Study: Inadequate physical activity worsens as teenagers become adults
...vious studies at UNC and elsewhere have shown that all major racial and ethnic groups and both sexes get too little physical activity, and black and Hispanic girls face the greatest risk of being significantly overweight or obese and inactive." In the new research, she and colleagues wanted to conc...NIH funds rare childhood disease to provide insights into the origins of adult cancer
... sufficient red blood cells, which carry oxygen to all tissues in the body. Those red blood cells that are produced are often large in size and do not function properly. All other blood cells -- white blood cells and platelets -- are usually normal. As with any rare disease, there are gaps in the underst...Genetically endowed worm may substitute for rodents in some toxicology testing
...l," he said. "So you just put the same chemical in all the wells to find out which gene is turning on." Freedman's lab is also equipped to evaluate the activity of individual genes more directly. "We will look for changes in the expression of every gene in the animal caused by a given ...Academics work to help stressed-out cats
...he animal specialists. But the biggest stressor of all for a cat is when it doesn't get along with other cats in the house, studies have shown. Cat health professionals at the University's Hospital for Small Animals studied the lifestyles of a group of cats with no apparent physical cause for their bladd...Novartis receives European marketing authorization for Emselex(R)
...n for the treatment of overactive bladder (OAB) in all 25 European member states as well as Norway and Ic...s, Emselex has been shown to significantly improve all other key symptoms of OAB, including the number of times patients had to visit the bathroom each day...Mail-order drugs exposed to extreme heat become less effective
...t found in mailboxes and car interiors and inspect all mail-order medications prior to consumption." According to researchers, asthma medications and other prescriptions delivered in the extreme-heat states of the Southwest are not the only medications at risk. Any situation that exposes a drug, partic...New Italian research links migraine and endometriosis
...naecologist must investigate headache carefully in all women with endometriosis but that headache classif...ist experienced in diagnosing migraine. "I believe all gynaecologists should always ask their patients with known or suspected endometriosis, 'do you suffe...Common household fragrances may be harming aquatic wildlife, study finds
...ances. "This is the first line of defense used by all cells," said Epel, the Jane and Marshall Steel Jr. Professor of Marine Sciences. "It consists of a special protein, called an efflux transporter, that's embedded in the cell membrane and pumps out toxins that get into the cell." For the experiment, g...Trojan-horse therapy blocks buildup of Alzheimer's plaque
... Crabtree. "But instead, what happens in virtually all cases is that those molecules just fit right into the aggregates and don't prevent aggregation at workable concentrations." The issue, he explained, applies not just to amyloid aggregation, but also to protein interactions in general. "The insurmount...Red wine mist? Resveratrol shows potential effects against COPD, asthma, arthritis
...esveratrol exhibited anti-inflammatory activity in all the systems we examined: laboratory cells lines as...ol in cells relevant to human disease and explores all of the proposed mechanisms in a single study." Most importantly, resveratrol "inhibited anti-inflam...Unique new platform offers European scientific community a common voice
...chemical Societies and many more representative of all scientific disciplines ranging from mathematics an...sciences and humanities. ISE membership is open to all European organizations....ASU gets grant to develop high speed DNA sequence reader
...0,000 human genes on a glass slide and to read out all of their sequences simultaneously, greatly speedin...al genes, a single sequencing slide could read out all of the information for genes now known to play a role in hereditary human diseases and diseases such...Diabetic damage to eyes, heart, nerves, kidneys may be explained by controversial theory
..., and diabetic kidney damage creates 43 percent of all cases of end-stage renal disease. Proponents of the theory argue that the primary cause of such tissue damage is a key compound in energy production other scientists long ago rejected as a contributor to diabetic side effects. The researchers addr...VYTORIN (TM) superior again to Lipitor at lowering LDL (bad) cholesterol
...ective than Lipitor in reducing LDL cholesterol at all doses compared and for attaining LDL cholesterol t...lts from this analysis showed that averaged across all doses, both VYTORIN and Lipitor demonstrated a mean 25 percent reduction on CRP after six weeks of t...'Broken' gene reveals evolution of salt retention and possible ties to hypertension
...t running, most vitriolic, and surreal disputes in all of medicine," wrote journalist Gary Taubes in Science Magazine in 1998. Di Rienzo's team of evolutionary biologists took a different approach, looking at the genetics of salt processing. They focused on a gene called CYP3A5, part of a family known ...Hurricane damage creates pecan shortage
...ss of entire trees. Approximately 15-20 percent of all pecan trees in the state of Alabama were destroyed. "We aren't yet certain of the full effect the damage has had on the remaining trees," said Brenneman. "There's evidence that some trees may not fully recover," he said. Many farmers have tried to s...Findings challenge Darwinian theory
...dern medical research, Palmer said. "You can't say all diseases are gene-based. Consider cancer caused by asbestos exposure, or skin cancer. If you only study genetics, you would not learn much about environmentally-induced diseases."...New AAAS report cites 'serious concerns' with electronic voting
...panelists said. "In some instances, voting, and all of the procedures associated with it, have proceeded without a hitch," the report says. "In other cases, there have been accusations of tampering and fraud, and litigation challenging the accuracy and reliability of the voting systems used. Serious c...Actin muscles in on DNA transcription
...n is important because the process is essential to all cellular activity, whether in normal healthy tissues or in diseases like cancer," de Lanerolle said. "The knowledge we gain will one day open up opportunities for intervening when genetic transcription goes awry." Other authors of the study are Wilm...Sick kids researchers unmask the potential of stem cells found in adult skin
...Jean Toma, Dr. David Kaplan and Dr. Chi-Chung Hui, all from Sick Kids, Dr. Victor Rafuse and Adrienne Junek from Dalhousie University, and Dr. Patricia Labosky from the University of Pennsylvania....