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Weight Loss Weapon
UCLA researchers have found
an extract in white kidney
beans may help the body stop
carbs from breaking down
into sugars. A digestive
enzyme in the body normally
acts like scissors,
literally cutting starches
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Stand Up For Your Health
Physiologists analyzing
obesity, heart disease, and
diabetes found that the act
of sitting shuts down the
circulation of a
fat-absorbing enzyme called
lipase. They found that
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Stuff Your Face
Eating champions are able to
keep gorging on food way
past beyond the point where
most people would be
nauseated by food. While
they practice to expand
their stomach, much of their
skills may come from
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Lowering Blood Pressure: Drug Free
A new cell phone-sized
implant can keep blood
pressure in check from
within the chest, just like
a pacemaker controls
heartbeats. When the device
detects a rise in pressure,
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Ergonomists Design More Customizable Office Chair
Ergonomists created a chair that allows users to adjust the lumbar supports asymmetrically, addressing what they found in research. Over 70 percent of those tested wanted asymmetrical support in the ... > more -
Psychobiologists Find Genetic Component in Children's Food Preference
In the first study to link taste genes to behavior in children, researchers looked at how natural variations in a recently discovered taste gene affected sensitivity to bitter tastes and food ... > more -
Computer Scientists Devise Tool For Visualizing Single Organs
With MRI or CT scans, clinicians have to identify and extract the anatomy out of cross-sections views of the body. Computer scientists have created a new interactive tool that can examine scans and ... > more -
Food Chemists Slice Up Healthier Pizza
Food chemists have shown that making a pizza crust with whole wheat flour and cooking it longer releases more antioxidants. These chronic disease-fighting compounds increased by 82 percent when baked ... > more -
Chromosomal Test By Molecular Biologists Determines Cancer Spread
A new biopsy test, created by molecular biologists, can tell ocular melanoma patients if theirs is the kind that will spread. Using very thin needles, surgeons collect cells from tumors and analyze ... > more -
Pulmonologists Extend Lung-Transplant Patients' Lives with Inhaled Anti-Rejection Drug
Half of all lung transplant patients don't live past the fifth year after the procedure, due in part to chronic rejection of the new organs. A new, inhaled form of a commonly used anti-rejection drug ... > more -
Microbiologists Invent Coating To Protect Athletes From Infection
Microbiologists have devised an anti-microbial coating to protect athletes from potentially deadly infections. When applied to a surface, the coating bonds to it, then inhibits growth of bacteria, ... > more -
Psychiatrists Can Now Predict An Individual Patient's Response To A Drug
The first in a new generation of gene microarrays, computer chips that chemically or electrically express DNA, can predict how a person's body will metabolize about 25 percent of drugs on the market, ... > more -
Neuroendocrinologists Unlock Chemical Trigger to Puberty
Researchers have discovered the precise chemical chain reaction that could be the much-sought-after puberty trigger: The KiSS-1 gene, which produces a protein in the hypothalamus, a part of the ... > more -
Computer Scientist Invents Software To Arrange Matches For Kidney Transplants
Computer Scientists have created an algorithm able to sort through up to 10,000 kidney donor/patient pairs, taking over the mammoth task of coordinating paired donation. The new algorithm was needed ... > more
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