Synopsis: Chemistry & chemical compounds: Organic compounds:


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while those in the cold evolved fur or blubber or the ability to use fire.

It excludes processed foods forces you to eat more vegetables good fats and leaner meats.

And as far as working out like a caveman who looks better the dude with muscles or the fat/skinny guy without any?


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Wonder why they misse that important fat to the story. charbeecorn syrup? Seriously? Do bees really eat that much honey that people need to replace it with sugar?


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Trees and other plants are known to emit volatile organic compounds in response to stress--heck they even make noise


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Photons bounce off collagen fibers (instead of trees) and emerge from the skin at a random place.


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or infirm nurse bees secrete a royal jelly high in fatty acids and protein and feed it to a few larvae.

Proteins: The tags also dictate how pieces of genes are assembled into an mrna transcript which eventually determines the type of protein made from that gene.

A protein produced in a nurse bee will look different and serve a different function than one produced in a forager.

Queens per Hive: 1workers per Queen: 10000ã¢Â#Â0000average Lifespan of a Worker bee in Months:


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It's not totally clear how chemically scent marks interact with the volatile organic compounds in the juniper


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The state was once home to 330000 acres of sugar beets and 11 beet sugar mills. When sugar prices collapsed 10 of those mills closed


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To meet nutritional requirements pet food manufacturers blend animal fats and meals with soy and wheat grains and vitamins and minerals.

It requires feeding them twice as much kibble to get the benificial protein that they need at the risk of overloading them on the carbohydrates that they do need not

Premium kibble is almost all protein this is the fuel K9's require for a long vibrant life.


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#Low-Fat, Nonfat, Gluten-Free: How The Government Influences Health Claims On Packaged Food Noticed a lot of new gluten-free

and no trans fat snacks in your grocery store lately? It's not just you. A new study from the U s. Department of agriculture found that gluten

and fats--including shortening and cooking spray--and baked goods. Meanwhile for some categories of food--fruits and vegetables for instance--the number of claims went up.

and vegetables compared to foods targeted for reduced consumption such as fats and oils Martinez writes.


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which actually contains a decent amount of vitamins and minerals. A cup of coffee contains (30): 6%of the RDA for Pantothenic acid (Vitamin B5.

11%of the RDA for Riboflavin (Vitamin b2. 2%of the RDA for Niacin (B3) and Thiamine (B1.

3%of the RDA for Potassium and Manganese. May not seem like much but if you drink several cups of coffee per day then this quickly adds up.

But this isn't all. Coffee also contains a massive amount of antioxidants. In fact coffee is the biggest source of antioxidants in the western diet outranking both fruits

Coffee contains a decent amount of several vitamins and minerals. It is also the biggest source of antioxidants in the modern diet.


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Then they resurrected these ancient ADH4 proteins in the lab. They found that for most of our ancient ancestors ADH4S were inactive against ethanol


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I study the pathways in cells I know the interactions between the proteins and can bind it


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#DNA Test Finds Horse Meat In UK Hamburgersthe Irish version of the FDA called the FSAI has found distinctly non-beef animal protein in ground meat labeled beef in some supermarkets.

and butchered in Ireland the factory that made the burgers added protein to them which is common enough.

This protein almost certainly came from elsewhere in Europe and contains non-beef proteins. Meat in Ireland is tracked from farm to plate the regulations are very tight.

Nothing wrong with eating horse meat though as long as you know what your eating and you aren't squeamish about it.

me that one would add protein to beef which is rich in protein but perhaps that is so.

However the article states that there was foreign DNA in the meat! There's no DNA in protein.

Looks like the FSAI needs some better funding. u guys r dumb. so you're sayin that you would eat something as hideous looking as a cow

It was processed protein cake that included protein from dead human bodies. In the great ordering of taste and texture I put European horse ABOVE European beef.


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(which is a protein) isn't causing the weight gain. The carbohydrates that usually accompany gluten are the problem.


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meanwhile the same antibodies from people without the meat allergy did not glom onto the tick proteins.


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and does not come from an animal into living baker's yeast cells temporarily turning the yeast into a so-called protein factory that produces milk protein.

The biohackers then extract that protein from the yeast and combine it with water vegetable butter and vegan sugar (instead of lactose) to make a milk substitute.

