New research, conducted by the Henry Ford Hospital’s sleep center,
indicates that snoring is a contributor to cardiovascular disease,
because it thickens the carotid arteries, the main arteries to the head
and neck. The researchers warn that snoring is, in fact, a greater risk
for atherosclerosis than smoking or obesity.
Duke University researchers have conducted a major review of the
psychiatric literature that measures the effects of yoga as a treatment
for a range of mental disorders in clinical trials. Here’s how they went
about their research, their results, and the implications for the
future treatment of neuropsychiatric disorders.
Scientists at the Medical College of Georgia
have identified a nutrient transporter cell, SLC5A8, that can be
suppressed, causing cancer cells to die while not harming healthy
cells.
…. Misrepresentations in scientific reporting are serious offences,
undermining the most basic principles of science, those that rely on
complete objectivity, with no predetermination of result. Scientific
fraud is both unethical and, ultimately, costly, most especially where
plant, animal, and human life may be endangered by it. So it is
important to live science fields, in particular, to understand more
about factors contributing to scientific fraud in an attempt to reduce
the incidence of it. This study, undertaken by a cross-disciplinary team of life scientists looks at two of these factors: gender and career levels.
There’s a genetic mutation that keeps certain persons from having smelly
underarms and sticky ear wax. The question, to a group of scientists
from the University of Bristol in Great Britain, was whether persons
with no underarm odor used deodorant anyway. The results of their study
of 17,000 individuals are published in the advance online edition of
the Journal of Investigative Dermatology.
MedXCom is a new smartphone app that is changing the way doctors and patients interact by providing a central place for medical records and a secure way to exchange information, but that’s not all. The benefits of this little app extend well beyond the doctor’s office and into the singles bar.
This year is starting off with the publication of several promising
research studies in biomedicine and reports on big advances in
neuroscience, particularly Alzheimer’s disease and other neurological causes of memory loss. This news includes a paper from a National Institutues of Health (NIH), published in the January 2013 FASEB Journal reporting on a peptide, TFP5,
that when administered to mice with the equivalent of human Alzheimer’s
disease, successfully reversed their symptoms of memory loss.
A scientific breakthrough, something obese and overweight people have only dreamed about, has been made at the University of Florida’s (UF) Sid Martin Biotechnology Development Institute, where Dr. Stephen Hsu and his research team have identified a ‘fat gene’ called TRIP-Br2.
When the team controlled the expression of this gene in mice, the mice
were unable to gain weight, no matter how much they ate.
Scientists often struggle to come up with artificial means to accomplish
medical goals, when all the while nature has the answer. Such an
answer has been found in the Douglas Fir, Pseudotsuga menzietii,
which not only happens to form an ideal shape for a Christmas tree, but
also holds a very important biological agent in its needles – a natural
antimicrobial.
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