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Researchers decipher mechanism responsible for dental plaque sticking to teeth

Researchers decipher mechanism responsible for dental plaque sticking to teeth
The Groningen professors Bauke Dijkstra and Lubbert Dijkhuizen have deciphered the structure and functional mechanism of the glucansucrase enzyme that is responsible for dental plaque sticking to teeth. This knowledge will stimulate the identification of substances that inhibit the enzyme. Just add that substance to toothpaste, or even sweets, and caries will be a thing of the past. The results …

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Food Summit encourages researchers to collaborate across disciplines

Food Summit encourages researchers to collaborate across disciplines
More than 350 members of the campus community attended the inaugural Stanford Food Summit Nov. 3 for a day of cross-disciplinary intellectual ferment about food-related problems.

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Researchers spice up cow diets to help environment

Researchers spice up cow diets to help environment
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — In order to tell what is going on inside the digestive tract of a dairy cow, there is nothing quite like taking a look. So on a steamy August day inside the research barn at Pennsylvania State University, graduate student Chanhee Lee reached into a hole that had been surgically cut into a cow’s side.

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University of Maryland researchers link 3-D CT scans to standard ablation techniques

University of Maryland researchers link 3-D CT scans to standard ablation techniques
Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore have developed a novel 3-D imaging approach that may improve the accuracy of treatment for ventricular tachycardia, a potentially life-threatening heart rhythm disorder that causes the heart to beat too fast. The new approach couples CT images with conventional ablation techniques to eliminate erratic electrical circuits …

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Researchers alter cow diets to help environment

Researchers alter cow diets to help environment
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. – In order to tell what is going on inside the digestive tract of a dairy cow, there is nothing quite like taking a look.

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Researchers identify TACI; MyD88 activates immune system against infection

Researchers identify TACI; MyD88 activates immune system against infection
Researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine have found a new mechanism that explains how certain immune cells are activated to create protective antibodies against infections or pathological antibodies such as those present in autoimmune diseases like lupus and rheumatoid arthritis. The research is published online in the September issue of Nature Immunology.

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Western Diet is Linked to Attention Deficit Disorder, Researchers Report

Western Diet is Linked to Attention Deficit Disorder, Researchers Report
Western-style diets in adolescents may more than double the risk of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, scientists at the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research said.

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Researchers Find Potential in a New Approach to Alzheimer’s Disease

Researchers Find Potential in a New Approach to Alzheimer’s Disease
A potentially promising approach to treating Alzheimer’s disease has been developed by researchers studying sirtuin, a protein thought capable of extending lifespan in laboratory animals.

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Reducing calorie intake can restrict growth, spread of brain cancer: Researchers

Reducing calorie intake can restrict growth, spread of brain cancer: Researchers
Researchers at Boston College, MA, have found that reducing calorie intake can restrict the growth and spread of brain cancer. Writing in ASN NEURO, Laura Shelton and colleagues report success with mice suffering from glioblastoma multiforme, the most aggressive and invasive form of primary human brain cancer.

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U of O researchers trace hair isotopes

U of O researchers trace hair isotopes
Some Meadow Lakers got a different kind of haircut last week. Researchers from the University of Ottawa were collecting hair samples at Fas Gas on July 15.

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