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Scientists identify odor molecules that hamper mosquitoes' host-seeking behavior
3.6.2011 | Press monitoring
Female mosquitoes are efficient carriers of deadly diseases such as malaria, dengue and yellow fever, resulting each year in several million deaths and hundreds of millions of cases. To find human hosts to bite and spread disease, these mosquitoes use exhaled carbon dioxide as a vital cue. A disruption of the vital carbon dioxide detection...
Liquid Smoke from Rice Shows Potential Health Benefits
2.6.2011 | Press monitoring
Liquid smoke flavoring made from hickory and other wood -- a mainstay flavoring and anti-bacterial agent for the prepared food industry and home kitchens -- may get a competitor that seems to be packed with antioxidant, antiallergenic and anti-inflammatory substances. It is the first analysis of liquid smoke produced from rice hulls. Mendel...
Does Liposuction Get Rid of That Forever? More Like a Year, Study Suggests
31.5.2011 | Press monitoring
Liposuction has become one of the most popular plastic surgeries in the United States. It has been around since 1974 and there are now more than 450,000 operations a year. But does the fat come back? A recent study by Teri L. Hernandez, PhD, RN and Robert H. Eckel, MD, at the University of Colorado School of Medicine have found that the fat...
Super-Sticky 'Ultra-Bad' Cholesterol Revealed in People at High Risk of Heart Disease
30.5.2011 | Press monitoring
Scientists from the University of Warwick have discovered why a newly found form of cholesterol seems to be 'ultra-bad', leading to increased risk of heart disease. The discovery could lead to new treatments to prevent heart disease particularly in people with type 2 diabetes and the elderly. The research, funded by the British Heart Foundation...
Vitamin D Increases Speed of Sperm Cells, Researchers Discover
27.5.2011 | Press monitoring
Vitamin D is important for optimal reproductive function in both animals and humans. It has long been known that serum vitamin D level is important for reproductive function in various animals, but now researchers from the University of Copenhagen and Copenhagen University Hospital have shown that this relationship can also be demonstrated in...
Bacteria Use Caffeine as Food Source
26.5.2011 | Press monitoring
A new bacterium that uses caffeine for food has been discovered by a doctoral student at the University of Iowa. The bacterium uses newly discovered digestive enzymes to break down the caffeine, which allows it to live and grow. "We have isolated a new caffeine-degrading bacterium, Pseudomonas putida CBB5, which breaks caffeine down into carbon...
Pre-Meal Dietary Supplement Can Help Overcome Fat and Sugar Problems, Study Suggests
25.5.2011 | Press monitoring
A little bitter with a little sweet, in the form of a nano-complex dietary supplement taken before meals, can result in a substantial reduction of fat and sugar absorption in the body, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Harvard University researchers have found. The researchers previously showed that naringenin, the molecule responsible for the...
The dance of the cells: A minuet or a mosh?
24.5.2011 | Press monitoring
The physical forces that guide how cells migrate—how they manage to get from place to place in a coordinated fashion inside the living body— are poorly understood.
Scientists cultivate human brain's most ubiquitous cell in lab dish
23.5.2011 | Press monitoring
A group led by University of Wisconsin-Madison stem cell researcher Su-Chun Zhang reports it has been able to direct embryonic and induced human stem cells to become astrocytes in the lab dish. The ability to make large, uniform batches of astrocytes, explains Zhang, opens a new avenue to more fully understanding the functional roles of the...
Plastic products leach toxic substances
20.5.2011 | Press monitoring
Many plastic products contain hazardous chemicals that can leach to the surroundings. In studies conducted at the University of Gothenburg, a third of the tested plastic products released toxic substances, including 5 out of 13 products intended for children.
