Omega-3 PUFA reduce heart failure

Rice Bran oil with its ideal SFA/ MUFA/ PUFA ratio and EFA ratios most ideally matches the prescribed levels suggested by World Health Organization (WHO) The Solvent Extractors Association of India (SEA) are busy promoting the health benefits of one ...

The ability to produce physiologically critical LC-PUFA from dietary fatty acids differs greatly among teleost species, and is dependent on the possession and expression of fatty acyl desaturase and elongase genes. Atlantic salmon, as a result of a ...

Polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA)‐activated two‐pore domain potassium channels (K2P) have been proposed to be expressed in the pulmonary vasculature. However, their physiological or pathophysiological roles are poorly defined. Here, we tested ...

People who follow a vegan lifestyle — strict vegetarians who try to eat no meat or animal products of any kind — may increase their risk of developing blood clots and atherosclerosis or "hardening of the arteries," which are conditions that can ...

from Jules: the Editorial below says "The study by Orlich and colleagues1 provides additional evidence that vegetarian diets are associated with improved health outcomes, including all-cause mortality. The study is a well-done, prospective cohort ...

Dignity Sciences Ltd, a privately held biopharmaceutical company, announced today that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued a Notice of Allowance for U.S. patent application serial number 13/318,290, entitled "Use of ...

NanoSight reports on how Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis, NTA, is being used in the research project Engineering of Biomolecules at the Lorraine University, based in Nancy. Dr Jordane Jasniewski works at the Laboratory of Biomolecules Engineering ...

The maternal diet during pregnancy and lactation may affect the long‐term health of the offspring. Our aim was to study how a fish or meat diet perinatal and after weaning affects body composition, insulin sensitivity, and the profile of n‐3 and ...

A new oilseed rape variety with the potential to produce oil suitable for use as a hydraulic oil or lubricant is being trialled by farm management company Velcourt. The unnamed variety is a mutant derived from chemical mutagenesis and has an oleic ...