Highlights of the October 2004 Journal of the American Dietetic Association
...se food at the start of a meal may be an effective strategy for weight management." "In addition to calorie control, three cups of salad provide at least three servings of vegetables. Salads can help make it easy for people to reach the recommended goal of three to five servings of vegetables...Cardiac arrest may hinder ability to learn certain tasks
...latform. "The mice now had to learn a new strategy for finding the platform, and the mice in the cardiac arrest group weren't able to adapt," DeVries said. The researchers wanted to see how cardiac arrest had affected neurons in the mouse hippocampus. They looked specifically at dendritic sp...A long-necked sea predator from China described in Science
...ago in Chicago, Illinois proposed a second hunting strategy that would have required participation from the pliable ribs that ran along the sides of the neck. Contraction of Dinocephalosaurus' proposed neck muscles could have rapidly straightened the neck and splayed the neck ribs outward. This could have inc...'Smart antibiotics' may result from UCLA research
...here either bacteriophage or bacteria use the same strategy for targeting mutations and speeding up evolution. "We're eager to determine how widespread it is; the more we look, the more we find it," Miller said. "And the more we study it, the more ingenious the mechanism appears to us." In the Nature pa...Scientists explore genome of methane-breathing microbe
...nome analysis found that M. capsulatus has a novel strategy for scavenging copper, an essential element for regulating methane oxidation. "We found that M. capsulatus is a good model for studying how microbes adapt to varying copper concentrations," he says, noting that M. capsulatus uses two separate systems...New anti-inflammatory strategy for cancer therapy identified by UCSD researchers
A new strategy for cancer therapy, which converts the tumor-promoting effect of the immune system's inflammatory response into a cancer-killing outcome, is suggested in research findings by investigators at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of M...JCI table of contents September 15, 2004
...fy a new cause for a lethal neonatal disease. The strategy makes use of cell-fusion experiments where cells f...also discusses the therapeutic potential using the strategy presented. TITLE: Rescue of retinal degeneration by intravitreally injected adult bone marrowderived...Venn diagram tactics to vet complex disease
...fy a new cause for a lethal neonatal disease. The strategy makes use of cell-fusion experiments where cells from different patients are fused and the authors ask whether the fused cells are no longer defective -- this means the cells can complement one another. If the fused cells complement each other, this...European common frog found to use novel mating strategy
...ng been thought to have a straightforward breeding strategy -- one lucky male grabs the female and fertilizes ...gs in numerous clutches. What they uncovered was a strategy apparently linked to the unusually skewed operational sex ratio in the Pyrenean ponds, that is, the ...Tufts University establishes $4 million dollar tissue engineering resource center
...eering and medicine developed a tissue engineering strategy to repair one of the world's most common knee injuries -- ruptured anterior cruciate ligaments (ACL) -- by mechanically and biologically engineering new ones using silk scaffolding for stem cell growth. "This Center will help stimulate new ...ConocoPhillips & Conservation International launch 'Biodiversity Action Plan' in Venezuela
...evelopment as part of the company's oil production strategy in Venezuela's Gulf of Paria. Home to over 200 s...lyst for positive change in the Gulf of Paria. Our strategy seeks to integrate best available practices to protect the environment with capacity building to hel...Story tips from the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, September 2004
...larly Intelligent Transportation Systems, is a key strategy to improve transportation safety and efficiency. The ability to collect data faster, cheaper and more accurately without interruption to normal transportation operations is an essential component to this strategy. Officials with the United States and...Single isolated mouse skin cell can generate into variety of epidermal tissues
...ate and study human skin stem cells. The different strategy was developed by Rockefeller University postdoctoral research fellows Cedric Blanpain, M.D., Ph.D., and William Lowry, Ph.D. Both are co-first authors of the Cell study. An animal specialist, Lisa Polack, and a graduate student, Andrea Geoghegan, als...Optimizing protein's 'death domain' halts leukemia in laboratory study
...ound in chemistry and cell biology, and applying a strategy developed by Verdine, who is a chemist, Walensky found the answer. First, he made synthetic amino acids that mimicked some of those within the helix. "Then we swapped out the natural amino acids and inserted the synthetic ones" at certain positions a...Molecular staples shape a cancer killer
...sky. The researchers used the hydrocarbon stapling strategy to brace the peptide from within. "We substituted non-natural amino acids for natural amino acids in selected positions," he said. "The non-natural amino acids look very similar to the natural ones, except that they include hydrocarbons that can be ...Rare deficit maps thinking circuitry
... "The location of the abnormality also suggests a strategy for improving visual-spatial-construction function," noted Meyer-Lindenberg. "It is like a roadblock, but it should mainly affect stimuli that don't move. Incorporating motion into stimuli might provide an alternate route and circumvent the problem b...Essential smell gene may provide key to new insect repellents
...iety of insect species, the results point to a new strategy for developing insect repellents. Repellents that block the gene, and thus prevent disease-carrying insects from finding human hosts, might eventually help fight malaria and other infectious diseases. "This finding has a direct applied potential," sa...DHA-rich diet protects brain from Alzheimer's damage, UCLA study shows
...ther metals, however, a less risky yet more costly strategy is to consume fish oil or purified DHA supplements made from algae. Other options include DHA-rich eggs laid by chickens that eat DHA-supplemented feed....Study reveals first genetic step necessary for prostate cancer growth
...between these mice and the standard gene knock-out strategy is that the Rb gene stays intact in all other tissues of the animal, a situation that closely resembles how genes are inactivated or lost in cancers that occur sporadically in humans. The scientists found that upon losing even one copy of the Rb gene......ible to infection by streptococcus. They say their strategy outlines a new path for developing animal models for human-specific microbes. The research is also likely to open the way to new understanding of the factors that enable bacteria to evolve host specificity, the researchers said. Howard Hughes Medical...