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Few carbohydrates and many proteins in diet: danger for the cardiovascular system
11.5.2010 | Newly on Gate2Biotech
Diet arm in carbohydrates and rich in proteins induces a rapid loss of weight, but only little is known about long-term effects that such a diet may have on our health. It looks like that the drastic reduction of carbohydrates in the diet is reflected in an increased risk of cardiovascular diseases development.
Anti-malarial drug chloroquine
6.5.2010 | Articles - biotech and pharmacy
Researchers at George Mason University's Center for Applied Proteomics and Molecular Medicine (CAPMM) and Inova Breast Care Institute (IBCI) are trying to prove, if a drug that has been used to treat malaria for years can possibly be used to treat pre-invasive breast cancer before it becomes invasive.
Are GMOs a health problem?
12.3.2010 | GMO - NEWS
The European Commission shifted the approval of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) for planting from DG envi to DG sanco, i.e. to the health directorate. Let us leave behind the principal question why in contrast to all other new crop varieties GMOs should be treated by a separate legislation; this was thoroughly analyzed in the White Book of...
Ethics in science
22.2.2010 | Articles - biotech and pharmacy
Institute of Philosophy of The Academy of Science CR organised on February 17 a seminar “Ethics of Science in the Czech Republic”. Such topic is very important particularly in bioscience. This was also reflected on the NEC Forum (13th Forum of National Ethics Councils Emerging Technologies in an Age of Globalisation, Prague, 4–5 June 2009)....
Almost unknown pumps outperform the known ones
3.2.2010 | Newly on Gate2Biotech
Almost unknown pumps outperform the known ones says the laboratory instruments company LAMBDA which is at home in Switzerland and the Czech Republic. They have developed peristaltic pumps, which combine exceptional properties with very compact size. A specially developed tubing compression system, placed in an asymmetrical pump head of large...
Why bird flu has not caused a pandemic
15.1.2010 | Articles - biotech and pharmacy
Bird flu viruses would have to make at least two simultaneous genetic mutations before they could be transmitted readily from human to human, according to research published November 19 in PLoS One. The authors of the new study, from Imperial College London, the University of Reading and the University of North Carolina, USA, argue that it is...
Discussions are going
30.12.2009 | Articles - biotech and pharmacy
This November was full of celebrations. It was the twenty-years´ anniversary of the end of communist regime in the Eastern and Central Europe. However, this November brings another less celebrated anniversary that we should remember – twenty years ago the “genetically modified organisms” were legally born and what is rather shameful - their...
New technique for specifying location of sugar chains on glycoproteins
23.11.2009 | Articles - biotech and pharmacy
Researchers have previously been able to analyse which sugar structures are to be found on certain proteins, but not exactly where on the protein they are positioned. This is now possible thanks to a new technique developed at the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. The technique entails preparing samples in a new way and...
Scientists Discover Influenza's Achilles Heel: Antioxidants
16.11.2009 | Articles - biotech and pharmacy
As the nation copes with a shortage of vaccines for H1N1 influenza, a team of Alabama researchers have raised hopes that they have found an Achilles' heel for all strains of the flu: antioxidants. In an article appearing in the November 2009 print issue of the FASEB Journal (The Journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental...
How Salmonella Bacteria Cause Diarrhea In Their Host
3.11.2009 | Articles - biotech and pharmacy
Salmonella bacteria are cunning when it comes to triggering diarrhoea in their host. Researchers from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zürich) have succeeded in explaining a molecular mechanism that enables the bacteria to activate their host cell’s non-specific immune response, thus making the host ill. A single virulence...
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