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Magic Beans -- Anti-obesity soya could help prevent diabetes

...w soya has already been hailed for its cholesterol lowering capabilities; this is one of the reasons why frozen food manufacturer Birds Eye has added the beans to its range. However, a team of Korean researchers has shown that black soya may be even more potent in rats, and also prevents weight gain (Journal ...

'Exercise pill' switches on gene that tells cells to burn fat

...ood glucose levels and less resistance to insulin, lowering the risks of heart disease and diabetes. The ability to chemically engineer changes in metabolism also has given the researchers more insight into how the PPAR-d switch works, says Dr. Evans. Genetically engineering changes in metabolism in the ma...

Light wine intake is associated with longer life expectancy in men

...uce your risk you should talk to your doctor about lowering your cholesterol and blood pressure, controlling your weight, getting enough physical activity and following a healthy diet and quit smoking, if you smoke. There is no scientific proof that drinking wine or any other alcoholic beverage can replace t...

Stress hormones may play new role in speeding up cancer growth

...ss of drugs known as beta-blockers which lead to a lowering of blood pressure levels. Glaser and Yang wanted to see how these same drugs affected these tumor cells. They added propanol, a beta-blocker, to the tumor cells and then exposed them to both norepinepherine and epinephrine. With the drug present, ...

New study finds chocolate chip cookies lower cholesterol

...cholesterol and improve lipid subfraction profile, lowering the risk of heart disease, according to a published study in The Journal of Nutrition (October). The chocolate chip cookies, made with a combination of psyllium and plant sterols, are a tasty all-natural approach to reducing cardiovascular risk asso...

PET imaging shows young smokers quick benefit of quitting

...and risk management (such as smoking cessation and lowering one's cholesterol)," he added. In the Hokkaido University study, researchers examined the effects of smoking cessation on coronary endothelial dysfunction in 15 young male adults (in their twenties and thirties) with no other heart diseases or car...

Carnegie Mellon scientists use 'green' approach to transform plastics manufacturing

...ow have much less of it to take out, significantly lowering removal costs, according to the authors. The new ATRP technique also allows for production of higher molecular weight chains, thereby extending the range of accessible materials that could be made using this method. For example, chemists could gro...

Shrinking ponds signal warmer, dryer Alaska

...closed-basin ponds may be indicative of widespread lowering of the water table throughout low-lying landscapes...in terms of waterfowl production and if you have a lowering of the water table that could have a potentially huge impact on waterfowl production," said Dave Ver...

Research holds promise for herpes vaccine

...ead to other cells, which are in turn tricked into lowering their defenses. In his research, Halford created a vaccine where the genetic instructions that make ICP0 were disrupted. Without instructions on how to do its clever ICP0 trick, the virus can still establish an infection in animals, but the spread ...

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

...h by limiting the growth of the prostate gland and lowering testosterone levels, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found in a cohort study of more than 2,000 Air Force veterans who served during the Vietnam War. The study, published in the November issue of the journal Environmental Health...

Study shows pine bark naturally decreases severe chronic venous insufficiency

...y 64%, whereas Daflon® was only half as effective, lowering the composite edema score by 32%. The transdermal oxygen and carbon dioxide concentration in the lower legs was estimated with small sensors attached to the skin. Pycnogenol® treatment was found to significantly increase tissue oxygen and lower CO...

Even when faint, ovary scent draws sperm cells

...s. Flow rate can be regulated simply by raising or lowering the height of the source medium, in this case a buffer solution. The researchers affixed a microscope and camera to the device and then recorded video of the sperm during assays. "We combined in a microfluidic device the ability to generate a chemi...

Cornell researchers find serious fish virus in Northeast for first time

...eads because warmer water can stress fish, thereby lowering their natural defenses and making them more vulnerable. ...

Heart has enough oxygen to survive hypothermia, CPR crucial

... failure during rewarming, experienced substantial lowering of cardiac output and other cardiac functions. "We conclude that the heart failure we see after rewarming is not due to a lack of oxygen supply or oxygen transportation because unloading of oxygen at the cell level from hemoglobin is functioning," ...

Traditional Chinese medicine for diabetes has scientific backing

...cumented in Chinese literature as having a glucose lowering effect when administered to people with diabetes; yet, until now, its mode of action was unknown. Garvan scientist Dr Jiming Ye says: "Our studies in animal models of diabetes show that berberine acts in part by activating an enzyme in the muscle a...

Thinner and younger

...t losing weight might increase average lifespan by lowering the risks of some age-related diseases, such as diabetes and atherosclerosis. But in animal studies not only did more of the animals live longer, the maximum length of a rat's or mouse's life also increased. The CALERIE study hopes to get some clues ...

Weighting cancer drugs to make them hit tumors harder

... for boosting anti-cancer drugs' effectiveness and lowering their toxicity by attaching the equivalent of a lead sinker onto the drugs. This extra weight makes the drugs penetrate and accumulate inside tumors more effectively. Chemotherapy drugs often fall short of achieving their full impact because the dru...

Intensive statin therapy may partially reverse plaque build-up in arteries

...or the first time, that very intensive cholesterol lowering with a statin drug can regress (partially reverse)...g statin drugs, the most commonly used cholesterol lowering treatment. Previous research had indicated that intensive statin therapy could prevent the progressi...

Georgia Tech accelerates drug discovery with new IBM supercomputing cluster

... installation costs by as much as 40 percent while lowering energy costs by almost 15 percent. The cluster so...erall performance of the Center's datacenter while lowering its total cost of ownership. The speed and flexibility of the systems also reduce the time it takes ...

Nano machine switches between biological and silicon worlds

...t until it reaches the magnetic bead, like a winch lowering a weather balloon. A Hall-Effect sensor can measure the vertical movement of the magnetic bead which indicates whether the switch is on or off. That, in an over-simplified nutshell, is the essence of the molecular switch, an actuator for the nano-sc...

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