Carotenes and vitamin E protect against sun damage to the skin
...udy were healthy, fair-skinned nonsmokers who were divided into two groups: one received 25 mg. mixed carotenes daily, and the other 25 mg mixed carotenes plus 335 mg vitamin E combined daily. Before supplementation, the subjects' individual skin reactions to UV exposure were measured by inducing a mild ...Formula additives boost small children's intelligence in study
...es of 56 18-month-old children. The children were divided randomly into three groups. One group had received formula containing only DHA, while another received formula containing DHA and AA. The control group received a commercial infant formula that did not contain either substance. All three groups of......mor cell lines in immunosuppressed (nude) mice and divided them into treatment and control groups. The treated mice were divided into multiple groups receiving either (1) five days of intravenous paclitaxel alone, (2) 14 days of...The power of the mother-child bond
...icult task. Shortly afterwards, the children were divided into three groups, all were given the same simple task to complete, but each were placed in three different rooms with different odors. The group of children located in the room scented with the same odor as the room of the preceding difficult task ...Give it a thought -- and make it so
...glasses may be more promising than ever." BCIs are divided into two categories: biofeedback and stimulus-response. Bayliss uses the latter approach, which simply measures the response the brain has to an event. Biofeedback is a method where a person learns to control some aspect of his or her body, such as r...DFG to launch 21 new priority programmes
...ll Polarity. For around 20 years, biologists have divided the Earth's organisms into three domains: bacteria, multicellular organisms and archae. The priority programme Gene Regulation and Genome Organisation in Archae has a look at how the "activation" of genes in archae is regulated by eco-physiologically...Nurses, alert janitors boost seniors' mental health
... received psychiatric screening before researchers divided them into sociologically similar PATCH and non-PATCH groups. Neither the nurse nor housing staff knew which residents had previously tested at-risk for psychiatric problems. At the study's end, the researchers re-surveyed and interviewed all the re...Feathers on reptile older than dinosaurs, reported in Science
...ors also discovered that the base of the shaft was divided into several subsections, which is thought to be a signature of the complex developmental patterns unique to feathers. The third clue also indicated that the appendages followed the same growth pattern of modern feathers. The pinnae of modern feathe...Physical activity, not diet, most influences preschoolers' weight
...urvey of Children in Great Britain and were evenly divided between boys and girls. Each mother or care giver was instructed and monitored by a fieldworker in keeping a weighed-food record for four days. Body composition was determined by isotopic measurement of total body water, which was in turn used to ca......atching can increase the pregnancy rate. They were divided into three sections: patients under 35 who had three failed embryo transfers, patients over 35 who had at least three failed IVF attempts and patients over 35 with fewer than three IVF failures or who had no IVF attempts. On average, a third of all t...New research animals earn their stripes
... first cells are generated and the future brain is divided up into its various subregions. "Zebrafish combine some of the best characteristics of those other two workhorses of developmental genetics, the mouse and the vinegar fly ", said Dr Lardelli. "Having worked with both mice and flies, it was love at fi...Computing the connections between proteins
...eins associate with one another to form a complex, divided by the rate at which this complex dissociates. In order to improve protein affinity one can either intervene to reduce protein "break-up" statistics, or alternatively, increase protein association rates. Dr. Schreiber chose the latter. Since assoc...Biotechnology research to grow from embryonic start
...wins develop at the stage when the initial egg has divided into two cells, each of which forms a person. Normally, however, the divisions occur repeatedly within the single embryo, and as they increase in number, some of the developmental potential of the cells is lost. Once the developing embryo has formed...Progress on the molecular basis of mental illness in children
...tracer for monoamine transporters. The series were divided into groups with depression present and no depression present. In this study, the depressive child and adolescent patients had significantly higher serotonin transporter availability (p<0.02) in the hypothalamic/midbrain area. Age did not correla......bypass or death due to CVD. After the researchers divided the participants into groups or levels according to the number of daily servings of fruits and vegetables, a strong inverse association was evident between total fruit and vegetable intake and relative risk of CVD. Those who consumed 10 or more servi......nlike the earlier trials, the exercise arm will be divided as well -- half of the patients will do their exercises in the supportive atmosphere of the Duke Center for Living (CFL), while the other half will perform the same exercise regimens at home. Moderate exercise will be performed three times a week...NIGMS Structural Genomics Awards scale up protein structure studies
...er the next decade. Work toward this goal will be divided into two phases: a five-year pilot stage and a subsequent five-year full-scale production phase. The initial phase begins with today's announcement of the first awards for pilot research centers in structural genomics, a new field dedicated to a br...Researchers receive federal funds to study marine organisms and potential products on oil platforms
...or and professor at UCSB. At UCSB the research is divided into three components: community and population ecology; population genetics and natal sources; and natural products pharmacology. Careful research along these lines is especially important, given the diversity of species in the marine environment. ...The fabled myrrh may fight cholesterol
...domized study using 90 subjects. Participants are divided into three groups; the first is administered a placebo, the second a standard dosage of gugulipid, and the third a higher dosage of the supplement. Each participant remains on the regimen for two months while blood tests indicate its effectiveness. T...Suspect list shortens for maternal aggression's brain origins
... moms, however, fail to show this response. Gammie divided mice into groups based on this distinction, compared the two groups for presence of compounds related to brain activity, and was able to identify four brain areas that were active in the aggressive moms but not in the non-aggressives. Given the mous...