“Salk Institute researchers report that giving mice dietary iron supplements enabled them to survive a normally lethal bacterial infection and resulted in later generations of those bacteria being less virulent.”
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Researchers discover method to deliver curcumin to cancer cells
“The team has created a sophisticated metallocyclic complex using platinum that has not only enabled curcumin’s solubility, but whose synergy has proven 100 times more effective in treating various cancer […]
Probiotic use is a link between brain fogginess
“Probiotic use can result in a significant accumulation of bacteria in the small intestine that can result in disorienting brain fogginess as well as rapid, significant belly bloating, investigators report.”
Obesity Increases the Duration of Influenza A Virus Shedding
“Symptomatic obese adults were shown to shed influenza A virus 42% longer than nonobese adults”
Cannabinoid improves survival rates of mice with pancreatic cancer
“Mice with pancreatic cancer that were treated with a naturally occurring constituent of medicinal cannabis alongside chemotherapy, survived almost three times longer than those treated with chemotherapy alone, a new […]
In rats, perinatal exposure to phthalates impairs brain structure and function
“Male and female rats exposed in the womb and during lactation to plasticizing chemicals known as phthalates had significantly fewer neurons and synapses than those that were not exposed, researchers […]
Anti‐tumour actions of cannabinoids
“Results emerging from preclinical studies suggest cannabinoids elicit effects at different levels of cancer progression, including inhibition of proliferation, neovascularization, invasion and chemoresistance, induction of apoptosis and autophagy as well […]
Potential CRISPR damage has been ‘seriously underestimated’
“The DNA damage found in the new study included deletions of thousands of DNA bases, including at spots far from the edit. Some of the deletions can silence genes that […]
Association of Micronutrient Supplementation With Adolescent Intellectual Development
“micronutrient supplementation during pregnancy was associated with a significant increase in intellectual development for teenaged children compared with folic acid or folic acid plus iron supplements.”
Administering hormones affects DNA
“researchers have demonstrated for the first time that the administration of even extremely low doses of an endocrine disruptor – in this case, an endogenous oestrogen – leads to epigenetic […]