Man in Biological News

An ambulance man for muscle damage

It does not take much to injure a muscle. Sometimes one sudden, inconsiderate movement does the job. Unfortunately, damaged muscles are not as efficient at repair as other tissues such as bone. Researchers of the European Molecular Biology Laboratorys Mouse Biology Unit (EMBL), Italy, and the Hare...

If you want more babies, find a man with a deep voice

Hamilton, ON. Sept. 24, 2007 Men who have lower-pitched voices have more children than do men with high-pitched voices, researchers have found. And their study suggests that for reproductive-minded women, mate selection favours men with low-pitched voices. The study, published in Biology Lett...

Sea urchin genome suprisingly similar to man and may hold key to cures

Sea urchins are small and spiny, they have no eyes and they eat kelp and algae. Still, the sea creature’s genome is remarkably similar to humans?and may hold the key to preventing and curing several human diseases, according to a University of Central Florida researcher and several colleagues. UC...

Prostate Cancer Translational Research in Europe meeting: Search for biomarkers continues

... identification of common genetic variants that affect the risk of prostate cancer. 42% of prostate cancer has a genetic cause. The lifetime risk of a man in the European Union to acquire prostate cancer is 10% and it is the third leading cause of death from cancer in men. "First risk models including...

Size did matter

...up to ten times as big as the animals themselves. Roughly 34,000 of the 50 micron-long human sperm would have to line up to match the body length of a man (of 1,70m). The next stage of the research from the international team is to understand why and how reproduction with giant sperm has persisted fo...

Amarna Therapeutics B.V. and TNO announce SVac research and development partnership

...otential. The partnership with TNO enables us to initiate the first time in man clinical trials with one of our lead therapeutics in 2010.” &ldquo...producer cells in large fermentors. Because of its immunological inertia in man SVac is the only vector system known that is suitable for for treating gene...

Autopilot guides proteins in brain

...re in the cell and do all sorts of work, but a fundamental question has eluded biologists: How do the proteins know where to go? "There's no little man sitting there, putting the protein in the right place," said Don Arnold, molecular and computational biologist at the USC College of Letters, Arts and...

Chinese slimming capsules

...ea, tachycardia, headache, agitation, dyspnea, and insomnia. A 14-year old girl had to be admitted to a psychiatric ward because of acute confusion. A man developed a psychosis after taking the capsules. Severe symptoms of poisoning mainly occurred in combination with other drugs. Patients often fail ...

Penn biologists demonstrate that size matters... in snail shells

...of Arts and Sciences. "Imagine that much change in the height of humans occurring between 1915 and 2007. In 1915, the height of the average Ivy League man was 5 feet 9 inches. A 23 percent increase would now make the average height slightly over 7 feet. If Penn had a baseball squad that averaged 7 feet t...

Exploring the dynamic relationship between health and environment

...we can design healthier surroundings and develop protocols to ameliorate current problems." A free public program on these topics, the Mack Lipkin man and Nature Series, will be held on the evening of April 2 in the LeFrak Theater. This year's event, It Takes a Planet: Connecting the Health of Peopl...

Study suggests salt might be 'nature's antidepressant'

...s play key roles in allowing fluids to pass in and out of cells, and in helping nerve cells transfer information throughout the brain and body. But as man evolved in the hot climate of Africa, perspiration robbed the body of sodium. Salt was scarce because our early ancestors ate a veggie-rich diet and l...

Special issue 'Comparative Cognition in Context' now published

...lis, an issue documenting latest discoveries in the field of comparative cognition, and by doing so to mark the 200th anniversary of birth of the very man who identified this territory," commented Ewa Kittel-Prejs, the journal publisher. ...

World's top minds to celebrate 'the birth and life of beginnings'

...o-week-long program include: Peter Harrison, a professor of science and religion at the University of Oxford whose most recent book, "The Fall of man and the Foundations of Science" (2007), has been described as "a serious challenge to those who persist in the view that seventeenth-century science m...

