Articles written by Art Ayers

Following the AAP recommendation to breastfeed newborns for six months would save more than 900 lives and $13 billion dollars in medical expenses each year.

Apr 7, 2010 - Art Ayers

Plants produce a cornucopia of exquisitely toxic chemicals to attack essential metabolic functions of any microbe or animal that would attempt to use them as food.

Mar 9, 2010 - Art Ayers

An RBC forms as a parent cell accumulates scaffolding proteins that rigidly shape a region of the membrane and pinch off the hemoglobin-filled, nucleus-free reticulocyte.

Feb 15, 2010 - Art Ayers

The activation energy needed by enzymes and their reactants to catalyze a specific biochemical reaction is provided by the kinetic energy of the colliding reactants.

Feb 10, 2010 - Art Ayers

Understanding that genes code for proteins and proteins function as enzymes is the foundation for basic genetics (dominance, phenotype) and molecular biology.

Feb 6, 2010 - Art Ayers

Hair follicles shape the shafts of extruded keratin protein. To change that shape, disulfide bonds between proteins can be altered by permanent wave chemicals.

Feb 2, 2010 - Art Ayers

Boiling modifies hydrogen bonding, but frying produces new molecules with different properties, such as brown colored pigments and new tastes.

Jan 29, 2010 - Art Ayers

Students can learn biology through food preparation. Meringue bubbles are like inside-out cell membranes. Water surface tension forms bubbles and cell membranes.

Jan 21, 2010 - Art Ayers

Prevailing condemnation of saturated fats by the medical community is wrong. A new analysis of risk of coronary, stroke and vascular disease vindicates saturated fats.

Jan 18, 2010 - Art Ayers

Niacin is the most effective treatment to raise HDL and lower LDL. A major goal of drug development is to provide these benefits without facial flushing.

Jan 9, 2010 - Art Ayers

The JUPITER study suggested that the inflammation lowering side effect of Crestor may also lower cardiovascular risk. FDA may extend treatment to those with elevated CRP.

Dec 30, 2009 - Art Ayers

Resolve to make easy changes in diet that can improve your health in the New Year. Eat to avoid allergies, autoimmunity, inflammation and degenerative diseases.

Dec 14, 2009 - Art Ayers

Diabetes caused by diet, inflammation, metabolic syndrome, pregnancy or polycystic ovary syndrome results in increased mitochondrial superoxide.

Nov 21, 2009 - Art Ayers

The Preventive Care Task Force recommends an end to routine breast cancer screening by mammogram and self-examination for women younger than 50 years old.

Nov 18, 2009 - Art Ayers

Bisphenol A (BPA) leaches from some plastic water and food containers and may cause behavioral changes in children. Thermal printers may be a more serious BPA problem.

Nov 16, 2009 - Art Ayers

Electrons can emit or absorb only specific amounts of energy to change orbitals and this energy change usually takes place via photons of light.

Oct 29, 2009 - Art Ayers

ATP is produced in cellular metabolism by using the high energy of valence electrons around carbon and hydrogen.

Oct 22, 2009 - Art Ayers

Continued breastfeeding with appropriate precautions is safer and better for mother and newborn, even though separation would prevent possible infection.

Oct 17, 2009 - Art Ayers

Bacteria growing in communities contribute DNA as a biofilm scaffold and also to provide protection against host antibacterial peptides.

Oct 12, 2009 - Art Ayers

Actin microfilaments are cytoskeletal fibers that are dynamically polymerized under the cytoplasmic membrane surface and are responsible for muscle contraction.

Oct 5, 2009 - Art Ayers

The tough fibers that span cells and hold the nucleus together are intermediate in diameter between thin actin microfilaments and thick microtubules of the cytoskeleton.

Oct 3, 2009 - Art Ayers

Microtubules are rigid protein tubes that radiate from the cell center and provide the tracks used by motor proteins to move organelles and molecules to the cell surface.

Oct 2, 2009 - Art Ayers

Protein tubes and fibers help to assemble and move organelles to cellular locations. These protein aggregates make up the cytoskeleton.

Oct 1, 2009 - Art Ayers

Acetylsalicylic acid modifies COX-2 in colon cancer and provides anti-tumorigenic effects. Modified COX-2 produces anti-inflammatory lipoxins, resolvins to block cancer.

Aug 15, 2009 - Art Ayers

It's not the latitude or sunblock or video games that is lowering vitamin D. Even optimum sunlight doesn't produce enough vitamin D. Inflammation may be the problem.

