Lycopene slows human prostate tumour growth in mice and combined with vitamin E is even better
...e would certainly recommend that all men regularly eat lycopene and vitamin E-rich foods: for example, all kinds of processed tomato products, papayas, pink grapefruit and watermelon, wheat germs, whole grains, mangoes, leafy green vegetables, nuts and olive oils. Of course, this needs to be part of an a...Tracing genes, biologists show lizard migration is traced to Florida
...as been noted, Kolbe said, that Anolis sagrei will eat the small hatchlings of the Anolis carolinensis, the little green lizards native to the state. It has been noted, also, that some Florida populations of the introduced brown lizards have gotten larger than the usual brown lizard size. And the brown......act on the Great Lakes. In these systems fish that eat quagga mussels are contaminated with the toxins present in the mussels. This in turn, has resulted in the death of more than tens of thousands of fish-eating birds, including common loons, mergansers and gulls. "We are seeing a ripple affect, whe...Research suggests new avenue for stopping, preventing colon cancer
...rs that enabled the animals to run "marathons" and eat a high-fat diet without gaining weight. A drug that turns on PPARdelta is being tested in patients with fat metabolism disorders. However, when the drug was given to a strain of mice with a genetic mutation that makes them susceptible to developing ...Folic acid vitamin use by women reaches all-time high, March of Dimes survey finds
...he also said the March of Dimes urges all women to eat a varied, healthy diet before and during pregnancy. Of women who were not pregnant at the time of the 2004 survey, 37 percent reported taking a vitamin containing folic acid daily, up from 30 percent in 2003. Daily consumption of the B vitam...South Dakota Tech grad student finds rare whale
...et long, travel in pods of up to 10 and presumably eat small fish and squid. Sowerbys are the most northerly distributed beaked whale, living in the North Atlantic, from Massachusetts to Labrador, eastward to Iceland, the British Isles and western Europe. This is only the thirteenth Sowerby's stranding ...Genetically modified bacterium as remedy for intestinal diseases
...advanced stage of such inflammations, patients can eat only via catheters. Crohn's disease has been on the rise in recent years: it is estimated that in Western Europe 2 persons in 1000 suffer from it. This typically Western disease appears almost exclusively in the industrialized world, and more often ......trients from food. When people with celiac disease eat foods containing gluten, a major protein in wheat, rye, and barley products, their immune system attacks and damages the lining of the small intestine. Development of this disease has been linked to the transformation of normal immune cells, called c...Proteins show promise for mosquito control
...l. They must obtain it from decomposed plants they eat while in their larval stage, living in shallow waters. Plants make phytosterol, which is converted to cholesterol in the mosquito's gut. Using the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti, Lan and her research colleagues discovered that a sterol-carryi...Blue marlin in gulf have high mercury levels, A&M study shows
...years, and because they are so large, they tend to eat larger than average fish, ones that likely contain...e terms, marlin may have more mercury because they eat larger prey and live longer than other fishes," Rooker explains. "Still, the story appears to be mor...Adaptive changes in the genome may provide insight into the genetics of complex disease
...es thatgenetic variation that encouraged people to eat and store lots of food wasbeneficial at one point in human history when resources were scarce, but isnow detrimental and increases susceptibility to diseases such as diabetesand obesity. "The environment of modern humans is dramatically different co...New research suggests link between maternal diet and childhood leukemia risk
...factors. National guidelines recommend that people eat at least five servings of fruits and vegetables every day, and two to three servings of foods from the protein group. "Fetal exposure to nutritional factors has a lot to do with what mom eats," said Christopher Jensen, a nutritional epidemiolog...DHA-rich diet protects brain from Alzheimer's damage, UCLA study shows
...ptions include DHA-rich eggs laid by chickens that eat DHA-supplemented feed....Genetically-engineered 'marathon mouse' keeps on running
...are resistant to that weight gain even though they eat the same amount of food as the normal mice and hav...PAR-delta pathway would let people, like our mice, eat the same amount, but would increase their metabolism to burn more energy." Evans noted that such dru...Excess levels of nitrogen, phosphorus linked to deformed frogs
...others and becoming too large for its predators to eat it. Getting there from here "A frog flopping around in the mud is a perfect meal for a bird." Chase pointed out. "The parasite has evolved to find a snail for a temporary host and then a tadpole, which creates a deformed frog bearing th...Education, monitoring vital for sport-fish eaters
Men and women who routinely eat Great Lakes fish should pay attention to fish advi...as high as the Asian-Canadians. Anglers who didn't eat sport fish had the lowest blood mercury levels. The results illustrate the dilemma of balancing the ...Study: Mothers turn fearless when peptide level drops
...ales, says Gammie, noting that the males sometimes eat pups and that "the best defense for the mom is the offense." For the study, only the mice that received either no dose or a low dose of the peptide displayed the expected behavior. As the levels of CRH increased, the number of attacks and the ......e their svelte appearance, beta/beta mice actually eat more food and are no more active than their genetically normal littermates. In search of the cause of this revved-up metabolism, Dr. Lee's team found that the white adipose tissue, which is normally reserved for fat storage, had actually been convert...Lake research offers clues to managing crayfish invasions
...ng fish populations. For example, these intruders eat fish eggs, displace animals native to the waters and "mow down" aquatic plants - a source of food and shelter for fish, says Brian Roth, a graduate student at UW-Madison's Center for Limnology and a presenter at the meeting. "They have really dramati......uring exactly what's in the food we eat, before we eat it, is a surprisingly difficult job. The latest effort by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to make the process both easier and more accurate is Standard Reference Material (SRM) 1946, which is a set of five bottles of frozen,...