Mother's prenatal and lactational diet may protect daughters from breast cancer
... many normal cells, in the mammary ducts, by three months of age. By six months, that hyperplasia would pro... after weaning, showed mammary gland tumors by six months of age. Conversely, fewer than 60 percent of the female offspring who ate richly of high omega-3 fa...Green tea shown to prevent prostate cancer
...o. Follow-up biopsies were administered after six months and again at one year. Only one case of prostate cancer was diagnosed among those receiving 600 mg daily of GTCs, while nine cases were found in the untreated group. The 30 percent incidence rate among controls is consistent with previous findings,...Strongest proof yet found for prion hypothesis
...ters, which began showing TSE symptoms within four months and, on average, died less than six months after inoculation. "For many years, people have tried to make these infectious prions in test tubes,...Genes influence how heart failure patients respond to drugs
...able to tolerate the drug well in the first couple months of taking it, compared with those who did not respond as favorably. Patients with either of two variants were three times more likely to require increases in heart failure medications to treat worsening symptoms after they began taking beta-blockers ...Neural tube defects decrease with folic acid fortification
...ing folic acid fortification that were observed 20 months after fortification began. In addition, the inclusion of two pre-fortification periods successfully demonstrated that the decrease in neural tube defects seen in 2001-2002 was not due to a historical trend like in other areas of the world, including ...Researchers identify protein crucial for survival of Lyme-disease bacterium
...ing the ticks to feed on mice, waiting a couple of months for the tick to molt, then refeeding them that we began to see the effect. Our results required a much more comprehensive assessment of the total life cycle of the bacterium, as opposed to just focusing on the mammalian infection, which is what many...Important brain finding results from boy's rare, fatal disease
...ans Michelle Lacagnina and David Gass, who devoted months to keeping the cells alive and healthy; and Eric Richfield, M.D., Ph.D., a neuropathologist formerly at Rochester and now in New Jersey. The work was funded by the Children's Neurobiological Solutions Foundation, the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Ca...A frog's life is food for thought
...sorb nutrients 40 percent more effectively after 3 months without food, than frogs that had eaten regularly.... Green-striped burrowing frogs spend upwards of 10 months of the year in underground burrows in a hibernation-like state known as aestivation. During this tim...Migration study finds that sweeping management changes are needed to protect Atlantic bluefin tuna
...Atlantic remain in these cold waters seven to nine months of the year." The researchers also were surprised to learn that some eastern and western bluefin dine together throughout the central Atlantic in a vast region that extends hundreds of square miles east and west of longitude 45W. "Right now, any west...Researchers drill historic hole in Atlantic Ocean floor
... serves as the chief contractor, took almost three months to drill the hole, which penetrates more than 4,600 feet below the ocean floor. It is in an area called the Atlantis Massif located in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, says Jay Miller, staff scientist at Texas A&M and one of the leaders of the proje...Metal stents are safe and effective for treatment of obstructions from pancreatic cancer
...ill open in 90 percent of the patients after three months and were open in almost 80 percent of patients after one year. Complications, however, included migration (movement) of the stent, occlusion of the stent and obstructions of the cystic duct. The stents were easily removed and replaced where needed. ...Slow balls take the swing out of young ball players
... born with cataracts and treated as early as a few months of age were found to encounter problems with seeing motion later in life. Deficits in motion perception are particularly pronounced when a person encounters slow motion....Newly discovered genetic disease sheds light on body's water balance
...03 after two unrelated baby boys, each about three months old, were referred to UCSF Children's Hospital wit...rst child suffered from severe irritability. A few months later, the second infant was admitted with generalized seizures. Doctors in the pediatric endocrinol...VaxGen and EndoBiologics form collaboration to pursue early stage research for meningitis B vaccine
...o fund proof-of-concept studies during the next 12 months and has an exclusive option to continue product development if the studies yield promising results. Meningitis B (Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B) is a life-threatening bacterial infection most common among young children. The disease is nearly ...Killer dinosaurs turned vegetarian
...property. He pleaded guilty, was sentenced to five months in prison and 36 months of supervised release, and was ordered to pay $15,000 in restitution. He served his prison time in 2...DFG to fund 14 new research training groups
...xcellence initiative, which was announced eighteen months ago, and is still a matter of controversial debate between federal and individual state governments, is still planned. The DFG is currently funding a total of 269 Research Training Groups, 38 of which are International Research Training Groups. The R...Stem cell treatment improves mobility after spinal cord injury
...- one group seven days after injury and another 10 months after injury. In both groups, the early-stage cells formed into full-grown oligodendrocyte cells and migrated to appropriate neuronal sites within the spinal cord. In the rats treated seven days after the injury, myelin tissue formed as the oligoden...For young canaries learning their song, freedom in youth gives way to rules in adulthood
...ze syllables into phrases by the time they are two months old. But the birds growing up listening to the random walk and glissando songs instead did their best to imitate the atypical, synthetic songs of their tutors for several months, producing long sequences of dissimilar sounds. Then puberty hit. As the...Plunge into warmer waters this summer with ESA's Mediterranean heat map
...tribution. The animation above shows the last six months in the life of the Mediterranean, right up to yesterday, as the waters warm up from the depths of winter to the start of summer. "Every day at 1200, a two-kilometre resolution map of SST is produced over the whole of the Mediterranean sea, " explain...Blocking blood vessels provides new option for large group of advanced lung cancer patients
... patients enrolled in the study had died was 12.5 months for patients who received bevacizumab plus chemotherapy compared to 10.2 months for patients who received standard chemotherapy alone. "We also observed improvements in patient be...