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Mind Over Fatter
Nov 8 2009 | Articles
New, improved models of human obesity aim to improve understanding of leptin’s impact on CNS regulation of metabolism.
Alcohol consumers are becoming the norm, UT Southwestern analysis finds
Sep 29 | News
(UT Southwestern Medical Center) More people are drinking than 20 years ago, according to a UT Southwestern Medical Center analysis of national alcohol consumption patterns. Gathered from more than 85,000 respondents, the data suggests that a variety of factors, including social, economic...
Tofu ingredient yields formaldehyde-free glue for plywood
Sep 29 | News
(American Chemical Society) In a real-life "back to the future" story, scientists today reported that the sustainable, environmentally-friendly process that gave birth to plywood a century ago is re-emerging as a "green" alternative to wood adhesives made from petroleum. Speaking at a...
Reducing gene-damaging impurities in medicines
Sep 29 | News
(American Chemical Society) Drug manufacturers have been adjusting to strict new government standards that limit the amount of potentially harmful impurities in medicine, according to the cover story of the current issue of Chemical & Engineering News, ACS' weekly news magazine. The...
Researchers confirm prenatal heart defects in spinal muscular atrophy cases
Sep 28 | News
(University of Missouri-Columbia) University of Missouri researchers believe they have found a critical piece of the puzzle for the treatment of spinal muscular atrophy, or SMA -- the leading genetic cause of infantile death in the world. Nearly one in 6,000 births has SMA, and it is...
Individual mutations are very slow to promote tumor growth
Sep 28 | News
(Harvard University) Individual cancer-causing mutations have a minute effect on tumor growth, increasing the rate of cell division by just 0.4 percent on average, according to new mathematical modeling by scientists at Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University and other institutions....
Interaction with neighbors: Neuronal field simulates brain activity
Sep 27 | News
(Ruhr-University Bochum) The appearance of a spot of light on the retina causes sudden activation of millions of neurons in the brain within tenths of milliseconds. At the first cortical processing stage, the primary visual cortex, each neuron thereby receives thousands of inputs from...