wine in Biological News

Red wine vs. white? It makes no difference when it comes to breast-cancer risk

SEATTLE The largest study of its kind to evaluate the effect of red versus white wine on breast-cancer risk concludes that both are equal offenders when it comes to increasing breast-cancer risk. The results of the study, led by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, were publishe...

A little wine boosts omega-3 in the body: Researchers find a novel mechanism for a healthier heart

Moderate alcohol intake is associated with higher levels of omega-3 fatty acids in plasma and red blood cells. This is the major finding of the European study IMMIDIET that will be published in the January issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutriti on, an official publication of the Americ...

Herbicide-resistant grape could revitalize Midwest wine industry

An herbicide that is effective at killing broadleaf weeds in corn, but also annihilated most of the grapes in Illinois and other Midwestern states, may finally have a worthy contender. Researchers at the University of Illinois have developed a new grape called Improved Chancellor which is resistan...

Resveratrol, red wine compound linked to health, also found in dark chocolate and cocoa

Hershey's Center for Health and Nutrition announced the publication of a study that shows resveratrol, the compound often associated with the health benefits of red wine, is also found in cocoa and dark chocolate products. In the September 24 edition of the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemi...

Red wine may lower lung cancer risk

PHILADELPHIA Moderate consumption of red wine may decrease the risk of lung cancer in men, according to a report in the October issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. "An antioxidant component in red wine may be prote...

Substance in red wine found to keep hearts young

GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- How do the French get away with a clean bill of heart health despite a diet loaded with saturated fats? Scientists have long suspected that the answer to the so-called "French paradox" lies in red wine. Now, the results of a new study bring them closer to understanding why. ...

Research suggests parts of UK could be too hot for wine making by 2080

Increasing summer temperatures could mean some parts of southern England are too hot to grow vines for making wine by 2080, according to a new book launched today (26 May 2008). The author, Emeritus Professor Richard Selley from Imperial College London, claims that if average summer temperatur...

Mounting evidence shows red wine antioxidant kills cancer

Rochester researchers showed for the first time that a natural antioxidant found in grape skins and red wine can help destroy pancreatic cancer cells by reaching to the cell's core energy source, or mitochondria, and crippling its function. The study is published in the March edition of the journa...

New study shows Concord grape juice has a heart-healthy effect not yet reported with red wine

Many studies have suggested that moderate red wine consumption is beneficial to cardiovascular health. But what if youd like to skip the alcohol? Take heart: laboratory research, just presented at the WINEHEALTH 2007 conference in Bordeaux, France, showed that Concord grape juice stimulated an ar...

New test could help consumers avoid surprise headaches from chocolate, wine

Researchers in California are reporting development of a fast, inexpensive test suitable for home use that could help millions of people avoid those out of the blue headaches that may follow consumption of certain red wines, cheese, chocolate, and other aged or fermented foods. The test is des...

Light wine intake is associated with longer life expectancy in men

Drinking a little alcohol every day, especially wine, may be associated with an increase in life expectancy. That’s the conclusion of Dutch researchers who reported the findings of their study today at the American Heart Association’s 47th Annual Conference on Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology a...

Best research work in the area of wine growing

Researchers in the area of Vegetable Production Vegetal of the Department of Agricultural Production at the Public University of Navarra have been awarded the prize for the best research in the area of viticulture. The presentation took place at the V Iberian Congress of Horticultural Science recen...

Scientists uncork a potential secret of red wine's health benefits

... Singapore have unraveled a mystery that has perplexed scientists since red wine was first discovered to have health benefits: how does resveratrol control ...rugs that are even more effective. "The therapeutic potential of red wine has been bottled up for thousands of years," said Gerald Weissmann, M.D., E...

E-Noses: Testing their mettle against fly noses

...rch for more effective devices. This research is part of a much larger project developing an improved electronic nose, the Cybernose, for use in the wine industry. Using insect receptors, the Cybernose will detect volatiles and contaminants in grapes and wine, thus allowing winemakers to improve their w...

