October 28th, 2008 - 1:13 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, Oct 28 (ANI): A new study has found that drugs widely used to treat type 2 diabetes can have long-term effects if they are used in moderation.
The research team from ...
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October 23rd, 2008 - 11:47 am ICT by ANI
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Washington, Oct 23 (ANI): A team of scientists has unearthed crystalline magnetic fossils of a previously unknown species of microorganism that lived at the boundary of the Paleocene and Eocene epochs, ...
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October 20th, 2008 - 12:47 pm ICT by ANI
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London, Oct 20 (ANI): Scientists have discovered how the common childhood tumour, infantile hemangioma, grows rapidly.
Infantile hemangioma, made up of proliferating blood vessels is more frequently found in girls than boys. ...
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August 7th, 2008 - 11:51 am ICT by ANI
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Washington, August 7 (ANI): Biologists at the Scripps Research Institute have uncovered a new cellular repair mechanism in a study on yeast.
Reporting their findings in the online edition of the ...
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August 7th, 2008 - 10:44 am ICT by IANS
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Toronto, Aug 7 (IANS) Canadian researchers have found clues to why some people get hooked to smoking with their first puff. New research by the University of Western Ontario at London, about ...
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August 6th, 2008 - 12:39 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington , Aug 6 (ANI): For many, the first fag is just for the sake of trying out smoking, but for some, this first puff turns out to be a life ...
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July 28th, 2008 - 2:00 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, July 29 (ANI): New research from NYU Langone Medical Center presents membrane vesicles, which are essential for the trafficking of materials across nerve cells, as an important factor in the ...
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July 25th, 2008 - 5:33 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, July 25 (ANI): In a study on mice, UC Irvine scientists have found stem cells in the brain that can produce new brain cells to replace those lost to disease ...
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July 25th, 2008 - 3:52 pm ICT by IANS
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Washington, July 25 (IANS) Adult stem cells actually originate in a different part of the brain unlike previously believed and can be coaxed into producing new brain cells to replace those lost ...
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July 16th, 2008 - 1:38 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, July 16 (ANI): A new study from Georgetown University Medical Centre has found that vitamin A can push breast cancer cells to form blood vessel, thus promoting tumour growth in ...
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July 11th, 2008 - 1:47 pm ICT by ANI
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London, July 11 (ANI): Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found the control switches for immune cells that fight cancer, viral infection.
During the study, they showed ...
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July 8th, 2008 - 12:34 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, July 8 (ANI): In a surprising study, scientists at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found that a protein previously believed to promote colorectal cancer, TCF7L2, instead suppresses the growth of ...
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June 25th, 2008 - 12:54 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, June 25 (ANI): In a breakthrough study, researchers at Case Western Reserve University have discovered that a protein called cyclin-dependent kinase5 (Cdk5), which curbs cell division in brain cells, is ...
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May 17th, 2008 - 1:45 pm ICT by admin
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Washington, May 17 (ANI): Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have achieved about 50 per cent rise in fertility levels in mice by changing the sugars attached ...
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May 17th, 2008 - 1:14 pm ICT by admin
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Washington , May 17 (ANI): Two proteins, called GATA4 and GATA6, in mammalian embryos play a key role in the development of a healthy heart, according to researchers at the Medical ...
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April 24th, 2008 - 12:32 pm ICT by admin
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Washington, April 24 (ANI): The discovery that birds lack a tissue which is specialized to generate heat has lead scientists to speculate on the possibility of dinosaurs disappearing form the face ...
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April 20th, 2008 - 1:39 pm ICT by admin
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Washington, Apr 20 (ANI): According to researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, drugs that reduce phosphate levels can help protect chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients from cardiovascular ...
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April 15th, 2008 - 12:39 pm ICT by admin
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Washington, April 15 (IANS) Here is yet another reason to kick the butt. Nicotine prevents short-lived white blood cells from neutralising bacteria and thus exposes smokers to a host of infections, a ...
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March 26th, 2008 - 3:31 pm ICT by admin
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Washington, Mar 26 (ANI): Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Centre have discovered a reproductive mechanism of the organism responsible for malaria, a finding that may harbour the possibility of developing new ...
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March 23rd, 2008 - 4:50 pm ICT by admin
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Washington, Mar 23 (ANI): Scientists at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have shed light on the beneficial roles played by genes unique to humans, by producing the ...
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March 23rd, 2008 - 10:12 am ICT by admin
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New York, March 23 (IANS) Chikungunya virus can be transmitted from a pregnant woman to her baby if she becomes infected just before or after delivery, a new study says. Public health ...
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March 22nd, 2008 - 2:47 pm ICT by admin
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Washington, Mar 22 (ANI): Scientists at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have shed light on the beneficial roles played by genes unique to humans, by producing the ...
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March 16th, 2008 - 1:41 pm ICT by admin
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Washington, Mar 16 (ANI): Scientists at St. Jude Childrens Research Hospital have taken a major step forward in the fight against medulloblastoma, a rare but often fatal childhood brain tumour, by ...
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March 15th, 2008 - 2:36 pm ICT by admin
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Washington, March 15 (ANI): Biologists at Duke University Medical Center have identified a molecular circuit breaker that controls the mechanism whereby the zebrafish regrows its missing fins.
The researchers say that ...
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March 12th, 2008 - 11:49 am ICT by admin
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Washington, March 12 (IANS) A team of scientists led by Indian American Suresh Subramani says it has cracked a vital biological puzzle that may hold the key to everything from ageing to ...
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March 9th, 2008 - 4:59 pm ICT by admin
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Washington , March 9 (ANI): American researchers have developed a novel stem cell technique that may make it easier to study and treat thousands of disorders, including Huntingtons disease, muscular dystrophy, and ...
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March 8th, 2008 - 12:41 pm ICT by admin
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Washington, March 8 (ANI): American researchers have developed a novel stem cell technique that may make it easier to study and treat thousands of disorders, including Huntingtons disease, muscular dystrophy, and diabetes.
The ...
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March 7th, 2008 - 3:13 pm ICT by admin
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Washington, Mar 7 (ANI): A new study at Washington University School of Medicine suggests that deactivating platelets, specialized blood cells involved in clotting, may inhibit cancer cell progression.
Cancer cells get a helping ...
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March 3rd, 2008 - 1:58 pm ICT by admin
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London, Mar 3 (ANI): Researchers at Rockefeller University conducted a series of experiments in mice and discovered a small RNA molecule that helps exposed skin cells protect the body from bacteria, dehydration ...
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February 29th, 2008 - 11:51 am ICT by admin
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Washington, Feb 29 (IANS) A gene prompting a particularly debilitating type of epilepsy besides engendering kidney failure has been identified by researchers. The new findings, which begin to "crack open the cell ...
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