...

Spreading viruses as we breathe

...said. "The significant part of our research has found that rather than the droplet falling directly to the ground after leaving the mouth, the liquid component of the droplet dries in the air and the dry residue travels large distances. "When a droplet dries in the air the residue is carried in the a...

Research says boiling broccoli ruins its anti-cancer properties

Researchers at the University of Warwick have found that the standard British cooking habit of boiling...te levels over 7 days. However the researchers found that storage of fresh vegetables at much lower temperatures such as ?5 °C (much higher than for stor...

From the deep -- Researchers find new species of sea anemone

...hat live in the deepest parts of the Pacific Ocean found a new species of sea anemone living in the unlikel...ature apart. Since the scientists who initially found these animals weren't sea anemone specialists, they sent the 10 specimens they collected to Meg Daly...

Herpes infection may be symbiotic, help beat back some bacteria

... they noted that several strains of herpes viruses found in much of the human population remain symptom-fre...ections might confer unrecognized benefits. "We found evidence that the mouse immune system controls latent herpes infections in part by increasing produc...

Effect on breast tumors of DNA alternations in 3 genes described

...earch meeting held in Los Angeles in April. "We found that hypermethylation of E-cadherin, but not of the other genes, was more likely to occur in estrogen receptor (ER)-negative than in ER-positive tumors," said Tao. ER-positive tumors are those that express receptors for the hormone estrogen. Such tu...

First demonstration of new hair follicle generation in an animal model

...University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have found that hair follicles in adult mice regenerate by re... it can regenerate.) In this study, researchers found that wound healing in a mouse model created an “embryonic window?of opportunity. Dormant embryonic m...

Better health twice as likely for nonsmokers who live and work with smoking restrictions

...researchers at the Mailman School of Public Health found that nonsmokers who live under both a total household and total workplace smoking ban are over two and a half times more likely to report better health than those without smoking bans. The study surveyed 1,472 Chinese American adults who live and wo...

Iowa State scientists demonstrate first use of nanotechnology to enter plant cells

...the particle with a chemical coating. "The team found a chemical we could use that made the nanoparticle look yummy to the plant cells so they would swallow the particles," Torney said. It worked. The nanoparticles were swallowed by the plant protoplasts, which are a type of spherical plant cells wi...

Cow protein aids in treatment of gastrointestinal disorder

...biotic treatment. Lactoferrin has previously been found to be effective at inhibiting the growth of microo...e been used together to treat H. pylori. The study found that the infection-causing bacterium was eliminated in more patients treated with the traditional th...

Scientists discover new life in the Antarctic deep sea

Scientists have found hundreds of new marine creatures in the vast, dark...re of this little known region of the ocean. They found over 700 new species....

Hexavalent chromium in drinking water causes cancer in lab animals

...r tanning, and textile manufacturing and have been found in some drinking water sources. Male and female... in the oral cavity. The studies conducted in mice found increases in the number of benign and malignant tumors in the small intestine, which increased with ...

Study warns deep-sea mining may pose serious threat to fragile marine ecosystems

...ese mining in the equatorial region of the Pacific found the risks to outweigh the benefits, says Halfar, there have been no independent impact assessment studies of the proposed massive sulphide mining sites. "Over 250 active and fossil deposits have already been found. And the company operating in Papua ...

Do fruit flies have free will?

... the origin of the fly's peculiar spontaneity. "We found that there must be an evolved function in the fly brain which leads to spontaneous variations in fly behavior" Sugihara said. "The results of our analysis indicate a mechanism which might be common to many other animals and could form the biological ...

Gene thought to assist chemo may help cancer thrive

...ute of Technology and the Ovarian Cancer Institute found that 70 percent of subjects whose tumors had mutat...But in this latest trial, Georgia Tech researchers found that p53 may be a “double-edged sword.?Chemotherapy patients whose tumors had a mutated p53 gene tha...

No magic tomato? Study breaks link between lycopene and prostate cancer prevention

...report that lycopene, an antioxidant predominately found in tomatoes, does not effectively prevent prostate...ed foods, also using data from the PLCO trial, and found no overall association between lycopene intake and prostate cancer. In their current study, the ...

Peanut allergies overstated, study finds

... with a hive of eight millimetres - which has been found elsewhere to be predictive of having peanut allergy - were found not to be allergic to peanuts when they took a peanut challenge. A challenge involves eating peanuts...

DNA analysis suggests under-reported kills of threatened whales

...f whale meat is six weeks, at most, we should have found far fewer individuals ?or the number of whales kil...n trade. The analysis uses the frequency of whales found only once in a survey, and those found more than once in the same or later surveys. The DNA profi...

Study shows dramatic increase in Caesarean sections

...the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, found that the rise could not be explained by increases ...ed private medical insurance into the analysis, we found that women who had medical insurance were more than three times as likely to have an elective caesar...

Hives ferment a yeasty brew, attract beetle pest

...tle. Now, an international team of researchers has found that small hive beetles can detect some alarm pher...y produce from 1,500 to 10,000 times more IPA than found in an undisturbed hive. Next the researchers used a gas-chromatagraph-electroantennogram to analyze ...

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