New research to cut down chemotherapy side- effects
Scientists from Duke University have determined the structure of a key molecule that can carry chemotherapy and anti-viral drugs into cells, which could help to create more effective drugs with fewer effects to healthy tissue. The transporter molecule, called a concentrative nucleoside transporter, works by moving nucleosides, the building blocks of More...
Human brain cells from skin samples
Scientists of Edinburgh’s Centre for Regenerative Medicine in Scotland, in a startling medical breakthrough, have created neurons or brain cells, from skin samples of patients suffering mental illnesses like schizophrenia More...
Studies say good sleep calms emotions
As per a recent report published in the journal Nature, by U.S scientists, the brain’s emotional centre known as amygdala is soothed after a good night’s sleep. In their experimental studies, Matthew Walker More...
New finding related to muscle’s glucose balance
From times immemorial, we have known that exercise plays an important role in body’s fitness. It also has protective effects against medical disorders such as diabetes. However, the exact mechanism interplaying More...
Scientists of Indian-origin discover essentials of Malaria
Washington, U.S.A: Indian-origin researchers have made a deep-seated discovery in comprehending how malaria parasites cause the deadly disease. The team of scientists led by Kasturi Haldar and Souvik Bhattacharjee of More...
Gene Therapy Achieves Early Success Against Heredit
Symptoms improved significantly in adults with the bleeding disorder hemophilia B following a single treatment with gene therapy developed by researchers at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis More...
Sixth taste discovered: Fat
New research reveals that there exist six basic tastes which a human tongue can detect; in contrast to the earlier believed presence of five. The recent addition to earlier sweet, sour, salty, bitter and savory More...
Blood viral levels: Main cause of HIV transmission
Recent report published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases, says that the level of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)-1 in the blood of an HIV-infected partner, is the single most important factor affecting the More...
Sleeping less: In genetics?
Living in various sections of the society, belonging to a range of lifestyles existing these days, many of us would have wondered as to how some people manage sleeping less. While for many of us- a seven hour sleep More...
Psoriasis found to be associated with Osteoporosis in males, not females
In a recent study conducted by a group of scientists in Israel, the association of Psoriasis with Osteoporosis was reported to be sex-specific. Psoriasis: a chronic inflammatory skin disease, prevalent in 2-4% of More...