http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Milk from goats that were genetically modified to produce higher levels of a human antimicrobial protein has proved effective in treating diarrhea in young pigs, demonstrating the potential for food products from transgenic animals to one day also benefit human health, report researchers at the University of California, Davis. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-goats-antimicrobial-lysozyme-recovery-diarrhea.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Wed, 13 Mar 2013 17:00:03 EST news282411039 Activating and deactivating individual nerve cells in the brain is something many neuroscientists wish they could do, as it would help them to better understand how the brain works. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-brain.html Neuroscience Fri, 18 Jan 2013 13:19:03 EST news277737533 Relatively small levels of exposure to alcohol while in the womb can influence a child's IQ, according to a new study led by researchers from the universities of Bristol and Oxford using data from over 4,000 mothers and their children in the Children of the 90s study (ALSPAC) and published today in PLOS ONE. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-moderate-pregnancy-affect-child-iq.html Health Wed, 14 Nov 2012 18:10:22 EST news272130198 Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute have demonstrated that the Anopheles mosquito's innate immune system could be genetically engineered to block the transmission of malaria-causing parasites to humans. In addition, they showed that the genetic modification had limited impact on the mosquito's fitness under laboratory conditions. The researchers' findings are published December 22nd in the Open Access journal PLoS Pathogens. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-scientists-mosquito-immune-malaria.html Immunology Thu, 22 Dec 2011 18:25:06 EST news243800698 When RNA component units called ribonucleotides become embedded in genomic DNA, which contains the complete genetic data for an organism, they can cause problems for cells. It is known that ribonucleotides in DNA can potentially distort the DNA double helix, resulting in genomic instability and altered DNA metabolism, but not much is known about the fate of these ribonucleotides. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-mechanisms-cells-bits-rna-dna.html Cancer Sun, 04 Dec 2011 13:00:04 EST news242222973