tea in Biological News

Green tea may affect prostate cancer progression

PHILADELPHIA According to results of a study published in Cancer Prevention Research , a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, men with prostate cancer who consumed the active compounds in green tea demonstrated a significant reduction in serum markers predictive of prostate c...

Drink brewed tea to avoid tooth erosion

CHICAGO (November 25, 2008) - Today, the average size soft drink is 20 ounces and contains 17 teaspoons of sugar. More startling is that some citric acids found in fruit drinks are more erosive than hydrochloric or sulfuric acidwhich is also known as battery acid. These refined sugars and acids fo...

Green tea may delay onset of type 1 diabetes

AUGUSTA, Ga. A powerful antioxidant in green tea may prevent or delay the onset of type 1 diabetes, Medical College of Georgia researchers say. Researchers were testing EGCG, green tea's predominant antioxidant, in a laboratory mouse with type 1 diabetes and primary Sjogren's syndrome, which d...

The benefits of green tea in reducing an important risk factor for heart disease

More evidence for the beneficial effect of green tea on risk factors for heart disease has emerged in a new study reported in the latest issue of European Journal of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation .1 The study found that the consumption of green tea rapidly improves the function of ...

Green tea compounds beat OSA-related brain deficits

Chemicals found in green tea may be able to stave off the cognitive deficits that occur with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), according to a new study published in the second issue for May of the American Thoracic Societys American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. Researchers ex...

Green tea helps beat superbugs

Green tea can help beat superbugs according to Egyptian scientists speaking today (Monday 31 March 2008) at the Society for General Microbiologys 162nd meeting being held this week at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre. The pharmacy researchers have shown that drinking green tea help...

Blueberry and green tea containing supplement protects against stroke damage

Tampa, Florida (March 4, 2008) A unique dietary supplement called NutraStem has been shown to have beneficial effects following experimental stroke. A nutritional supplement product, NutraStem also known as NT-020, is a proprietary formulation of blueberry, green tea, vitamin D3 and carnosine e...

In the laboratory, green tea proves a powerful medicine against severe sepsis

MANHASSET, NY A major component of green tea could prove the perfect elixir for severe sepsis, an abnormal immune system response to a bacterial infection. In a new laboratory study, Haichao Wang, PhD, of The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, and his colleagues have been studying the ther...

Green tea boosts production of detox enzymes, rendering cancerous chemicals harmless

PHILADELPHIA − Concentrated chemicals derived from green tea dramatically boosted production of a group of key detoxification enzymes in people with low levels of these beneficial proteins, according to researchers at Arizona Cancer Center. These findings, published in the August issue o...

Einstein's tea leaves inspire new blood separation technique

Scientists at Monash University in Australia have developed a process for rapidly and efficiently separating blood plasma at the microscopic level without any moving parts, potentially allowing doctors to do blood tests without sending samples to a laboratory. The new method uses the same principle...

Green tea and the 'Asian Paradox'

There is a lower incidence of cardiovascular disease and cancer in Asia where people smoke heavily, which may be accounted for by high consumption of tea, particularly green tea, according to a review article published by a Yale School of Medicine researcher. "We do not yet have a full explanatio...

FDA: 'Highly Unlikely' Green Tea Lowers Cancer Risk

The new surgical assistant at the University of North Carolina Hospitals arrived in February sporting three arms, a computerized brain and a glowing track record in helping to repair heart valves, remove cancerous prostates, bypass blocked coronary arteries and perform gastric bypass operations for...

New Report Just Published: World Solid-State, Fiber, Gas and Dye Lasers Market Report

...n of Sales Revenues by End-Use- Industrial Material Processing, Medical Therapeutics and Others (includes corresponding Graph/Chart) II-27 tea Gas Laser II-27 HeNe Lasers II-27 Ion-Lasers II-27 Dye Lasers II-27 6. End-Use Industries II-28 An Insight into Select End-Use Ap...

LSUHSC public health researcher finds reason for weight gain

... and skim milk) 100% juice (100% fruit and vegetable juice) coffee and tea with sugar (sweetened with sugar) coffee and tea without sugar (unsweetened or sweetened with artificial sweeteners) alcoho...

Beverage consumption a bigger factor in weight

...ilk), 100 percent juice (100 percent fruit and vegetable juice), coffee and tea with sugar, coffee and tea without sugar and alcoholic beverages. They found that at 37 percent sugar-...

Select roses survive with minimal care

...ng in Texas. The study also found differences in performance between classes of roses, with Polyanthas being best in overall performance and Hybrid tea roses being worst. Based on the results of this study, selected varieties were chosen for an expanded nationwide study to develop the EarthKind collec...

Queen's chemist sheds light on health benefits of garlic

...have a substantial amount of the types of compounds usually responsible for high antioxidant activity in plants, such as the flavanoids found in green tea or grapes," says Chemistry professor Derek Pratt, who led the study. "If allicin was indeed responsible for this activity in garlic, we wanted to find...

Tom Cruise smile comes with a sunburn price

...most popular cosmetic dental treatments available. It uses a bleaching agent usually hydrogen peroxide to remove stains such as those from red wine, tea and coffee, and smoking. UV light is claimed to further activate the oxidation process, improving bleaching efficiency. The authors of this Photoc...

New molecular insight into vertebrate brain development

...ions by restricting instructing the survival, proliferation and differentiation of neural precursor cells. In addition, the researchers identified the tea domain (TEAD) transcription factor protein as the long-sought-after cognate DNA-binding partner of YAP in the nucleus. Using genetic manipulation ...

Pregnant women consuming flaxseed oil have high risk of premature birth

...tural health products stopped during the pregnancy. The most consumed natural health products by pregnant women are chamomile (19 percent), green tea (17 percent), peppered mint (12 percent), and flaxseed oil (12 percent). Brard and Moussally correlated these products to premature births and only on...

