Pregnant Mother’s Diet Changes Genetic Switches In Baby’s Brain. (0)
1/08/10 •
Researchers from the University of North Carolina fed two groups of pregnant mice different diets during the period when their baby’s memory, the hippocampus develops.
One group’s diet included choline while the other did not. Examining their brain cells researchers found the group that did not receive choline had epigenetic changes on the proteins that wrap [...]
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Baby Gives Mom New Neurons (0)
1/04/10 •
Researchers exposed virgin female rats to foster pups every day until they began to exhibit maternal behavior, like crouching over the pups, grouping them and retrieving them back to the nest. The data showed that the rats exposed to the pups have increased numbers of new neurons.
Other studies in mice, hamsters, monkeys and even humans [...]
Prolong Life and Prevent Cancer Restrict Calories, Especially Glucose (0)
12/27/09 •
In a world where we are still trying to convince people to stop smoking and using drugs the mantra, too much glucose is really really bad for you, can for some sound like the ramblings of a crazy woman, but glucose have already been linked to cancer in previous studies.
Using normal human lung cells and [...]
Abused Children Age Quicker As Adults (3)
11/30/09 •
Cellular aging is a reduction in the size of telomeres or the caps at the end of chromosomes. Researchers measured DNA in blood samples from adults who reported suffering abuse as children and compared them to adults who were not abused as children.
The findings showed that adults who were emotionally or physically abused as children [...]
Why Some Boys Play With Dolls (1)
11/17/09 •
A study on 145 pre-school children, measured their mother’s prenatal urine for elevations of two common phthalates. The finding showed that in mothers where levels of these phthalates were elevated during pregnancy, their sons were less likely to take part in games typical of males, like play fighting and play with toys such as trucks.
Lead [...]
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