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Metal homeostasis research in plants will lead to nutrient-rich food and higher yielding crops

.... For example, over three billion people worldwide suffer from Iron and/or Zinc deficiencies. Food consumption studies suggest that doubling the Iron in rice can increase the Iron intake of the poor by 50 percent. Rice is a staple food in many of the countries with widespread Iron deficiencies in human die...

Dominant meerkats render rivals infertile

...les of breeding age, older, and pregnant females), suffer repeated attacks and chases throughout this period, leading to dramatically increased levels of stress hormones and a collapse in fertility. This tactic reduces conception rates and increases abortion rates among the evicted subordinates, who are onl...

Carnegie Mellon researchers discover key deficiencies in brains of people with autism

...authors' previous findings that people with autism suffer from a lack of synchronization among brain regions, which helps to explain why some people with autism have normal or even superior skills in some areas, while many other types of thinking are disordered. In addition, their findings particularly impl...

HIV-1's high virulence might be an accident of evolution

...naturally infected nonhuman primates usually don't suffer the symptoms associated with AIDS. The evidence now revealed by an international team of researchers is the first to offer an explanation for this striking difference. The group found that a viral protein earlier shown to help the virus evade the im...

Natural pine bark extract relieves muscle cramp and pain in athletes and diabetics

...nt, had venous insufficiency, or were athletes who suffer from exercise-induced cramping. The first two week...nging to the extreme fit and healthy to people who suffer from health problems. Previously, magnesium was hailed as the natural approach for relieving muscle ...

First-ever genomic test predicts which lung cancer patients need chemotherapy to live

...vidual tumors that indicate a patient is likely to suffer a recurrence of disease. Recurrent tumors are typi...uracy which early-stage lung cancer patients would suffer a recurrence of their cancer and which patients would not," said Anil Potti, M.D., an assistant prof...

Wild vs. lab rodent comparison supports hygiene hypothesis

...tion. Up to 50 million Americans are estimated to suffer from allergies, and another 8 million have some form of autoimmune disorder, which occurs when an overactive immune system attacks tissues in the body. Examples of autoimmune disorders include lupus, insulin-dependant diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis a...

Septum keeps neurons in synch, can reduce epileptic seizures by 90 percent

...study epilepsy and Alzheimer's disease. People who suffer Alzheimer's, a degenerative disorder that affects various brain regions including the septum, have a higher risk of epileptic seizures, in the 10-22 percent range, he noted. Previous studies have suggested that the septum plays an antiepileptic role...

UF scientists restore sight to chickens with blinding disease

...lly to a vision-restoring therapy for children who suffer from blinding retinal diseases." Like people, chickens possess color vision and function best in daylight. The predominant photoreceptor cell type in the chicken retina, the cone cell, is the same cell type that is essential for normal human vision....

Five surprising facts about starvation that could change the international agenda

...ared if more than 15% of the children in a country suffer from wasting. Gross and Webb analyzed countries with the highest child mortality rates and child wasting rates. Based on their assessment of the data, the authors present five surprising facts about severe children malnutrition and argue that such co...

Montreal researchers identify defects of immune cells

...ove the health status of HIV-infected patients who suffer from candidiasis. Defective CD4+ T lymphocytes have long been suspected to be the leading cause of candidiasis, however, it never had been directly demonstrated. Now, they become designated targets for the development of novel treatments not only for...

Ever-happy mice may hold key to new treatment of depression

...tistics Canada, approximately 8% of Canadians will suffer from depression at some point in their lifetime. Around 5% of Canadians seek medical advice for depression each year; a figure that has almost doubled in the past decade. Figures in the U.S. are comparable, with approximately 18.8 million American ad...

Viagra improves high altitude exercise performance up to 45% for some

...l could be considered as a treatment for those who suffer most at altitude but, because of side effects that can include severe headaches and the apparent inability to help some people, it should not be taken as an exercise aid by everyone, she said. The bigger picture This study adds to the scientific ...

Device effective in zapping the pain out of migraines

...the next form of relief for millions of people who suffer from the debilitating disease. Results of a stud...signal the onset of migraine headaches. People who suffer from migraine headaches often describe "seeing" showers of shooting stars, zigzagging lines and flas...

Queensland scientists identify molecule that links both sides of the brain

...ect targets in the opposite hemisphere, people can suffer from epilepsy, and experience some degree of mental retardation. "Our study is the first to identify a growth molecule that guides young nerves away from the corpus callosum and towards their targets in the opposite hemisphere," Dr Cooper said. "...

Study reveals how ADHD drugs work in brain

...alth estimates that 2 million children in the U.S. suffer from the condition, with between 30 to 70 percent of them continuing to exhibit symptoms in their adult years. Despite public anxiety over the treatment of a behavioral condition with pharmacological drugs, doctors have continued to prescribe meds l...

Pest control research leads to pain control discovery

...e than 73 million patients. But many of the people suffer from pharmacological properties or side effects of the medications. Merck, the pharmaceutical company that manufactured and marketed Vioxx, a Cox-2 selective nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID), voluntarily pulled the pain killer from the mar...

Study finds how organs monitor themselves during early development

... The animal could well mature with this defect and suffer from reduced fertility. But it does not. Instead, they found that the ovary has a way to sense its lack of germ cells and steps up production. "Within three days, the ovary catches up; it then has enough germ cells," says Dr. Gilboa. "I had not a shr...

Iron critical to ocean productivity, carbon uptake

...he ocean are iron-stressed, as well as which parts suffer from lack of nitrogen ?another key element to ocean productivity. "Nitrogen and phosphorus are nutrients that come up from the ocean bottom to feed the upper water column," Behrenfeld said. "Iron, on the other hand, can come from the deep or from th...

Chocolate, wine, spicy foods may be OK for heartburn, Stanford study finds

... month and estimates are that more than 15 million suffer from it daily. For the great majority of those sufferers, Gerson's recent findings could free them from the bonds of dietary self-denial. She is considering doing studies of her own to learn more about what effects dietary changes actually have - or ...

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