Women that are pregnant may want to take extra precaution around those that are sniffling and sneezing this winter. According to a new study published today, the more common colds and viral infections a woman has during pregnancy, the ...
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In a study to be presented on Feb. 6 at 3:15 p.m. CST, at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine's annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting-, in New Orleans, researchers will report that cervicovaginal (CV) microbiota differs in the late ...
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At the end of 2013, Consumer Reports made national headlines by reporting that 97 percent of retail chicken breasts were contaminated with some form of gut bacteria. Granted, not all of those bacteria are likely to make consumers sick, but ...
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Proteases are vital proteins that serve for order within cells. They break apart other proteins, ensuring that these are properly synthesized and decomposed. Proteases are also responsible for the pathogenic effects of many kinds of ...
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Everyday our cells take in nutrients from food and convert them into the building blocks that make life possible. However, it has been challenging to pinpoint exactly how a single nutrient or vitamin changes gene expression and physiology. ...
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Xylem has won a contract valued at approximately $2.75 million to supply Xylem's Wedeco-brand ultraviolet (UV) technologies to a wastewater treatment facility in the Vigo region of southwest Spain. With a treatment capacity of 147,000 ...
A simple adjustment to a powerful gene-editing tool may be able to improve its specificity.In a report receiving advance online publication in Nature Biotechnology,Massachusetts General Hospital(MGH)investigators describe how adjusting the ...
From bacteria to plants to humans,all organisms have mechanisms that they use to repair DNA damaged by ultraviolet(UV)light.This fundamental maintenance function is critical to our health because damaged DNA can lead to diseases such as ...
MONDAY Jan.27,2014,2014--The cold season is in full swing,with everyone swearing by their own methods for avoiding infection or treating themselves should they get sick. Now,a new review finds that some methods seem to work better than ...
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Do you wonder what local farmers do to ensure the wellbeing of their livestock when it is cold outside? Baby it's cold outside – and it has been for some time. If the future predictions are accurate, this cold is going to be hanging ...
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With outbreaks of cold and flu on the rise across the U.S., Americans are facing a seemingly impossible task of helping their families stay healthy this winter. As of last week, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ...
NPS MedicineWise is urging all health professionals to take the pledge to fight antibiotic resistance after new research shows that making a public commitment leads to significant improvements in antibiotic prescribing. The study, ...
Gut bacteria in premature infants don't come from their mothers, but from microbes in the neonatal intensive-care unit (NICU), a new study finds. Babies typically get their gut bacteria from their mothers during childbirth. Premature ...
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Certain probiotics could help women lose weight and keep it off, according to a recent study published in the British Journal of Nutrition by a team of researchers headed by Universit- Laval Professor Angelo Tremblay. Studies have already ...
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US-based FOB Synthesis and AstraZeneca have entered into a research and development option and license agreement for the development of a novel antibiotic for the treatment of drug-resistant bacterial infections. The new antibiotics will ...
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