News tagged with growth hormone

Regrowing hair: Researchers may have accidentally discovered a solution

It has been long known that stress plays a part not just in the graying of hair but in hair loss as well. Over the years, numerous hair-restoration remedies have emerged, ranging from hucksters' "miracle solvents" ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Feb 16, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (44) | comments 18 | with audio podcast

Supersoldier ants created in the lab by reactivating ancestral genes

(PhysOrg.com) -- There are over 1100 species of Pheidole genus ants, and most individual ants belong to either the worker or soldier caste. In only eight of the Pheidole species, some individuals can belong ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jan 06, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (23) | comments 21 | with audio podcast report

Study strengthens link between sirtuins proteins and life extension

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new paper from MIT biology professor Leonard Guarente strengthens the link between longevity proteins called sirtuins and the lifespan-extending effects of calorie restriction.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (10) | comments 1

Laughter remains good medicine

The connection between the body, mind and spirit has been the subject of conventional scientific inquiry for some 20 years. The notion that psychosocial and societal considerations have a role in maintaining health and preventing ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Apr 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Stress May Hasten The Growth Of Melanoma Tumors But Common Beta-Blocker Medications Might Slow That Progress

For patients with a particularly aggressive form of skin cancer - malignant melanoma - stress, including that which comes from simply hearing that diagnosis, might amplify the progression of their disease.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Dwarfism gene linked to protection from cancer and diabetes

A 22-year study of abnormally short individuals suggests that growth-stunting mutations also may stunt two of humanity's worst diseases.

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Feb 16, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Fight-or-flight hormones help tumor cells escape to spread

Chronic stress triggers a chain of molecular events that protects breakaway ovarian cancer cells from destruction, a team of researchers led by scientists at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center reports April ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 12, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Prostate cancer study's dramatic results

(PhysOrg.com) -- The risk of death for men suffering from locally advanced or high-risk prostate cancer could be dramatically cut, according to a new international study involving Cardiff University.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jun 30, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists improve biomarker detection technique

Scientists from NPL's Biotechnology group have developed a new strategy to enable quicker and more precise detection of biomarkers - proteins which indicate disease. The work marks a new research direction ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Sep 02, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Hormone thought to slow aging associated with increased risk of cancer death

According to a new study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM), older men with high levels of the hormone IGF-I (insulin-like growth factor 1) are at inc ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 01, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Research involving thyroid hormone lays foundation for more targeted drug development

Research led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists advances a strategy for taming the side effects and enhancing the therapeutic benefits of steroids and other medications that work by disrupting the activity ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Oct 21, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Going from strength to strength: effects of growth hormone on muscle

Growth hormone is used to treat children's growth disorders and has been used by some sports men and women to promote muscle growth and regeneration.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Oct 01, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Human growth hormone: Not a life extender after all?

People profoundly deficient in human growth hormone (HGH) due to a genetic mutation appear to live just as long as people who make normal amounts of the hormone, a new study shows. The findings suggest that HGH may not be ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jan 26, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Scientists find protein spurs spread of prostate cancer

(PHILADELPHIA) Researchers from the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson have found that Stat5, a signaling protein previously found to be key to survival of prostate cancer, is also involved in metastasis.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created May 19, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Getting to the root of nutrient sensing

New research published by Cell Press in the June 15th issue of the journal Developmental Cell, reveals how plants modify their root architecture based on nutrient availability in the soil.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jun 14, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0