News tagged with aerobic system

Physical fitness curbs frequency and severity of colds

People who are physically fit and active have fewer and milder colds, indicates research published online in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 02, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Argonne scientists use bacteria to power simple machines (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and Northwestern University, Evanston, have discovered that common bacteria can turn microgears when suspended in ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Singapore honours Dutch scientist

Singapore said Monday it will award nearly 200,000 US dollars to a Dutch scientist who pioneered an environmentally friendly, low-cost way of treating waste water and refused to patent the process.

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Runners a marathon a net benefit for the body, experts say

Historians say the first marathon runner was Philippides, who, in 490 B.C., ran 24.85 miles from the battlefield at Marathon with news of the Athenian army's victory over the Persians. He reached Athens, cried out, "Rejoice, ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 23, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0




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Exercise/memory research for Parkinson's

Researchers from the University of Maryland School of Medicine and the Baltimore VA Medical Center have launched a study of exercise and computerized memory training to see if those activities may help people with Parkinson's ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Dec 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Improved memory efficiency seen after aerobic exercise in fibromyalgia patients

Areas of the brain responsible for pain processing and cognitive performance changed in fibromyalgia patients who exercised following a medication holiday, say researchers from Georgetown University Medical Center. They say ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 13, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Cells' 'neighborhood' can help prevent breast cancer

Exercise has given Lu-Ann Doria more energy, confidence and strength. It may also help her stay cancer-free, doctors say.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Light dependency underlies beneficial jetlag in racehorses

A new study has shown that racehorses are extremely sensitive to changes in daily light and, contrary to humans, can adapt very quickly to sudden shifts in the 24-hour light-dark cycle, such as those resulting from a transmeridian ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 18, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Exercise boosts health by influencing stem cells to become bone, not fat, researchers find

McMaster researchers have found one more reason to exercise: working out triggers influential stem cells to become bone instead of fat, improving overall health by boosting the body's capacity to make blood.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 01, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (5) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

The Medical Minute: Don't overdo it, you weekend warrior

There are many benefits to exercise. Exercise not only helps prevent a variety of medical disorders -- including heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity, osteoporosis -- but it is increasingly ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Aug 18, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Stanford study identifies potential anti-cancer therapy that starves cancer cells of glucose

Stanford University School of Medicine researchers have identified a compound that attacks the Achilles' heel of certain cancer cells by depriving them of their energy source, the sugar glucose.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Aug 03, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 3

Water purification unit generates its own energy

A new biological water purification facility developed by Siemens generates enough methane gas to power its own operations. It also produces much less sludge than conventional systems. The pilot facility for ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jul 25, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 3

NASA sends phones, cells, spores and more to space on last shuttle

NASA's Ames Research Center will send a variety of life science experiments and technology demonstrations aboard the final space shuttle to better our understanding of how robots can help humans live and work in space and ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

New salmonella-based 'clean vaccines' aid the fight against infectious disease

A powerful new class of therapeutics, known as recombinant attenuated Salmonella vaccines (RASV), holds great potential in the fight against fatal diseases including hepatitis B, tuberculosis, cholera, typhoi ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jun 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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