Cloudy future for humanised cow’s milk
April 6th, 2011 - 1:57 pm ICT by ANI
Melbourne, April 6 (ANI): It seems 'human' milk made from genetically modified cows has a cloudy future.Chinese scientists had announced this week that they have genetically modified cows to produce milk that ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
First sperm cells grown in lab raise hopes for infertile men
March 24th, 2011 - 8:54 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
Yokohama, Mar 24 (THAINDIAN NEWS) This is really going to be very happy news for many men that had been considered infertile. Report has it that the first sperm has successfully been ... Read more...
Posted in Health |
Non-hormonal pill without side-effects soon
March 17th, 2011 - 8:24 pm ICT by IANS
London, March 17 (IANS) A scientific breakthrough claims to have opened the way to a non hormonal contraceptive pill for women, which will be free of side-effects.
Lab experiments show ... Read more...
Posted in Health |
‘Pruned’ microchips faster, smaller, greener
March 17th, 2011 - 2:13 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, March 17 (IANS) A scientific breakthrough has opened the way to doubling the efficiency of computer chips simply by trimming away the portions that are rarely used."I believe this ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Stem cells could cure ’silent thief of sight’
March 12th, 2011 - 12:35 pm ICT by ANI
London, Mar 12 (ANI): In a first, medical experts have reported a major scientific breakthrough wherein stem cells could be used in the battle to cure blindness in humans.Using animals in lab ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
New flu vaccine kills all strains
February 8th, 2011 - 8:26 pm ICT by Aishwarya Bhatt
New York, Feb 8 (THAINDIAN NEWS) For many years, the flu vaccines we had were ‘flu strain-specific.’ In other words, there was a flu vaccine for each and every type of flu, ... Read more...
Posted in Health |
UAE to hold symposium on bird conservation
February 7th, 2011 - 12:09 am ICT by IANS
Abu Dhabi, Feb 6 (IANS/WAM) The first international symposium on conservation and breeding of endangered birds species, to be attented by over 40 ornithologists, environmentalists and wildlife experts, will be held here ... Read more...
Posted in Environment |
China ‘on verge of stem cell breakthrough’
January 29th, 2011 - 5:22 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, Jan 29 (ANI): China is on the verge of achieving a breakthrough in stem cell research, says a top scientist in the field.Zhou Qi, chief scientist with the stem cell ... Read more...
Posted in South Asia |
New treatment for cancer using camel’s milk, urine?
January 12th, 2011 - 2:38 pm ICT by IANS
Sharjah, Jan 12 (IANS/WAM) A team of researchers are claiming to have made a scientific breakthrough by developing a medical formula for treating cancer using camel's milk and urine.Abdalla A. Alnajjar, president ... Read more...
Posted in Health |
Scientists identify Henri IV’s head after 400 years
December 15th, 2010 - 2:31 pm ICT by ANI
London, Dec 15 (ANI): A team of scientists has identified the head of French King, Henri IV, from the skeletons of monarchs lying in mass graves in the Royal Basilica of Saint-Denis ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Flexible, implantable LEDs could revolutionize drug and laser therapy
October 18th, 2010 - 1:32 pm ICT by ANI
London, Oct 18 (ANI): Bendy, stretchy and biocompatible arrays of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and photodetectors would soon be used to light inside the body to activate drugs or monitor medical conditions.John Rogers ... Read more...
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Healthy baby born from embryo frozen 20 years ago
October 11th, 2010 - 1:45 pm ICT by ANI
London, Oct 11 (ANI): A healthy baby has been born from a frozen embryo that is twenty years old, potentially giving women the chance to put off motherhood until their forties or ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Scientific breakthrough in creating synthetic blood
August 17th, 2010 - 3:31 pm ICT by IANS
London, Aug 17 (IANS) Scientists have created red blood cells for the first time from spare IVF embryos cells in Britain as part of a multi-million pound project to manufacture synthetic blood ... Read more...
Posted in Sci-Tech |
Retina from human embryonic stem cells created
May 27th, 2010 - 1:17 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, May 27 (ANI): An eight-layer, early stage retina from human embryonic stem cells has been created by UC Irvine scientists.The scientific breakthrough is the first three-dimensional tissue structure to be made ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Scientific breakthrough could offer melanoma cure
May 16th, 2010 - 12:43 pm ICT by ANI
London, May 16 (ANI): A long-awaited jab, being hailed as a scientific breakthrough which could offer a cure for cancer, is to be tested on the first British patients within weeks.According to ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
First prostrate cancer vaccine a major breakthrough, says Oncologist
May 9th, 2010 - 6:01 pm ICT by ANI
New Delhi, May 9 (ANI): Renowned oncologist Anuradha Hooda on Sunday said that the first vaccine to treat prostrate cancer Provenge, is a major scientific breakthrough in fighting the disease.The Government ... Read more...
