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Phenolic compounds may explain Mediterranean diet benefits

...se. Previous studies have linked high-fat meals to poor endothelial function lasting for several hours after eating. In order to focus on the role of phenolic compounds, the researchers put each participant through the process twice in a randomized order, once using olive oil naturally high in phenolic c...

Hepatitis B accounts for 40 percent of 'missing' Asian women

... imbalance reflects neglect of female children and poor conditions for women and, as a result, have argued that as many as 100 million women are "missing." However, in the forthcoming issue of the Journal of Political Economy, Oster proposes an explanation for some of the observed over-representation o...

Plants, too, have ways to manage freeloaders

... Povich tested. The three were chosen to include a poor nitrogen sharer, a mediocre sharer and good sharer, so as to give each plant a choice between two distinctly different strains. Povich, with assistance from UC Berkeley undergraduates Yla Tausczik and Mona Urbina, then planted lupine seeds collected...

Researchers develop new method to help find deadly malaria parasite's Achilles heel

...rowing threat to health worldwide, particularly in poor countries. No malaria vaccine has been developed, and once powerful antimalarial drugs are less and less effective because Plasmodium falciparum has developed resistance to those drugs. Even mosquitoes that transmit malaria are developing resistance ...

'Good' bacteria could save patients from infection infection by deadlier ones

...of. Spigelman points to a recent BBC report on the poor record of bacterial infections in patients (the worst in Europe) in British public hospitals, especially involving the deadly MRSA (methacillin resistant staphylococcus aureus) bacteria. Despite being around for 40 years, these bacteria are still ba...

A salty tale: New bacterial genome sequenced from ancient salterns

...ypically rich in acidic amino acids and relatively poor in hydrophobic (water-repellent) amino acids, making them soluble and highly stable at such salt concentrations. Researchers recognized this biochemical adaptation: it's the same one used by archaea also living in the salterns. That wasn't the only ...

Study finds that nutritionally enhanced rice reduces iron deficiency

...the world where more than 3 billion of the world's poor and undernourished live." The iron-dense variet...le to improve the overall nutrition of the world's poor through nutritional supplements. In these areas, commercially fortified foods also have difficulty m...

Genetic key to growth of new arteries is identified

...geon, I take care of people who have problems with poor blood flow to different parts of their bodies," he notes. "One thing we know for sure: our patients do not grow new arteries, and that's why I have to operate on them." Other co-authors of the study were Jackie G. Lee, BS; Sia Dahi, BS; Rajeev Mahim...

Contagious obesity? Identifying the human adenoviruses that may make us fat

...And yet, there is evidence that factors other than poor diet or lack of exercise may be at work in the obe...ng because the explosion of human obesity, even in poor countries, has led to suspicions that overeating and lack of exercise weren't the only culprits in t...

Low-cost drug gaining favor for use in HIV-infected children in poor countries

...cost drug Bactrim to help HIV-infected children in poor countries. The reviewers surveyed medical literature on the preventive use of Bactrim -- one of several brand names for the generic medicine cotrimoxazole -- for children to ward off common infections that can be deadly to a person whose immune syst...

Climate change: The rice genome to the rescue

...searchers with some of the tools they need to help poor rice farmers and consumers avoid the worst effects...e poverty in the region, where most of the world's poor live. The workshop was informed that, to overcome many of the climate change–related problems facin...

Sustainable farm practices improve Third World food production

...are grounds for cautious optimism, particularly as poor farm households benefit more from the their adoption," Pretty says. ...

Amazonian terra preta can transform poor soil into fertile

...ome of the globe's richest soil that can transform poor soil into highly fertile ground. That's not all. ...wide array of crops in regions with agriculturally poor soils, but also can lead to technologies to sequester carbon in soil and prevent critical changes in...

GPSDB, the free Gene and Protein Synonyms DataBase

...ome of the globe's richest soil that can transform poor soil into highly fertile ground. That's not all. ...wide array of crops in regions with agriculturally poor soils, but also can lead to technologies to sequester carbon in soil and prevent critical changes in...

Spring migration of pink-footed geese under threat

...ccess and decreased summer survival as a result of poor body condition when the geese depart from the spring staging areas. Our model shows that naïve geese have much lower fitness than experienced geese, which are able to anticipate and adapt to changes in their environment." There are two discrete popu...

Protecting endangered species helps reduce poverty

...hwater and marine habitats. As a result, the rural poor who depend on these areas have more access to the goods and services they provide. Incomes increase and access to freshwater, health, education and women's rights often also improve. According to the report, some ecotourism projects based on the ob...

World's pledge to halve hunger by 2015 looks like empty promise

... 5 percent. Since 70 to 75 percent of the world's poor and hungry live in rural areas in developing countries, Pinstrup-Andersen urges the adoption of policies that promote economic growth and poverty alleviation in these areas. "They will be the most important approach for a long time to come and need t...

New cellular flaw found in some virulent breast cancers

...n of cancer cells and creating a tumor with a very poor prognosis. "The development of cancer drugs like Gleevec and Iressa have shown that it is possible to block the action of kinases," said Sicinski, "so we hope that these findings will stimulate interest in developing drugs to block CDK4 as a targete...

Botox could help target resistant tumors for treatment

...o radiotherapy, and is a determining factor in the poor prognosis of tumors to cytotoxic treatments," said Gallez. "Botulinum toxin could lead to inhibition of contractions of tumor vessels, improve tumor perfusion and oxygenation, and enhance the response of tumors to radio- and chemotherapy." Botulinum...

Ethiopian development raises birth rate

...al'. Improving access to contraception, which was poor in the area where this study was done, should be a key part of development programmes." ...

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