'Uphold the ban'

... a handful of wealthy businessmen who own large-scale tiger farms are asking the Chinese government to lift China's 16-year ban on tiger trade so that wine and other products made from tiger parts can be sold domestically. "Given the unpredictability of the market environment along with the fact that t...

Scientists closer to developing salt-tolerant crops

...e to use less water increases and quality of water decreases," says the team's leader, Professor Mark Tester, from the School of Agriculture, Food and wine at the University of Adelaide and the Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics (ACPFG). "Helping plants to withstand this salty onslaught w...

Virus-resistant grapevines

... This release is available in German . A good wine needs to ripen. But it's a long way to the barrel. Even before the harvest, the grapevines have to overcome all kinds of obstacles. Extremely hot or r...

'Honey bee health' of concern at Western Apicultural Society conference

...n addition, various aspects of honey and human health will be addressed. Registration takes place from 3 to 5 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 17 followed by wine and honey tasting. On Tuesday, Aug. 18, researchers from three universities will speak. Jerry Bromenshenk, University of Montana, Missoula,...

American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- June 3, 2009

... ARTICLE #1 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE wine in a box? Think "good" not "gauche" Journal of ... In a surprise discovery that may help boxed wine shake off its image as a gauche alternative to bot...duce levels of substances that contribute odors to wine and can lower its quality. Their study, the first ...

American Chemical Society's weekly PressPac -- May 6, 2009

... the most likely to produce the highest levels of these substances. The scientists then spliced these genes into Brewer's yeast used to make beer and wine so that the yeast cells churned out methyl halides instead of alcohol. In laboratory studies, the two engineered microbes helped boost methyl halide ...

Laughing hyenas, wailing levees, the sound of cheese and blaring bagpipes

...0:30 a.m. on Wednesday, May 20. Abstract: http://asa.aip.org/web2/asa/abstracts/search.may09/asa665.html 5) MUSIC WORDS In the world of wine tasting, people often use evocative words, such as "fruity" or "chalky," to convert a taste sensation into everyday language. Can one do the same thin...

Using combinatorial libraries to engineer genetic circuits advances synthetic biology

...t sedimentation -- a process that can be applied to biotechnology and some popular brewed beverages. "The phenotype is crucial in industrial beer, wine and bioethanol fermentation, as it allows for easy removal of yeast sediments after all the sugars have been converted to ethanol," the paper noted. ...

Male flower parts responsible for potent grapevine perfume: UBC research

...lone produce perfume. While studying grapes used to produce Cabernet Sauvignon from the Okanagan region of British Columbia, researchers from UBC's wine Research Centre and Michael Smith Laboratories identified a gene that produces and regulates fragrance from the vines' tiny clusters of green blossoms...

Male flower parts responsible for potent grapevine perfume: UBC research

...lone produce perfume. While studying grapes used to produce Cabernet Sauvignon from the Okanagan region of British Columbia, researchers from UBC's wine Research Centre and Michael Smith Laboratories identified a gene that produces and regulates fragrance from the vines' tiny clusters of green blossoms...

ADA releases updated position statement on functional foods

..." ADA's position statement and accompanying paper were written by Clare M. Hasler, PhD, MBA, executive director of the Robert Mondavi Institute for wine and Food Science at the University of California Davis; and Amy C. Brown, PhD, RD, Department of Complementary and Alternative Medicine at the Univer...

'Delicious' new grape debuts

...in, making it well-suited for fresh fruit consumption and the potential for wine production. The name 'Delicious' was selected based on the comments of vine...has some potential for wine. Based on preliminary trials, the flavor of the wine (2006 vintage) rated equal to those of 'Carlos' (a popular cultivar for win...

AJCN study shows moderate alcohol consumption related to stronger bones

...e was most notable at 1-3 glasses of beer in men and more than 2 glasses of wine or liquor (but not beer) for women. The bone preserving ingredients may be the silicon in beer and resveratrol in wine in addition to the alcohol. Such positive effects on bone must be balanced ...

