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  • Small Intestine Can Sense And React To Bitter Toxins In Food
    Toxins in food often have a bad, bitter taste that makes people want to spit them out. New UC Irvine research finds that bitterness also slows the digestive process, keeping bad food in the stomach longer and increasing the chances that it will be expelled. This second line of defense in the gut against dietary toxins also triggers the production of a hormone that makes people feel full, presumably to keep them from eating more of the toxic food.
  • Deerfield Urethane Joins Forces With Olivia Newton-John To Encourage Early Detection Of Breast Cancer
    Deerfield Urethane, Inc. (Deerfield), a wholly owned subsidiary of Bayer MaterialScience LLC (BMS) and one of the leading suppliers of custom, made-to-order thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) and specialty elastomer film and sheet, is proud to announce its collaboration with BHS International (BHS), a breast health company co-founded by Olivia Newton-John, in the development and production of the Liv® Aid breast self-exam aid.
  • JCI Online Early Table Of Contents: Oct. 9, 2008
    VASCULAR BIOLOGY: A real-time view of blood flow through the pancreas A team of researchers at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, has developed a new microscopy approach that enabled them to image, in real time, the flow of blood in mouse pancreatic islets of Langerhans. The pancreatic islets of Langerhans have a central role in regulating the amount of glucose in the blood.
  • Australian Launch Of Medical Data 'Internet'
    Medical and life scientists will be able to share information collected from many thousands of cases thanks to a digital network aunched at The Australian National University in Canberra The ANU node of BioGrid was launched at the John Curtin School of Medical Research, Garran Road, ANU by Senator Kate Lundy. The ACT node of the BioGrid network is a collaborative venture between ANU and BioGrid Australia.
  • Medical Highlights Of Frontiers In Optics Meeting In Rochester, Oct. 19-23
    Medical research is a cornerstone of Frontiers in Optics 2008 (FiO), the 92nd Annual Meeting of the Optical Society (OSA), being held Oct. 19-23 at the Riverside Convention Center in Rochester, N.Y. FiO 2008 will take place alongside Laser Science XXIV, the annual meeting of the American Physical Society's Division of Laser Science. MEDICAL RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS AT FiO Following are a few of the many technical highlights to be discussed at the meeting.