New nutrition guidelines for diabetics promote emphasis on high-monounsaturated fat diet
...ter for Human Nutrition at UT Southwestern, is the inclusion of increased amounts of fiber in a diabetics diet. Last year Garg reported that a high intake of dietary fiber, mostly from fruits and vegetables, lowered blood glucose levels by 10 percent in study participants who consumed 50 grams of fiber in thei...Scientists meet to discuss latest in how sex matters
...iagnosis and treatment of disease and promotes the inclusion of women in medical research studies. Berlex Laboratories, a U.S. affiliate of Shering AG, Germany, is a major supporter of the Sex Matters medical and public education campaign being conducted independently by the Society. The company is both a res...Tips from the Journals of the American Society for Microbiology: February 2002
...res Increase Effectiveness of Anthrax Vaccine The inclusion of killed anthrax spores can greatly increase the ...fection itself. According to the researchers, the inclusion of formaldelhyde-inactivated anthrax spores (FIS) to a vaccine preparation elicited total protection...A green tea extract could help alleviate shortage of livers available for transplant
...ter clinical liver transplantation and lead to the inclusion of previously rejected livers into the pool of organs available for transplantation....Mimicking a human disease in mice
...nome. As a result, the researchers found insoluble inclusion bodies of alpha-synuclein in the mouse's oligodendrocytes. "In patients, the affected cells die as the individual ages. This is something we could not yet observe in our mice," says Philipp Kahle, a researcher at the Ludwig Maximilian University, Mun...Common bacteria kills elkhorn coral off Florida keys, says UGA research team
...oral in the Caribbean has now been recommended for inclusion on the endangered species list." The disease was first documented in 1996 on Eastern Dry Rocks Reef off Key West, Fla. in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary and exclusively affects the elkhorn coral. Coral colonies affected by white pox dise...Moffitt Cancer Center receives DoD funds to establish National Functional Genomics Project
... new technologies and advances in health care. The inclusion of corporate partners into the NFGP will also accelerate the translation of molecular medicine derived from the laboratory directly into early detection and clinical treatment....Researchers engineer virus that blocks common genetic defect
...nizes the incorrect splice sites, resulting in the inclusion of extra, noncoding sequences, which interfere with subsequent production of hemoglobin. Kole and colleagues found that using molecules designed to bind specific regions of RNA to block aberrant splice sites could prevent splicing machinery from usin...UCSF begins distributing the first of its two embryonic stem cell lines
...ced human embryonic cells lines that qualified for inclusion on the National Institutes of Health Human Embryonic Stem Cell Registry http://escr.nih.gov/ , established by President George Bush in August 2001. The cell lines included on the registry can be studied by academic researchers with federal funds. Th...Virginia Tech professor Marjorie Grene is the first woman in The Library of Living Philosophers
...es. In her own self-effacing way, Grene called her inclusion in the series "puzzling, but fun" and joked in November 2002 that, since the books were published only on living philosophers, "I have to live at least until January."...Scripps scientists discover new approach for treating 'misfolding diseases'
...at are composed of mutant and normal subunits. The inclusion of mutated subunits makes the tetramer less stable and causes the four subunits to more easily dissociate. Once the subunits are free, they misfold and reassemble into the hair-like amyloid fibrils.These fibrils cause the disease FAP by building up a...Berkeley scientists create first 3-D map of protein universe
... set up a Website where researchers can submit for inclusion new protein structures they have solved. Working with Kim on this protein universe mapping project have been Jington Hou, Gregory Sims, and Chao Zhang. The protein was funded by grants through the National Science Foundation and the National Insti...Supplements that increase the effects of resistance exercise identified
...nts, only 48 studies (in 40 citations) met all the inclusion criteria. Of these, six supplements were supported...tenedione (n = 3), and protein (n =4, with relaxed inclusion criteria). Of the original list of 250 substances marketed as dietary supplements, creatine (meth...Universities to share technologies to fight hunger in developing countries; improve domestic crops
... developed, a definition of "humanitarian use" for inclusion in licensing agreements is close to completion, and plans for pilot projects are taking shape. The development of new crop varieties using agricultural biotechnology depends on access to multiple technologies, which are often patented or otherwise pr...Mass flowering crops enhance pollinator densities at a landscape scale
...nsequent loss of pollination services has been the inclusion of pollinator-friendly management in agri-environment schemes. These comprise the promotion of semi-natural habitats, such as set-aside and field margin strips. Yet, mass flowering crops, such as oilseed rape, are assumed to be of little value to po...GenSAT (Gene Expression Nervous System Atlas) project announced
...olved with the project, annotated and prepared for inclusion in the database. The organizational challenge alone for such a large-scale project is impressive. But Heintz and Hatten faced more than an organizational challenge when they started out. The means of displaying high-resolution digital images on the s...Physics tip sheet #39 - Nov. 17, 2003
...ar) The speed of sound in water drops sharply with inclusion of just a few small air bubbles, according to a new calculation. Being able to calculate the speed of sound in air-water mixtures is critical for meteorology, oceanography, and air and sea navigation. The paper derives the first exact formula for the...Yeast model yields insights into Parkinson's disease
...f a single copy of the wild type synuclein. These inclusion bodies have a toxic effect that causes cell death and neurodegeneration. "Just a twofold difference in expression was sufficient to cause a catastrophic change in behavior," the scientists report in their paper. "These changes may give insight into i...Genetic screening recommended to detect new neurodegenerative disorder in men over age 50
...tions of abnormal cellular material in the form of inclusion bodies in the nuclei of brain cells, (specifically...learning, memory and emotion. "The formation of inclusion bodies in the nuclei of nerve cells offers an important clue about the cause of the disorder, one th...Inherent mistrust of research institutions limits minority representation
...onal Institutes of Health directive that makes the inclusion of minority groups and women mandatory in the patient populations of all agency-sponsored trials. A primary reason could be the indelible memory of the U.S. government-sponsored Tuskegee Study that lead to the death of 128 African Americans between 1...