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Organic milk: Udderly delicious
The Independent - Independent - Aug 31, 2006
Travel four miles down the A590 from Kendal towards Lancaster and you’ll discover Lower Sizergh Farm. Instead of using chemical fertilisers the fields here are fed with nothing more than compost, manure and lashings of rain. Its 120-strong herd of dairy cows also benefits from open-air grazing and a system of preventative medicine that aligns their needs with the natural cycle of their environment. In return the herd produces more than a million litres of organic milk a year, the health benefits of which are then passed on to us. “I like to think of it like a restaurant menu: traditional with a modern twist,” jokes Richard Parks, who works this land. “We’ve got a better understanding of genetics in our livestock, better seeds to grow our feed and better machinery to plough the fields. But we are basically using the advantages of the modern world to farm in a very traditional way.
Risk Of Age-related Macular Degeneration Influenced By Variation In 3…
Medical News Today - Aug 31, 2006
They observed additive accumulation of risk from alleles at these three genes, including CFH on chromosome 1, complement factor B (BF) and complement component 2 (C2) genes on chromosome 6, and the LOC gene on chromosome 10. They estimate that genotypes related to five variants in these three genes explain about half the sibling risk of AMD in the study population. Results are published online in Nature Genetics. The principal investigator, Johanna M. , Director of the Epidemiology Unit and Macular Degeneration specialist at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, and Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School, collaborated with co-authors from the Center for Human Genetic Research at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology… With the elderly population steadily growing, the burden related to this loss of visual function will increase. Limited treatment options exist and prevention remains the best approach for addressing this public health concern. “The overall implication of this study is that depending on your genotype related to these five variants in three genes, and most likely more to be discovered, preventive and therapeutic drug targets may be better designed and tailored to an individual’s need, ie. , personalized medicine,” said Dr. This study evaluated a large number of samples from individuals with advanced AMD, including both geographic atrophy or “dry” AMD, and neovascular disease or “wet” AMD, which cause visual loss. It is noteworthy that no differences were found between these subtypes of advanced AMD with respect to the variations found in the genes.
$18 million grant will boost ASU research into mysteries of fatal…
EurekAlert - EurekAlert (press release) - Aug 31, 2006
The grant is from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The Microscale Life Sciences Center’s focus is on use of microscale technology innovation to solve mysteries about cell growth and death, answers that will reveal crucial knowledge about cancer, heart disease and strokes
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