Native fruits bear sweet antioxidants
...quivalents per gram, Kakadu plum and Burdekin plum had TEAC values of 204.8 and 192.0 trolox equivalents per gram, Dr Netzel says. Using native Australian fruits as a source of phytochemicals for use in foods could offer enormous opportunities for the food and functional food industries. Studies to...Progesterone therapy and preterm birth: More evidence helps identify women who can benefit
...nseca, M.D., women with short cervix (most of whom had no prior history of preterm birth) who received pr...sitory treatment between 24 and 34 weeks gestation had a greatly reduced rate of preterm birth. Another large multi-center trial led by Dwight J. Rouse, ...JCI table of contents: August 1, 2007
...d fewer proteins able to scavenge the oxidants and had a shorter lifespan than red blood cells from normal mice. Importantly, treatment of the cells with an antioxidant increased the lifespan of the red blood cells lacking Foxo3. A lack of Foxo3, and therefore high levels of oxidants, also decreased the ...New study demonstrates important role of glia in circadian timing
...fic glial factors that are needed for this process had not been identified. Jackson and his colleague Joowon Suh, a student in the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences neuroscience program at Tufts, used cellular and molecular genetic techniques to show that Ebony is localized exclusively in...Forsyth scientists gain new understanding of adult stem cell regulation
...tiation. However, no specific gap junction protein had been functionally linked to adult/somatic stem cell behavior in vivo or to organ regeneration. This work demonstrates that gap junction channels providing direct cell-to-cell communication are a critical component for development and normal physiolo...Aggressive therapy best for certain AML patients
...mal-looking chromosomes. Of these, 24 (10 percent) had the MLL-PTD mutation. All patients received an ...erapy. Of the 24 patients with the mutation, 22 had a complete remission. Of those, 13 relapsed within 1.4 years, but nine (41 percent) remained in remi...Molecule blocks gene, sheds light on liver cancer
...highest microRNA. Earlier research led by Patel had shown that miR-21 probably targeted PTEN, and this study confirmed that. Furthermore, the researchers showed that adding high levels of miR-21 to normal liver cells caused PTEN levels to drop. They also traced the chemical pathways that increased ...First case of successful ovarian tissue transplantation between two, nonidentical sisters
A woman, whose ovaries had failed due to damage caused by chemotherapy and ra...nt from her 17-year-old sister, Sandra Alvaro, who had an identically matched tissue type (human leukocyte antigen (HLA) type), which meant that Teresas im...Under magnetic force, nanoparticles may deliver gene therapy
...be carried away in the blood. Previous researchers had shown that magnetically driven nanoparticles could deliver DNA in cell cultures, but ours is the first delivery system that is biodegradable, and therefore, safer to use in people, said Levy. This delivery system may be a useful tool for deliveri...New databases put wings on search for bipolar risk genes
...patients with well-documented bipolar disorder who had first-degree relatives with a major mood illness. Described this month in The American Journal of Psychiatry, the database is one of two now available at Hopkins BioinforMOODics web site: http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/Psychiatry/moods/bioinform...Reading a face is tricky business
...cluded tests to determine whether study volunteers had a tendency to experience anxiety, particularly in ...ituations. Those who tended to be socially anxious had the strongest brain response to subliminal expressions of fear. The findings have direct impli...High rates of HIV infection documented among young Nepalese girls sex-trafficked to India
... 15 years. One in seven of the studys participants had been trafficked into sexual servitude prior to thi...tation and case records of 287 girls and women who had been sex-trafficked from Nepal to India between the years 1997 and 2005. All had been repatriated ba...Investigating antibiotic use in acute care patients
...e because resistance against the second antibiotic had already been increased by the first antibiotic." In the United States an estimated 10 percent of patients get sick because of infections acquired whilst being treated in hospital. More careful use of antibiotics is regarded as vital. Dr Chin said...UF to lead research on life-threatening fungus
...lus; of those, about two-thirds die. "We haven't had good treatments, we haven't had good prevention methods and, most importantly, we haven't had good diagnostic methods to identify wh...MGH researchers confirm that bone marrow restores fertility in female mice
...s group found that the ovaries of female mice that had received bone marrow or blood cell transplants aft...ecipients and black coats indicating that the eggs had come from marrow donors. Of the 10 females that received bone marrow transplants one week after c...Rare example of Darwinism seen in action
...her researchers found that the IGF2 gene sequences had changed in some species of the minnows, showing that segments of the gene had evolved. In earlier research, we had found that the placenta had evolved independently several ti...Scientists move closer to bio-engineered bladders
...lp patients who have lost bladder function or have had all or part of their bladder removed because of cancer. Research leader, Professor Jenny Southgate, explains: "The models we have developed mean that we have been able to examine how urothelial cells in the bladder self-renew to cope with injury. ...Chickens dieting to help Delaware waterways
...s a boy growing up in Butler County, Pa. He always had animals, including rabbits, sheep and chickens. After high school, he headed to Penn State, where he received his bachelor's degree in dairy science, master's degree in animal nutrition and then a doctorate in poultry nutrition. There are a lot o...Stem cell therapy rescues motor neurons in ALS model
...d the muscles they govern. "Even in animals that had lots of motor neurons surviving, we didn't see the (muscle) connection, which explained why we didn't see functional recovery," says Suzuki. Although the obvious next step in the research is to try and ferret out the reasons the protected motor neu...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- July 25, 2007
...th that exposure. Past research, the report notes, had predicted that certain metabolites compounds formed in the bodies of people exposed to diesel exhaust should appear in the urine. One of those compounds is known by the acronym 1-NP and its metabolites are OHNAAPs and OHNPs. This is the first stu...