My Personal Biomedical Research Feed – Ralph Turchiano, CEO Alchepharma
UI study offers good news for caregivers, health care workers .John Riehl | 2014.09.24 | 10:31 AM A new University of Iowa study further supports an inescapable message: caregivers have…
29 JUN 2012 Ursolic acid — a waxy substance found in apple peel — increases muscle and brown fat in mice on a high-fat diet: These mice burn more calories…
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwIZncC7gME] Highlights: - discovered that tomatidine generates changes in gene expression that are essentially opposite to the changes that occur in muscle cells when people are affected by muscle…
New study explains why men's noses are bigger than women's By: Richard C. Lewis | 2013.11.18 | 11:26 AM Male noses grow disproportionately larger than female noses beginning at puberty,…
Hormone disruptors rise from the dead Broken-down pollutants reform in the dark, casting doubt on environmental risk assessments. Mark Peplow 26 September 2013 The vast amounts of steroids that are…
Contact: Michael Bernstein m_bernstein@acs.org 202-872-6042 American Chemical Society Some people may joke about living on caffeine, but scientists now have genetically engineered E. coli bacteria to do that — literally.…
How to regulate geo-engineering efforts to fight climate change? By: Tom Snee | 2012.12.19 | 09:22 AM ©istockphoto.com/Trifonov_Evgeniy With policymakers and political leaders increasingly unable to combat global climate change,…
Contact: Debra Kain ddkain@ucsd.edu 619-543-6163 University of California - San Diego In older adults, antipsychotic drugs are commonly prescribed off-label for a number of disorders outside of their Food and…
Contact: Nicole Riehl nicole-riehl@uiowa.edu 319-384-0070 University of Iowa Most people consume far too much salt, and a University of Iowa researcher has discovered one potential reason we crave it: it…
Contact: Andrew Gould media@pr-works.co.uk 44-139-268-6107 The Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry A research team from the Peninsula Medical School, the University of Exeter, the University of Plymouth and the…
*Requested Repost From 2007 - Info is Historical A vaccine that has dramatically curbed pneumonia and other serious illnesses in children is also having an unfortunate effect: promoting new…
Public release date: 5-Dec-2009 - Patients with deficient vitamin D levels had a 1.5-fold greater risk of disease progression and a twofold greater risk of dying, compared to patients with…
Public release date: 20-May-2009 - mice treated with the protein, Griffithsin (GRFT), had a 100 percent survival rate after exposure to the SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV), as compared to a 30…
Public release date: 9-Mar-2009 Most people consume far too much salt, and a University of Iowa researcher has discovered one potential reason we crave it: it might put us in…
Public release date: 10-Oct-2008 A research team from the Peninsula Medical School, the University of Exeter, the University of Plymouth and the University of Iowa, have found evidence linking bisphenol…
Public release date: 17-Sep-2007 CHICAGO --A vaccine that has dramatically curbed pneumonia and other serious illnesses in children is also having an unfortunate effect: promoting new superbugs that cause…
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