Posted in National |
Now, device that prints human tissue
January 2nd, 2010 - 5:55 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Jan 2 (ANI): In a scientific breakthrough, researchers have created what could be called the "world's first production model 3D bio-printer"-a device that could print human tissue.Invetech has delivered the first ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Now, a device that turns thoughts into sounds
January 1st, 2010 - 1:14 pm ICT by ANI
London, Jan 1 (ANI): In what could be a revolution in communication for paralysed people, a man with locked-in syndrome has "spoken" three different vowel sounds using a voice synthesiser controlled by ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Scientists create world’s first molecular transistor
December 24th, 2009 - 7:11 pm ICT by IANS
Washington, Dec 24 (IANS) Scientists have successfully created the world's first transistor from a single molecule.
The team, including Mark Reed, professor of engineering & applied science at Yale University, showed that ... Read more...
Posted in Sci-Tech |
Scientists create world’s first molecular transistor
December 24th, 2009 - 3:10 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, December 24 (ANI): A group of scientists has succeeded in creating the world's first transistor made from a single molecule.The group included researchers from Yale University and the Gwangju Institute of ... Read more...
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Paralysed man successfully controls speech synthesiser with thought
December 16th, 2009 - 1:20 pm ICT by ANI
London, Dec 16 (ANI): In what could be a revolution in communication for paralysed people, a man with locked-in syndrome has "spoken" three different vowel sounds using a voice synthesiser controlled by ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Nanotechnology used for developing new DNA cancer test
August 18th, 2009 - 1:50 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Aug 18 (ANI): Johns Hopkins University researchers have developed a highly sensitive test to look for DNA attachments that are believed to be the early warning symptoms of cancer.The research ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Sensory ’sweet-tooth’ to make ‘E-tongue’ more human-like
August 18th, 2009 - 12:46 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Aug 18 (ANI): Scientists in Illinois have given sweet-tooth a "sensory" makeover by developing a small, inexpensive, lab-on-a-chip sensor that quickly and accurately identifies sweetness - an advancement that provides a ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Scientific breakthrough may soon give you longer eyelashes without mascara
August 16th, 2009 - 1:53 pm ICT by ANI
London, August 16 (ANI): Women may soon stop relying upon cosmetics like mascara to create the illusion that they have long and luscious eyelashes, a sign of beauty and glamour, thanks to ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
16 year-old Baby On TLC: The Curious Case Of Brooke ‘(Ever)Green’berg
August 7th, 2009 - 8:53 pm ICT by GD
The dynamics of the passage of time and it's association with the unpleasant but apparently inevitable process of aging, has been one that has always been the matter of scientific curiosity, but ... Read more...
Posted in World News |
Scientific breakthrough will lead to more accurate weather forecasts
August 7th, 2009 - 1:25 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, August 7 (ANI): A breakthrough by engineers at Queen's University Belfast's Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology (ECIT), may lead to more accurate global weather forecasts and a better understanding ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
World’s biggest telescope will search heavens for planets
April 5th, 2009 - 3:02 pm ICT by ANI
London, Apr 5 (ANI): Scientists are planning to build a giant telescope that will be powerful enough to identify habitable planets like Earth in distant solar systems.Astronomers claim the European Extremely Large ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Scientists uncover workings of hospital superbug
March 3rd, 2009 - 6:16 pm ICT by ANI
London, Mar 3 (ANI): An international team of scientists has uncovered the workings of a superbug that kills elderly hospital patients worldwide.The team, led by Monash University researchers, said that the ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Dodgy dossier” partly to blame for losing war against malaria in the tropics
September 11th, 2008 - 12:22 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Sept 11 (ANI): A dodgy intelligence dossier is being blamed for failure of war against malaria, because it had argued that methods to tackle the disease in temperate countries would ... Read more...
Posted in National |
‘Dodgy’ dossier partly to blame for failure of war against malaria
September 11th, 2008 - 11:28 am ICT by IANS
London, Sep 11 (IANS) A 'dodgy' intelligence dossier is being blamed for losing the war against malaria, because it had argued that methods to tackle the disease in temperate countries would also ... Read more...
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One-legged parrot to be fitted with prosthetic leg
February 24th, 2008 - 11:31 am ICT by admin
London, Feb 24 (ANI): A one-legged parrot is perching on a scientific breakthrough, for it is about to be fitted with a wooden leg.George the parrot, a ten-year-old African Grey, lost a ... Read more...
Posted in World |
Scientific breakthrough could make drugs cheaper, more accessible
February 1st, 2008 - 3:56 pm ICT by admin
Washington, Feb 1 (ANI): Researchers at University of Pennsylvania have used gene therapy to reduce the time taken in breeding large animals that can produce therapeutic proteins in their milk, such as ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |
Study paves way for new treatments of heart disease, diabetes
January 11th, 2008 - 2:06 pm ICT by admin
Washington, Jan 11 (ANI): Heartening news for people whore trying to reduce bad cholesterol and fatty acid levels. A new study has made a key discovery, which can lead to new drugs ... Read more...
Posted in Health Science |