UF researcher unlocks secrets of popular supplement creatine
... by creatine consumption. "As you work out, you're losing water from the extracellular space," Powers said. "If you already have a higher level of water in the intracellular space because of the creatine, you end up with even more of an imbalance. Over time it may make you dehydrate faster, which is associa...UT Southwestern to study effect of low-carbohydrate diet on kidney-stone formation and bone loss
... person to take the diet and derive the benefit of losing weight without harmful side effects." Results of Phase I of the study are expected to be available by early 2001....Researchers identify unique circadian rhythm photoreceptor
...t, intense light, the internal clock goes haywire, losing all sense of night and day. Fruit flies exhibit the same reaction, and humans are predicted to respond similarly. In the laboratories of Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator Michael Rosbash and Jeffrey Hall at Brandeis University, however, ...UCSD scientists identify genes controlling seed dispersal
...e farmers try to get as much of their crop without losing it to this pod-shattering problem," says Yanofsky. "By knocking out the two shatterproof genes, we can eliminate this problem, while drastically increasing the yield of canola and perhaps even doubling it." The study was supported by grants from the ...Study finds elderly women can halt bone loss
...said. "And, at my age, I certainly expected to be losing more. To actually gain bone is really fantastic. It's been a great motivation. I think you need to keep moving as you age, otherwise you won't be able to. "You don't have to go downhill," she added with a laugh. "This shows you can go uphill, too.......ls immediately exposed to it which could result in losing transferable embryos. His team had compared acid Tyrode with infrared laser. Pregnancy rates were similar for both methods but the laser resulted in significantly more intact cells, crucial for a correct diagnosis at the end of the procedure, and a ...Arctic temperatures warmest in past four centuries, study says
...recording similar data with satellites, but we are losing the value of long-term data continuity," Serreze said. "The compilation of research results presented in this paper make it undeniable that a major warming is affecting the Arctic environment," said Michael T. Ledbetter, NSF's Arctic System Science P...Canine leishmaniasis cases are confirmed in 21 states
...w York hunt club. When foxhounds at the club began losing weight and suffering from skin lesions, seizures, swollen limbs and joints, and in most cases fatal kidney failure, the club's attending veterinarian turned to veterinary medicine researchers at NC State for help. Using the DNA and blood tests, Breit......eginning of a larger ecological disaster. "We are losing a great deal of the mega-fauna of West Africa, as well as Central Africa," he said. He included not only primates, but also forest antelope called duikers, pygmy hippo, forest buffalo, bongo and in some places, elephant. Struhsaker called for a mult...Study appears to show why muscle decays mysteriously in cancer, AIDS, other illnesses
... plenty to eat, what is happening is that they are losing skeletal muscle and becoming more susceptible to other problems," Guttridge said. "We've had physicians tell us that if they could just make their cancer patients a little stronger and healthier, those patients would have a much better chance of resp...Prions may play crucial role in evolution.
... switch allows cells to occupy a new niche without losing their capacity to occupy the old." The researchers exposed seven distinct genetic strains of yeast in their prion and non-prion states to 150 different growth conditions. The prion-positive state had a substantial effect on the growth of the yeast ...Economic realities depleting arsenal of antiparasitic drugs
...pped making it in the United States because it was losing money. "Here we had a perfectly treatable infection and no access to a drug to treat it in this country," says White. The maker of praziquantel has since agreed to resume production, but White and Moore have found numerous similar instances where ......study, weight cycling was defined as intentionally losing at least 10 pounds at least three times during ones life. The study involved 485 women who were undergoing coronary angiography to evaluate chest pains. Of the 130 participants who reported a history of weight cycling, 19 percent cycled 10-19 pound...Scientists find gene that fuels 'sexual arms race'
... root of the tree, not the tip, the root." Despite losing their power to sway the romantic interests of female fruit flies, the gender-based pigmentation patterns may still serve a useful purpose by allowing males, who have precious little time to find a mate and pass along their genes, to avoid wooing othe...Amazon roads may lead to peril for rainforest
...uses gases. "We're basically talking about losing rainforest land the size of Rhode Island each year," Cochrane said. "We're trying to map out the implications to let them know what the consequences are. We feel it hasn't been looked at yet." Cochrane, who is part of MSU's Basic Science an...Diet aid works best with other life changes
... but they can improve their health and vitality by losing those first 10-to-20 pounds.......ers have a one to two percent chance of gaining or losing a chromosome each time they divide. In a colony of a million cells, that provides lots of opportunity for one or more cells to mutate and gain the ability to disarm a drug, probably through activation of a new biochemical pathway. By contrast, the od......o far-reaching management decisions. Lake Tahoe is losing its remarkable transparency at a rate of about one foot per year as algal growth rates increase about 5 percent per year. In the Tahoe Basin, a multidisciplinary approach has been essential to developing effective water-management strategies for solv...Baboon studies suggest strategies for coping with stress
...st. Baboons who cannot tell if they are winning or losing a fight have much higher stress-hormone levels than those who know whether their lots are improving or worsening. Lastly, rank matters. Top baboons in a stable dominance hierarchy have lower stress-hormone levels than do subordinates. But throwing...MCG researchers study hormone that may prevent bone being lost in space
...st people reach peak bone mass at age 25 and begin losing bone by age 40. A young space traveler would never reach peak bone mass without some intervention to re-establish the lost synergy, he said; an astronaut of any age would soon develop porous, weak bones. But the researchers believe their transgenic m...