FSU scientist links iron imbalance to Parkinson's disease
... the disease once the neurological stage is set or slow the degenerative progress, iron toxicity both precipitates Parkinson's symptoms and hastens decline and death in existing victims. Until further studies determine optimal levels of the essential nutrient, Levenson advises health-conscious co...Highlights of American Anthropological Assoc. meeting
... and food systems. Here they discuss fast food and slow food as two visions of the future. (45.45 p.m.) Do That Voodoo You Do So Well: In their various forms, voodoo offers expressive performance under repressive conditions. They fulfill mystical contracts, salute sacred times and places and pay tr...Gladstone researchers resolve key Huntington's disease mystery in Nature cover story
...y taking one-time snapshots of individual cells, a slow process that doesn't allow researchers to track changes in any given cell over time. Beyond slowness, a fundamental problem with this conventional approach is that the snapshots are not only taken at different times but also each image is of a comple...The CF Foundation urges all states to include newborn screening for cystic fibrosis in test panels
...nd postpone the development of symptoms, which can slow the progression of the disease. Implementation of CF Newborn Screening Participants in a recent workshop hosted by the CF Foundation discussed how to implement routine newborn screening for CF, as well as how the CF Foundation and its nationwide ne...UT Southwestern researchers uncover process for sugar-induced fat formation
...lso turn sugar into fat. ChREBP is involved in the slow response. ChREBP is a type of protein called a transcription factor. Transcription factors work in the cell nucleus to turn genes on and off in response to a signal. In the case of ChREBP, the signal is glucose, a simple sugar formed when carbohy...Leading scientists to discuss research applications for therapeutic cloning
...ic community; it stigmatizes the research and will slow the pace of discoveries for decades to come." Dr. Schatten, who testified before U.N. delegates on the issue in June, is close to the debate because he has been trying to clone primates, which belong to the same overall species classification as huma...Early life stress harms mental function and immune system in later years
... conducted in rats, clearly shows a late onset and slow progression of deficits in communication between brain cells in the hippocampus, a brain region involved in learning, storage, and recall of memories. Kristen Brunson, a senior member of Tallie Z. Baram's group, and her colleagues, found that l...Pesticides may promote Parkinson's disease and exercise may offer protection
...gainst the loss of dopamine neurons--and thus help slow or prevent the development of Parkinson's disease, according to new studies on rats conducted by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Texas. This research is encouraging news for people with Parkinson's disease who are lo...Potential new oncogene may be missing link in cancer-causing chain
...ood target for drugs that decrease its function to slow down or prevent the progression of some types of cancer....Yerkes researchers to present array of new data at Society for Neuroscience Meeting
...velopment of early intervention therapy to stop or slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease. (6 p.m. 7 p.m.)...UNC Lineberger researchers identify molecular markers of aging
...addition to identifying molecular targets that may slow aging in the future, the study may also suggest immediate clinical applications.Knowing the molecular age of a tissue may also enable physicians to select the "youngest" most viable tissues and organs for transplantation, to predict how well a patien...Powerful 'toolkit' developed for functional profiling of yeast genes
...here's no back-up for a missing gene that leads to slow growth. Pan's mutant yeast are protected from collecting genetic impurities because he's added a second copy of all the genes, a cloak that temporarily obscures the effects of whatever gene is missing. He then uses a laboratory trick developed by...International marine survey of coral death
...t, solid-waste disposal and land-use practices can slow -- or even reverse -- the destruction of coral reefs and protect the fisheries that depend on the reefs, then local communities and governments need to know."...Spatial structure, dispersal, and management of a recovering raptor population
...ile the coastal subpopulation would have been very slow to recover without the reintroduction effort. This study makes clear that understanding spatial structure can be critical for the effective conservation and management of animal populations....November nutrition news from the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts
...y to extend the lifetime of ubiquitin, and thereby slow down or prevent the onset of eye disease," said Taylor, who is also a professor at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts, and a professor of biochemistry and ophthalmology at Tufts School of Medicine. Ubiquitin was discovered ...JCI table of contents, November 15 2004
...ir fast contracting muscle fibers in comparison to slow contracting fibers, the fast contracting fibers in Nfkb1- and Bcl3-deficient mice appeared to be resistant to atrophy. The results demonstrate that muscular inactivity triggers the activation of P50 and Bcl3, which in turn may activate genes necessar...University of South Florida designated Center of Excellence by Huntington's Disease Society
...linical trials of potential new therapies that may slow progression of the disease." USF joins a select group of 21 HDSA Centers of Excellence across the country, including those at Johns Hopkins, Harvard/MGH, the University of Virginia, Emory and Baylor. "The Huntington's Disease Society of Ameri...Novel biotoxin being studied for use in opioid withdrawal
...f heroin withdrawal in China. It works by blocking slow sodium channel nocicipetive pain fibres in a highly selective way. Tetrodotoxin proved to have such good analgesic properties in the initial Chinese trials that it is also now being evaluated for clinical use in the treatment of refractory cancer pai...Hold the stuffing: Low-glycemic diet may help keep weight off
...c diet may overcome the body's natural tendency to slow metabolism and turn on hunger cues to "make up" th...l/day, or 10.6%), meaning their metabolism did not slow as much. They also reported less hunger each day while on their diets. "Almost anyone can lose weigh...Psychological stress and disease: UCSF-led study suggests connection
...ease telomerase activity and telomere length -- or slow the rate of telomere shortening -- in individuals. At this point, there is not a routine test for assessing telomerase activity or telomere length in cells, and scientists are years away from knowing enough about the correlation between chronic psych...