How eating fruit and vegetables can improve cancer patients' response to chemotherapy

...d in fruit (including apples, cherries, grapes), vegetables (including parsley, artichoke, basil, celery), nuts and plant-derived beverages (including tea and wine). It has been shown by researchers to have growth inhibitory properties in several cancer lines, including breast, colon, skin, thyroid and ...

Brainy genes, not brawn, key to success on mussel beach

...radicals, and if an organism undergoes cell division at the same time, those free radicals could damage DNA. (This is partly why antioxidants in green tea and pomegranates are popular these days, since they remove free radicals.) By keeping respiration and cell division separate, mussels can decrease...

Why your boss is white, middle-class and a show-off

...f a computer. They are out there manoeuvring and positioning at meetings, one-on-one encounters and coffee cliques. Managers rarely take lunch or tea breaks Non-managerial staff regularly take an allocated period of time for breaks ...

American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- Sept. 10, 2008

...LE #2 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Drinking chamomile tea may help fight complications of diabetes Journal...cultural and Food Chemistry Drinking chamomile tea daily with meals may help prevent the complication...amps. Scientists recently proposed that the herbal tea might also be beneficial for fighting diabetes, bu...

Fruits, vegetables and teas may protect smokers from lung cancer, UCLA researchers report

... Tobacco smokers who eat three servings of fruits and vegetables per day and drink green or black tea may be protecting themselves from lung cancer, according to a first-of-its-kind study by UCLA cancer researchers. UCLA researchers found that smok...

MIT solves gravity-defying bird beak mystery

...reating a vortex that sweeps small crustaceans up to the surface, just like tea leaves in a swirling tea cup. The birds peck at the surface, picking up millimetric droplets of w...

New chemical tool kit manipulates mitochondria, reveals insights into drug toxicity

...been shown before and could be very important to basic cell biology. Of the five drugs that did this, one, called Deoxysappanone, is found in green tea and is known to have anti-diabetic effects. Another, called Mebendazole, is used for treating intestinal worm infections. This connection gives a rati...

Best treatment identified to reduce deadly Staph infections

...g. The compounds were those made with neomycin and polymyxin; those made with polymyxin and gramicidin; and those made with benzethonium chloride with tea tree and white thyme oil. The first two types of products are commonly found, with slight variations, in maximum strength or triple antibiotic comp...

Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research

... Highlights: New drugs and treatments to prevent cancer Special fruit juice cocktail and prostate cancer prevention The role of green tea in preventing colorectal cancer The emerging link between obesity and cancer The relationship between weight change following diagnosis of ...

People who skip meals: are they better off?

...of the people who fasted did not express an LDS religious preference, and they also had less coronary disease, Horne said. Patients who did not drink tea were also less likely to be diagnosed with CAD, but once fasting was considered the finding wasnt significant, Horne noted. Fasting was associated wi...

More on mate tea: lower cholesterol and an international agreement

... a study in her lab showed that mate (mah tā) tea drinkers had experienced a significant increase in...st Elvira de Mejia headed for Argentina where mate tea has been grown and taken medicinally for centuries...unds. Food companies are very interested in adding tea extracts to juices, soda, and even beer to increas...

Let's talk -- new paradigms in the research of the biomolecular composition of water

...7, OR YEHUDA, ISRAEL: Water nurtures life in all its forms, but not all water in our life systems is equal. Water in a lake, in the sea or in a cup of tea is different from the water in our bodies. This much we do know. Yet science does not yet have a complete understanding as to why intracellular water ...

Boosting brain power -- with chocolate

...the brain. Flavanols are not only found in chocolate with a high cocoa content ?they are also present in other substances such as red wine, green tea and blueberries. He presented his research at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), one of the bi...

Studies find general mechanism of cellular aging

...ne may prove immediately useful as a biomarker for studies of aging, Sharpless said. "If you were going to calorically restrict yourself or take green tea or resveratrol every day for years in an effort to prevent aging, wouldn't you like some evidence that these not entirely benign things were having a ...

Psst! Coffee drinkers: Fruit flies have something to tell you about caffeine

...tors for the response to other types of bitter compounds," he says. "We also tested whether the flies avoided the related bitter compounds found in tea and cocoa -- chocolate -- and found that Gr66a also is required for the response to the compound in tea, but not for the one in chocolate," he says. ...

Heart-healthy compound in chocolate identified

... of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "Although previous studies strongly indicated that some flavanol-rich foods, such as wine, tea and cocoa can offer cardiovascular health benefits, we have been able to demonstrate a direct relationship between the intake of certain flavanols pre...

New plant DNA libraries provides massive boost to world's plant researchers

...udes: Apple, Banana, Foxglove, Mint, Olive, Orange, Pineapple, Evening Primrose, Strawberry, Sunflower, Cocoa, Coffee, Ginger, Ginkgo, Ginseng, Grape, tea and Yew. The company can also create custom DNA libraries for other specific plant species that researchers wish to examine. Further details can be fo...

While on trail of dioxin, scientists pinpoint cancer target of green tea

... Green tea appears to protect against cancer by affecting a "...tresses beliefs about the health benefits of green tea with solid scientific evidence, has been cited as ... of green tea. While it's been reported that green tea protects people against some forms of cancer, such...

Thai spice helps cut blood sugar swings

...le berry or Malabar tamarind, which is used in Indian and Thai food as a condiment and flavoring agent. In Indian folk medicine as a dried powder or tea it's indicated as a laxative and for rheumatism. As Malabar tamarind, it can substitute for lime, and in Ceylon it's used along with salt to cure fish...