All containers, varieties and types of Peter Pan peanut butter, all products containing Peter Pan brand peanut butter, and all jars of Great Value brand peanut butter bearing a product code that begins “2111” are potentially contaminated.
Expanding waistlines, unsightly bulges: people will gladly remove excess body fat to improve their looks. But unwanted fat also contains stem cells with the potential to repair defects and heal injuries in the body.
French CNRS researcher, with NIH, has identified the influence variation in the estrogen cycle has on the female brain. For the first time, scientists have identified the neural networks involved in processing reward-related functions modulated by female gonadal steroid hormones. This was published on the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA Web site Jan. 29, 2007.
Dr. Vafa Shahabi and her research team at Advaxis have designed several new strains of the Listeria bacteria that are programmed to kill off specific cancers.
Specific mutations in a viral protein, the polymerase, contribute to the ability of the bird influenza virus to jump the species barrier to humans. Researchers from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Grenoble and Heidelberg, the Institut de Biologie Structurale (IBS) and the Unit of Virus Host Cell Interactions (UVHCI)*, both in Grenoble, have now produced the first 3-D image of part of this key protein.
Chronic kidney disease (CKD), a serious and progressive medical condition, has been and remains under-identified. While it is easy and inexpensive to test for kidney function, people who are at high risk for CKD are not routinely screened.
A team of researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder has developed a new technique to generate laser-like X-ray beams, removing a major obstacle in the decades-long quest to build a tabletop X-ray laser that could be used for biological and medical imaging.
A new study in rats reveals black soya beans that a diet rich in could help control weight, lower fat and cholesterol levels, and help in the prevention of diabetes. Researchers have shown that rats fed with 10 percent soya had gained half as much weight as those without. Total blood cholesterol fell by 25 percent and LDL (so-called bad) cholesterol fell by 60 percent. Preventing obesity this way may also aid diabetes prevention.
Seafood allergy sufferers may soon be able to eat prawns without the fear of an adverse reaction. Chinese scientists have taken a promising step towards removing from prawns the proteins that cause an allergic response without resorting to genetic manipulation, reports Lisa Richards in Chemistry & Industry, the magazine of the SCI.
A breath test can successfully pick up lung cancer with “moderate accuracy” even in the early stages, reveals research published ahead of print in Thorax.