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Body's Natural Marijuana-Like Chemicals Make Fatty Foods Hard to Resist
12.7.2011 | Press monitoring
Recent studies have revealed potato chips and french fries to be the worst contributors to weight gain -- and with good reason. Have you ever wondered why you can't eat just one chip or a single fry? It's not just the carbohydrates at fault. UC Irvine researchers Daniele Piomelli, Nicholas DiPatrizio and colleagues found that fats in these foods...
The Biology Behind Alcohol-Induced Blackouts
11.7.2011 | Press monitoring
Neuroscientists have identified the brain cells involved in blackouts and the molecular mechanism that appears to underlie them. They report that exposure to large amounts of alcohol does not necessarily kill brain cells as once was thought. Rather, alcohol interferes with key receptors in the brain, which in turn manufacture steroids that inhibit...
A Mother's Salt Intake Could Be Key to Prenatal Kidney Development
8.7.2011 | Press monitoring
A new animal study from Europe has drawn an association between pregnant mothers' sodium intake and their newborn's kidney development. Among the most significant aspects of the study's findings is that either too much or too little salt during pregnancy had an adverse effect on the prenatal development of the offspring's kidneys. The consequence...
Air pollution linked to learning and memory problems, depression
7.7.2011 | Press monitoring
Long-term exposure to air pollution can lead to physical changes in the brain, as well as learning and memory problems and even depression, new research in mice suggests.
Gastric bacterium Helicobacter pylori protects against asthma
4.7.2011 | Press monitoring
Infection with the gastric bacterium Helicobacter pylori provides reliable protection against allergy-induced asthma, immunologists from the University of Zurich have demonstrated in an animal model together with allergy specialists from the University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.
Sea urchins see with their whole body
30.6.2011 | Press monitoring
Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have shown that sea urchins see with their entire body despite having no eyes at all. The study has been published in the scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). But some creatures, such as sea urchins, can react to light even though they do not have eyes. Previous...
First Patients Receive Lab-Grown Blood Vessels from Donor Cells
29.6.2011 | Press monitoring
For the first time, blood vessels created in the lab from donor skin cells were successfully implanted in patients. Functioning blood vessels that aren't rejected by the immune system could be used to make durable shunts for kidney dialysis, and potentially to improve treatment for children with heart defects and adults needing coronary or other...
A Breath of Fresh Air for Detecting Vitamin B12 Deficiency
28.6.2011 | Press monitoring
Researchers have developed a new test to detect the levels of vitamin B12 using your breath, allowing for a cheaper, faster, and simpler diagnosis that could help to avoid the potentially fatal symptoms of B12 deficiency. The researchers, from the University of Florida at Gainesville and Metabolic Solutions, Inc. of Nashua, NH, acknowledged that...
Birds' Eye View Is Far More Colorful Than Our Own
27.6.2011 | Press monitoring
The brilliant colors of birds have inspired poets and nature lovers, but researchers at Yale University and the University of Cambridge say these existing hues represent only a fraction of what birds are capable of seeing.
