Sugar and spice and everything nice: Health differences in newborn girls and boys
...ccess to and utilization of services, the Canadian team has explored a biological basis for the difference...ate and hydrogen ion (H+) content. The research team found that both male and female livers showed similar low levels of both lactate and H+ at baseline....Research aims to identify markers for menopausal women at risk for deadly blood clot
...precluding identification of women at risk. Now, a team of Mayo Clinic researchers, led by Virginia Miller...ses blood platelets to define thrombotic risk. The team is testing its theory as part of the Kronos Early Estrogen Prevention Study (KEEPS). Miller is discu...The 'female advantage' in kidney disease does not extend to diabetic women
...n to help explain why. The leader of this research team and the Center's Director of Diabetes Research is Dr. Christine Maric. She will discuss the state of the team's findings entitled, "Sex, Diabetes and Renal Injury," at the upcoming conference, Sex and Gender in Cardiovascular-Renal Physiology and Pat...Grapes, soy and kudzu blunt some menopausal side effects
...nitive Enhancement and Hypertension The research team examined whether grape polyphenols were associated with reduced cognitive dysfunction and a lower incidence of high blood pressure. They found that the effect of the polyphenols on working and reference memory errors indicated that both short-term (w...Weizmann Institute scientists discover a control mechanism for metastasis
...stant organs is the main cause of cancer death. A team of scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science...ic mechanisms involved in cancer cell migration, a team of researchers pooled their knowledge and resources. This team, headed by Prof. Yosef Yarden of the ...Almac Diagnostics announces pioneering genetic research on ductal carcinoma in situ
...Cancer DSA research tool. An Almac bioinformatics team will interrogate the resulting data to identify any potential signature. Our research will use the Breast Cancer DSA microarray to examine the transcriptome of ductal carcinoma in situ at a greater level of specificity generating additional informa...New technology reveals seal behavior
New technology has allowed an international team including UK scientists from University of St Andrews and British Antarctic Survey to witness for the first time the behaviour of the southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina) and how it relates to its physical environment. Small sensors were attache...Preclinical study links gene to brain aneurysm formation
...e of Current Neurovascular Research. The UC-led team analyzed 30 female mice bred to suppress (knock out) one of three genes and molecular pathways associated with vascular disease: inducible nitric oxide synthase (NOS-2), endothelial nitric oxide synthase (NOS-3) or the plasminogen activator inhibitor...Secret life of elephant seals not secret anymore!
...SA. The work was carried out by an international team including scientists from France, the United States and the United Kingdom and included Australian researchers Professor Mark Hindell from the University of Tasmanias Animal Wildlife Research Unit, Dr Steve Rintoul, from the Antarctic Climate and Eco......thor and USC biologist Steven Finkel. A research team led by John Tower, associate professor of molecula...the fly, or any other animal, Tower said. Towers team eliminated bacteria as a factor by comparing normal fruit flies to specimens born from eggs washed i...Lost forest yields several new species
...ct and related degradation in the area, the survey team found that some 1,000 square kilometers have remained intact, from the shores of Lake Tanganyika up to elevations of 2,725 meters above sea level. In addition to the new animal species, the survey found that the region of gallery forests and woodland...High-intensity ultrasound may launch attack on cancer, wherever it lurks
... -- all without the need for surgery, the research team reported in the Journal of Translational Medicine on Aug. 3 (a provisional version appeared online on July 11). The work, done by the engineers in collaboration with cancer immunologists and physicians at the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center, was sup...Cornell scientists link E. coli bacteria to Crohn's disease
ITHACA, N.Y. A team of Cornell University scientists from the College of Veterinary Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences have discovered that a novel group of E. coli bacteria containing genes similar to those describ...Role of thyroid hormones in slumber under investigation at Rutgers
...,369 grant from the National Science Foundation, a team of Rutgers-Camden researchers will pinpoint precisely how and when thyroid hormones influence the brains sleep-related structures. Findings could yield new knowledge on a previously unknown sleep-regulatory substance and potentially answer why existi...Study: Sticking to the sand might not be such good, clean fun for beachgoers
...cted in the sand, according to a recent study by a team of Stanford scientists. Published in the July 1 ...urally in the sand and are therefore benign. The team was led by Alexandria Boehm, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Stanford,...UCLA scientists produce functioning neurons from human embryonic stem cells
...ive rise to neurons. When the time was right, Suns team added protein growth factors into the cell culture...ng into neurons. To isolate the cells, Sun and her team added an enzyme that digests a sort of protein matrix that holds cells in culture together. The neur...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- Aug. 1, 2007
...e Journal of Proteome Research An international team of researchers is proposing a plan for building a toolkit for personalized medicine that long-anticipated era in which physicians customize efforts to prevent, diagnose, and treat diseases to match the unique genetic characteristics of each individu...Story tips from the US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, August 2007
...other purposes -- such as signal processing -- the team of ORNL and SRC Computers researchers has bridged the gap to exploit their incredible capabilities for improved performance on scientific applications. This possibility could deliver performance of supercomputing devices to institutional clusters and...Link identified between Alzheimer's disease and glaucoma
...tein may be used to treat glaucoma. The research team has developed a new technology for visualising nerve cell damage in the retina, known as Detection of Apoptosing Retinal Cells. Using this technology, they demonstrated that the protein beta-amyloid, which causes the so-called "plaque" lesions in the......ade in this direction by an international research team with the participation of the GSF - National Resea...known protein. Through proteomic methods, Ueffings team could demonstrate that lebercilin specifically interacts with other proteins which play a role in th...