Personalised therapy for leukemia patients comes a step closer
New York, Feb 16 (IANS) Setting the stage to expand the use of a patient's genetic make-up to tailor chemotherapy, an international research team...
Researchers create first self-assembled superconductor
New York, Jan 30 (IANS) Researchers at Cornell University have blazed a new trail by creating a self-assembled, three-dimensional superconductor.
It is the first time...
How the brain maps visual targets
Toronto, Jan 16 (IANS) York university researchers, including an Indian-origin scientist, have discovered how a map in the mid-brain region remembers the location of...
Early puberty may put women at diabetes risk
New York, Jan 27 (IANS) Women who began having menstrual cycles at a younger age are at a greater risk of developing gestational diabetes...
Key gene mutation may not be driving breast cancer
New York, April 9 (IANS) Targeting a gene that has been thought to be a major cause of breast cancer may not actually yield...
Why common BP pill fails in some patients
Washington, April 21 (IANS) Thiazide drugs, a common group of salt-lowering medicines used to treat high blood pressure for decades, can lower blood pressure...
Why West Nile virus is more dangerous in the elderly
New York, July 26 (IANS) West Nile virus (WNV) is particularly dangerous in older people, who account for a large number of severe cases...
Eating fish during pregnancy may benefit brains of offspring
London, Feb 8 (IANS) Spanish researchers have found that children whose mothers ate three to four servings of fish a week during pregnancy had...
Low testosterone ups depression risk in men
Washington, July 2 (IANS) Men with low levels of testosterone are at increased risk of suffering from depression than those of the general population,...
Taste cells can regrow in 10 days
New York, Feb 24 (IANS) Much like skin cells, taste cells regenerate, or turn over about every 10 days, says a study.
This could probably...
