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A collaboration of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in Cambridge, announces the development of engineered mice that contain human liver cells. The new achievement could advanced the field of pharmaceutical drugs considerably.When a new chemical is produced for drugs, experts need to kno... |
12 July 2011
05:40 GMT |
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Extra-virgin olive oil protects the liver from oxidative stress, found a team of researchers, writing in BioMed Central's open access journal Nutrition and Metabolism.Olive oil is becoming more and more popular, because of its anti-inflammatory properties, that can strengthen the human body and prevent some dise... |
29 October 2010
04:11 GMT |
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Apple Chief Executive Officer Steve Jobs, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Senator Elaine Alquist teamed up to support signing new legislation to establish the U.S.’s first nationwide kidney donor registry.Apple’s CEO, as many fans of his should know, underwent a liver transplant last year t... |
6 October 2010
05:51 GMT |
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In a ground breaking new investigation, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies managed to uncover an important connection between diabetes and circadian rhythms. The group says that it performed a series of studies on mice, in which it was revealed that changing the concentration of a certain protei... |
21 September 2010
01:51 GMT |
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Researchers from the University of California Irvine have discovered that Alzheimer’s patients lacked the DHA (an omega-3 fatty acid) in the brain and that this is somehow related to the liver's incapacity of producing this complex fat.[ADMAK=1]Scientists analyzed postmortem liver tissue from Alzheimer&rsq... |
9 September 2010
04:38 GMT |
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Scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, in La Jolla, California, have recently managed to achieve an impressing goal – the transplantation of a liver from a human to a mouse. They were successful in their quest, which means that human liver cells, which are subjected to the same type of infecti... |
23 February 2010
01:41 GMT |
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Scientists at the La Jolla, California-based Salk Institute for Biological Studies announce that the results of a new study on unsuspecting lab mice seems to suggest that the timing of eating may be just as important as the content of the actual food. In a groundbreaking, new discovery, the scientists have found that... |
25 November 2009
09:01 GMT |
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For a long time, animal rights activists have argued that testing all sorts of new cosmetic products or drugs on apes, dogs and other species is unethical, and have also lobbied for the practice to be abolished. Rather than criticizing the activists, like others in the industry, researchers at the Fraunhofer Institut... |
26 June 2009
06:35 GMT |
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A Bloomberg piece claims that Apple's Chief Executive Officer, Steve Jobs, is considering a liver transplant due to the side effects of his treatment for pancreatic cancer. Jobs was allegedly reached by telephone, where he vehemently denied to provide further information about his health. According to the repor... |
19 January 2009
03:26 GMT |
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Moderate wine consumption never harmed anyone - in fact, a study carried out by UC San Diego School of Medicine shows that a daily glass of wine can be beneficial for your health, especially in combating Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease. By comparison, people who never consume alcohol have double the chances of cont... |
20 May 2008
05:12 GMT |
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1. Hepatitis B, like hepatitis A, is a viral infection of the liver; the only difference is that the former is more severe because of its capacity to turn chronic. The infection can be detected via blood samples. The virus of the hepatitis B is transmitted from one person to another via body liquids, including blood,... |
12 May 2008
09:46 GMT |
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1. The gall or bile is a yellow-greenish liquid deposited in the pear-shaped gall bladder. It is made of water, cholesterol, biliary salts and biliary acids, necessary for digestion, but also liver waste products, like biliary pigments and extra-cholesterol eliminated from the organism. The hormone cholecystokinin ca... |
17 January 2008
08:46 GMT |
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Are you turned on by long-legged women? In this case, you really prefer healthier women. A complex British research, made at the Bristol University and published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, has found that women with shorter legs display a higher vulnerability to liver disease. The study was c... |
19 December 2007
04:35 GMT |
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Coffee and flue do not match. Mixing large amounts of caffeine with acetaminophen (paracetamol), one of the most common painkillers used in the US and Europe could harm your liver, as found by a new research. The danger does not come only from caffeinated dinks combined with the drug, but also from medications mixing... |
27 September 2007
06:00 GMT |
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She can consider herself lucky because had she been conceived in these times, her mother would have had an abortion. Chinese doctors have found 26 sewing needles inside the body of Luo Cuifen, a 31-year-old woman. They suspect they were inserted into the woman's body when she was a newborn by her grandparents be... |
7 September 2007
16:56 GMT |
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Even if Beethoven was deaf, he 'listened' to his doctor. But this proved even worse, as his doctor poisoned him. With lead. A Viennese forensic expert shows that the composer's physician unwittingly overdosed the genius with the toxic metal. It was clear that the master had been very ill years before h... |
30 August 2007
06:11 GMT |
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Vanuatu, previously known as the New Hebrides, a small archipelago nation on the Pacific, was famous even at the beginning of the 20th century for hosting one of the fiercest cannibalistic tribes of the area. Now, they are battling to defend the reputation of their national drink, a bitter peppery concoction called k... |
23 July 2007
03:37 GMT |
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Big bellies have been seen for a long time now as the main cause for the metabolic syndrome, a group of conditions leading to heart attack: prediabetes, diabetes, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol. By using new powerful imaging technologies, a team of Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) at Yale University ... |
18 July 2007
07:32 GMT |
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Bacteria in your guts are not just simple guests eating on your leftovers. Beside digestive conditions, these bugs induce more severe problems, like obesity and now they were found to influence how fat is digested and deposited in the liver. An imbalanced gut flora can affect this metabolic path and trigger diseases.... |
25 May 2007
04:49 GMT |
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It was known that estrogen, a female sex hormone, increases host response after traumatic injury on the liver after trauma and hemorrhage; but the precise cellular pathway was not known. Estrogen heads cellular activities in two ways: by activating some DNA patches to synthesize new protein or by attaching to cell su... |
31 March 2007
07:54 GMT |
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