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...gaining weight between pregnancies,” Villamor said. “In addition, overweight and obese women are likely to benefit from weight loss if they are planning to become pregnant.” The study was a joint effort between the Harvard School of Public Health and Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden...
That's exactly what happened last week. Researchers at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden who had earlier shown that hormonelike pheromones stimulate the human hypothalamus--a part of the brain that governs sexual arousal--took the experiment one provocative step further. Writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, they reported that gay men don't respond to the chemicals the same way that straight men do. "It clearly substantiates the idea that there's a biological substrate for sexual orientation," says Dean Hamer, a geneticist at the National Institutes of Health and the author of Science...
...chemical commonly found in potato chips and french fries does not increase the risk of cancer, according to a study by the School of Public Health (SPH) and Karolinska Institute of Stockholm...
...example. Most researchers, though, are more optimistic. Over the course of 10 years, they say, the riddles of the cord have been solved. The question now is not what the treatments for an injured spine should be, but how best to implement them. At hospitals such as the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and the University of Florida, human trials are already getting under way. Studies at other hospitals are sure to follow. Says Black: "The astounding progress over the past decade dwarfs the progress of the past 5,000 years." Reeve may not stand up the day he turns...
...Karolinska team members, led by Henrich Cheng, took special pains to avoid the pitfalls that had tripped up investigators in the past. They widened the gap (by removing a quarter inch of spine) to ensure that no nerve tissue remained to produce false-positive results. Then they built their cellular bridges according to a precise blueprint that carefully distinguished between the two kinds of nerve tissue in the spinal cord--white and gray matter. White matter contains the parts of nerves that are surrounded by a substance called myelin, which acts like insulation around an electric wire. Gray matter contains...