Gum disease in postmenopausal women linked to oral bone loss
...ral bone loss in postmenopausal women, which is an offshoot of the observational portion of the national Womens Health Initiative (WHI). Participants in this study completed questionnaires, had physical measurements taken, had bone-density testing and an oral health examination. The oral health examination h...Analysis reveals extent of DNA repair army
...ge response and the onset of tumors. An intriguing offshoot of the findings, Elledge said, is that they provide a potential lead into the role of estrogen in breast cancer. "RAP80 also binds the estrogen receptor and may have roles in signaling through the estrogen pathway," he said. "I think this may be a bi...Reproductive speed protects large animals from being hunted to extinction
...upported by the National Science Foundation, is an offshoot of her Ph.D. dissertation at the University of Virginia. Price did a complex statistical analysis of 144 species of hoofed mammals, including pigs, llamas, cattle, sheep, goats and antelopes, combining a global list of threatened species with data ...Using Nanotechnology to Improve Health Care in Developing Countries
...amples of the exciting potential of nanomedicinean offshoot of nanotechnology which researchers in both industrialized and developing countries hail as enabling the next big breakthroughs in medicine and which they promise to change virtually every facet of health care, disease control and prevention. Severa...Fish gene sheds light on human skin color variation
...tion. The pigmentation discovery was an unexpected offshoot of cancer research Cheng began a decade ago using zebrafish, a common aquarium pet that is widely used as a model organism for studying the genetics of development. The zebrafish reproduces rapidly, and many of its genes are similar to humans, which ...Expanding forests darken the outlook for butterflies, study shows
...animals such as sheep and elk like to inhabit. The offshoot is that it also helps smaller animals, such as the butterflies," Roland said....Read your shampoo's label: Study finds common ingredient stunts developing neurons of rats
...icine. Dr. Aizenman became interested in MIT as an offshoot to his primary area of research on the mechanisms of neuronal cell death. The first he heard of the chemical was when its name came up in a literature search for compounds with specific chemical properties that he thought would incite a particular ce...