That’s why the Northwest Florida Daily News will launch a new monthly magazine this week called “Healthy You.”
The first edition will be inside this Wednesday’s Daily News. After you give it a read, I hope you’ll e-mail me and tell me what you think of it. Or e-mail “Healthy You” Editor Julie Hatfield at julieh@nwfdailynews.com. [...]

” . . . new find appears to be . . . ” ” . . . timing . . . has been controversial for many years.” “Some archaeologists think . . . ” ” . . . tentatively classified.” Now, from all these [...]

%26quot;It has been suspected for decades that the short arm of chromosome 1 harbored one or more tumor suppressor genes because this region is deleted in a variety of tumors, including many neural crest-derived tumors. Our work suggests that KIFB{beta} is one such gene,%26quot; explains Dr. Kaelin.
Neural crest-derived tumors include neuroblastomas and medulloblastomas, which [...]

As with mice, the TEX11 gene is also located on the human X chromosome. Given that disruption of TEX11 causes azoospermia, or non-measurable sperm levels in mice, mutations in the human TEX11 gene may be a genetic cause of infertility in men. Because men have only one X chromosome that they inherit from their mother [...]

Damage from both diseases was prevented and even reversed when the protein, Robo4, was activated in mice models that simulate age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and diabetic retinopathy, according to Dean Y. Li, M.D., Ph.D., senior author of the study published March 16 in Nature Medicine online.
Robo4 treated and prevented the diseases by inhibiting abnormal blood [...]

Their research has also shown that this association was particularly strong in females compared to males. The group speculates that this may be a result of gender differences in the way the body handles and stores iron.
Though the results are based on a small number of samples, they give an indication that iron accumulation associated [...]