Word: lipids
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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HEAVY MAMAS Pregnant women who are overweight before pregnancy face a threefold increased risk of having a stillborn baby. It's thought that Mom's high lipid levels may somehow impair the placenta's ability to function...
...existence or demonstration of the existence of the channel does not tell us how it works, that is, how is it opened and closed," Rapoport said. "How do proteins move across in one direction and how does it open laterally to let membrane proteins out into the lipid bilayer...
...water's flow, Biebuyck says, is analogous to the movement of molecules across the lipid membranes of human cells. Such membranes are sprinkled with proteins which are hydrophobic on one end and hydrophilic on the other, like the configuration of the silicon surface...
CEREDASE, A BREAKTHROUGH TREATMENT for the crippling and sometimes fatal , genetic disorder called Gaucher's disease, is changing lives, even saving them -- but not always making them better. For Jeanne Rogal, 29, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Ceredase has reduced the pain from her crumbling bones, removed the lipid deposits choking her liver, and restored her energy so she can enjoy life again. But with it comes a crushing financial burden: Ceredase can cost up to $350,000 for a year's treatment...