It can sometimes be tricky to express proteins at high yield in yeast she wrote in email


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whereas those that say boost Vitamin a content might remain at low levels or fizzle out entirely.

*No modified proteins remain in the final product. Today's most common GMO technology RECOMBINANT DNA inserts genes into a plant's cells via bacteria or specialized delivery tools but it involves some trial and error.


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The only way to gain immunity to the deadly miasma is by consuming spirulina called the Viridis a blue-green algae loaded with protein and nutrients.


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Would Cannibalism Make You Fat? Taken as a whole a cooked cadaver would yield about 81500 calories worth of food says James Cole a lecturer on human origins at the University of Brighton in England.

Consuming so much fat might pose problems of its own. I m not a nutritionist says Cole


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It s one thing to flip a single protein as he did to create transgenic goats that produce spider-silk protein in their milk.


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We have not even learned to make this boundless bank of protein food available for our bellies.

and took most of my protein food from it and lived very well indeed. I have studied the endless variety of ocean animal life undreds of thousands more species than are to be found on land.


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Its name derives from the layers of fat on oilbird chicks which have historically been rendered for use as torches.


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The group genetically engineered E coli bacteria to produce conifer-derived proteins that assemble pinene. Stephen Sarria and Pamela Peralta-Yahya two Georgia Tech researchers who collaborated on the new work published in ACS Synthetic biology broke down the process for Popular Science in four steps:


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The dryness-stressed barley had longer-chain starch grains and more protein than normally grown barley.


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I am hungering for grease.)After that I selected a region opting for something English with influences from another country.


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and high-quality microbial protein before sending it on to the main stomach for digestion. We need to be able to use ruminants in the way that they evolved.


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or single nucleotide proteins (snips) that make up unique fingerprints of different cacao species and hybrid varieties...


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and proline affect protein binding sites on the csd gene which in turn lead to different conformational states


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When the analysis is complete the machine gives a breakdown of the milk's composition of proteins fat and carbohydrates.


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and sheep production are 19 to 48 times higher (on the basis of pounds of food produced) than they are from producing protein-rich plant foods such as beans grains or soy products.


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As another example of the value of the Amborella genome Joshua Der at Penn State noted We estimate that at least 14000 protein-coding genes existed in the last common ancestor of all flowering plants.

and function of protein-coding genes so the cessation of mobile DNA activity may have slowed the rate of evolution of both genome structure and gene function.


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They all contain different amounts of white refined sugar. But what perhaps may result amazing is that this sugar is probably sourced from a plant very similar to spinach or chard but much sweeter:

or quinoa as well as plants with an interesting biology for instance carnivorous plants or desert plants. 27421 protein-coding genes were discovered within the genome of the beet more than are encoded within the human genome.

which can be identified based on protein-domains. These genes turned out as particularly plastic with beet-specific gene family expansions and gene losses.


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The study found eating a diet high in tomatoes had a positive effect on the level of hormones that play a role in regulating fat and sugar metabolism.

which are rich in essential nutrients vitamins minerals and phytochemicals such as lycopene conveys significant benefits. Based on this data we believe regular consumption of at least the daily recommended servings of fruits

For a separate 10-week period the participants consumed at least 40 grams of soy protein daily.


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#Importance of food as key provider of vitamins and nutrientswhile dietary supplements can help some people meet their nutrition needs eating a wide variety of nutrient-rich foods is the best way for most people to obtain the nutrients

Two newly published studies in Annals of Internal medicine and an accompanying editorial indicate there is no clear benefit for most healthy people to consume vitamin supplements.

#¢Start each day with a healthy breakfast that includes whole grains fat-free or low-fat dairy for calcium and Vitamin d and Vitamin c-rich foods.#¢

#¢Don't forget beans which are rich in fiber and folate. The recent increase in sales of supplements may not have been accompanied by an increase in consumers'knowledge about


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and turn it into high-quality protein and energy. The end product is six times more nutritious than the moss.

Analysis of the pikas'caecal pellets showed they contained six times more protein than the moss they ate.


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With this genetic modification the trees were able to produce an insecticidal protein that helped protect against insect attack.


