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Vitamin D deficiency widespread during pregnancy

...enatal multivitamin supplements is not adequate to prevent vitamin D insufficiency, University of Pittsburgh researchers report in the current issue of the Journal of Nutrition, the publication of the American Society for Nutrition. A condition linked to rickets and other musculoskeletal and health complicat...

Brain works more chaotically than previously thought

... After all, drugs have already been developed that prevent glutamate bubbles from discharging their load into the brain. Indeed, Bonn's neuroscientists now know precisely which receptors of the insulating cells are stimulated by the neurotransmitter ?another starting point for developing new drugs. Yet, w...

New UD technology removes viruses from drinking water

...ter is recirculated, so this technology could help prevent plant pathogens from spreading to other plants," she said. This UD research underscores the importance of interdisciplinary study in solving problems. "There are lots of exciting things you can discover working together," Jin said, smiling. "In...

Overfishing large sharks impacts entire marine ecosystem, shrinks shellfish supply

... to move beyond retrospective analyses and instead prevent ecosystem-wide changes from happening in the first place." "Our study provides evidence that the loss of great sharks triggers changes that cascade throughout coastal food webs," says Baum. "Solutions include enhancing protection of great sharks...

Temple University Hospital investigates treatment for cervical dysplasia

...an papillomavirus (HPV), the immune system can not prevent certain high-risk strains of the virus from causing cervical dysplasia, a common precursor to cervical cancer. "The expected widespread availability of two preventive vaccines may lower the incidence of HPV infection and reduce the risk of cervical c...

Researchers show that veins stiffen as we age

...the heart. The veins are equipped with valves to prevent any backflow of blood caused by gravity as blood is returned to the heart from the lower extremities. The walls of the veins are made of collagen and elastin, two proteins that give the tube-like blood vessels flexibility and help them to maintain yo...

Mechanical 'artificial hearts' can remove need for heart transplant by returning heart to normal

... which encourage reverse remodelling of the heart, prevent atrophy and prevent the heart from shrinking beyond its desirable size. The drugs used were lisinopril, carvedilol, spir...

St. Jude announces breakthrough in eye cancer treatment

...lly remove the eye that has the cancer in order to prevent the disease from spreading. However, children with bilateral retinoblastoma pose a significant challenge to physicians, who are reluctant to remove both eyes from young children, said Matthew Wilson, M.D., a surgeon in the St. Jude ophthalmology divi...

Microbes compete with animals for food by making it stink

...h would be advantaged over microbes that could not prevent their resource from being consumed by animals," Hay added. "If microbes could produce chemicals that prevented crabs or fishes from using these resources, then those microbes should gain an advantage and become more abundant." __IMAGE_2 As par...

NASA snow data helps maintain nation's largest, oldest bison herd

...onto public land, and sometimes capturing bison to prevent them from commingling with neighboring livestock. "Our goal is to provide the latest snowpack information to park officials," said landscape dynamics expert Fred Watson, principal investigator of the project and an assistant professor of science a...

Gladstone investigators identify a new protective action for the powerful anti-HIV factor, APOBEC3G

... laboratory, determined that the complexes help to prevent a threat within cells posed by a class of "jumping genes," or retro-elements, which are sequences of DNA that change position within the genome, causing mutations, activating or inactivating other genes, or duplicating themselves, thereby increasing ...

Fake pesticides threaten food safety

...e EU. 'The CPA actively encourages enforcements to prevent illegal imports. We recommend that farmers buy pesticides from a reliable source. CPA members sign a code of practice,' he says. The EU crop protection market is worth ?.5bn. Counterfeits cost the EU between ?1m and ?0m in lost taxes. The ECPA rec...

Why don't all moles progress to melanoma?

...down. This can stress or even kill the cell. To prevent this, the ER sends out distress signals to activat...olding cells in an arrested state is sufficient to prevent the development of cancer. That's why so many people have moles, but few have melanoma." In the st...

UCSF study will test new vaginal microbicide for herpes and HIV

...y of the safety of a new a vaginal gel designed to prevent herpes and HIV infection. If it is effective and ...s or creams are inserted into the vagina solely to prevent the spread of HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases. There are currently no such products on t...

Invasive ants territorial when neighbors are not kin

...tinguish kin from non-kin, and the mechanisms that prevent gene flow between colonies, might lead to more effective ways to control the ants. That would be good news for anyone surrounded by the pervasive creatures. "When people saw that the ants from different supercolonies were fighting with each oth...

Uncovering DNA's 'sweet' secret

.... Finally,the irregular spaces between the "rungs" prevent homo-DNA from taking onthe uniform structure DNA uses to store genetic information. The findings suggest that fully hydroxylated six-carbon sugars probably would not have produced a stable base-pairing system capable of carrying genetic information...

Underweight women at greater risk of miscarriage

...nd out why they miscarried and what they can do to prevent it happening again; that's why we commissioned this research. While we still don't have all the answers, these findings are going to help women who want to reduce their risk of losing a baby in pregnancy'. ...

New way of tracking muscle damage from radiation

...ans predict which patients need an intervention to prevent late damage," Krasin said. Soft tissue sarcomas are cancers that arise in muscles, fat, blood vessels and other soft tissues. Ewing sarcoma is a cancer that arises in the bone or soft tissue, usually in the arms, legs, pelvis or chest wall. St. ...

British cattle give TB to badgers, finds UC Davis expert

... controversial practice of killing wild badgers to prevent tuberculosis in cattle is unlikely to succeed, according to a newstudy led by Rosie Woodroffe, an ecologist at the University ofCalifornia, Davis, and a member of Britain's Independent Scientific Group on Cattle TB. In Britain, farming interests and...

Fight weeds with plant pathogens

... be rotated with other control methods in order to prevent the development of resistant weeds or lessen the impact of herbicides on the environment," she said. Weed management is important due to the amount of damage weeds can cause to agricultural productivity. Weeds can reduce crop yields by as much as 1...

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