Archive for August, 2010

Zwarte rijst goede bron van antioxidanten

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

BOSTON – Onderzoek van de Louisiana State University toont aan dat zwarte rijst veel van het antioxidant anthocyanine bevat. Dit antioxidant zit bijvoorbeeld ook in zwarte en blauwe bessen.
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Ontrafeling van Alzheimer een stapje verder

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

DEN HAAG – Transglutaminases (enzymen) spelen mogelijk een rol in het ontstaan van de ziekte van Alzheimer. Dat blijkt uit onderzoek van dr. Micha Wilhelmus, werkzaam in het VU Medisch Centrum te Amsterdam.
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Brein remt stressvolle herinneringen

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

UTRECHT – De hersenen voorkomen zelf dat ze overspoeld raken met emotionele herinneringen, zo blijkt uit onderzoek van het UMC Utrecht. De neurowetenschappers vermoeden dat dit mechanisme verstoord is bij patiënten met een posttraumatische stress-stoornis (PTSS).
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Omega-3 vetzuren helpen hartpatiënt niet

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

WAGENINGEN – Een dieet met extra omega-3 vetzuren kan niet voorkomen dat hart- en vaatpatiënten opnieuw ernstige klachten krijgen. Dit blijkt uit een grootschalig, langlopend onderzoek van de Wageningen University.
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Genetic Link To Migraine Found, In DNA Variant On Chromosome 8

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

Scientists have identified the first genetic risk factor linked to a common type of migraine after examining the genetic data of over 50,000 individuals. The investigators say that this breakthrough gives them new insights into migraine triggers, which will hopefully lead to novel therapies to prevent episodes of migraine…
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Apple Genome Decoded By Scientists

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

An international team of scientists from Italy, France, New Zealand, Belgium and the USA have published a draft sequence of the domestic apple genome in the current issue of Nature Genetics…
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Study Points To Genetic Driver Of Severe Asthma

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

Scientists have identified a genetic basis for determining the severity of allergic asthma in experimental models of the disease. The study may help in the search for future therapeutic strategies to fight a growing medical problem that currently lacks effective treatments, researchers from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center report in the Aug. 29 Nature Immunology…
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Analysis Of Ashkenazi Jewish Genomes Reveals Diversity, History

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

Through genomic analysis, researchers at Emory University School of Medicine have shown that the Ashkenazi Jewish population is genetically more diverse than people of European descent, despite previous assumptions that Ashkenazi Jews have been an isolated population…
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Rare Gene For Mabry Syndrome Found With Faster Simulateneous Genome Analysis

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

Scientists in Germany have found a gene mutation implicated in Mabry Symdrome, a rare genetic disease that causes mental retardation; they used a new process that analyzes all the genes in a human genome simultaeneously, thus vastly speeding up the search for rare mutations…
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New Research Builds On Breakthrough Discovery At UC Riverside Of Synthetic Chemical Pyrabactin

Tuesday, August 31st, 2010

Drought-tolerant crops have moved closer to becoming reality. A collaborative team of scientists has made a significant advance on the discovery last year by the University of California, Riverside’s Sean Cutler of pyrabactin, a synthetic chemical that mimics a naturally produced stress hormone in plants to help them cope with drought conditions…
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