Leaves guide plant’s battle for sunlight
April 16th, 2012 - 4:44 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, April 16 (IANS) A plant's primary weapon for survival is the ability to grow towards the light, getting just the amount it needs and shadowing its competition, says a ... Read more...
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Scientists find gene critical in protection against some heart diseases
February 5th, 2011 - 12:02 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Feb 5 (ANI): Researchers at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine have found a gene which is critical to heart function.In mice that were predisposed to dilated ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
New molecule may save brain cells from neurodegeneration, stroke
January 19th, 2011 - 6:01 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Jan 19 (ANI): A molecule that can make brain cells resistant to programmed cell death or apoptosis has been discovered by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.The ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Why some cancers become malignant and others don’t
January 7th, 2011 - 6:09 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Jan 7 (ANI): Scientists have discovered why some cancers become malignant and others don't.The study, led by Dr. Gerardo Ferbeyre of the University of Montreal's Department of Biochemistry, found that cancer ... Read more...
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New discovery shows promise against pancreatic cancer
December 16th, 2010 - 2:34 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Dec 16 (ANI): Johns Hopkins scientists have made a new discovery that could be helpful in the fight against pancreatic cancer.By determining what goes missing in human cells when the gene ... Read more...
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Cream that gives you natural tan
October 17th, 2010 - 3:23 pm ICT by IANS
London, Oct 17 (IANS) Where to find fake tan that doesn't streak and smudge or give an orange glow? Doctors could have the answer, in the form of a cream that triggers ... Read more...
Posted in Health |
Gene that prevents stem cells from turning cancerous identified
October 15th, 2010 - 1:52 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Oct 15 (ANI): A research from Rockefeller University has Identified a gene that can inhibit stem cells from developing into cancer.Having too many stem cells, or stem cells that live for ... Read more...
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New findings on sleeping sickness pave way for novel treatments
June 15th, 2010 - 6:02 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, June 15 (ANI): New revelations about the parasite that causes sleeping sickness could lead to new avenues of research into treatments for the disease.Scientists studying the parasite - which is spread ... Read more...
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Gene’s role in breast-tumor growth unlocked
May 2nd, 2010 - 11:09 am ICT by ANI
Washington, May 2 (ANI): A new research helps explain why breast-milk cells lose their structure, causing them to clump up in strange ways and sometimes become cancer tumors.With the support of Chen ... Read more...
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How calorie restriction boosts longevity
December 15th, 2009 - 3:13 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Dec 15 (ANI): Scientists have identified proteins that act in the brain during calorie restriction to potentially lengthen lifespan.For decades, it has been known that cutting normal calorie consumption by 30 ... Read more...
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New finding ‘challenges current assumptions’ about jumping genes
June 12th, 2009 - 3:01 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, June 12 (ANI): Challenging standard assumptions about mobile DNA, or the so-called jumping genes, scientists have found that such genes do most of their jumping not during the development of sperm ... Read more...
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Taiwan scientists identify gene playing role in lifespan
May 16th, 2009 - 12:56 pm ICT by IANS
Taipei, May 16 (DPA) Taiwan scientists said they have identified a gene linked to ageing in mammals that could have the potential to extend human life.
The researchers at Taipei's National Yang-Ming University ... Read more...
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How cells protect themselves against cancer
February 1st, 2009 - 2:30 pm ICT by ANI
London, Feb 01 (ANI): Scientists in Singapore and the University of Dundee have identified a missing link in the way cells protect themselves against cancer.They have discovered how cells switch a ... Read more...
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Cell pathway that drives a lethal sub-type of breast cancer discovered
November 16th, 2008 - 1:37 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, November 16 (ANI): Scientists have discovered an intra cellular pathway, initially not associated with breast cancer, as a driving force behind the highly fatal sub-type of disease.Researchers at UCLAs Jonsson ... Read more...
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Found: Hormone that builds your bones
November 1st, 2008 - 11:29 am ICT by IANS
Washington, Nov 1 (IANS) Remember Skelegro in Harry Potter, the medicine that grows your bones back? Scientists have found a hormone that may have the same effect, though not as fast as ... Read more...
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Why chemotherapy works for some and not for others
September 19th, 2008 - 6:38 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Sept 19 (ANI): Scientists have found that cells from different people don''t react the same way when exposed to the same DNA-damaging agent, something, which may help in understanding why ... Read more...
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The cousin proteins that play crucial role in cancer identified
September 19th, 2008 - 6:34 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Sept 19 (ANI): Scientists at Princess Margaret Hospital have uncovered the role of two variants of gene p53, which are crucial to the development of cancer.The two cousin proteins related ... Read more...
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Amplifying cell death signals causes pre-cancerous cells to self-destruct
August 17th, 2008 - 2:37 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, August 17 (ANI): Rockefeller University scientists say that they have devised a way to amplify death signals that make a cell multiplying in a dangerously abnormal way to kill itself ... Read more...
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Regrowing hair in bald people may soon be reality
August 4th, 2008 - 7:43 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Aug 4 (ANI): Heres some good news for those who fear turning bald with every strand of hair they lose US scientists have successfully pinpointed a molecule that triggers ... Read more...
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Hope for patients with acute leukaemia
March 1st, 2008 - 1:10 pm ICT by admin
New York, March 1 (IANS) A mechanism that improves functioning of proteins impaired in patients with acute forms of leukaemia has been unveiled by researchers at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) ... Read more...
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Humans and chimps differ at level of gene splicing
November 15th, 2007 - 3:53 pm ICT by admin
Washington, November 15 (ANI): University of Toronto researchers have moved one step further towards understanding why humans differ so greatly from chimpanzees in terms of looks, behaviour and disease immunity when 99 ... Read more...
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