Reproductive speed protects large animals from being hunted to extinction
...ingly to "bush meat," including hoofed animals, to supplement their diets. "Because these are large, plant-eating animals, they have a significant effect on the local ecology," Price said. These animals help disperse plant seeds through their manure and keep plant growth in check. "You can completely change t...Leading the fight against food poisoning
...timely intervention is needed at the farm level to supplement the extensive, but not fully effective, controls already in place in food processing. GangaGen has demonstrated in production animal trials that we can isolate and use phages with full regard for safety, and that are benign to animals, humans and the...Studies to find better ways to preserve human eggs, ovarian tissue under way
...Transplantation. Regenerative medicine will help supplement the shortage of organs in the future, and we need technology to preserve those we make. ...Dartmouth professor makes case for ethically universal stem cell lines
...e should support research now to develop them as a supplement tobut not a replacement for existing methods of hESC derivation....Boosting key milk nutrients may protect against cancer
... thousand women over the age of 55 in one of three supplement groups: 1) calcium (1400-1500mg) plus vitamin D (1...oosing vitamin-D rich foods like milk and taking a supplement Americans can help improve their vitamin D levels and potentially impact their cancer risk. Milk i...Dietary calcium is better than supplements at protecting bone health
... Louis. Surprisingly, this is true even though the supplement takers have higher average calcium intake. Adequ...o meticulously detail their diet and their calcium supplement intake for a week. "We assumed that this sample represented each woman's typical diet," says senior ...U-M researchers find family of 'on switches' that cause prostate cancer
...tect gene fusions in urine. The tool could one day supplement or replace the prostate specific antigen, or PSA, test currently used to screen for prostate cancer. The idea of translating laboratory research findings into a test or treatment that will impact patients is central to the new Michigan Center for T...Taking a supplement of glycine helps prevent degenerative diseases such as arthrosis or osteoporosis
...here researchers studied the effect of the glycine supplement on the diet of a group of 600 volunteers affected by different diseases related to the mechanical structure of the organism such as arthrosis, physical injuries or osteoporosis. The patients analysed were aged 4-85, and the average age was 45. In a......l trial that examined whether four vitamin-mineral supplement combinations could effect the liver cancer death rate in a Chinese population that was deficient in many vitamins and minerals. Study participants took two or four of the following combinations: retinol and zinc; riboflavin and niacin; ascorbic acid ...