Breast cancer and hormone therapy -- A looking-glass mirror?
... of data showing that it may vary significantly by type of HT (estrogen-alone vs. estrogenprogestin, brand of progestin, dosage). A new study from the Kaiser Permanente health plan[1] raises the question whether trends in breast cancer incidence and use of HT over the past 25 years may be directly linked....Eat fish -- especially if you drink high levels of alcohol
...e-drinking men have lower intakes of n-3 fats, one type of EFA. This low intake exacerbates the already very low EFA levels. Essential fatty acids (EFAs) are just that; an "essential" part of the total fat intake necessary for a healthy human diet. Most EFAs come from plants, but some are animal-source...Adult survivors of childhood leukemia exercise less, worsening high risk for obesity and illness
...est activity among all adults, suggesting that the type of therapy administered to a child may impair his ...cal inactivity and obesity outcomes are based upon type of therapy administered to patient, said Dr. Oeffinger. Importantly, there are things we can do to i...American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac -- July 18, 2007
...odevices and nanosystems in biofluid and any other type of liquid, the report states. ARTICLE #2 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Integrated Nanogenerators in Biofluid DOWNLOAD PDF http://pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/sample.cgi/nalefd/asap/pdf/nl0712567.pdf DOWNLOAD HTML http://pubs.acs.org/cgi-bin/sample.cgi/nalefd/...1 in 4 NYC adults has elevated blood mercury levels
...ating fish, but some people may need to change the type and amount they eat, Kass said. Young children, breastfeeding mothers, and women who are pregnant or planning pregnancy should eat fish that are lower in mercury and limit fish that are higher in mercury. To help educate New Yorkers about which fis...Identified main genetic variants involved in response to HIV
...une degradation as a result of the infection. This type of comparison, known as association study, permitted to deduct main genetic variations playing a central role in the control of viral infection. Results point to two gene variants related to the immune system. More precisely, these variations are i...New role for protein in fat cells may improve understanding of obesity and diabetes
... the past decade has shown that CETP affects how a type of fat called cholesteryl ester is moved from the blood plasma into cells. Since fat cells make abundant CETP, Morton and Izem decided to examine what CETP does inside a fat cell and what would happen to fat cells that are deficient in CETP. The sc...JCI table of contents: July 19, 2007
...PKC-lambda Obesity, the metabolic syndrome, and type 2 diabetes are frequently characterized by insulin...ities characteristic of the metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes. TITLE: Muscle-specific knockout of PCK-lambda impairs glucose transport and induces me...Coming soon -- Protein synthesis without amino acids?
...he growing chain. Until now, attempts to use this type of copolymerization for peptide synthesis have failed because of the lack of a suitable, effective, and continuously operating catalyst. Researchers led by Huailin Sun at Nankai University in China have now found a catalyst to do the job: a simple co...A new method of adult stem cell growth efficacious in treatment of disorders of the cornea
...d by Dr Fernndez Hortelano involved obtaining this type of cell corneal stem cells by means of a biopsy of cells from a healthy eye of the rabbit. This is a small sample of cells - 3 by 4 mm - and so the contrateral eye is not in danger. A tiny number of cells thus being involved, it is necessary to gro...Measuring the unseeable: Penn researchers probe proteins' dark energy
...twitch and shake. The internal motion represents a type of energy called entropy. Current models of protein structure and function used in research and drug design often do not account for their non-static nature. The traditional model is almost a composite of all the different conformations a protein c...UC Santa Barbara scientists clarify molecular basis of interferon action
... kinase. (RNA stands for ribonucleic acid and is a type of enzyme that is involved in phosphorylation, the transfer of phosphates from donor molecules to target molecules.) The researchers cultured human cancer derived cells with very low PKR or none at all. This allowed them to test the role of PKR i...Purdue-IU researchers explore new method for early disease diagnosis
... processes in the human body," Raftery said. "This type of analysis could be a key to earlier detection of... and his team enhanced the visibility of a certain type of metabolites, amino acids, by chemically tagging the molecules of interest so that they are more e...Gene identified for Crohn's disease in children
...we may find antibiotics effective in treating this type of Crohns disease. Other approaches may be to use immune-boosting drugs to blunt the inflammation, or determining whether particular foods interact with genetic susceptibilities to affect disease symptoms. Understanding gene influences gives us a mor...UK scientists lift lid on genetics of coronary artery disease
...rt disease, hypertension, rheumatoid arthritis and type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Today, the Wellcome Trust has announced a further 7.7 million for the study to continu...Gene variant increases risk of blindness
...of the disease process in AMD. The goal of this type of research is to achieve a full understanding of the causes of AMD, which should lead to the development of better treatment and strategies for prevention of this common and debilitating disease. Professor John Yates, at the University of Cambridg...Nature's secrets yield new adhesive material
...hat you fabricate an array of nano pillars of this type over large areas, you must have a very effective way of doing it without losing the efficacy of the approach, said Messersmith. Well also need to reduce the fabrication costs to make geckel commercially viable. But Messersmith said he envisions gr...Research study describes the role part of the brain plays in memory
...This research has helped learn more about how this type of memory functions. In the future, this informati...escribed as a flexible, conscience and associative type of memory (i.e., it is based on relations between different stimuli). It differs from other types of...CRESIB coordinates an international consortium to fight malaria caused by Plasmodium vivax
...e to the development of new control tools for this type of malaria. In the field of malaria by P. vivax, there has been until now a lack of initiatives to promote the global effort in the research on this disease. With the experience of the CRESIB group in malaria and of the Clnic Foundation for Biomed...Ability to listen to 2 things at once is largely inherited, says twin study
... comparable to well-known inherited traits such as type 1 diabetes and height. Conversely, the ability to understand the filtered words showed high correlation among all twins, indicating that variation in that skill is primarily due to differences in environment. Scientists believe that problems with ...