Aug 4, 2009 - Art Ayers

Diminished lung capacity and altered immunity place pregnant mothers at increased risk of deadly complications from variant H1N1. Prompt treatment is imperative.

Jul 31, 2009 - Art Ayers

The common dye, Brilliant Blue G, that makes M & Ms and Gatorade Blue, blocks the damage of ATP released after spinal cord injuries. BBG is a promising treatment.

Jul 29, 2009 - Art Ayers

Water is highly organized by contact with the double layer of membrane lipids. Hydrophilic phosphates of the phospholipids hydrogen bond into the water surface layers.

Jul 28, 2009 - Art Ayers

Water at the surface is frozen in a stretched sheet of optimally bonded molecules, as molecules shake into the minimal energy configuration.

Jul 21, 2009 - Art Ayers

An epidemiological study examined and found an association between parental autoimmunity diseases and autism spectrum disorders (ASDs)/infantile autism.

Jul 8, 2009 - Art Ayers

Mother's milk contains prebiotics and antimicrobials, which help a baby establish healthy gut flora and avoid inflammatory bacteria.

Jul 4, 2009 - Art Ayers

Molecules that form hydrogen bonds with water are hydrophilic and those that can't are hydrophobic.

Jul 1, 2009 - Art Ayers

Cell membranes, ribosomes, protein complexes and biological macromoles such as nucleic acids and proteins are held together by hydrogen bonds.

Jul 1, 2009 - Art Ayers

A natural milk protein, lactoferrin, is anti-bacterial and, in a mouse model, protects against common pathogens and may decrease hospital-acquired infections.

May 16, 2009 - Art Ayers

Nicotine has an anti-inflammatory effect via the vagus nerve, which is useful against many diseases, and perhaps may block the cytokine storm of the H1N1 swine flu.

May 4, 2009 - Art Ayers

Evolution of H1N1 responds to selection pressures within infected individuals and during spread to others. Isolation and hand washing can prevent a deadly pandemic.

May 3, 2009 - Art Ayers

Deaths from the Mexican influenza epidemic have the cytokine storm pattern of young, healthy adults. Inflammatory cytokines can be blocked by anti-inflammatory foods.

Apr 28, 2009 - Art Ayers

A common misconception is that ATP can be used to determine the direction of a reaction. ATP is used to make activated intermediates that are macromolecular precursors.

Apr 28, 2009 - Art Ayers

The molecular world is dominated by random events. Molecules collide and the reactions that occur are based on the random orientation of the molecules at impact.

Apr 26, 2009 - Art Ayers

Allergen-specific IgE, inflammatory C-reactive protein and BMI were measured in children and adolescents. Obese children were likely to show inflammation and allergies.

Apr 20, 2009 - Art Ayers

Permanent acceptance of transplanted organs by expanding regulatory T cells (Tregs) using interleukin-2/antibody complex. Cure may also work for autoimmunity and cancer.

Apr 14, 2009 - Art Ayers

Vitamin D3 supplements are effective in treating a wide variety of diseases. Most recently, bone fractures in individuals older than 65 were reduced more than 20%.

Mar 31, 2009 - Art Ayers

Enzymes bind to particular molecules, because the protein secondary structure rigidly displays amino acid functional groups that make multiple bonds with the molecules.

Mar 31, 2009 - Art Ayers

A newly identified estrogen receptor (ER-beta) is found in prostate cancer cells. Anti-estrogen drugs act via the inflammatory transcription factor NFkappaB.

Mar 29, 2009 - Art Ayers

Recognition that the loss of appetite and weight loss associated with cancer is a result of cancer-induced inflammation, may provide therapeutic approaches.

Mar 26, 2009 - Art Ayers

The species concept of stable genetic composition does not apply to the complex, promiscuous community of the digestive tract. The gut environment defines gut flora.

Mar 25, 2009 - Art Ayers

Alpha-linolenic acid (ALA) reduces the incidence of breast cancer in diets rich in antioxidants, and reduces the detrimental effects of omega-6 PUFAs.

Mar 5, 2009 - Art Ayers

Can the AHA be correct in promoting omega-6 PUFAs? Doesn't this conflict with the broad therapeutic action of omega-3 PUFAs, EPA/DHA, against inflammatory diseases?

Feb 6, 2009 - Art Ayers

Curcumin, found in the spice turmeric, is a potent anti-inflammatory agent that reduces physical exhaustion in mice with experimental CFS.

Jan 26, 2009 - Art Ayers

RNA technology was used to silence herpes and host genes to protect for a week in mice.

Jan 24, 2009 - Art Ayers