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Edible coatings will be the packaging of the future

The growing demand by consumers for healthier and more ecological foods has driven researchers to develop new systems of packaging that prolong the useful life of the products and that are, at the same time, recyclable. Protection is currently carried out with a mixture of synthetic chemical com...

Computer with brain connections changing quality of life of paralyzed

...sufferers. Patients surveyed were found to be much healthier mentally than psychiatrically depressed patients without any life-threatening bodily disease. Only 9% of ALS patients showed long episodes of depression and most were during the period following diagnosis and a period of weeks after tracheotomy. ...

Single molecule extends fat mice lives by reversing gene pathways associated with disease in obese

...sed insulin sensitivity, decreased glucose levels, healthier heart and liver tissues, are positive clinical indicators and may mean we can stave off in humans age-related diseases such as type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and cancer, but only time and more research will tell," says Sinclair, who is also a co-fou...

Vitamin D deficiency widespread during pregnancy

...re might be necessary to boost vitamin D stores to healthier levels. "In both groups, vitamin D concentrations were highest in summer and lowest in winter and spring," said senior author James M. Roberts, M.D., MWRI director and professor and vice chair of research in the department of obstetrics, gynecolog...

Improving outcomes in premature births

...thers treated with nitroglycerin had significantly healthier babies. Graeme N. Smith, MD, PhD, states, "Our team is very excited about these findings. It is estimated that it costs the Canadian health system almost $2 billion a year to take care of premature babies and their medical complications. Given the...

Plastic that degrades in seawater could be boon for cruise industry and others

...thers treated with nitroglycerin had significantly healthier babies. Graeme N. Smith, MD, PhD, states, "Our team is very excited about these findings. It is estimated that it costs the Canadian health system almost $2 billion a year to take care of premature babies and their medical complications. Given the...

Mother knows best: Plant knowledge key to childhood health in remote Amazon

...o know more about plants and how to use them, have healthier children, independent of other factors such as education, market participation or acculturation. The researchers, from the universities of Brandeis, Northwestern, Georgia (Athens), and Autonomous University of Barcelona, studied the Tsimane', an i...

Cancer researchers add spice to research against rare neuromuscular disease

...g more VEGF. Ultimately, the work brought about healthier mice whose symptoms were much improved. Chang's team also found that the amount of abnormal clumps in the neurons and spinal cords of the mice was slashed by half, and that VEGF activity in the neurons went up more than four times in the treated mice...

Strawberry daiquiris -- the extra-healthy cocktail?

...ds would also be expected to make the strawberries healthier to eat. Dr Korakot Chanjirakul and colleagues at Kasetsart University in Thailand, in collaboration with scientists at the United States Department of Agriculture, tested the berries with ethanol and found that the treatment improved the physiolog...

Grape expectations for healthier wine

...ould be used in the wine-making process to produce healthier wines without the added sulphites that can cause a...quification process, presenting the possibility of healthier more hypoallergenic wines. Antioxidants, natural compounds found in red wine, chocolate, coffee a...

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