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and the International Institute for Applied Systems analysis (IIASA) shows that animals in many parts of the developing world require far more food to produce a kilo of protein than animals in wealthy countries.

and questions emerging from the new data relate to the amount of feed livestock consume to produce a kilo of protein something known as feed efficiency

and the amount of greenhouse gases released for every kilo of protein produced something known as emission intensity.

and goats) require up to five times more feed to produce a kilo of protein in the form of meat than a kilo of protein in the form of milk.

and poultry (monogastrics) are more efficient at converting feed into protein than are cattle sheep

Globally pork produced 24 kilos of carbon per kilo of edible protein and poultry produced only 3. 7 kilos of carbon per kilo of protein--compared with anywhere from 58 to 1000 kilos of carbon per kilo of protein from ruminant meat.

The authors caution that the lower emission intensities in the pig and poultry sectors are driven largely by industrial systems

In arid regions of Sub-saharan africa for example where the fodder available to grazing animals is of much lower quality than that in many other regions a cow can consume up to ten times more feed--mainly in the form of rangeland grasses--to produce a kilo of protein than a cow

and Sudan can in the worst cases release the equivalent of 1000 kilos of carbon for every kilo of protein they produce.

By comparison in many parts of the US and Europe the emission intensity is around 10 kilos of carbon per kilo of protein.

so they can produce more protein with better feed while simultaneously reducing emissions said Petr Havlik a research scholar at IIASA


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and pasteurized milk contain equivalent levels of nutrients such as proteins carbohydrates calcium vitamins and enzymes. Claims that raw milk is associated not with lactose intolerance have not been substantiated by independent studies.


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but did not emit substantial amounts of carbon monoxide and toxic volatile organic compounds. The level of secondhand exposure to nicotine depended on the e-cigarette brand.

and volatile organic compounds and compare the emissions from electronic and conventional tobacco cigarettes said Dr. Goniewicz a researcher and Assistant professor of Oncology in RPCI's Department of Health Behavior.


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While all types of milk fat can help improve an individual's fatty acid profile the team concludes that organic whole milk does so even better.

daily servings of mostly full-fat organic dairy products. Women who also avoid a few foods each day that are high in omega-6 fatty acids can lower their fatty acid ratio to around 4 80 percent of the way to the 2. 3 goal.

Surprisingly simple food choices can lead to much better levels of the healthier fats we see in organic milk says Benbrook.

We were surprised to find that recommended intakes of full-fat milk products supply far more of the major omega-3 fatty acid ALA than recommended servings of fish says co-author


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#Clues about protein mechanism critical to plant growth, yieldscientists at the Donald Danforth Plant science Center have made several scientific discoveries demonstrating the significant roles Heterotrimeric G proteins play in plant development and yield.


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The toxin is stored in lipid droplets in the body of the nematode and the parasite finally dies.

and vitamins B and C. Apart from fungi and insects the parasitic nematode Radopholus similis is considered a major banana pest.

Lipid droplets containing the active compounds visible in the nematodethe toxic effect of anigorufone and other substances was tested on living nematodes.

There the lipid-soluble anigorufone accumulated in lipid droplets which increased in size as they converged

Why these complex lipid droplets are formed and why the nematodes cannot metabolize or excrete the toxin still needs to be clarified.

However it is likely that the growing lipid droplets displace the inner organs of the nematode causing an eventual metabolic dysfunction.


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The defatted meal that is produced during this process is high in protein and may be fed to livestock

The digestibility of crude protein and most amino acids in two sources of camelina expellers did not differ from that of canola meal


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Seeds from soya peas lupins and other legumes are protein-rich feedstuffs which are given to normal livestock during periods of rapid growth or high egg and milk production.

but the protein content of the feed must be maintained at a high level throughout their life cycle.

This assumption tallies with a much lower activity of enzymes on the surface of cells in the distal intestine--enzymes that facilitate the last stage in the digestion of for example proteins and carbohydrates.


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Similarly the higher uric acid levels in male and female iguanas could be the result of animal protein such as ground beef being fed to iguanas by tourists.


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#Proteins passing phases revealeda new method to identify previously hidden details about the structures of proteins may speed the process of novel drug design according to scientists at Rice university.

A unique combination of computational techniques and experimental data helped Rice theorists predict intermediate configurations of proteins that until now have been hard to detect.

and at great cost by eliminating some of the trial and error in identifying new sites on proteins that could be manipulated more easily to treat disease said Rice biological physicist Jos Onuchic.

Onuchic and his team integrated its direct coupling analysis (DCA) method based on genomic databases with structure-based models (SBM) of proteins to produce simulations of how proteins progress through different functional states.

