New research supports the link between cooking and carcinogens
...d study of acrylamide levels in foods suggests the suspected carcinogen forms in dangerous levels during the cooking of potatoes. The findings are reported in the August 14 print issue of Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest...Researchers suggests a potentially damaging effect of extremely low frequency electromagnetic fields
...nd the risks associated with ELF-EMF, for example, suspected in communities living in close proximity to high voltage transmission lines....Sex-specific genes for depression
...shed in today's issue of Molecular Psychiatry. "We suspected there were at least a few different genes involved in making women and men susceptible to major depression," said lead author George S. Zubenko, M.D., Ph.D., professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and adjunct profe...Possible gene for form of mental retardation, brain development identified
... chromosomes broke, and then switched pieces. They suspected that this translocation resulted in a mutation in one of the genes on the broken X chromosome and that the mutation could have resulted in the patient's developmental disabilities. To test this hypothesis, they identified genes near the break point ...New cholesterol disorder discovered As predicted from gene's role
...e paper. Pullinger identified the mutations in the suspected gene samples using a technique known as differential DNA melting, which pinpoints the mutated genes based on their abnormal mobility when the DNA is placed in an electrical field....Abnormal chemical bonds cause bleeding disorder
...s Diacovo, "but the evidence isn't there." Diacovo suspected the answer lay in bond kinetics, which refers to how fast a bond can form and then dissociate. Earlier work on selectins, a family of proteins critical for recruiting circulating white blood to inflamed blood vessel walls, revealed that bond kinetics...Fungi help some trees weather acid rain, not all
... the role of the "short-circuiting" fungus was not suspected until about three years ago. That's when electron-microscopy examination of sand revealed tiny tunnels burrowed through the grains; the mini-miners turned out to be ectomycorrhizal fungi that can penetrate micropores in silicates and take up phosphor...Protein discovered that keeps hemoglobin in balance
... prevents its deleterious effects. Dr. Weiss team suspected that AHSP, by preventing free alpha hemoglobin from precipitating within red blood cells, protects the cells from injury. To test that hypothesis, the researchers developed knockout mice, animals genetically engineered to lack the gene that produces ...MIT probes cartilage on nanoscale
...e focus of the current work. "For many years we've suspected from measurements at the tissue level that these molecules play an extremely important role in cartilage function because of electrical repulsive interactions between the brush bristles,' or glycosaminoglycan (GAG) chains," said Grodzinsky, who is al...Large volcanic eruptions affect the 'greener greenhouse'
...reased by several days, especially in Eurasia. One suspected cause of this "greener greenhouse" they cited was ...on. Carbon dioxide is a main greenhouse gas and is suspected of playing a role in rising global temperatures. If the northern forests are greening, they may alre...New research could spearhead permanent nuclear waste storage
...ter wall, and 67 of these single-shelled tanks are suspected to have leaked an estimated 1 million gallons of high-level waste. When the waste seeps into soil, it precipitates into a solid phase with unknown chemistry, Johnston said. Ultimately, the knowledge gained in the current study will help researchers ...New methods for detecting brown recluse spider venom
...invasive biopsies may not be necessary to identify suspected brown recluse spider bites. Using the newly developed Loxosceles ELISA assay, the investigators find venom is detectable in hair, fluid from the wound and in skin biopsies in an animal model at least seven days after venom inoculation, but venom was ...Black raspberries a potentially powerful agent in fight against colon cancer
... weapon for health -- a mix of compounds suspected of thwarting colon cancer -- h... blueberries and strawberries, two fruits with suspected chemopreventive effects. Black raspberries prevailed in the ...More good news on the health benefits of almonds
...ests that almonds may be a lower calorie food than suspected because not all of the calories from fat are absorbed." Leaving us with the questionare we actually eating fewer calories than are shown on the nutrition facts label for almonds?...Peripheral 'Swatch' watches are a powerful force in bodys circadian rhythms
...l. The existence of peripheral timepieces had been suspected but no one knew how much control they actually had or why they were in organs such as the heart, lungs, and liver in the first place. Using newly developed gene chips, Charles Weitz, Kai-Florian Storch, Research Fellow in Neurobiology at Harvard Medi...Defects in 'orphan' inositol polyphosphates may be linked to manic depression, cancer
...hate 1-phosphatase, an enzyme that many scientists suspected was the target of lithium. At the center of the enzyme he found and was able to characterize a unique structure he then used as a guide to identifying other enzymes that could serve as additional targets for lithium. This work also may provide the ba...PET scans reduce unnecessary colorectal surgeries
...re than 60% of surgeries planned for patients with suspected recurrence of colorectal cancer were found to be unnecessary as the result of a PET scan according to a new study of 102 patients published in the April issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine. The study confirmed PETs impact on treatment planninga...Megavitamins may help treat many genetic diseases, could tune up everyone's metabolism
...y role in burning fuel in mitochondria. Ames first suspected that enzyme/coenzyme binding might be at the root of many diseases while teaching an undergraduate laboratory course in biochemistry 30 years ago. As students isolated mutant microbes and characterized the defective genes, they found that many coded ...Pitt researchers find men and women have different genes behind depression
...but were posted today on the journals Web site. We suspected there were at least a few different genes involved in making women and men susceptible to major depression, said lead author George S. Zubenko, M.D., Ph.D., professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and adjunct profes...Fly brains provide new insights into the growth and development of human nerve cells
...fruit flies to humans. Rac GTPases long have been suspected to play a role in brain development, notes Liqun Luo, assistant professor of biological sciences at Stanford and co-author of the two Nature papers. In our study, we unequivocally demonstrate the importance of Rac GTPases in the growth, guidance and...