Sugar and spice and everything nice: Health differences in newborn girls and boys
...er after heart surgery and why female donor livers may be less effective for transplants Austin, TX -- ...they are ill. Two studies using animal models may lead to a better understanding of sex-based health discrepancies among some newborns. One study foun...Research aims to identify markers for menopausal women at risk for deadly blood clot
...t, if a change is triggered by infection, and what may account for thrombotic risk in one woman over anot...ding on the results of this study, the researchers may examine the relationship of platelet activity, inflammation, and cardiovascular risk (CV) in men. It...The 'female advantage' in kidney disease does not extend to diabetic women
...ed with reduced estrogen (estradiol) levels, which may explain why the females lose the protective factor...ions suggest that kidney disease in diabetic women may not be the result of absolute levels of hormones, as previously thought, but to the relative ratio o...Grapes, soy and kudzu blunt some menopausal side effects
... for post-menopausal women, but in the future they may provide effective adjunct therapy that complements the use of lower doses of traditional pharmaceutical compounds. ...Weizmann Institute scientists discover a control mechanism for metastasis
...gnificantly to the understanding of metastasis and may aid, in the future, in the development of anti-cancer drugs. For a cell such as a cancer cell to migrate, it first must detach itself from neighboring cells and the intercellular material to which it is anchored. Before it can do this, it receives ...Almac Diagnostics announces pioneering genetic research on ductal carcinoma in situ
...e in nearly all patients1. However, this strategy may represent over-treatment for those patients in whom disease will not recur2. A gene signature identifying the subset of DCIS patients most likely to suffer a DCIS recurrence, could therefore be used to aid those remaining patients who have been iden...What we can learn from the biggest extinction in the history of Earth
...disappeared from Earth. This mass-extinction event may hold clues to current global carbon cycle changes,...d evidence that a massive, rapid release of carbon may have triggered this extinction. "People point to the fossil record as a place where we can learn a...Innovative tagging technique may help researchers better protect fish stocks
...nservation strategies assume that fish populations may be connected across broad areas, and that protecti...ecessarily account for how long and how far larvae may or may not drift in the open ocean. ...New technology reveals seal behavior
... environment is fundamental in predicting how they may respond to climate change and the consequent shifts in ocean circulation and ice dynamics. ...... describe and predict major landscape changes that may affect these migrations. In Landscape analysis and ungulate movement in the Greater Yellowstone Region, Fred Watson (California Stare University, Monterey Bay) will describe research done on bison in Yellowstone National Park. Future directionsB...Experiment suggests limitations to carbon dioxide 'tree banking'
...bank extra CO2 from human activities in such trees may depend on the vagaries of the weather and large scale forest fertilization efforts, said Ram Oren, the FACE project director. "If water availability decreases to plants at the same time that carbon dioxide increases, then we might not have a net ga...Preclinical study links gene to brain aneurysm formation
...cts. Scientists say this suggests that the gene may play an important role in the development of intracranial aneurysms. An aneurysm occurs when a blood vessel weakens and stretches, forming a bulge in the vessel wall that can rupture and hemorrhage. Intracranial arterial aneurysms are bulges that ...Secret life of elephant seals not secret anymore!
...eal populations have different foraging strategies may explain why seal numbers in the Indian and Pacific...o feed in the sea ice zone, the decline in sea ice may have contributed to the decline in those seal populations, added Dr Rintoul. ......and other functions. But the result in flies still may be relevant to human aging research. In both fli...ecies. The study suggests that all these factors may have nothing to do with aging. I think a lot of people would just assume that if youre increasing ...... that at least in plant evolution, sex with others may bemore trouble than its worth. The mustard-like plant Arabidopsis thaliana lost interest in sex and startedself-pollinating at least a million years ago, said plant geneticists led byMagnus Nordborg, associate professor of molecular and computation...Other highlights in the Aug. 7 JNCI
...and 1979 when higher-dose radiation therapy, which may have involved radiation to the chest, was common. ...eral disruption of the epigenome. These results may have important therapeutic implications. Because of their potential reversibility, epigenetic modifi...Lost forest yields several new species
... reptile, and amphibian species. The expedition may also yield a number of new plant species; survey botanists were unable to identify some 10 percent of the collected samples, which will be sent to specialists in the near future. Given the findings with the vertebrates, it is likely that some of the ...Link between sunspots, rain helps predict disease in east Africa
...ying insects thrive in wet conditions, heavy rains may herald outbreaks of diseases such as Rift Valley F...Britain, offered several reasons why sunspot peaks may affect rainfall. The increased solar energy associated with sunspots, they suggest, heats both land ...Argonne wins three R&D 100 awards for innovative technologies
...ls emitted from suspect processing facilities, and may help to prevent additional nuclear proliferation. The technology also has environmental and biomedical applications. Developers are Argonne Senior Electrical Engineer Sami Gopalsami, Electrical Engineer Sasan Bakhtiari, Department Manager Paul R...In limiting life span, study finds booming bacteria innocent
...tinal bacteria with age and evidence that bacteria may blossom in the prostate and other organs of the elderly. To explore the consequences of such changes in bacteria with age in greater detail, the researchers looked to flies. Drosophila flies are emerging as an ideal model system in which to study m...