osteoporosis

Study: Soybeans Can Help Protect Brittle Bones Among Menopausal Women

Medicine & Technology Nov 03, 2015

Research found a certain chemical in soybean foods with a similar structural composition like estrogen, thus theoretically protecting women against bone loss by copying estrogen's mechanism of action.

Boning Up Against Breast Cancer: How It Can Alter Its Structure to Help It Spread

May 28, 2015

A team of scientists from the University of Sheffield and University of Copenhagen have discovered an enzyme which helps breast cancer spread, and in the process, have found a possible way to prevent the spread of breast cancer-secondary or metastatic cancer-in patients. Bones are the most common routes breast cancer takes as it spreads, involved in about 85 percent of secondary breast cancer cases.