No evidence that widely prescribed statins protect against prostate cancer
PHILADELPHIA − A large community-based study refutes previous findings that statins a top-selling drug class, worldwide -- might cut ones risk of developing prostate cancer by reducing production of the male hormones that fuel cancer growth. Researchers from the New England Research Institutes found...Research finds that circadian rhythms dominate all life functions
...blishing in PLoS Computational Biology on June 15, refutes the current theory that only 10 percent to 15 percent of all genes were affected by nature's clock. While scientists have long known that circadian rhythms regulate the behavior of the living, the study shows that daily rhythm dominates all life func...Chromium picolinate shows greater benefits in diabetes care than other forms of chromium
...tent beneficial effects of chromium picolinate and refutes a previous review that analyzed efficacy after combining results from all types of supplemental chromium.(2) "The main messages are that all forms of chromium are not equivalent, and that higher doses of chromium picolinate are required for people ...Vaccine-producing 'plant-factories'
...hance The new route discovered by the CSIC team refutes one of the dogmas regarding this type of protein. Nevertheless, Pozueta reveals that the starting point for this research was a chance discovery. The team had been investigating the metabolism of starch, a substance that is generated in the chloropla...Salt intake is strongly associated with obesity
... the journal "Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases" refutes the frequently repeated claims that a comprehensive salt reduction would not produce any overall health benefits, or would even increase diseases and shorten the life-span. Professors, Dr. Heikki Karppanen of the University of Helsinki and Dr. Ee...New study finds amniocentesis safer for pregnant women
...hool of Medicine has found that this new study now refutes the typically quoted 0.5% pregnancy loss rate and suggests it may be even lower than 0.1%."Women should be counseled that this older loss rate is archaic and their decision about whether or not to have an amniocentesis should be based on contemporary...Researchers identify energy gains and environmental impacts of corn ethanol and soybean biodiesel
...crops and convert them into biofuels. This finding refutes other studies claiming that these biofuels require more energy to produce than they provide. The amount of energy each returns differs greatly, however. Soybean biodiesel returns 93 percent more energy than is used to produce it, while corn grain et...Even fish don't swim well when they're young!
...his conclusion is all the more profound because it refutes two previous theories of poor hatchling swimming, one focusing on the burst phase and the other on the coast.The former of the two explanations suggests that because the larvae are not very heavy they may not gain much momentum in the burst phase to ...New analysis shows three human migrations out of Africa
... of Africa instead of just two, and statistically refutes strongly the 'Out of Africa' replacement theory. That theory holds that populations of Homo sapiens left Africa 100,000 years ago and wiped out existing populations of humans. Templeton has shown that the African populations interbred with the Eura...FSU anthropologist leads incredible journey through 'hobbit' brain
... Falk contends that her team's exhaustive analysis refutes skeptics' suppositions that Homo floresiensis was either a pygmy or a microcephalic. "The scaling of brain to body isn't at all what we'd expect to find in pygmies, and the shape is all wrong to be a microcephalic. This is something new." The brain s......arch at North Shore-LIJ have made a discovery that refutes two longstanding beliefs about the most common leukemia in the western hemisphere. Due to the relatively slow disease progression of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), doctors thought it was caused by a gradual accumulation of leukemia cells that co...