It has been known long that this information is encoded in the protein sequences but it has been hard to extract said Faruck Morcos a postdoctoral researcher at Rice

Proteins the engines that drive biological processes usually collapse into their native states in the blink of an eye.

X-ray crystallography and more recently nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy are the most common tools to see how the amino acids in a protein chain arrange themselves based on their attractive and repulsive energies

but they say nothing about the forms the proteins may take along the way Onuchic said.

He said the methods are fine for small proteins or enzymes that have a single functional structure.

But large proteins like molecular motors or signaling proteins have multiple functional conformations some of them too short-lived to be captured by X-ray crystallography.

and predict direct structural contacts between amino acids called residues) from the proteins'genomic roots. Protein sequences are built by ribosomes from genetic data conveyed by MESSENGER RNA molecules.

DCA also allows researchers to compare genetic data across protein families and determine which residues in those families co-evolved.

This information guides the physics-based simulation toward functional conformations that have been conserved through evolution. Simulations at Rice that combined DCA and structural data revealed competing residue contacts that were unique to configurations of proteins with multiple conformations

and led to the discovery of intermediate states Onuchic said. The researchers focused on glutamate-receptor

and ligand-binding proteins that go through large conformational changes like opening and closing upon binding.

which specific proteins go about their business Onuchic said. You can't design drugs in a vacuum he said.

In the same way we find conformations in the protein's landscape we think are important


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Research and professor of biology at the Massachusetts institute of technology (MIT) used skin cells from Parkinson's patients that had a mutation in the gene encoding a protein called alpha-synuclein.

Alpha-synuclein is the primary protein found in Lewy bodies--protein clumps that are the pathological hallmark of Parkinson's disease.

The free radicals attacked the MEF2C protein leading to the loss of function of this pathway that would otherwise have protected the nerve cells from the pesticides.


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#Delaying resistance to Bt corn in western corn rootwormcorn that contains proteins that protect it from insect damage has been grown in the U s. since the mid-1990s.

Known as Bt corn because the proteins are derived from a bacterium called Bacillus thuringiensis these plants have been grown widely by farmers.

which has been documented to show resistance to the Bt proteins. In a new article in the Journal of Integrated Pest Management--an open-access peer-reviewed extension journal--the authors explain why this has occurred

First Bt proteins intended for the European corn borer are produced at a higher dose than the ones intended for rootworms;

which increases the chances of potentially resistant insects mating with non-resistant ones that have not been exposed to Bt proteins;

-Consider using corn that contains different Bt proteins than ones that may have performed poorly in the past. -Consider using pyramided Bt hybrids

which is defined as corn that contains multiple Bt proteins targeting corn rootworm. -If crop rotation is not an option

and corn containing multiple Bt proteins is not available suppression of rootworm adults by using insecticides for one

rotation of Bt proteins and the use of soil insecticides at planting with a non-Bt hybrid.


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They also have an abundance of genes for communication between cells via signaling proteins including small secreted effectors highly expressed during symbiosis. Plant roots send out a plethora of chemical signals

Though it has nearly 30000 protein-encoding genes R. irregularis has lost also hundreds of genes as a result of its close association with plants.


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For the study Shadman principal investigator Emily White Ph d. of the Public health Sciences Division at Fred Hutch and their colleagues drew on a large population-based sample of men and women from the VITAMINS And Lifestyle (VITAL) cohort


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#¢It is worth noting that l-tryptophan is also present to the same extent in other protein foods such as pork ham chicken

and fats consumed during the meal redirects the blood to the digestive system and leaves one feeling sleepy at least until they are revived by that additional slice of pie!

which also contains protein and fiber cornstarch is purely starch granules. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by Institute of Food Technologists (IFT.


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Only scant research data are available on the effects on the lipid metabolism of ruminants of the forage conventionally used to feed dairy cows.

and at the University of Helsinki studied in her doctoral thesis the role of forage species and conservation method in ruminal lipid metabolism and milk fatty acid composition.

Fresh grass increases the share of oleic acidapproximately one half of milk fat is generated in the mammary glands of cows the other half coming from the fats in forage.

Feeding can be used to affect the lipid metabolism of the rumen and the mammary glands and thereby the fat composition of milk Halmemies-Beauchet-Filleau explains.