Shark attacks decline worldwide in midst of economic recession

...hat occurred in less than a month along a resort-studded stretch of Mexico's southern Pacific coast, Burgess said. The U.S. fatality was a 66-year-old man swimming at Solana Beach, Calif., while the Australian death occurred along the country's eastern coast and involved a 16-year-old boy. The number ...

Darwin's seminal impact on biology, anthropology, philosophy and psychology

...e Species , Darwin was nonetheless convinced that his theory of natural selection also applied to human beings. That's why he published The Descent of man 12 years later. Darwin believed that natural selection didn't only shape human anatomy but also emotions and social instincts that we share with an...

New generation of orthopedic, dental and cardiovascular prostheses

...real, January 27, 2008 The futuristic technology of the Six Million Dollar man specifically a part metal and part flesh human being won't be exclusive to Hollywood anymore. While the main character in the Six Million Dollar man was outfitted with metals to enhance his performance, a multidisciplinary t...

Why you can't hurry love

...ll be a harmonious match which benefits both sexes. This may help to explain the commonly held belief that a woman is best advised not to sleep with a man on a first date." Dr Peter Sozou, Warwick Medical School and LSE Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science, says: "From a female's point ...

Stanford launches $100 million initiative to tackle energy issues

...l of Business. "We really have the philosophy that you can only be truly happy when everyone is prospering, and you must help make that a reality. No man is an island," Taylor said of the gift to Stanford. "The biggest renewable resource is the sun," said Lynn Orr, who has been named overall director o...

Attitudes towards assisted reproduction and preimplantation genetic diagnosis

... influenced by the goal pursued: In all countries, a majority see using a sperm bank as acceptable in the case of couples wanting a child where the man is infertile. Acceptance scores are highest in Denmark, Sweden, and the Czech Republic. Conversely, the use of sperm banks to select a father who i...

USGS Science Picks

...evels Safe drinking water supplies are critical to maintaining and preserving public health, but how healthy is that resource? Low levels of certain man made chemicals remain in public water supplies after being treated in selected community water facilities. Water from nine selected rivers, used as a ...

Boy or girl? It's in the father's genes

...y to have more sons or more daughters from their parents. This means that a man with many brothers is more likely to have sons, while a man with many sisters is more likely to have daughters. The research, publis...

U of Minnesota researcher finds link between aggression, status and sex

...an attractive opposite-sex individual), they will more quickly respond aggressively to a trivial insult. The slight seems much more substantial when a man has sex or status on his mind. Men are especially likely to respond aggressively when there are other men around to watch the situation, suggesting th...

Men are red, women are green, Brown researcher finds

...cial recognition technology, advertising, and studies of how and why women apply makeup. "Color information is very robust and useful for telling a man from a woman," said Tarr, the Fox Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and professor of cognitive and linguistic sciences at Brown. "It's a ...

Men with wives, significant others more likely to be screened for prostate cancer

...th drastically improved five-year survival rates. However, what motivates a man to get screened is not known. Wallner and colleagues identified 2,447 C... in their home. Wallner said the study did not assess what caused a married man to be more likely to be screened. She also said that further studies would ...

UC Davis researchers exploring gene therapy to fight AIDS

...TO, Calif.) The apparent success of a case in which German doctors cured a man of AIDS using a bone marrow transplant comes as no surprise to Gerhard Baue...reated by a bone marrow transplant. Thinking they might be able to cure the man of both diseases, the physicians gave him a bone marrow transplant from a p...

Land iguanas under continuing threat on Galapagos archipelago

...lands' native plants and animals have faced grave challenges, including severe pressures from introduced species, habitat destruction and predation by man himself. In some instances, this has led to reduced populations and even extinction. In the 20th century, conservation efforts began, but according t...

