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How a High-Fat Diet and Estrogen Loss Leads Women to Store More Abdominal Fat Than Men
7.9.2012 | Press monitoring
A high-fat diet triggers chemical reactions in female mice that could explain why women are more likely than men to gain fat in the abdomen after eating excess saturated fat, new research suggests. The study also sheds light on why women gain fat following menopause. Scientists identified events in female mice that start with the activation of an...
The Eyes Have It: Men and Women Do See Things Differently, Study of Brain's Visual Centers Finds
6.9.2012 | Press monitoring
The way that the visual centers of men and women's brains works is different, finds new research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Biology of Sex Differences. Men have greater sensitivity to fine detail and rapidly moving stimuli, but women are better at discriminating between colors. In the brain there are high concentrations of...
Waste cooking oil makes bioplastics cheaper
5.9.2012 | Press monitoring
'Bioplastics' that are naturally synthesized by microbes could be made commercially viable by using waste cooking oil as a starting material. This would reduce environmental contamination and also give high-quality plastics suitable for medical implants. The Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) family of polyesters is synthesized by a wide variety of...
Zebrafish Study Explains Why the Circadian Rhythm Affects Your Health
3.9.2012 | Press monitoring
Disruptions to the circadian rhythm can affect the growth of blood vessels in the body, thus causing illnesses such as diabetes, obesity, and cancer, according to a new study from Linköping University and Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. In an article now being published in the scientific journal Cell Reports, it is demonstrated for the first...
Breast Milk Promotes a Different Gut Flora Growth Than Infant Formulas
29.8.2012 | Press monitoring
The benefits of breast milk have long been appreciated, but now scientists at Duke University Medical Center have described a unique property that makes mother's milk better than infant formula in protecting infants from infections and illnesses. The finding, published in the August issue of the journal Current Nutrition & Food Science, explains...
People of normal weight with belly fat at highest death risk: study
28.8.2012 | Press monitoring
People who are of normal weight but have fat concentrated in their bellies have a higher death risk than those who are obese, according to Mayo Clinic research presented today at the European Society of Cardiology Congress in Munich. Those studied who had a normal body mass index but central obesity—a high waist-to-hip ratio—had the highest...
Most Mutations Come from Dad
27.8.2012 | Press monitoring
Humans inherit more than three times as many mutations from their fathers as from their mothers, and mutation rates increase with the father’s age but not the mother’s, researchers have found in the largest study of human genetic mutations to date. The study, based on the DNA of around 85,000 Icelanders, also calculates the rate of human mutation...
Good News for Banana Lovers: Help May Be On the Way to Slow That Rapid Over-Ripening
24.8.2012 | Press monitoring
Scientists speaking on August 22 in Philadelphia at the 244th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society described efforts to develop a spray-on coating that consumers could use to delay the ripening of those 6.4 billion pounds of bananas that people in the U.S. eat every year. The coating is a so-called "hydrogel," a...
Menopause evolved to prevent competition between mother and daughter-in-law
23.8.2012 | Press monitoring
The menopause evolved, in part, to prevent competition between a mother and her new daughter-in-law, according to research published today in the journal Ecology Letters The study explains for the first time why the relationship women had with their daughter-in-laws could have played a key role. The data showed that a grandmother having a baby...
Polymer nanoparticle overcomes anticancer drug resistance
21.8.2012 | Press monitoring
In a nanotechnology two-for-one, researchers at the Johns Hopkins University Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence (Hopkins CCNE) have created a polymer nanoparticle that overcomes tumor resistance to the common anticancer agent doxorubicin and that protects the heart against drug-triggered damage, a therapy-ending side effect that limits...
