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Diet switching can activate brain's stress system, lead to 'withdrawal' symptoms

In research that sheds light on the perils of yo-yo dieting and repeated bouts of sugar-bingeing, researchers from The Scripps Research Institute have shown in animal models that cycling between periods of eating sweet and ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0




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Many meat-eating mammals lack sweet tooth, study finds

For all their sharp teeth, many meat-eating mammals lack a sweet tooth, a genetic analysis of a dozen species has shown.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 26, 2012 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Alan Turing's 1950s tiger stripe theory proved

Researchers from King's College London have provided the first experimental evidence confirming a great British mathematician's theory of how biological patterns such as tiger stripes or leopard spots are ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Feb 19, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (64) | comments 23 | with audio podcast

Volunteers sought for simulated Mars mission and study of 'menu fatigue'

(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronauts on a mission to Mars will need much more than freeze-dried ice cream to sustain them, and researchers at Cornell are working to determine the best way to keep them well nourished ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2

Squid mystery in Mexican waters unraveled

While shorter days and colder weather move many of us to hunker under the covers, researchers who spent their summers in fieldwork are more likely to be hunched over microscopes and curled over keyboards, ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Cleaning cows from inside out

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists and their collaborators have conducted a series of studies that explore non-antibiotic methods to reduce foodborne pathogens that are found in the gut of food animals.

Biology / Other

created Nov 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Herbivorous fish like eating meat

The grass carp, thought to be a strict vegetarian, seems to have a preference for amphipoda. NWO researcher Liesbeth Bakker made this discovery during her research into the food preferences of fish. The discovery ...

Biology / Ecology

created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

What's really in that luscious chocolate aroma?

The mouth-watering aroma of roasted cocoa beans — key ingredient for chocolate — emerges from substances that individually smell like potato chips, cooked meat, peaches, raw beef fat, cooked cabbage, human sweat, ...

Chemistry / Other

created Aug 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Research from Everest: Can leucine help burn fat and spare muscle tissue during exercise?

Research on Mt. Everest climbers is adding to the evidence that an amino acid called leucine — found in foods, dietary supplements, energy bars and other products — may help people burn fat during ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Aug 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Microbiologist discovers new super-preservative

(PhysOrg.com) -- In one of those freak accidents that sometimes occur in science, where someone is looking at something for one purpose and finds another for it, Dan O'Sullivan has found a use for a byproduct of harmless ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Aug 17, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (26) | comments 45 | with audio podcast report

Victim of chimp attack gets a full face transplant

(AP) -- A Connecticut woman mauled by a chimpanzee gone berserk has received a new face in the third such operation performed in the U.S. and is looking forward to going out in public again and eating hot ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jun 10, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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