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“In our cohort of school age children, breastfeeding was associated with modest improvement in forced mid-expiratory flow (FEF50) in our whole group and with improvements in forced vital capacity (FVC) and forced expiratory volume at 1 second (FEV1) only in the children of asthmatic mothers,” said Doctor Claudia . . . → Read More: Breastfeeding is Good for the lungs
Ruffles form on cells to help themcrawl. These ruffles were formedfrom glowing pieces of cell skeleton;© John Hopkins Medicine
“Essentially we are figuring out how cells crawl,” says Doctor Takanari Inoue of the Centre for Cell Dynamics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. . . . → Read More: Small Molecules at the Cell’s Membrane Enable Cell Movement
A key obstacle in DNA sequencing is the long time required for sample preparation, especially when compared with how fast next-generation sequencers are able to sequence DNA. Now, researchers at the OSChave reduced that time using a new automated sample preparation system. Using the new system, sample preparation . . . → Read More: Accelerates CAGE Analysis on a Single Molecule Sequence
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Children exposed to two or more anaesthetics before age 3 had more than double the incidence of ADHD than children who had no exposure, says Doctor David Warner, a Mayo Clinic paediatric anaesthesiologist and investigator on the observational study. When . . . → Read More: Children Exposed to Anaesthesia Multiple Times Show Elevated Rates of ADHD
Results from a previous study in 2011 in a surgical journal suggested that surgery is used for 30 percent of breast biopsies, an excessive number. However, in response, the authors of a new article thought that the reported results may overstate the percentage of biopsies performed as surgical . . . → Read More: Surgical Breast Biopsy Not Overused
Non-caffeine components in coffee provide health benefits in mice; © panthermedia.net/Sascha Burkard
A research group led by Doctor Giulio Maria Pasinetti at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, explored whether dietary supplementation with a standardized decaffeinated coffee preparation prior to diabetes onset might improve insulin . . . → Read More: Decaffeinated Coffee Preserves Memory Function
The image shows three positions of mutations in the four-protein complex called DNMT3A. The mutations are disruptions of DNMT3A and are circled in black. The mutations appear different from each other because the proteins are configured differently at each interface. In patients with acute myeloid leukaemia, DNMT3A is . . . → Read More: Processes Leading to Acute Myeloid Leukaemia
Measuring the automatic brain responses of younger and older musicians and non-musicians to speech sounds, researchers in the Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory discovered that older musicians had a distinct neural timing advantage. “The older musicians not only outperformed their older non-musician counterparts, they encoded the sound stimuli as quickly . . . → Read More: Training Has Biological Impact on Aging Process
Leukaemia is a devastating disease that results in the disruption of normal blood production. Blood stem cells (hematopoietic stem cells or HSCs) give rise to all mature blood cells and maintain a balance of self-renewal and expansion. However, in this study, even when leukaemia is barely traceable in . . . → Read More: Leukaemia Cells Are “Bad to the Bone”
Standard radiation therapy to thehead and neck has been knownto affect a patient’s ability toproduce saliva, taste, and evenchew food; © panthermedia.net/Nuno Andre
Allen Chen of UC Davis reported that the use of intensity-modulated radiation therapy, or IMRT, was associated with fewer long-term side effects, . . . → Read More: Radiation Therapy Improves Patients’ Quality of Life
The total cost of asthma due to pollution is much higher than past traditional risk assessments have indicated and there is growing evidence that exposure to traffic-related air pollution is a cause of asthma and a trigger for attacks, so it should be included, say the researchers. They . . . → Read More: Traffic-Related Air Pollution
The total cost of asthma due to pollution is much higher than past traditional risk assessments have indicated and there is growing evidence that exposure to traffic-related air pollution is a cause of asthma and a trigger for attacks, so it should be included, say the researchers. They . . . → Read More: Traffic-Related Air Pollution
Many experts believe that high-quality contemporary brachy-therapy may be an effectivetool against high-risk prostatecancer; © panthermedia.net/Luis Louro
A population-based analysis looking at almost 13,000 cases revealed that men who received brachytherapy alone or in combination with external beam radiation therapy (EBRT) had significantly reduced mortality . . . → Read More: Brachytherapy Reduced Death Rates in High-Risk Prostate Cancer Patients
Many experts believe that high-quality contemporary brachy-therapy may be an effectivetool against high-risk prostatecancer; © panthermedia.net/Luis Louro
A population-based analysis looking at almost 13,000 cases revealed that men who received brachytherapy alone or in combination with external beam radiation therapy (EBRT) had significantly reduced mortality . . . → Read More: Brachytherapy Reduced Death Rates in High-Risk Prostate Cancer Patients
Campath was previously believed to kill all lymphocytes (T-cells and B-cells) in the body and render patients susceptible to infections. However, Doctor Rachael A. Clark and Doctor Thomas Kupper found that Campath only kills T-cells that enter the bloodstream, but it spares a newly discovered population of T-cells . . . → Read More: Drug Kills Cancerous T-Cells While Sparing Normal Immunity |
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