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1. Lose weight with a high-protein diet
(Health/Healthquest)

... foods, you actually burn more calories processing them. In addition, proteins also take more time than carbohydrates to move from the stomach to the intestines, leaving you feeling full and satisfied longer. ...

2. Get an A in back-to-school nutrition
(Health/Healthquest)

... give them the fuel for both their body and mind so they do well in school. I recommend incorporating lean proteins, complex carbohydrates and a sprinkle of essential fats into children's back-to-school ...

3. Princeton researchers attempting to transform neuroscience
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... lot of information about how the brain works." The NIH-funded project hinges on the creation and use of a genetically engineered virus that causes neurons to produce colorful fluorescent proteins. As ...

4. Breast cancer vaccine cures, prevents deadly disease
(Health/Healthquest)

... healthy tissue or organ systems. The resulting inflammation can trigger an even more aggressive form of breast cancer. But vaccine researchers have found a way to target proteins that are only present ...

5. Study: Pine bark naturally reduces blood pressure and counteracts kidney damage
(Health/Healthquest)

... maritime pine tree, counteracts kidney damage caused by hypertension, lowering urinary proteins and improving blood flow to the kidneys. "Kidney disease is a common problem for people with hypertension ...

6. Biological breakthrough: Princeton scientists find new mechanism to regulate embryonic development
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... to influence and control the expression of genes. Results published March 9 in the journal Current Biology, however, suggest that competition for the MAPK enzyme among proteins in different pathways influences ...

7. Autism vaccine link debunked
(Health/Healthquest)

... the kinds of proteins that those genes make, about how one brain cell communicates with another based on those proteins. It's all very interesting. You never hear about it because I think that the anti-vaccine ...

8. Princeton scientists make new insights into cancer cells
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... "on," they activate or "express" proteins that serve as signals, creating different pathways of action. Cancer cells often act in aberrant ways, and the algorithm can detect these subtle changes and track ...

9. Welfare of the people is bottomline for Cuba’s pharmaceutical industry
(World/International)

... for research and development and production of monoclonal antibodies. Monoclonal antibodies are produced in laboratories and bind to specific target molecules (like proteins) on the surface of, ...

10. NASA: Wild 2 comet dust reveals life in space could exist
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... the building blocks of life. The 20 amino acids known to exist can be combined to form millions of different proteins. Experts say they have developed tests that rule out the possibility that the amino ...

11. Princeton team discovers why some drugs work so well
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... things up. Silhavy and van Stelten had been studying the mechanism by which proteins — from antibodies to hormones — are produced in bacteria's cytoplasm, the gooey substance that makes up the cell's ...

12. When fish eat fish, it slows their evolution
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... value, fish are loaded with fats and proteins needed for growth, explain the researchers. "Fish make great fish food," says co-author Brian O'Meara of the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center. "But they're ...

13. State investment in Rutgers is repaid six times over
(Opinion/Commentary)

... is studying two neurotrophin proteins in the ear's cochlea. They have discovered that these proteins play a key role in the way sound messages are relayed to the brain. Their work may lead to significant ...

14. Obese children show early signs of cardiovascular disease
(Health/Healthquest)

... early. Doctors know that certain proteins in the bloodstream are warning signs of a predisposition to heart disease. Many of these 'markers' become elevated long before the more familiar cholesterol ...

15. Researchers develop novel HIV vaccine
(Health/Healthquest)

... a strategy they've been working on for 10 years that focuses on special antibody-like proteins that can neutralize the HIV virus. Bypassing the immune system, the investigators created the proteins from ...

16. Princeton-led research team finds important role for junk DNA
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... organism Oxytricha produce cell proteins known as transposases. During development, the transposons appear to first influence hundreds of thousands of DNA pieces to regroup. Then, when no longer needed, ...

17. Princeton team's analysis of flu virus could lead to better vaccines
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... appreciated aspect of the interaction between a virus and those naturally produced defensive proteins called antibodies that fight infection. By manipulating this multi-stage interactive process — known ...