New Urine Test Could Diagnose Eye Disease
“I knew from my previous experience in analyzing urine samples from liver disease patients that I can readily detect dolichols by liquid chromatography.
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How High Blood Sugar Throws off Heart Rhythm
“While scientists have known for a while that CaMKII plays a critical role in normal cardiac function, ours is the first study to.
- October 2, 2013
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Why Sleepy Brains Crave Doughnuts
“These results shed light on how the brain becomes impaired by sleep deprivation, leading to the selection of more unhealthy foods and, ultimately,.
- August 8, 2013
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Poor Sleep in Pregnancy Could Lead to Problems
“There is a dynamic relationship between sleep and immunity, and this study is the first to examine this relationship during pregnancy as opposed.
- July 18, 2013
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Sleepy Teens Make Bad Food Choices
The American Academy of Pediatrics currently recommends that adolescents get between nine and 10 hours of sleep per night. Teenagers who get a.
- June 27, 2013
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Gene Associated With Longevity Also Regulates Circadian Clock
“The importance of this study is that it has both basic and potentially translational applications, taking into account the fact that pharmacological modulators.
- June 21, 2013
- 4 minutes read
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Scans Show Early Brain Growth in Breastfed Babies
“We’re finding the difference (in white matter growth) is on the order of 20 to 30 percent, comparing the breastfed and the non-breastfed.
- June 7, 2013
- 2 minutes read
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Parent Lifespan Tied to Children’s Cancer Risk
“Despite being likely to share the same environment and lifestyle in their married lives, spouses had no health benefit from their parents-in-law reaching.
- May 30, 2013
- 3 minutes read
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Do Men’s and Women’s Hearts Burn Fuel Differently?
“Because the heart is the body’s number-one consumer of fat, when it starts using fat differently, there are consequences throughout the entire body,”.
- May 20, 2013
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Sticky Questions About Role of Alzheimer’s Gene
“About 60 percent of the patients we see in the Alzheimer’s clinics have at least one copy of APOE 4,” Scientists’ picture of.
- May 13, 2013
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