FSU scientist links iron imbalance to Parkinson's disease
...ural dietary sources like red meats, dried fruits, dark leafy greens, tofu, cooked dried beans or wheat germ. "I'd be nervous about just handing someone iron supplements and saying 'have at it," she said. "Self-medicating may have unintended consequences." ...Biomedical engineers at case develop first sliver-sized sensor to monitor glucose levels
...m orange (low glucose levels) to green and then to dark blue as levels increase. A deep, darker blue signifies the highest glucose level that can occur in diabetics. Gratzl and co-principal investigator Koji Tohda, a biomedical engineering researcher at Case, believe the implications for improving the qua...Study shows stem cells can preserve vision
... transplants or with non-stem cell transplants) in dark cages and flashed a series of increasingly lower level lights at both groups over a period of time. Mice are photophobic and stop their normal activity when they detect light. The researchers took advantage of this natural response and found that the...Invasive sea squirt alive and well on Georges Bank
...nd cementing a pebble gravel seabed and crowding a dark orange anemone (lower part of photo). Note the relatively few holes in the mat where the gray background is visible. Northern Georges Bank (41 deg 54.429 min N lat, 67 deg 27.146 min W lon). Water depth 59 m (194 ft). November 2004. Width of spe...Studies in Royal Society journals include stress in birds and depletion of medieval fish stocks
...stem that works where eyes do not, for instance in dark or smoky environments; the benefits to robotics of reproducing this system are clear. Previously, it has not been understood how the whisker and follicle transform stimuli into nerve impulses, so we have built a computer model of these parts, the fir...NJIT physicists expect new super lens to reveal first light by early 2006
...ch about earthshine, the faint illumination of the dark part of the moon by sunlight reflected from the earth. In the May 28, 2004 issue of Science, Goode and his team argued that by observing earthshine for eight years, they had witnessed first a gradual decline in the earth's reflectance, which althoug...Study: Eat leafy green veggies to help prevent cataracts
...ratory evidence that certain antioxidants found in dark leafy green vegetables can indeed help prevent cataracts. Vitamin manufacturers often add the antioxidants lutein and zeaxanthin to their products, but until now there has been no biochemical evidence to support the claim that these substances help p...Red wine lovers, take heart: More evidence points to the drink's cardiac heath benefits
...es a day may offer protective effects. Nearly all dark red wines merlot, cabernet, zinfandel, shiraz and...sons, according to the researchers. But nearly all dark red wines merlot, cabernet, zinfandel, shiraz and pinot noir contain resveratrol. ...Alcoholism and excessive food intake may share chemical pathways in the brain
...centrations of alcohol for a 12-hour light/12-hour dark day cycle until all had acquired a preference for ...e. Tests were conducted during both the light and dark periods of the day cycle. Food was freely available; however, as a control for galanin-induced calo......galaxies as well as being involved in the hunt for dark matter. As part of this work he is actively involved in the development of X-ray telescope satellites, which it is hoped will provide answers to various questions on the distribution of matter and the early development of stars and galaxies. Gnther H...NJIT astrophysicist who revived earthshine named fellow of American Physical Society
...s earthshine, which studies the glow of the moon's dark side to measure earth's reflectance. The honor lauds Goode not only for his earthshine research and studies of solar structure and oscillations, but also for his critical national and international research leadership in solar astrophysics. As ...Ecologists see the primeval wood for the trees
...ope may have been remarkably similar to the dense, dark forests of ancient folklore according to a paper published today in the British Ecological Society's Journal of Ecology. The paper by Dr Fraser Mitchell of Trinity College Dublin provides important new evidence about the nature of ancient woodlands ...NYU biologists find new function for pacemaker neurons
...placed in the center of a Petri dish with one side dark and the other illuminated. Normal larvae exhibited the natural behavior and clustered on the dark side. However, when the larvae had their pacemaker neurons disabled, they were as blind as larvae th...Brown scientists uncover inner workings of rare eye cells
...on that controls the body clock about how light or dark the environment is. The cells are also responsible for narrowing the pupil of the eye. "It's a general brightness detection system in the eye," said Berson, the Sidney A. Fox and Dorothea Doctors Fox Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences. "W...NJIT expert recommends 16 easy, affordable ways to make homes safer for people with disabilities
...trip over something when you are walking through a dark room to turn on the light," said Olsen. Eliminate thresholds between rooms: Again, threshold represent another tripping hazard. Install threshold or mini ramps: For easier wheelchair access at high thresholds on exterior doors install a threshold ...Falling canopy ants glide home
...iles. An ant falling to the forest floor enters a dark world of mold and decomposition, of predators and scavengers, where the return trip is through a convoluted jungle of dead, accumulated leaves. Gliding is definitely the way to go, and we won't be surprised if we find more examples of this behavior a...'Blips' in HIV treatment are not cause for alarm
...sistance at 120 copies, clinicians are left in the dark about the significance of the blips with regard to resistance, Siliciano said. Siliciano and his colleagues hypothesized that the small increases in viral load represented by the blips were only random statistical fluctuations in measurement of a vir......evidence, he says, comes from sapropels, which are dark rock layers on the Mediterranean seafloor that were deposited when floods of fresh water poured out of the Nile River during rainy times. The Blue Nile and White Nile tributaries share a drainage divide with the Omo River. During ancient wet periods,...Genome-wide mouse study yields link to human leukemia
...p as smudgy blobs on a test film. If a fragment is dark and definite, it is not methylated. If, on the other hand, it loses at least 30 percent of its intensity, it is regarded as methylated. In the study, the research team tested 2447 fragments in each animal. They found anywhere from 45 to 209 (.8 perc......zzly features including a prominent shoulder hump, dark brown hair on and around the rear legs, and faded (grizzled) hair on the rest of the body. Then in the summer of 2004, Dr. England's research group found physical proof that a grizzly bear was indeed calling Melville Island home. Near a cabin used by...