Abnormal fat metabolism underlies heart problems in diabetic patients
...coined because cardiolipin was first discovered in beef hearts and is one of the most abundant lipids in heart tissue. This lipid has unusual physical properties that are essential for the operation of the energy-producing cell structures called mitochondria. When mitochondria lose a lot of their cardiol...Study explains how pathogens evolve to escape detection
... evolutionary battle in which plants are trying to beef up their defenses against the innovative strategies of pathogens. The latest example of this war is a bacterium ( Pseudomonas syringae ) that infects tomatoes by injecting a special protein into the plant's cells and undermines the plant's defense sy...Study finds Western-style 'meat-sweet' diet increases risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women
...ats, primarily pork but also poultry, organ meats, beef and lamb, and shrimp, saltwater fish, and shellfish, as well as candy, dessert, bread, and milk. The vegetable-soy pattern is associated with various vegetables, soy-based products, and freshwater fish. Of 1,602 breast cancer cases identified duri...Desertification: UN experts prescribe global policy overhaul to avoid looming mass migrations
...on;" Put science at the heart of policy making and beef up research on emerging issues such as thresholds or "tipping points" as they relate to migration and desertification; and Improve coordination at all levels: Nationally: harmonize policies dispersed across a range of government ministries and ...Agonized death throes probable cause of open-mouthed, head-back pose of many dino fossils
...She found no post-mortem movement. She also pinned beef tendons as they dried, and though they shrank a bit, they did not shrink enough even to dislodge the pins. Given these observations, it is hard to imagine how shrinking tendons or muscles could drag a heavy creature into a different position, the res...New study indicates that people may need more dietary choline than previously thought
... roughly half of the AI for choline. 3 Eggs, beef liver, chicken liver and wheat germ are considered excellent sources of choline. Two eggs contain 280 milligrams of choline, half the recommended daily supply. "Eggs are a practical food that can help people get the choline they need, along with se...Study shows marine omega-3 fatty acids have positive effect on muscle mass
...d an alternative to hormonal growth stimulation in beef cattle. At 4 to 6 months of age, calves become less efficient at converting food into muscle mass, which has a negative impact on farming profitability. "Adding fish oil to their diet could prevent this decline by restoring insulin sensitivity in a...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- April 11, 2007
...use of the biosensor to detect E. coli in ground beef and other materials at some of the lowest concentrations ever reported. At the heart of the new biosensor is a vibrating cantilever, with a tiny beam supported at one end and coated with antibodies at its other, free-moving end. The antibodies are sp...Maternal beef diet could impact sperm counts, UR study suggests
A mothers high beef consumption while pregnant was associated with low...west sperm counts and mothers who were the highest beef consumers (seven or more beef meals per week), researchers could not pinpoint hormones, pesticides o...Link between beef consumption during pregnancy and reduced sperm quality in sons
New research has shown that women who ate a lot of beef while pregnant had sons who were more likely to su...ealed that those whose mothers ate more than seven beef meals a week had a sperm concentration that was over 24% lower than in men whose mothers ate less be...Is biodiversity the future of farming?
... 30,000 dozen eggs, 10,000 to 12,000 broilers, 100 beef animals, 250 hogs, 800 turkeys, and 600 rabbits. A study by George Boody and colleagues has calculated, on a watershed basis, that diverse, synergistic farms can be profitable and simultaneously benefit the environment. They showed that when farms...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- Oct. 25, 2006
...new form of CDJ, linked to consumption of infected beef mainly in Great Britain, intensified the search for anti-prion compounds. Most potential drugs have proved ineffective, often because they could not enter brain tissue where prions reside. One promising drug, however, is in clinical trials. That drug...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- Sept. 20, 2006
...od fresh. The rosemary-enhanced plastic film kept beef steaks looking pink and fresh for 14 days under conditions found in supermarkets. That represents an increase in average display life of two days, or about 17 percent, compared to meat packaged in a traditional modified atmosphere mixture of oxygen,...Define 'precautionary principle' to avoid clashes over biotechnology under World Trade rules
... as genetically-modified grain or hormone-injected beef based on doubts about their safety? Or is such "p... where the US and EU disagreed about the safety of beef produced from cattle injected with hormones to bolster their growth. This fundamental difference wi...Completed genome set to transform the cow
...ent of cattle and enhance the nutritional value of beef and dairy products has received a major boost with the release this week of the most complete sequence of the cow genome ever assembled. Developed by an international consortium of research organisations, including CSIRO and AgResearch New Zealand,...Study shows hope for ridding lakes of clawed invader
...with 280 traps seeded around the lake. Baited with beef liver, the traps snare both native and rusty crayfish, but the natives, Carpenter explains, are returned to the lake. The trapping targets the largest crayfish, those that may be too big for the lake's predators. The big hope, says Carpenter, is th...Tips from the journals of the American Society for Microbiology
... Recognized as one of the most perishable foods, beef spoilage is commonly attributed to high water cont...ods to minimize microbial spoilage. In the study beef was contained using three different methods of modified-atmosphere packaging (MAP) and stored at 5 d...The protein that makes you mad
...ontagion, thousands of animals were sacrificed and beef imports, especially from the United Kingdom the focus of the epidemic were curtailed. The origin of the crisis was the feeding of cattle with animal feed that was contaminated by a new pathogenic agent a prion. These cows, after a long incubation...Tips from the journals of the American Society for Microbiology
...ess steel were exposed to E. coli, some mixed with beef juice, some without, and incubated at either 22 de...lts showed that three copper alloys not exposed to beef juice completely killed E. coli when stored at 22 degrees Celsius and only the alloys containing hig......n more schools are focusing on reading and math to beef up standardized test scores, Tai's research, to be published in the May 26 issue of Science magazine, suggests this focus may ignore the importance of an early emphasis on science. Tai and U.Va. researchers Christine Qui Liu, Adam V. Maltese and Xita...