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Transgenic goat's milk offers hope for tackling children's intestinal disease

...an breast milk, altered the intestinal bacteria in young goats and pigs that were fed the milk. The resea...me-rich milk produced by transgenic dairy goats to young goats and pigs. Pasteurized milk from non-transgenic goats was fed to the control group of pigs and ...

A sweet solution for Alzheimer's disease?

... only if the mice were treated when they were very young and disease-free, but also if they were treated after the onset of disease. As a model system, these mice "are pretty good, but they're not a perfect replica of the disease," St George-Hyslop said. The mice do not develop tau tangles, he explained, ...

Study shows frogs can play key role in stem cell research

..., Dr Morrison injected special compounds into very young embryos, to inactivate the native PouV proteins. These embryos continued to grow, but had defective heads and tails. When the scientists looked closely at these embryos, they found that cells had become specialised before they were supposed to ?bef...

Federal testing for mad cow disease a failure, law review editor says

... its ban, allowing meat only from the carcasses of young cows that have had their spinal cords, vertebrae, brains and bone marrow removed. But the ban was re-imposed on January 20 after a U.S. shipment was found to contain meat with banned vertebral columns still attached. It is widely believed that Pr...

Adult stem cell research at UB targets damaged hearts

...hibernating myocardium typically does not occur in young persons). "If aging indeed impairs the function of these adult stem cells," said Lee, "genetic and tissue engineering might be used to boost the competency of aged MSCs." He noted also that mesenchymal stem cells do not appear to generate a stron...

Dominant meerkats render rivals infertile

...ale meerkats, if they do become pregnant, kill the young of other female group members, dominants and subordinates alike....

Sleep deprivation doubles risks of obesity in both children and adults

...are detectable in adults as well as in children as young as 5 years." Professor Cappuccio points out that short sleep duration may lead to obesity through an increase of appetite via hormonal changes caused by the sleep deprivation. Lack of sleep produces Ghrelin which, among other effects, stimulates ap...

Airborne mold spores increase kids' risk for multiple allergies

...ant in the air that we breathe every day--can make young children more susceptible to developing multiple allergies later in life. The team found that infants who were exposed to basidiospores and other airborne fungal spores--specifically penicillium/aspergillus and alternaria--early in life were more l...

Tyrannosaur survivorship -- tough times for teens

...e 13, which would help explain why so few bones of young adults have been found. "One implication of these ...hers in the paper. "Instead, we suggest that these young animals simply had low mortality, just like older juveniles and subadults of most large terrestrial ...

Wild meerkats school their young

...'t be surprising, whether wild mammals teach their young was still debated. The findings were published in...es further disabling it before returning it to the young meerkat. The researchers, Alex Thornton and Katherine McAuliffe, Department of Zoology, University...

South Pacific plant may be missing link in evolution of flowering plants

...ility to breed successfully. Lactating females and young calves might be particularly vulnerable Recently more than 600 dolphins died mysteriously off the Indian Ocean archipelago in Zanzibar. The phenomenon has created a stir among marine experts, with varying theories that the Indian Ocean Bottlenose d...

Dolphins at risk

...ility to breed successfully. Lactating females and young calves might be particularly vulnerable Recently more than 600 dolphins died mysteriously off the Indian Ocean archipelago in Zanzibar. The phenomenon has created a stir among marine experts, with varying theories that the Indian Ocean Bottlenose d...

What's nature worth? New computer models tell all

... science of "ecosystem services" has bloomed. This young discipline studies how nature--through climate reg...hed a project to solve a central problem that this young science faces: creating a fast way for policy-makers to understand the specific ecosystem services i...

Today's babies are fatter babies

... over 22 years, a newly published study shows that young children--especially infants--are now more likely to be overweight. This study was based at the Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention of Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care and appears in the July issue of Obesity. "The obe...

New research examines genetics of successful aging

...pared the DNA of the study sample with that of 100 young adults, aged 18-25, who were matched for sex, race, ethnicity and geographic location. Particularly, Dr. Zubenko and his research team attempted to identify specific genetic sequences present in older individuals that may be linked to reaching older ...

Study supports 'urgent' need for worldwide ban on lead-based paint

...in paint after determining that people--especially young children--were being poisoned by environmental exposures to the element. Many Third World countries, says Clark, did not follow suit, and continue to manufacture and sell lead-based paints that would be prohibited in the United States and in some oth...

Researchers discover which organs in Antarctic fish produce antifreeze

...ncreas expression in newly hatched fish larvae and young juveniles. The exocrine pancreas is the larger of the two parts that make up the pancreas. It consists of tubuloacinar glands that primarily manufacture and secrete digestive enzymes that break down food in the intestine so it can be absorbed. In t...

New findings offer more complete view of breast cancer gene mutations in US population

...on women who develop breast cancer at a relatively young age. The new study, published today in the journal...have focused almost exclusively on white women and young women. This research clearly was needed to improve our means of assessing the likelihood of carrying...

Life and death in the hippocampus: what young neurons need to survive

...pointed the molecular survival gear required for a young neuron to successfully jump into the fray and hook...on between mature cells vying for connectivity and young guys competing with both the mature cells and their peers to fit in. You are selecting for the cell ...

Autistic brain has fewer neurons for processing emotion

...aging with children has shown that the amygdala in young males with autism is abnormally large in volume due to precocious maturation. "It is somewhat surprising, therefore, that there are ultimately fewer neurons in the autistic amygdala," says Schumann. Schumann suggests different explanations: the am...

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