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Poor athletic performance linked to vitamin deficiency

...viduals a marginal deficiency in the nutrients may impact the body's ability to repair itself, operate effic...d in highly competitive sports, do not realize the impact their diets have on their performance," said Manore, who is also an Extension Service nutrition scie...

Spelling out cancer on the nanoscale

...g their nano-fluidic system to quickly measure the impact of targeted protein inhibitors in mice. A series of fine needle-aspirated samples was analyzed, confirming a decrease in oncoprotein levels. The new nano-fluidic system was also tested on human tumors by measuring the levels of MYC, BCL2, ERK, an...

Male circumcision reduces HIV risk, study stopped early

...ge 25. "This study will likely not have a large impact on the incidence of HIV/AIDS in the United States ...pulation get circumcised, it will have an enormous impact on preventing HIV infection in men, as well as reducing infections in women, Bailey said. ...

New HIV statistics indicate increasing toll of AIDS on African American community

...ons that address the increasingly disproportionate impact HIV/AIDS is having on the African-American communi...risk among black MSM ?are also needed. Reduce impact of incarceration as driver of new HIV infections. ?AIDS cases among incarcerated persons are more th...

Coral stress 'like never in history'

...d there. Although they are struck by more high impact events, some of today’s reefs are still proving to...ery of the Great Barrier Reef from the devastating impact of the crown of thorns starfish took less than a few decades, at least in part due to comprehensive ...

Exposure to dioxins influences male reproductive system, study of Vietnam veterans concludes

...to conduct additional environmental studies of the impact of dioxins and other toxins on the male reproductive system. Previous research was largely based on animal models, Dr. Gupta said, noting that the urgency of further research is underlined by a rise in disorders of the male reproductive tract over th...

Special chip provides better picture of salmon health

...disease. We have also looked at what other factors impact on these genes, such as nutrition. We are now working to encode this information onto a chip which could help farmers monitor the health and performance of their stocks through methods such as changing their nutritional intake." So far the scienti...

Newly discovered behavior in cancer cells signals dangerous metastasis

... much more subtle in nature but still have a major impact on the cancer cell and can be targets of therapy." The team's next step is to determine precisely what controls the toggle mechanism in cancer cells, Garcia-Blanco said. Identifying the various steps that occur during the natural progression of tumo...

Caterpillars tell us how bacteria cause disease

... understanding of evolution and could have a major impact on healthcare in the future." ...

UCSD researchers create roadmap to integrin activation

...ine have reconstructed the signaling pathways that impact activation of a receptor that is critical to the c...though we have developed a long list of what might impact the activation process," said Ginsberg. When cultured cells were engineered to express GPIIb-IIIa, ...

Patients can report statins' adverse effects on new web site

...who adds that a comprehensive understanding of the impact of cholesterol-lowering medications, including sta...r work is geared toward expanding knowledge of the impact of statins in order to better inform the public and the medical community. By filling out the web s...

First-time analysis reveals millions of Europeans left at risk from influenza

...n effort to help establish the health and economic impact of influenza vaccination within the European Union 25 Countries. "At Solvay Pharmaceuticals we are exploring every avenue to increase vaccine capacity and are making significant investments to increase vaccine supply using pioneering cell-culture...

Genomic comparison of lactic acid bacteria published

...racterization of lactic acid bacteria that have an impact on food, health, and agriculture," said Willem M. ...ioinformatic analyses by world experts adds to the impact of the genomic data and provides new hypotheses on how microbial genomes evolve by mechanisms of gen...

Common cold virus leads to death in lung transplant patients

...ic rhinovirus infection and its potential clinical impact on 69 lung transplant recipients at two centers. Over a 19-month period, they screened all lung transplant patients using molecular analysis to detect 13 different respiratory viruses. Human rhinovirus is a leading cause of respiratory infections ...

Effective HIV control may depend on viral protein targeted by immune cells

...t there may be fundamental differences between the impact of Gag and non-Gag CD8 responses on the ability to control HIV has clear relevance to vaccine development," says Goulder, who is an associate professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School....

Fish species plays surprise role in aiding coral reef recovery

...h species present on the reefs had any significant impact on its recovery from algal overgrowth. What was most surprising was that the dominant browser was a rare batfish, a species previously thought to be an invertebrate feeder. Meanwhile, parrotfishes and surgeonfishes, which are the routine consumers of...

Bitter taste identifies poisons in foods

...ical implications of the study, "Taste has a great impact on food acceptability and choice. A comprehensive understanding how food components contribute to taste is necessary to develop modern tools for both nutritional counseling and food development." ...

Brain protein improves stroke symptoms in rats, even when injected after 3 days

...covery. The first model was used to assess the impact of G-CSF on the size of the brain area affected by the stroke, which is identified by the presence of dead neurons. In this model, the animals were injected with a single dose of G-CSF at 60µg/kg body weight four hours after the stroke. The researche...

Cardiologist's 'living chip' changes science of disease monitoring

...g done. When this chip is fully developed, it will impact the way patients are monitored, and the way they r...ted from Florida, will undoubtedly have a positive impact on Rochester. "Our economy recently has seen downsizing and layoffs," he said. "What Rochester nee...

Quality not quantity important for immune response to HIV

...l medical wisdom. The research may have a profound impact on the development of a vaccine against the disease. "Conventional medical wisdom tells us that the bigger the immune response, the more effective it will be in controlling HIV," says Professor Philip Goulder, a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow...

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