Moderate alcohol intake associated with bone protection

...ity found associations were strongest for beer and wine and, importantly, BMD was significantly lower in m...ggest that regular moderate consumption of beer or wine may have protective effects on bone, but that heav...ssible effects of the three alcohol classes, beer, wine and liquor on BMD," Tucker continued. "We saw stro...

Food counterfeiting, contamination outpace international regulatory systems

...yze where the gaps are and look closer at where there is a higher reward for fraud," he said. "Counterfeiting goes back to Roman times, when French wine had a seal of Roman origin," he said. "Products are moving around the world so fast now that there's more opportunity for fraud. When food was distrib...

Genetic differences between yeasts greater than those between humans and chimpanzees

...s paradoxus. The paper presents several interesting conclusions, e.g. that human alcohol consumption has altered yeast DNA. "As humans transported wine and beer yeasts around the world, different yeasts have mated and recombined, so that the strains of today carry gene variants from various parts of t...

Italy's geologic history becomes a personal tale in Walter Alvarez's new book

...Norton & Company, Inc. Alvarez, a UC Berkeley professor of earth and planetary science, takes readers on a tour of road cuts and quarries - and even a wine cellar - to sketch this history, weaving in affectionate portraits of the geologists Alvarez and his wife, Milly, have met since first visiting Italy ...

Grapes may aid a bunch of heart risk factors, animal study finds

...earch on grapes and other fruits containing high levels of antioxidant phytochemicals continues to show promise. So does research on the impact of red wine on heart health, though that issue is also far from settled. The U-M team notes that a clinical research on grapes may be a possibility in the fut...

Eastman Dental Center awarded $1.6 million to find ways to prevent cavities

...esearch team at Eastman Dental Center, part of the University of Rochester Medical Center, has discovered that specific compounds in cranberry and red wine grapes may significantly reduce the ability of bacteria to form plaque and cause cavities. Most recently, Koo and his team have identified a novel ...

Mounting evidence shows health benefits of grape polyphenols

...d grape extracts and/or grape products such as red wine may be beneficial in preventing the development of...ench paradox"first raised the possibility that red wine might have health benefits. The subsequent resear...supplementation with grape seed, grape skin or red wine products may be a useful adjunct to consider for a...

Avian flu threat: New approach needed

...d 10 challenges for the way ahead, and urge ministers to rethink rather than repackage their measures. One World One Health needs to be more than 'old wine in new bottles'," said Professor Ian Scoones, IDS Fellow and co-director of the ESRC STEPS Centre. Over the last decade, the avian flu virus, H5N1, ...

Better beer: College team creating anticancer brew

...of Rice University students are taking it to the next level. They're using genetic engineering to create beer that contains resveratrol, a chemical in wine that's been shown to reduce cancer and heart disease in lab animals. Rice's "BioBeer" will be entered in the International Genetically Engineered M...

Research shows Brazilian acai berry antioxidants absorbed by human body

...ices, beverages, smoothies, frozen treats and dietary supplements. "Acai is naturally low in sugar, and the flavor is described as a mixture of red wine and chocolate," said lead investigator Dr. Susanne Talcott, "so what more would you want from a fruit?" Talcott, who also is assistant professor wi...

Alcohol consumption can cause too much cell death, fetal abnormalities

...er lifelong problems. They have good evidence that just a few glasses of wine over an hour in the first few weeks of fetal life, typically before a woman...re not saying that every pregnant woman who drinks three or four glasses of wine in a short period will have a baby with birth defects, but it elevates the ...

Researchers identify cancer preventive properties in common vitamin supplement

... breast cancer prevention. Resveratrol is a natural substance found in red wine and red grapes. It is sold in extract form as a dietary supplement at most ...trol, the suppression of DNA adducts was seen with 10 mol/L. A glass of red wine contains between 9 and 28 mol/L of resveratrol. The researchers also fo...

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

... with pure leaves, and has undergone little oxidisation during processing. The cardiovascular benefits of all teas - as well as dark chocolate and red wine - are attributed to the flavonoids they contain and their antioxidant activity.3 However, says investigator Dr Charalambos Vlachopoulos, flavonoids i...