New guerrilla tactics could outwit cancer cells
September 5th, 2012 - 4:14 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Sep 5 (IANS) Scientists may soon be targeting cancer cells 'social networking' ability to outwit and destroy them, which grudgingly yield to treatment with drugs or radiation, but renew ... Read more...
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Discovery to help balding men regrow hair
June 26th, 2012 - 6:14 pm ICT by IANS
London, June 26 (IANS) The discovery that hair follicles in balding people are trapped in a "sleeping" state will help scientists develop a new treatment to combat thinning hairs.
Trichologists ... Read more...
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Lichen can survive in hostile space conditions
June 24th, 2012 - 5:45 pm ICT by IANS
Paris, June 24 (IANS) You can freeze it, thaw it, vacuum dry it and expose it to radiation, but lichen can still survive.
In 2008, scientists from the European Space ... Read more...
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How HIV reactivates after entering a dormant state
February 27th, 2011 - 11:15 am ICT by ANI
Washington, Feb 27 (ANI): A new study, conducted by US researchers, enhances the current knowledge of how human immunodeficiency virus type-1 (HIV-1), which causes AIDS, controls the cell cycle of cells that ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Potential ‘persistence’ switch for tuberculosis discovered
September 18th, 2010 - 11:53 am ICT by ANI
Washington, Sep 18 (ANI): Rice University bioengineers have examined a portion of the tuberculosis genome that responds to stress and have found a network of genes that may "switch" the disease into ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
JHARKHAND FILM INDUSTRY IN DOLDRUMS
September 1st, 2010 - 4:01 pm ICT by Sampurn Wire
September 1, 2010 (Sampurn Wire): The word Jhollywood (Which represents a very tiny almost non existent Jharkhand Film Industry) rhyming with our very own Bollywood besides Mollywood, Tollywood, Kollywood and ... Read more...
Posted in Entertainment |
Scientists find protein that controls environmental stress in plants
August 24th, 2010 - 7:04 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, August 24 (ANI): Researchers have found the protein that controls plants' response to environmental stresses such as drought, excessive radiation and cold.A team of Wisconsin researchers identified that plant hormone ... Read more...
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Alaska volcano is still rumbling
January 2nd, 2010 - 9:49 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Anchorage, Jan 2 (THAINDIAN NEWS) The Alaskan volcano Mount Redoubt is still rumbling, as it had been doing throughout the previous year. This had led many citizens to guess when the ... Read more...
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Scientists identify human body’s natural defenses against cancer
December 12th, 2009 - 6:14 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Dec 12 (ANI): Researchers in Canada have identified a novel molecular mechanism that prevents cancer.Researchers from the Universite de Montreal and the Universite de Sherbrooke have found that the SOCS1 ... Read more...
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How life survives in a post-apocalypse blackout
August 26th, 2009 - 2:16 pm ICT by ANI
London, August 26 (ANI): A team of scientists has examined how life can survive in a post-apocalypse blackout.Natural catastrophes such as asteroid impacts, massive volcanic eruptions or large-scale wildfires would have ... Read more...
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How anthrax bacteria survive dormant stage
August 12th, 2009 - 5:48 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Aug 12 (ANI): A new study has revealed that anthrax bacteria take the help of small viruses to stay alive when in dormant state.The research team at Rockefeller University have found ... Read more...
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Coiled galaxy has an “eye” staring from its center
July 25th, 2009 - 1:27 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, July 25 (ANI): NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has imaged a coiled galaxy with an eye-like object at its center.The galaxy, called NGC 1097, is located 50 million light-years away. It is ... Read more...
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”Mini-hibernation” crucial to mammals” winter survival too
January 6th, 2009 - 4:57 pm ICT by ANI
London, Jan 6 (ANI): A dormant state called torpor could be as important in helping small mammals to survive cold winters as hibernation.
Zoologists Gerhard Kortner and Fritz Geiser from the University ... Read more...
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Bacteria listen in to neighbours and follow the crowd to grow
October 31st, 2008 - 5:55 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Oct 31 (ANI): When it comes to the decision to grow, the bacteria "listen in" to find out what their neighbours are doing and then follow the crowd, a new ... Read more...
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Catching the whiff of death sends crop-destroying mites to sleep
September 29th, 2008 - 12:09 pm ICT by ANI
London, September 29 (ANI): In what may prove very helpful in dealing with the crop-destroying mites, University of Amsterdam scientists in the Netherlands have found that just the smell of nearby ... Read more...
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Air pollution, smoking play role in triggering latent tuberculosis
May 14th, 2008 - 1:40 pm ICT by admin
Washington, May 14 (ANI): Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) have found that a toxic gas present in air pollution and tobacco smoke plays a significant role in ... Read more...
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Scientists find pathway that lets mosquitoes survive winters cold
April 25th, 2008 - 3:59 pm ICT by admin
Washington, Apr 25 (ANI): Scientists studying mosquito life cycle have identified two genes within the insulin signalling pathway of the insects that helps them to survive winters cold.They study led ... Read more...
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Antarctic cod adopt a winter survival strategy similar to hibernation
March 6th, 2008 - 1:01 pm ICT by admin
Washington, March 6 (ANI): Scientists have discovered an Antarctic fish species that adopts a winter survival strategy similar to hibernation.The fish in question is the Antarctic cod Notothenia coriiceps, which was observed ... Read more...
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