How to Raise Vegetable Eaters

Cereal bars with spinach mixed in or veggie-infused tater tots are great at fooling children into eating greens or broccoli or carrots. But experts say that aside from the fact that these products often use only traces of vegetables, this strategy assumes the children can’t like kale or broccoli itself, and relying on such products…

Medical News Today: Researchers explore ‘completely novel, nontoxic’ IBD treatment

Gastrointestinal problems — from diarrhea to issues caused by food allergies to inflammatory bowel disease — have one common characteristic. A new study suggests an innovative way of tackling it to both prevent and treat gastrointestinal conditions. New research may have opened up a promising avenue for IBD treatment and prevention strategies. Inflammatory bowel disease…

Project to integrate and decentralize HIV, diabetes, and hypertension services in Africa

IMAGE: INTE-AFRICA is led by an international research group that met in Liverpool, UK, on March 27-28. view more  Credit: C. Picchio The kick off meeting of INTE-AFRICA, a major European Commission-funded project that will study the integration and decentralisation of HIV, diabetes and hypertension care in two African countries, took place in Liverpool, UK, on…

Secure relationship with new parents reduces anxiety in adopted children

Philadelphia, April 2, 2019 — In children who have experienced early institutional care, a strong relationship with their adoptive parents plays a positive role in brain development and the child’s long-term mental health, according to a new study, published in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging, published by Elsevier. Childhood is a time when parents…

Tipping the scales

IMAGE: The researchers equipped a cellular protein (gray) with a modified lysine amino acid building block (pink), to which the bacterial enzyme sortase (yellow) transmits a ubiquitin molecule (blue). view more  Credit: K. Lang / TUM Human cells have a sophisticated regulatory system at their disposal: labeling proteins with the small molecule ubiquitin. In a first,…