Sentences with phrase «potentially harmful»

Also, in both cell culture and a mouse model of the condition, blocking the excessive splintering reduced production of reactive oxygen species, a potentially harmful byproduct of metabolism, as well as cell death.

After all, why should females have naturally higher levels of Trail, if Trail is potentially harmful to embryos?

Crucially, the team also found women who received the thicker thread had more potentially harmful bacteria in the vagina and around the cervix.

All people have human leukocyte antigens (HLA), proteins that are key to the immune system's defense against bacteria, viruses and other potentially harmful invaders.

Opponents of the tests have warned that potentially harmful radioisotopes, especially caesium - 137, strontium - 90 and plutonium isotopes, will leach from rocks fractured by the blasts.

The findings suggest that because children born to older fathers tend to have more potentially harmful genetic mutations than those with younger dads, they're less likely to pass on their genes.

The research, which involved 668 children, shows that numbers of some beneficial bacteria in the gut decrease in Crohn's patients, while the number of potentially harmful bacteria increases.

He argues that the field needs tests that root out these potentially harmful effects at frequencies of 0.01 % or even lower.

BRUSSELS — The European Commission is going ahead with a 2 - year moratorium on three widely used pesticides that are potentially harmful to bees, although E.U. countries remain split on the issue.

Otherwise, a potentially harmful chemical might leach out of the plastic.

At university, science undergraduates can perform potentially harmful experiments on living vertebrates only under Home Office licence.

According to the authors, these results suggest that the global community has responded to the calls - to - action, such as in the Stockholm Convention, to limit the release of potentially harmful chemicals into the environment.

Scientists may have found a sweet new way to fight Group B Strep: Sugars in some women's breast milk busted up colonies of the potentially harmful bacteria in a small lab study.The results, published online June 1 in ACS Infectious Diseases and... Read More

The study, which involved surveying 267 RCMP officers from across Canada, also found that the quality of relationships officers have with their peers and supervisors can help reduce the potentially harmful effects of workplace anxiety.

«Simple tableware switch could reduce exposure to a potentially harmful substance.»

«Potentially harmful nanoparticles produced through burning coal: Environmental scientists led by the Virginia Tech College of Science have discovered that the burning of coal produces incredibly small airborne particles of a highly unusual form of titanium oxide with the potential to be toxic to humans.»

A study in mice shows that two techniques can drastically reduce the amount of this potentially harmful DNA in eggs and embryos, thus potentially sparing children from the illnesses.

«But without the facts, or with incorrect facts, there is a real danger of jumping to incorrect and potentially harmful conclusions.

«This research provides new insight about the potentially harmful effects of a lack of sleep on the brain and has implications for better characterizing the pathology of Alzheimer's disease,» said George F. Koob, Ph.D., director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), part of the National Institutes of Health, which funded the study.

Doctors could use MRI to evaluate patients for potentially harmful lesions, and then use that information in one of three MRI guided strategies for biopsying potential foci of cancer, and bypass biopsy if a scan is completely negative.

Geneticists say large population databases will be essential to pin down what portion of people carrying potentially harmful mutations will develop disease, and if the effects can be mitigated by other genes, for example.

«This is the first time we have physical evidence that putting yourself in someone else's shoes is potentially harmful,» said Buffone.

«These are all potentially harmful stimuli to cells,» said Eyal Raz, MD, professor of Medicine and senior author of the study.

Now researchers show in mouse studies that the pungent compound in ginger, 6 - ginergol, could counteract capsaicin's potentially harmful effects.

They complain that no one is monitoring the introduction of potentially harmful foreign species to European waters.

They promote the proliferation of B cells that produce highly selective antibodies against invading pathogens while weeding out those that generate potentially harmful ones.

Although some fluid additives might be non-toxic to start, they could react with other substances once injected into a well and form new potentially harmful products, the team explains.

Most babies born prematurely and one - third of full - term infants are exposed to chemicals found in vinyl «at a potentially harmful level,» according to new research in Finland.

Similarly, scientists have long assumed that bitter taste evolved as a defense mechanism to detect potentially harmful toxins commonly found in plants.

Loyola University Chicago Health Sciences Division scientists found that in patients who had suffered severe burns, there was a huge increase in Enterobacteriaceae, a family of potentially harmful bacteria.

It found that the more consistently wet the bar soaps were and the more they were used, the more potentially harmful microbes they hosted.

Clinical trials show that eaten regularly in sufficient quantities, the product's plant stanol esters can reduce the risk of heart disease by lowering levels of potentially harmful, low - density lipoproteins.

In patients who had suffered severe burns, a study has found that there was a huge increase in Enterobacteriaceae, a family of potentially harmful bacteria.

Nor is there a foolproof way to spot potentially harmful infections in mothers.

The ozone layer helps shield Earth from potentially harmful ultraviolet radiation that can cause skin cancer, cataracts, and suppress immune systems, as well as damage plants.

A total of 19 per cent of participants were screened to have a «risky» alcohol consumption — that is to say a level of alcohol consumption that is potentially harmful and can cause alcohol use disorder.

«The research clearly suggests that, among other risk factors, exposure to violent video games can lead to aggression and other potentially harmful effects.»

Joy renewed his call, stated earlier this year in a Wired magazine article, for checks on unhindered development and dispersion of potentially harmful technology: «Just as with nuclear weapons, we wouldnt want everyone to have a nuclear weapon in their garage when they have a bad day.»

Therefore, in view of the results obtained and bearing in mind the generation of these compounds that are potentially harmful for health, the healthiest option for frying is to use extra virgin olive and fry in the microwave.

Similar techniques could be used to activate virtually any gene or genetic pathway without the risk of introducing potentially harmful mutations.

In primates, baring teeth is used as a signal of submission or subordination — a means of avoiding potentially harmful and aggressive physical confrontations with others.

However if these prove successful, treatments will have to be administered in a clinic by an IV drip and could have some potentially harmful side effects.

In getting vitrification to occur, Fahy and colleagues have to balance two phenomena that are both potentially harmful, yet necessary — at least for now.

The Big Apple wants to use the sun's power to provide clean drinking water for its nine million residents without adding more of the potentially harmful chlorine it uses as a disinfectant.

«Heavy - petroleum fuels raising vanadium emissions: Human emissions of potentially harmful vanadium particles into Earth's atmosphere now exceed those from all natural sources combined..»

Human emissions of the potentially harmful trace metal vanadium into Earth's atmosphere have spiked sharply since the start of the 21st century due in large part to industry's growing use of heavy oils, tar sands, bitumen and petroleum coke for energy, a new Duke University study finds.

But fish and other aquatic life face potentially harmful concentrations in 57 percent of streams in agricultural areas and in 83 percent of city streams.

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It wants major brands and their suppliers to commit to stop discharging potentially harmful chemicals in waste water by 2020.

Current coatings available on the market are pricey and potentially harmful, so scientists have now developed an affordable specialized polymer coating for such surfaces that they can recharge with bleach treatments.