How a drop of blood can reveal your age
November 23rd, 2010 - 12:58 pm ICT by ANI
London, Nov 23 (ANI): Researchers based in the Netherlands have reported a genetic signature for a person's age - to within a decade or so - in a type of white blood ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Study that ‘unlocked’ genetics of a long life under scanner
November 20th, 2010 - 2:49 pm ICT by ANI
London, Nov 20 (ANI): A previously published study into the genetics of ageing has come under scanner after it claimed that it may soon be possible to test people to see whether ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Great whites ended up in Mediterranean after ‘wrong turn’ 450,000yrs ago
November 17th, 2010 - 5:33 pm ICT by ANI
London, Nov 17 (ANI): A genetic study has suggested that the great white shark may have ended in the Mediterranean after it took a wrong turn 450,000 years ago, from the seas ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Kazakhs competing to prove Genghis Khan descent
October 4th, 2010 - 3:17 pm ICT by ANI
London, Oct 4 (ANI): As Kazakhstan wakes up to a new prestige post the country's former aristocracy, thousands of Kazakhs are competing to prove their descent from feared warlord Genghis Khan.In the ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Brit scientists devise 1-hour test’ for TB
September 15th, 2010 - 11:57 am ICT by ANI
London, Sep 15 (ANI): A team of British scientists has devised a new ultra-sensitive test that can spot the presence of the tuberculosis bacterium in an hour.The Health Protection Agency (HPA) has ... Read more...
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Gene set shows which patients benefit from chemo after surgery
September 8th, 2010 - 4:40 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Sep 08 (ANI): Scientists have identified a genetic signature that can help doctors determine which patients with early-stage non-small cell lung cancer are at high risk for developing disease recurrence and ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Genes predict extreme longevity
July 2nd, 2010 - 6:19 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, July 2 (IANS) Genetic variants play a critical and complex role in predicting exceptionally long lives, says a study.
Boston University (BU) researchers identified a group of genetic variants that can ... Read more...
Posted in Sci-Tech |
First genomic collection of human microbes published
May 21st, 2010 - 3:02 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, May 21 (ANI): Researchers at the Human Microbiome Project (HMP) have released an analysis of 178 genomes from microbes that live in or on the human body, with many newly discovered ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Gene discovery could guide future breast cancer treatment choices
January 25th, 2010 - 12:34 pm ICT by ANI
London, Jan 25 (ANI): Scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have discovered a genetic signature that may help identify patients at high risk of breast cancer recurrence despite been treated with chemotherapy drugs.According ... Read more...
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Cells that protect nerves culprit for devil facial tumour disease in Australia’s tassies
January 1st, 2010 - 2:49 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, January 1 (ANI): An international team of scientists has discovered that the cells which protect nerves are the likely origin of the Devil Facial Tumour Disease (DFTD) that has been devastating ... Read more...
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Hopes revive for saving Tasmanian devil from extinction
January 1st, 2010 - 2:06 pm ICT by IANS
Sydney, Jan 1 (DPA) Hopes were renewed Friday that the Tasmanian devil could be saved from extinction after Australian researchers picked the genetics of the deadly facial tumours afflicting the world's largest ... Read more...
Posted in Environment |
Why dachshunds, corgis have stubby legs
July 17th, 2009 - 2:59 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, July 17 (ANI): The short curved legs, characteristic of today's dachshunds, corgis, basset hounds and at least 16 other breeds of dogs, is due to a single evolutionary event in the ... Read more...
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Evolutionary mis-step created short-legged dogs
July 17th, 2009 - 1:55 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, July 17 (IANS) Scientists have stumbled on an evolutionary discovery that seems to explain the short, curved legs so characteristic of dachshunds, corgis, basset hounds and other dog breeds.
The discovery provides ... Read more...
Posted in Environment |
Common cold virus harnessed for use as cancer killer
May 22nd, 2009 - 3:42 pm ICT by ANI
London, May 22 (ANI): A common cold virus that wipes out cancer cells in mice - without harming healthy ones - has been developed by scientists.They modified a common bug called on ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Personalized treatment for early lung cancer on the anvil
May 4th, 2009 - 3:29 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, May 4 (ANI): Personalised treatments following surgery are now being offered for patients with early stages of lung cancer, experts at an international conference said.The experts reckoned that cancer vaccines and ... Read more...
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New species of Ebola virus discovered
November 21st, 2008 - 4:50 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, November 21 (ANI): A research team has announced the discovery of a new species of Ebola virus, provisionally named Bundibugyo ebolavirus.
Writing about the discovery in the open-access journal PLoS Pathogens, ... Read more...
Posted in National |
Personalised cancer treatment on the anvil
November 20th, 2008 - 12:22 pm ICT by ANI
London, Nov 20 (ANI): Researchers from University of Chicago have discovered a genetic signature that may help predict whether a patient will respond to cancer therapies a finding that may pave ... Read more...
Posted in National |
One in 17 Mediterranean men may be descended from a Phoenician
October 31st, 2008 - 1:04 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Oct 31 (ANI): A new study by genographic scientists has found that as many as one in 17 men in the Mediterranean basin may have a Phoenician as a direct ... Read more...
Posted in National |
Gene that holds key to new chemotherapeutic target identified
August 15th, 2008 - 2:04 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Aug 15 (ANI): A gene, called the Rheb GTPase, has been identified as a novel oncogene that holds promise as a new chemotherapeutic target, according to two independent studies.In the ... Read more...
Posted in National |
Climate changes may have promoted the formation of new species in the Amazon
July 23rd, 2008 - 12:13 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, July 23 (ANI): The results of a new study have suggested that past climate changes and sea level fluctuations may have promoted the formation of new species in the Amazon ... Read more...
Posted in National |
Study sheds new light on Latin American past
March 22nd, 2008 - 3:46 pm ICT by admin
London, Mar 22 (ANI): A new genetic study has shed light on the Latin American past, by finding that European colonisation of South America contributed to a major shift from a ... Read more...
Posted in Sports |