Concord grape juice increased HDL, lowered inflammatory marker linked to heart disease
...ng basis, including red wine, tea, cranberry juice cocktail and apple juice. Proanthocyanidins, a subset of polyphenols, are natural plant compounds that function as antioxidants and that have been linked to good health in a variety of ways....Citrus shows promise for certain childhood cancer
.... In fact, the popular citrus drink could become a cocktail to prevent or stop the deadly disease in humans. ...at ultimately we are able to give patients an oral cocktail of limonoids in such concentration as to stop their cancer." Patil said the rese...New tuberculosis antibiotic may shorten treatment time, fight drug-resistant strains
...ded by the World Health Organization consists of a cocktail of drugs that must be taken for six to nine months...e, finding that one month of treatment with a drug cocktail that included R207910 reduced the bacterial load in the lungs to the same extent than the old cockta...Highlights of January 2005 issue of Biology of Reproduction
...hara and colleagues met the first challenge with a cocktail of growth factors, published previously in Biology of Reproduction (Kanatsu-Shinohara M, Ogonuki N, Inoue K, Miki H, Ogura A, Toyokuni S, Shinohara T. Long-term proliferation in culture and germline transmission of mouse male germline stem cells. Bio...Holes in fossil shells show effects of competition and evolution
...the soft body inside. Using a rasping tongue and a cocktail of chemicals to drill through the wall of the shell takes several days, but under stress of competitive pressure, snails attack through the shell edge a faster, but riskier access. The shift in feeding behavior patterns was demonstrated in the lab,...Gene sequencing explains bioremediation 'bug'
...coides husbandry. For example, it seems to like a cocktail of acetate, vitamin B-12 and extracts of mixed microbial cultures as nutrients. One bioremediation company even adds molasses to the elixir it injects into pollution sites. Since their Strain 195 discovery was not patentable, the academic scientists ...Clam embryo study shows pollutant mixture adversely affects nerve cell development
...m, chloroform, and tetrachloroethylene--a chemical cocktail known as BCE--can act synergistically to alter a key regulator in nerve cell development. While scientists have previously studied the effects of these pollutants individually, this is the first time anyone has demonstrated that BCE's components can ...UCLA researchers detail the evolution of quantum dot imaging in the journal Science
... be used on patients, who could be injected with a cocktail of different colored qdots that would "label" the cancerous cells. Once they're gathered at the tumor site, the positrons emitted from the qdots could be imaged with PET scanners now in use in clinics throughout the country. The scan would indicate t...When cobras spit, there's not a dry eye in the house
...owever, up to now nobody has investigated it." The cocktail of toxins partly consists of nerve poisons, but also contains components which are harmful to tissue. Through a narrow channel in their fangs the snakes can spray the liquid at high pressure similar to a bullet in the barrel of a gun. If they manage...American Chemical Society meeting March 13-17 features wide variety of new research
From analyzing the popular margarita cocktail to introducing a new method for fighting Type 2 diabetes and lowering cholesterol, chemists will present their latest findings at the 229th national meeting of the American Chemical Society in San Diego, March 13-17. The world-wide lineup of scientis...Scientists discover that three overlapping signals in embryo help get the backbone right
...ominant signaling center actually is a source of a cocktail of inhibitors," he said, "so inhibition is just as specific a signal in the embryo as is an activating signal." Since they discovered noggin, Harland and his colleagues have shown that in later stages of development, this protein factor is critical i...Tiny scaffolding allows stem cells to become working fat cells
...stem cells. "They just needed to be tweaked with a cocktail of hormones for them to evolve into fat cells," he said. Kniss said that the transformation into bona fide fat cells took about two weeks to complete. At that point, the cells were able to absorb lipids a hallmark task of fat cells. Researchers were ...UCSD researchers maintain stem cells without contaminated animal feeder layers
...sue types in the body. The scientists knew that a cocktail of various growth factors and chemicals had previously been shown to modulate cellular growth and differentiation in human pancreatic cells. Human embryonic stem cells cultured for several weeks under these conditions showed no change in cell form an...Stem cells from brain transformed to produce insulin at Stanford
...ate professor at Kobe University in Japan, added a cocktail of chemicals in a sequence that they knew might prod the stem cells to mature into insulin-producing cells. After some trial and error, they found the right combination and sequence. The end result was a dish full of cells that could produce insulin ...Opiate cocktail may spare cells from morphine's dark side
...ew study showing that the administration of a drug cocktail containing morphine along with small doses of two ... at the cell surface, the authors developed a drug cocktail containing morphine along with two chemical versions of the opioid methadone, which is tolerated, wi...Cranberry juice inactivates intestinal viruses
...addition of commercially available cranberry juice cocktail to intestinal viruses resulted in viral reductions below detectible infectivity levels," says Patrice Cohen, a researcher on the study. Intestinal virus infections account for significant illness and billions of dollars in medical expenses each yea...Quantum dots provide a faster, more sensitive method for detecting respiratory viral infections
...rchers' next step will be to develop a quantum dot cocktail capable of simultaneously detecting the presence of at least five major respiratory viruses: influenza A and B, parainfluenza and metapneumovirus, in addition to RSV. This should be fairly straightforward, Wright says. In the current paper, Wright an...Molecular miners find pain relief drugs from the sea
...r 500 species of cone snail, each with a different cocktail of venom peptides. Fortunately, most cone snails h...snail venom has to offer. In fact, the venom is a cocktail of thousands of biologically active compounds of which only a few hundred have been identified. Asso...MIT tissue engineers implant viable, vascularized 3D muscles
...essor Robert Langer's lab at MIT have used a novel cocktail of cells to coax muscle tissue to develop its own vascular network, a process called pre-vascularization. When implanted in living mice and rats, these tissues integrated more robustly with the body's own tissues than similar implants without blood v...Huntington's cure in flies lays groundwork for broader treatment approaches
...ng alternative might be to simultaneously target a cocktail of gene-induced activities - all of which are set in motion, for example, by a single faulty gene. Yin has long worked in the area of "triplet expansion" diseases such as Huntington's and Fragile X, in which genes go haywire due to a coding defect. ...