Researchers find chemosignal that encourages women's sexual desire
...eding women, who were asked to eat a bland diet to avoid transmitting odors such as curry through the breast milk. The breastfeeding women wore pads in their nursing bras, where the saliva from their infants in addition to their own perspiration and milk was collected. They also wore pads secured by under...Toward a better understanding of taste and smell impairments
...dies will form the foundation of new approaches to avoid or overcome the sometimes debilitating effects of chemosensory dysfunction. Approximately six million Americans suffer from sensory loss or alteration related to the senses of taste, smell, or both. Although changes in taste and smell perception...Is more better: Counting birds may only tell part of the story
... may arise from human disturbances and learning to avoid ecological traps. For a global understanding of these results, Bock and Jones suggest that studies outside Europe and North America, in areas such as the tropics, are needed to provide more insight into the patterns observed in this study. ...Report: How 10 top new technologies will help world reach globally-agreed goals by 2015
...t; Better drug and vaccine delivery methods that avoid the use of needles and reduce cross contamination; Bioinformatics to identify drug targets and to examine pathogen-host interactions; Nutrition-enriched crops to counter specific deficiencies, such as vitamin A-rich "Golden Rice" to improve healt...New method identifies chromosome changes in malignant cells
...esting possible ways in which these aberrant cells avoid being detected and destroyed by the body's natural defenses. In some instances, genes that biologists thought were being turned "on" or "off" by normal regulatory chemicals within cells may actually have been added or deleted, said Troyanskaya. When ...Study using robotic microscope shows how mutant Huntington's protein affects neurons
...iseases, help neurons cope with toxic proteins and avoid neurodegeneration. Many researchers have been working to develop ways of interfering with inclusion body formation as potential treatments for HD and other disorders. This study suggests that finding ways to remove mutant proteins diffused througho...Paratek Pharmaceuticals presents multiple sclerosis data at Society for Neuroscience annual meeting
...s of non-antibacterial tetracycline compounds will avoid the negative consequences associated with long-term antibiotic use and will not further contribute to the development of antibiotic resistance. We believe that these highly active, orally available compounds will also prove to be well-tolerated for ...Mail-order drugs exposed to extreme heat become less effective
...Medical Center. "We strongly advise that patients avoid exposing medications to the extreme heat 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 ...Fly gut's 'sticky spot' for leishmaniasis parasite
... the parasite uses to bind to the fly's midgut and avoid being excreted at a particularly vulnerable stage of its development. "Identifying and targeting midgut molecules essential for parasite survival represents a novel strategy for development of transmission-blocking vaccines against vector-borne disea...VYTORIN (TM) superior again to Lipitor at lowering LDL (bad) cholesterol
...ed if myopathy is diagnosed or suspected. To help avoid serious side effects, patients should talk to their doctor about medicine or food they should avoid while taking VYTORIN. In three placebo-controlled, 12-week trials, the incidence of consecutive ele...Scientists raise concerns about second wave of 'mad cow' prion infection
...ransmission to humans, hunters are being warned to avoid contact with or eating the meat of animals that may be infected with CWD. Precautionary Principle in Canada Although Canada has detected only one case of BSE and one of vCJD to date, the country has taken a number of precautionary measures to help...New source for heart bypass replacement blood vessels: Fibrin-based TEVs
...utologous cells for transplantation, and therefore avoid the use of native vessels as a cell source," Andreadis noted....Genetically engineered corn poses no immediate threat to Mexican crops
...ng the handling of transgenic corn, including: To avoid undermining its current moratorium, Mexico should label all corn imported from the United States as possibly containing GM seed, or grind the corn when it's imported. Grinding would prevent the imported seeds from being planted. Conducting more res...JCI table of contents, November 15 2004
... Hempoglobin synthesis is carefully coordinated to avoid accumulation of free alpha-Hb or beta-Hb subunits, which can be toxic. In the disease beta-thalassemia, characterized by severe anemia, loss of beta-Hb leaves alpha-Hb subunits unpaired and alpha-Hb production of toxic oxygen molecules reduces the li...Diamonds are a urologist's best friend
... medical fair which show how it may be possible to avoid this incrustation. This team of physicists have coated catheters and ureter stents with an extremely thin layer of diamond-like carbon. DLC-coated surfaces do not react chemically with their environment; they are hardwearing, can be sterilised and re...Studies in Royal Society journals include stress in birds and depletion of medieval fish stocks
...ly characteristic patterns. Can predators learn to avoid such well-defended but inconspicuous prey? Using p...odels, Wster and colleagues showed that wild birds avoid the characteristic but inconspicuous zigzag band of the venomous adder. This shows that bright colou...Exercise doesn't work for us all
...igns regularly plug exercise as a sure-fire way to avoid an early grave. But that message may be too simplistic. For an unhappy few, even quite strenuous exercise may have no effect on their fitness or their risk of developing diseases like diabetes. "There is astounding variation in the response to exerci...New drug sidesteps Gleevec resistance in human trials
...ce also teaches a lesson for what we might need to avoid similar problems with other kinase inhibitors, like the epidermal growth factor receptor inhibitors, Iressa and Tarceva, which were approved recently for lung cancer."...New breast cancer study shows hormonal therapy not enough
... of estrogen receptor in their tumors can probably avoid chemotherapy, but those with lower or intermediate levels benefit from it over and above tamoxifen. A second aspect of this study explored the use of various molecular markers measured on the breast tumor to predict the added value of chemothera......ir foraging behavior by browsing far from roads to avoid human contact and possible predation. And research in Colorado has found that aspen was far more heavily browsed, and used year-round by elk, where sport hunting was excluded. Ultimately, however, the value of large predators needs to be reconsidere...