FDA monitors genetically modified animals

Office of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has submitted to the stakeholder document that defines the rules for the supervision of genetically modified animals. According to the Office, the introduction of new rules for threatened mass commercialization of genetic engineering technologies. Published the 25-page document is subject to FDA jurisdiction explain, no animals with a modified genome, whether pets (eg, hypo-allergenic cats), cattle with additional nutritional properties, or animals that are used to produce drugs. In the future, FDA expects the manufacturer information about the properties, methods of cultivation and as you get to identify these animals and their possible impact on human health and the environment. While these requirements are not mandatory, the biomedical industry is trying representatives U.S. likely to follow them. Legal framework for the document as a law in 1983 served as a medical monitoring, treatment integrated into the genome of an additional DNA fragment. Since modern genetic engineering can not determine exactly what kind of a chromosome to obtain new genes, each row of the modified animals will be regulated separately. By the FDA, the need for new rules drawn by the increasing commercialization of bio-engineering technology. In this context, the focus is on the regulatory body will have, for example, animal, intended for mass breeding for commercial purposes.

Men with traditional views of the family earn more

Men, women stay at home and the children feel as may be old fashioned, but noted that this function is good for the amount of salary, noted scientists. According to psychologists, is a man who claims to be the leader in the family who would show these qualities in the work. The average income of men up to $ 8,500 per year, than the man who prefers the gender equality in the relationship, the researchers reported. The study appears in the Journal of Applied Psychology. U.S. researchers conducted a study with the participation of 12,686 men and women. Respondents for the first time in 1979 when they were 14 to 22 years. Then conducted a survey three more times in the next two decades. The latest survey was carried out by scientists in 2005. The questions focused on the vision of the ideal family and important roles of men and women in the matter of making money. It was found that men who had a woman's place at home believed to earn more, and in turn, women who do not share this belief also made more money, but the gap was not as clear as in men (average $ 1,500). According to experts, is the incentive that a man with traditional views more interested in power and are promoting as the sole breadwinner in the family, ultimately resulting in higher yields.

Obesity can cause infertility in men

Men who are overweight, less likely to conceive a child, even if they are healthy in general, scientists say. They found that of 87 healthy men, aged 19 to 48 years, the least likely to conceive in men with obesity. Scientists have found that hormonal differences between the participants in the experiment, affect fertility. The study was published in the journal Fertility and Sterility. Higher based on data from more slender male hormone testosterone in the blood than in obese men. Even in men with normal weight above the level of luteinizing hormone (LH), which stimulates the development of interstitial tissue in the gonads and the biosynthesis of sex hormones in both sexes, and follicle stimulating hormone (FSH), sperm production stimulated in men and from cells the anterior pituitary gland. Both the hormone responsible for male reproductive function, experts say. The experts were of the opinion that only a preponderance of a factor to cause infertility healthy men. Obesity in men is in a position to influence the hormone testosterone helps transform it into estrogen, which in turn suppresses LH and FSH, and disrupts normal reproductive function in men, experts believe.