The most advantageous effect on lipid metabolism is produced by forage from pasture or fresh cut grass.

and increases the share of unsaturated oleic acid in milk fat compared to hay feed says Halmemies-Beauchet-Filleau.

The changes in ruminal lipid metabolism are based on the differences between plant species in terms of digestion kinetics and microbial flora in the rumen.

A moderate vegetable oil supplement also further changed the composition of milk fat to become more favorable as human nutrition.

and made little change to the share of trans fatty acids in milk fat except when given as camelina press cake.


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and Vitamin c levels in the cultivars. The scientists said that the effects of sugar alcohol zinc applications were equal to


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Much of the valuable and heat-sensitive substances especially milk proteins and Vitamin b remains undenaturated explains Dr. Ana Lucia Vá


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Other bioactive compounds found in the sofrito are carotenoids and Vitamin c. Various studies have shown that the intake of carotenoids such as lycopene prevents prostate cancer


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and vitamins A and C. For the study researchers also compared schools that adopted a variety of nutrition programs and policies.


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Engineered veggies target intestinal lipids, improve cholesterolucla researchers report that tiny amounts of a specific type of lipid in the small intestine may play a greater role than previously thought in generating the high cholesterol levels and inflammation that lead to clogged arteries.

The team also found they could reduce the negative effects of these lipids in mice by feeding the animals a new genetically engineered tomato being developed at UCLA that is designed to mimic HDL (good) cholesterol.

The study published in the December issue of the Journal of Lipid Research with an accompanying editorial focused on a group of lipids found in the small intestine called unsaturated lysophosphatidic acids (LPAS.

These lipids may be a new culprit that we can target in the small intestine in fighting atherosclerosis said senior author Dr. Alan Fogelman executive chair of the department of medicine

and director of the atherosclerosis research unit at the David Geffen School of medicine at UCLA. Big effect of small amount of LPAPREVIOUSLY it was thought that the role of the small intestine in response to a high-fat high-cholesterol diet was simply to package the fat

and cholesterol for transport to the liver. Once delivered to the liver the large load of fat was thought to cause increased blood levels of LDL (bad) cholesterol decreased levels of good cholesterol and the rise of systemic inflammation.

But that may not be the complete story. The UCLA researchers revealed that LPAS previously considered very minor

because they are found in far smaller amounts in the small intestine than other lipids like cholesterol may play a more direct role in contributing to the factors that cause atherosclerosis.

Scientists found that mice fed a high-fat high-cholesterol diet (21 percent fat) showed a twofold increase in the amount of LPAS in the small intestine over mice fed normal low-fat

and inflammation before the load of packaged fat even reaches the liver the researchers said.

Recognizing the importance of these minor lipids in the small intestine may lead to ways to reduce their levels

Testing the tomatoesthe next step was to test the impact of the genetically engineered tomatoes on reducing the effects of these lipids in the small intestine.

The tomatoes created at UCLA produce a small peptide called 6f that mimics the action of apoa-1 the chief protein in HDL.

Identifying the role of these specific lipids in the small intestine and new ways to target them will hopefully provide new insights


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Researchers discovered that simple modifications to the drug furamidine have a major impact on its ability to affect specific human proteins involved in the on-off switches of certain genes.

and how difficult it has been to affect these proteins said Gregory Poon pharmaceutical scientist at Washington state University.

The proteins--known as transcription factors--regulate the expression of genes in a highly coordinated and intricate manner making them attractive targets for therapeutic drugs


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These include mutations that the prevent the growth factor from being formed with the correct size mutations that replace especially important amino acids with useless ones as well as mutations that prevent the proper splicing of MESSENGER RNA prior to the protein biosynthesis


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A diet rich in animal protein may favour net acid intake while most fruits and vegetables form alkaline precursors that neutralise the acidity.


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and occurs in many cows after giving birth is related to higher levels of fat in the liver.

John Middleton a professor in the MU College of Veterinary medicine says these higher levels of fat are often precursors to future health problems in cows.

and subsequent higher levels of fat in the liver after giving birth to their calves Middleton said.

These higher levels of fat in the liver are tied often to health problems in dairy cows including increased risk for uterus and mammary infections as well as ketosis

While the researchers did not find any direct links to health problems they say correlations with higher levels of fat in the liver call for further research into the health implications of low blood calcium levels.


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