¡Ciao! down: Mediterranean diet after a heart attack adds years to life
...18 and 42 months later. Study participants were divided into five categories according to how much of their diet consisted of fresh and cooked vegetables, fruit, fish, olive oil and butter. The number of patient deaths in each category was noted over the duration of the study. Compared to those with ide...UF researcher: antioxidants play a role in deadly malnutrition disease
...mall country in southern Africa. The children were divided into three groups: those with kwashiorkor, those with malaria and those classified as healthy children. Manary stored the samples on dry ice at -70 degrees Celsius, and returned them to the United States, where Leeuwenburgh analyzed them using gas c...Household exposure to passive smoke depletes some vitamins in non-smokers
... study population of 1590 individuals were equally divided between men and women, averaged 54 years of age, and were nearly all Caucasian. Results of serum analyses for micronutrient levels were correlated with census data on a number of lifestyle factors, including smoking status. Eighty-four percent of the...Screensavers of the world, unite!
...istributed computing, every task must be carefully divided into bite-size pieces that a single computer can handle. With SETI@home, the process is fairly straightforward. Since each computer looks at its own bit of sky, it`s like handing 100,000 secretaries their own separate page of dictation to type...Two major U.S. dietary patterns result in different obesity and cardiovascular risk factors
... in 1986, and were followed until 1994. They were divided into quintiles according to their adherence to either the prudent or Western dietary pattern. Eighteen biomarkers associated with CVD risk and obesity were measured, including HDL and LDL cholesterol, triacyglycerols, leptin, homocysteine, insulin a...New species of early bird discovered in Mongolia by team of research scientists
...evidence refuting the theory that early birds were divided into two groups the Saururae, thought to be the dominant landbirds of the Cretaceous period, and the Ornithurae, thought to be transitional shorebirds restricted to near-shore environments and shorebird ecologies. The analysis by Dr. Norell and Ms....Syndecan-4 regulates wound repair in vivo
...urface heparan sulfate proteoglycans (HSPG) can be divided generally into two gene families: syndecans and glypicans. While the glypicans are GPI-anchored, the syndecans are transmembrane-anchored with distinct ecto-domains and short cytoplasmic tails. Syndecans bind a range of soluble ligands including grow...DOE funds commercialization program for new energy-saving sensing device
...essing and fabrication facility. The award will be divided over a three year period. Some of the initiatives they will be working on, Wang says, include the use of a commercially available gold coated fiber with the SCIIB sensors. They will also investigate different polymer coatings that will withstand the...Dr. Thomas Starzl receiving prestigious King Faisal International prize this week in Saudi Arabia
...al. The award's cash endowment of $200,000 will be divided among the three winners. "Professor Starzl's pioneering work has influenced all aspects of organ transplantation," said officials from the Faisal Foundation when the winners of the prizes were announced in December. Dr. Starzl performed the world's f...Rat study shows high-fat diet impairs concentration and memory
...eriod of time. In the study, young adult rats were divided into three dietary groups -- those fed high-fat foods derived from saturated fat (beef tallow) or polyunsaturated fat (soybean oil), and those on standard lab chow. Each of the rats underwent 21 days of training to learn a simple Go/No Go test. Basic...A first: A (nearly) complete road map for the evolution of placental mammals
...ting to growing consensus on a topic that has long divided scientists. "Five years ago, nobody thought this would happen," said Michael Miyamoto, UF professor and associate chairman of zoology and an author of the Science paper. "We have come from great pessimism to great hope that weve nearly resolved place...New egg-free flu vaccine called promising for those with egg allergy
... Poland with more than 2,500 volunteers. They were divided into two age groups: 18-59, and 60 and above. The studies showed that the new vaccine was effective in inducing specific antibodies against influenza, an indication that the vaccine will protect against infection. "This does not mean that (conv...A worm is more like a human than previously thought
...ll. Early on, the embryos of most animals become divided up into three different layers -- ectoderm, mesoderm, and endoderm. As vertebrate embryos mature or develop, the mesoderm produces heart, blood and muscles, while the endoderm becomes the organs of the intestine, liver, pancreas, and lungs. In the ...Study: overweight more common among early-maturing girls, especially minorities
...tional Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health and divided the girls into three groups depending on the age at which they first menstruated. On average, they found that early maturing girls were shorter by more than a half inch and heavier by more than eight pounds than those who matured later. "Al......er found that a factor called wing loading (weight divided by wing area) is significantly greater in males than females. In addition, he found that projected wing loading in fledglings is lower than in adults. These findings are consistent with differences in wind conditions in the regions where birds of dif...Older fathers substantially raise the risk of having children with schizophrenia
...he cells that eventually become sperm have already divided hundreds of times. Each of these divisions, like a lottery, has been an opportunity for chance mutations to occur in one or more of the genes causing schizophrenia. On the other hand, a woman's egg cells divide only 24 times, and almost all the divis...Researchers link failed cell division, Alzheimer's disease
...cause the DNA is replicated. Since the cell hasn't divided it is sitting with twice as much DNA as it should have. We speculate that is the root cause of the nerve cell death." The researchers do not know what triggers the cells to begin a cycle for which they are not programmed, but a theory they put forth...Effective acne treatments remain elusive, Hopkins researchers find
...", while the other 236 studies were almost equally divided between middle and low levels of evidence based on the group's criteria. "Some of the medicines in the studies we looked at seemed to work quite well," Lehmann says. "But it was impossible to say which medicines were the best for a specific acne cond...Breast-fed babies less likely to be overweight children, teens
...eight, defined as having a body mass index (weight divided by height squared) greater than 95 percent of children of the same age and sex. Thats slightly lower than found in the general U.S. population. When the researchers questioned the mothers all part of the Nurses Health Study II they found that 62 p...