Caltech scientists develop 'barcode chip' for cheap, fast blood tests

...isease to disease and between different individuals. A woman with breast cancer, for example, will produce a different suite of biomarkers than will a man with prostate cancer, while a woman with an aggressive form of cancer may produce proteins that are different from a woman with a less-deadly cancer. ...

Scientists find facial scars increase attractiveness

...tion that scarring is a sign of bravery is also consistent with the historical tradition of academic fencing in Western culture, whereby scarring on a man was often evidence of his courage and ability to withstand an opponent's blow." ...

Space researchers developing tool to help disoriented pilots

...r the fact." Small is working closely with co-investigator Dr. Charles Oman, who is NSBRI's Sensorimotor Adaptation Team Leader and director of the man Vehicle Laboratory at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. To better understand the problems facing astronauts, the group is building on information...

'Arid aquaculture' among livelihoods promoted to relieve worsening pressure on world's drylands

...eased today, researchers with the United Nations University, the International Centre on Agricultural Research in Dryland Areas (ICARDA), and UNESCO's man and the Biosphere (MAB) Program say alternatives to traditional crop farming and livestock rearing will need to be put in place in drylands in order t...

Apelin to rescue diabetics

... levels. "We now have to check the action of this protein in man. In parallel, we are developing a synthetic molecule that may be used if the tests in man are positive," concluded Philippe Valet. ...

Baby talk: The roots of the early vocabulary in infants' learning from speech

...t how their language works. For example, 7.5 month olds do not recognize words as being the same if they are spoken with different intonations or by a man and a woman. However, by 10.5 months of age, babies recognize the same words despite changes in the speaker or the intonation used. Another interestin...

Men are better at detecting infidelities

... sense because unlike women, men can never be certain a baby is theirs. "Men have far more at stake," he says. "When a female partner is unfaithful, a man may himself lose the opportunity to reproduce, and find himself investing his resources in raising the offspring of another man." "This adds to the e...

Why binge drinking is bad for your bones

...how significant decreases in bone mineral density and bone strength. (In humans, binge drinking is defined as a woman having at least four drinks or a man having at least five drinks in two hours.) But surprisingly little was known about the mechanisms responsible for these effects. In the new study, ...

Researchers note differences between people and animals on calorie restriction

...nded daily allowance (RDA) for protein, which is 0.82 grams of protein per kilogram of body weight, or about 56 grams of protein for an average, adult man and 46 grams for an average, adult woman. Most people, including CRONies, consume much more protein than the RDA recommendation. "It's much easier ...

70 years old and going strong with Down syndrome and no dementia

...research is published in the June 2008 issue of the journal, Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities . To read "Successful Aging in a 70-Year-Old man With Down Syndrome: A Case Study" by Sharon J. Krinsky-McHale et al., click here . "'Mr. C' paints an optimistic picture for people with Down synd...

Height linked to risk of prostate cancer development and progression

...ises by about six percent for every 10 centimeters (3.9 inches) in height a man is over the shortest group of men in the study. That means a man who is one foot taller than the shortest person in the study would have a 1...

Why a common treatment for prostate cancer ultimately fails

...rivation therapy is generally very effective for a year or two, but for reasons that no one has understood, the cancer ultimately returns. "When a man receives hormone therapy, initially the treatment works well, and his PSA (prostate specific antigen) level goes down," said Edward Messing, M.D., a u...

New book further supports controversial theory of 'Man the Hunted'

...and to provide more evidence for our view of early man as prey," Sussman says. The book's new chapter ...ion since we wrote the original book is that early man was not a hunter, but was a scavenger instead," Sussman says. "We have found that while early man may have done some scavenging, it was opportunisti...

Want to fly? Don't copy the birds and the bees

...Society for Experimental Biology's Annual Meeting in Marseille [Session A3]. Dr Usherwood believes the reason that flying creatures don't look like man made machines is all to do with the need to flap. "Animals' wings, unlike propellers, have to keep stopping and starting in order produce lift (anima...