Lycopene slows human prostate tumour growth in mice and combined with vitamin E is even better
..., said Dr. Limpens. Dr. Limpens said the findings seem promising, but it was early days yet and the Phase II trial in Germany was designed to verify whether a similar treatment to that used in the mice could alter the course of minimal clinical disease in patients. The lycopene product used (LycoVit)[3],...Pack-MULEs are toting a new look at plant evolution
...initially reported about 20 years ago, they didn't seem too significant. It just seemed like in a given chunk, there weren't too many of them. Except Jiang was in the lab of Susan Wessler at the University of Georgia, a distinguished research professor who studies transposable elements. Jiang said Wessle......t the need for chemotherapy. These ideas may today seem science fiction, but to dismiss them too readily would be foolish. The risks and benefits must be carefully addressed to yield useful and safe technologies, but it has been accomplished before, and will be again."...Study: Emission of smog ingredients from trees is increasing rapidly
...at doesn't produce a lot of VOCs, but that doesn't seem to exist." The findings also could raise questions about potential strategies for developing "green" fuels. One idea for cutting greenhouse gas emissions is to create "biofuels" from renewable tree plantations; however, these plantations may lead to ...Far more men than women favor routine paternity testing at birth
...re always split 50-50. Age and income groups don't seem to matter," said Lisa Hayward, a UW doctoral student in biology and lead author of a paper reporting the findings in the current issue of the journal Evolution and Human Behavior. The survey showed just 32 percent of women favor such routine test...Master of antimalarial resistance
...ons seen in halofantrine and amantadine resistance seem to slow down this leak, restoring the parasite's sensitivity to chloroquine therapy, the researchers suggest. Fidock and colleagues note that one of the newly discovered pfcrt mutations can be found in a strain of malaria from Southeast Asia, suggest...UAF scientists discover new marine habitat in Alaska
...ly a species new to science. "It does not seem to match anything we have seen," said Riosmena-Rodriguez. Riosmena-Rodriguez said the as-yet unidentified species is similar to a type of rhodolith found in eastern Canada, called Lithothamnion glaciale. But in important ways the Alaska rhodo...Study reveals why eyes in some paintings seem to follow viewers
...painting in which the eyes of the person portrayed seem to follow you around the room, no matter where you...matical analysis in 1859 of why eyes in a painting seem to follow viewers. "One of the contributions of our study is that we showed that while La Gournerie ...Folic acid vitamin use by women reaches all-time high, March of Dimes survey finds
...id the March of Dimes survey found that more women seem to understand the importance of folic acid to the health of babies. A comparison of the eight previous surveys shows that 12 percent of women know that, to be effective, folic acid must be consumed before pregnancy -- up from only 2 percent in 1995....Human chromosome 5 final sequence analysis released to public
... be involved in human disease. Another 14 diseases seem to be caused by chromosome 5 genes, but they haven't yet been linked to a specific gene. Other chromosome 5 genes include a cluster that codes for interleukins, molecules that are involved in immune signalling and maturation and are also implicated i...Case for IBD combination therapy comes from research at Baylor, MIT and Hebrew University
... about IBD: it's very complex. And though it might seem obvious that treating a complex disease might take more than one agent, use of combination therapy hasn't been discussed much in relation to IBD. Now separate groups working in Houston/Boston and Jerusalem have considered the implications of combinat...Bone marrow cells routinely help with wound healing
...nted mice did not produce that protein, and do not seem to be implicated in contact dermatitis.Researchers found that even after six weeks, long after the infection-fighting role seems to be over, the bone marrow-derived cells cluster within the healing area of a wound. The researchers ran these skin cel...Regular physical activity really does boost immune system in older men
...ers were runners, that the type of exercise didn't seem to matter....Two warbler species find the West isn't big enough for both of them
...pecies are in the same locale, the Townsend's also seem to have the upper hand in attracting females even hermit females. That is particularly true when the quality of habitat declines, leaving the female with a choice on which her survival could depend. "In low-quality habitat, Townsend's males are mor...Length of sex act in flies dictated by genetics
...hich were thought to be dedicated clock components seem to have a wide range of other effects that may have nothing to do with cyclic patterns of day and night. "These genes probably have important regulatory functions in many other areas that we do not yet understand," said Jaga Giebultowicz, an OSU ass...In gene regulation, small is beautiful
...the same mechanism as natural activators, but they seem to be quite analogous," she said. The researchers also will try attaching their activators to different DNA-binding domains to see if that affects their activity....Scientists reinvent DNA as template to produce organic molecules
...The basic structures of proteins and nucleic acids seem limited when compared with the structures that can be created using modern synthetic chemistry, and yet this very modest set of protein and nucleic acid building blocks has given rise to the incredible complexity and diversity of living systems," say...Medication reconciliation, pharmacist involvement vital to reducing medication errors, study finds
...ssions that others may miss, or dosages that don't seem right." "The project clearly demonstrated that pharmacists play an integral role in this," adds Gary Noskin, M.D., a study author, the medical director of Healthcare Epidemiology and Quality at Northwestern Memorial and professor at Northwestern's Fe...Stem cell research targets cerebral palsy
...ently, researchers have found that chemokines also seem to attract stem cells to an injury site. However, at least in an animal model of cerebral palsy, the healing chemicals are present for only a few days after injury, Dr. Carroll has shown. "Chemokines are produced normally, naturally and briefly after......, such as in the lungs. Some BBS-related mutations seem to disrupt the scaffolding upon which cilia are built, but others may cause ciliary dysfunction in other ways, perhaps preventing or misdirecting the shuttling of materials along the cilia. By searching a database of cilia-related genes compiled by c...