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Lack of Sleep Affects Bone Health and Bone Marrow Activity
20.9.2012 | Press monitoring
Scientists at the Medical College of Wisconsin, in a team led by Carol Everson, Ph.D., professor of neurology, cell biology, neurobiology and anatomy, have discovered abnormalities in bone and bone marrow in rats undergoing chronic lack of sleep. They discovered abnormalities in serum markers of bone metabolism in sleep-deprived rats, which led...
Millions of Europeans Still at Risk from High Trans Fatty Acid Content in Popular Foods
19.9.2012 | Press monitoring
The heart health of millions of Europeans is still at risk because of the persistently high trans fatty acid content of certain fast and convenience foods, indicates research published in the online journal BMJ Open. While the overall TFA fat content of foods has fallen, few European countries have imposed any legal limits, meaning that it is...
Getting (Drugs) Under Your Skin: Using Ultrasound Waves, Researchers Boost Skin\'s Permeability to Drugs
18.9.2012 | Press monitoring
Using ultrasound waves, MIT engineers have found a way to enhance the permeability of skin to drugs, making transdermal drug delivery more efficient. This technology could pave the way for noninvasive drug delivery or needle-free vaccinations, according to the researchers. Ultrasound -- sound waves with frequencies greater than the upper limit of...
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Novel Non-Antibiotic Agents Against MRSA and Strep Infections
17.9.2012 | Press monitoring
Menachem Shoham, PhD, associate professor of biochemistry at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, has discovered novel antivirulence drugs that, without killing the bacteria, render Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) and Streptococcus pyogenes, commonly referred to as strep, harmless by preventing the production of...
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Metabolic Engineer Synthesizes Key Breast Milk Ingredient: Sugar in Human Milk May Protect Babies from Pathogens
12.9.2012 | Press monitoring
A University of Illinois microbial engineer has synthesized a sugar in human milk that is thought to protect babies from pathogens. That's important because 2FL, the shorthand scientists use to describe this human milk oligosaccharide (HMO), has not been added to infant formula because HMOs are incredibly expensive. "We know these...
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Non-Alcoholic Red Wine May Help Reduce High Blood Pressure
10.9.2012 | Press monitoring
Men with high risk for heart disease had lower blood pressure after drinking non-alcoholic red wine every day for four weeks, according to a new study in the American Heart Association journal Circulation Research. Non-alcoholic red wine increased participants' levels of nitric oxide, which helped decrease both systolic and diastolic blood...
How a High-Fat Diet and Estrogen Loss Leads Women to Store More Abdominal Fat Than Men
7.9.2012 | Press monitoring
A high-fat diet triggers chemical reactions in female mice that could explain why women are more likely than men to gain fat in the abdomen after eating excess saturated fat, new research suggests. The study also sheds light on why women gain fat following menopause. Scientists identified events in female mice that start with the activation of an...
The Eyes Have It: Men and Women Do See Things Differently, Study of Brain's Visual Centers Finds
6.9.2012 | Press monitoring
The way that the visual centers of men and women's brains works is different, finds new research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Biology of Sex Differences. Men have greater sensitivity to fine detail and rapidly moving stimuli, but women are better at discriminating between colors. In the brain there are high concentrations of...
Waste cooking oil makes bioplastics cheaper
5.9.2012 | Press monitoring
'Bioplastics' that are naturally synthesized by microbes could be made commercially viable by using waste cooking oil as a starting material. This would reduce environmental contamination and also give high-quality plastics suitable for medical implants. The Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) family of polyesters is synthesized by a wide variety of...
Zebrafish Study Explains Why the Circadian Rhythm Affects Your Health
3.9.2012 | Press monitoring
Disruptions to the circadian rhythm can affect the growth of blood vessels in the body, thus causing illnesses such as diabetes, obesity, and cancer, according to a new study from Linköping University and Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. In an article now being published in the scientific journal Cell Reports, it is demonstrated for the first...
