November 14th, 2008 - 5:58 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, Nov 14 (ANI): Nanoparticles, which are widely used, for example, in cosmetics and food packaging materials, may be a considerable threat to people''s health.
While the use of nanoparticles in consumer ...
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November 7th, 2008 - 5:23 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, Nov 7 (ANI): For the first time ever, MIT engineers have attached tiny "backpacks" in cells, allowing them to deliver chemotherapy agents, diagnose tumours or become building blocks for tissue ...
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November 1st, 2008 - 4:30 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, November 1 (ANI): American scientists have found that a molecule called SleX can help restore an important biological function of stem cells, in case they have lost such surface proteins ...
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October 24th, 2008 - 1:08 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, Oct 24 (ANI): Scientists have developed the first silicon solar cell to achieve the groundbreaking milestone of 25 per cent efficiency.
The solar cell has been developed by scientists at UNSWs ...
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August 30th, 2008 - 1:09 pm ICT by IANS
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Washington, Aug 30 (IANS) Patients needing organ transplants may not need donated organs any more. A kind of 'instructor' molecule that tells blood vessel cells to organise themselves in tubes and not ...
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August 9th, 2008 - 4:27 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, August 9 (ANI): Australian scientists have found a novel way to inactivate a molecule called Gab2, a key player in the molecular processes that trigger breast cancer and certain forms ...
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August 5th, 2008 - 1:15 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, Aug 5 (ANI): A new study has identified one of the tricks malaria uses to hide from immune proteins - a finding that may help in future drug development.
Malaria ...
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July 21st, 2008 - 11:53 am ICT by ANI
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London, July 21 (ANI): A team of scientists from the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) and the Instituto de Biologia Molecular of the CSIC have uncovered a mechanism that ...
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July 19th, 2008 - 1:28 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, July 19 (ANI): American scientists have found that human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) uses a cloaking device, partly made of stolen goods from healthy cells, to avoid being detected and killed by ...
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June 26th, 2008 - 3:58 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, June 26 (ANI): Alzheimers disease has long been believed to be caused because of mutation in a single gene, but now scientists have identified a second gene, called calcium homeostasis ...
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June 6th, 2008 - 4:41 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, June 6 (ANI): A team led by an Indian researcher claim to have uncovered how niacin (vitamin B3) helps in maintaining good cholesterol levels, thus reducing the risk of developing ...
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June 4th, 2008 - 4:18 pm ICT by ANI
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Washington, June 4 (ANI): A new study is shedding light on how drug Zetia, used to treat high cholesterol, blocks cholesterol absorption from the diet.
Ezetimibe, also known as Zetia is the ...
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May 26th, 2008 - 2:46 pm ICT by admin
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London, May 26 (ANI): A virologist and a biophysicist at Rockefeller University have become the first researchers to see in real time hundreds of thousands of molecules coming together in a ...
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May 26th, 2008 - 2:39 pm ICT by admin
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Washington, May 26 (IANS) A protein that restricts the release of the HIV-1 virus from human cells may possibly help scientists to identify new lines of treatment for the dreaded disease. Scientists ...
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May 26th, 2008 - 12:52 pm ICT by admin
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London , May 26 (ANI): Scientists have made a major breakthrough in AIDS research by identifying a protein, called CAML (calcium-modulating cyclophilin ligand), that inhibits the release of HIV-1 virus from ...
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May 24th, 2008 - 1:23 pm ICT by admin
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Washington , May 24 (ANI): A research team, including two Indian-origin scientists, has discovered that ulcer-causing stomach pathogen, called Helicobacter pylori, enters the stomachs inhospitable environment via a novel toxin receptor ...
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April 30th, 2008 - 4:44 pm ICT by admin
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Washington, Apr 30 (ANI): Researchers from Baylor College of Medicine in Houston have revealed though conventional anti-cancer drugs kill breast cancer tumours they leave behind many of the breast cancer stem ...
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April 10th, 2008 - 4:01 pm ICT by admin
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London, April 10 (ANI): Researchers have designed a bacterium in such a way that it can be used to search out pesticides, thus helping improve efforts to clean up the environment.
According ...
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March 28th, 2008 - 12:43 pm ICT by admin
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Washington, Mar 28 (ANI): Bitter melon, a vegetable and traditional Chinese medicine, contains a powerful treatment for Type 2 diabetes, Sydney-based researchers have found.
The research team from the Garvan Institute of ...
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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 4th, 2008 - 3:35 pm ICT by admin
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Washington , Mar 4 (ANI): Researchers at the University of Chicago Medical Center have found that targeting and killing the non-malignant cells that surround and support a cancer can cease tumour growth, ...
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February 22nd, 2008 - 5:00 pm ICT by admin
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London, February 22 (ANI): A long-missing molecular link between excessive nutrient levels and insulin resistance has been unearthed by scientists at the Salk Institute of Biological Studies.
The researchers say that their ...
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February 13th, 2008 - 4:29 pm ICT by admin
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Washington, February 13 (ANI): An important family of proteins known to function at the cell surface also functions at a site within the cell, say researchers.
The findings by researchers at the University ...
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February 12th, 2008 - 12:46 pm ICT by admin
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Washington, Feb 12 (ANI): Researchers at the Moores Cancer Center at University of California, San Diego (UCSD) have developed a gene therapy protocol that has the potential to activate immune system in ...
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January 29th, 2008 - 3:35 pm ICT by admin
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Washington , Jan 29 (ANI): Scientists have achieved a breakthrough in curing morphine dependencyone of the major side effects of its use as a painkillerby genetically modifying a single trait on the ...
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January 3rd, 2008 - 3:51 pm ICT by admin
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London, Jan 3 (ANI): Scientists at the University of Leeds have raised hopes for the development of new treatments for inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, by identifying how atoms move across ...
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December 13th, 2007 - 1:40 pm ICT by admin
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Washington, Dec 13(ANI): Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have discovered a human blood cell that impersonates the great-grandparent of all the cells of the blood.
The researchers believed that the ...
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November 14th, 2007 - 2:24 am ICT by admin
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