ills in Biological News

Dioxins in food chain linked to breastfeeding ills

Exposure to dioxins during pregnancy harms the cells in rapidly-changing breast tissue, which may explain why some women have trouble breastfeeding or don't produce enough milk, according to a University of Rochester Medical Center study. Researchers believe their findings, although only demons...

New book reveals an evolutionary journey of the human body

...e: I can imagine few things more beautiful or intellectually profound than finding the basis for our humanity, he writes, and remedies for many of the ills we suffer, nestled inside some of the most humble creatures that have ever lived on our planet. The hardcover 240-page book will be available on li...

Biogeochemistry -- A window into the Earth's ecological health

...t our current fossil fuel emissions. Not by a long shot, comments Schlesinger. In the end, Schlesinger urges that if we want to abate environmental ills such as climate change, we need to minimize our impact on biogeochemical cycles. Increasingly, this means changing our current model of energy depende...

Researchers develop liquid crystal pharmaceuticals to fight cancer and other diseases

...iversities and the private sector, says Kent State President Lester A. Lefton. As Kent State researchers tackle cancer and a host of other real-world ills and issues, they are bringing their leading-edge knowledge and creativity to our students and playing a significant role in economic development. ...

Tiny Tampa Bay fish key to evolution of immune system

...esses the type of proteins we use in our own complex adaptive immune system." The human immune system is constantly at work, on guard to tackle new ills while remembering past offenders. Compared with its predecessors on the evolutionary tree, the lancelet shares genes and proteins remarkably similar t...

FSU biologists describe key role of signal-transcribing gene during cell cycle

...ct. 1 'Development' shows when, where Alzheimer's, some cancers and genetic ills beginT. Biologists at Florida State University have uncovered the pivotal r...diseases; the most common complex congenital heart disorder; and later life ills such as Alzheimer's, breast and lung cancer, and leukemia. "We now know ...

UN: World in big ecological mess

...ety input, in response to Mr. Annan's call for global support of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which seek to slash a host of socio-economic ills such as extreme poverty and hunger by 2015. "The overriding conclusion of this assessment is that it lies within the power of human societies to ea...

U-M team recovers ancient whale in Egyptian desert

... battlefields, Roth said. "Manipulating this metabolic mechanism for clinical benefit potentially could revolutionize treatment for a host of human ills related to ischemia, or damage to living tissue from lack of oxygen," said Roth, also an affiliate professor of biochemistry at the University of Wash...

Buying Time Through Hibernation on Demand

... battlefields, Roth said. "Manipulating this metabolic mechanism for clinical benefit potentially could revolutionize treatment for a host of human ills related to ischemia, or damage to living tissue from lack of oxygen," said Roth, also an affiliate professor of biochemistry at the University of Wash...