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Use of amino acid supplement following a heart attack provides no benefit, may be harmful

Use of the amino acid supplement L-arginine following a heart attack does not impro...of JAMA. L-arginine is a widely available dietary supplement and is publicized as having benefits for patients with hypertension, angina, heart failure and sexua...

Biofuels can replace about 30 percent of fuel needs with significant research and policy effort

...acticality of using biofuels and biomaterials as a supplement to petroleum. The review article, called "The Path Forward for Biofuels and Biomaterials," appears in the Jan. 27 issue of Science. "We can readily address, with research, 30 percent of current transportation fuel needs. But reaching that goal will ...

New study reveals promising osteoporosis treatment

... professor has developed a calcium phosphate-based supplement that -- even at low concentrations -- significantl...f Implant Dentistry, presented her research on the supplement at the American Association for Dental Research annual meeting on March 9, 2006. Current FDA-app...

Seal rookeries could provide a reliable food source for endangered California condors, study finds

...ed by local cattle ranchers. Eventually, the birds supplement their diet with carcasses of deer, boar and other ...lead-contaminated deer carcasses and the calves we supplement them with." Recovery strategies Chamberlain sees three options for Condor Recovery Program: "The...

Feds give researchers ok for safety test of adult stem cells in patients with heart disease

... The hope is the new blood vessels will replace or supplement those blood vessels that fail to adequately supply oxygenated blood to heart tissue. The method was developed by Mary Laughlin, M.D., a hematologist, and Vincent Pompili, M.D., a cardiologist, both of Case, UHC and the National Center for Regenerativ...

Anti-cancer Compound In Beer Gaining Interest

...e levels of xanthohumol or use it as a nutritional supplement - that might be different. It clearly has some interesting cancer chemopreventive properties, and the only way people are getting any of it right now is through beer consumption." Xanthohumol was actually first discovered in 1913, isolated as a yell...

Enzyme affects hypertension by controlling salt levels in body

...Dr. Huang said. "But if you take diuretics and you supplement with potassium, you can lower blood pressure more effectively." Dr. Huang and his research group currently are conducting studies to determine whether low potassium intake increases WNK1 activity, leading to hypertension. The WNK1 enzyme was first i...

Evolution of life on Earth may hold key to finding life in outer space

...rtially funded by an education and public outreach supplement to Fox's NASA grant, the joint production between HMNS and UH, called "Fantasy Worlds: Exploring the Limits of Life," is playing at the Burke Baker Planetarium at HMNS until December. "Fantasy Worlds" explores extreme environments of Earth for a rar...

U-M researchers identify new blood test for prostate cancer

...ally, we envision this new test could be used as a supplement to PSA. A physician might suggest a patient with an elevated PSA have this test before a biopsy to better determine whether it's a cancerous or benign condition. In the future, I think this could replace PSA," says lead study author Arul Chinnaiyan, ...

Female volunteers prepare for a second 'bedrest'

...r group, daily meals were accompanied by a dietary supplement (certain amino acids which form the basis of proteins). Volunteers needed for phase 2 For phase 2 of the study, which is due to begin in September, ESA, the French space agency CNES and the MEDES Institute are looking for twelve new female voluntee...

Grass makes environmentally friendly biofuel

...y, who notes that a grass-for-fuel crop could help supplement farmers' incomes. Cherney presented the case for grass biofuel at a U.S. Department of Agriculture-sponsored conference, Greenhouse Gases and Carbon Sequestration in Agriculture and Forestry, held March 21-24 in Baltimore. "Grass pellets have great ...

PCRM develops world's first cruelty-free insulin assay

...l component-free, peptide- and protein-free, media supplement as a replacement for calf serum--basically a synthetic formula with cofactors and trace elements that promote cell growth. Then, in collaboration with Linco Research of St. Charles, Missouri, Even successfully incorporated antibodies grown in the med...

Introduced foxes transformed vegetation on Aleutian Islands from lush grasslands to tundra

...aders in the mid- to late-18th century as a way to supplement the declining harvest of sea otter pelts. But the practice escalated between the 1890s and the 1930s, when the U.S. government worked to establish fox farming businesses on the islands. Mostly arctic foxes and smaller numbers of red foxes were introd...

Mouse brain tumors mimic those in human genetic disorder

... variety of complicationsincluding brain cancer.To supplement their clinical research, Gutmann's team developed a mousemodel in which the animals, like humans with the disease, have oneabnormal copy of the gene for NF1 in every cell in their body, whilespecific support cells in the brain called astrocytes have ...

Spleen may be source of versatile stem cells

...e a major loss of blood, the spleen is turnedon to supplement the bone marrow in replenishing your blood supply. Wemay find that the spleen kicks in to help with many more biologicalemergencies. What has been considered a practically unnecessary organmay actually provide critical healing cells," says Faustman, ...

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