News tagged with natural rhythms

Late-Night Snacks: Worse Than You Think

(PhysOrg.com) -- Eat less, exercise more. Now there is new evidence to support adding another "must" to the weight-loss mantra: eat at the right time of day.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Understanding schizophrenia: Researchers uncover new underlying mechanism

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new way of thinking about the fundamental pathobiology of schizophrenia could one day lead to improved therapeutic approaches to treating this disorder. Researchers at the University of Toronto, the Hospital ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Mar 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Analysis of bread mold genomes demos 'reverse-ecology' tool

In a demonstration of "reverse-ecology," biologists at the University of California, Berkeley, have shown that one can determine an organism's adaptive traits by looking first at its genome and checking for ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jan 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists unlock the 'gates' on sudden cardiac death (w/ Video)

Australian researchers have come one step closer to understanding how the rhythm of the heartbeat is controlled and why many common drugs, including some antibiotics, antihistamines and anti-psychotics, can cause a potentially ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jan 28, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Tick tock: Rods help set internal clocks, biologist says

We run our modern lives largely by the clock, from the alarms that startle us out of our slumbers and herald each new workday to the watches and clocks that remind us when it's time for meals, after-school pick-up and the ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Sep 17, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Researchers use novel sperm stem-cell technique to produce genetically modified rats

For two decades, the laboratory mouse has been the workhorse of biomedical studies and the only mammal whose genes scientists could effectively and reliably manipulate to study human diseases and conditions.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 27, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The clock watcher: Circadian rhythms research is shedding light on the causes of disease and aging

(PhysOrg.com) -- Embedded in our genes is a "clock" that regulates when we sleep, when we are awake and when we eat. This human clock manages what are known as circadian rhythms, 24-hour biological cycles ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created May 29, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Heart drugs show promise for fighting colon cancer

Scientists in Sweden are reporting for the first time that a group of drugs used to treat heart failure shows promise for fighting colon cancer. The study is in ACS' Journal of Natural Products. Colon cancer ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0