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- Delhi Chief Minister Says Our Hospitals are Well-equipped to Combat Swine Flu
- Humans Have Unique Brain Structures Different from Other Primates
- London University Invites Students to Participate in a Clinical Trial of Cocaine
- Nutrition All Men Need
- Engineers Develop World's First Water Producing Billboard for Peru
- General Mechanism That Accelerates Tumor Development Discovered
- Diabetes in Dogs Cured Using Single Gene Therapy
- Human Kidney Cells Engineered
- Genes Linked to Neurological Disorders Identified in Sea Lamprey
- Honey may Help Fight Cancer
- C-section Babies More Prone to Allergies
- Vitamin C Works for People With Physical Stress: Study
- Times Square: Happiest Spot in New York City
- 10 Million Chinese Suffer from Rare Diseases, Says Expert
- Sleep-deprived Men Eat More
- Scientists Identify New Type of Gene That Regulates Tumor Suppressor PTEN
- Breakthrough Prize for Science from Facebook and Google
- Leaving Tweets Even After Your Death Possible With New App
- Potential Alzheimer's Drug Deciphered
- In Human Brain, Conductor of Speech Uncovered
- US Mom Accused of Cyber-bullying Son
- One in Ten Television Programmes Now Watched on Smartphones
- Aging Women Talk More About Old Age and Waning Youth
- Ice Loss Will Add to Uneven Rising Sea Levels Globally
- Historic Czech Breweries Get Back on Tap
- Superiority of Males Over Females is a Result of Natural Selection
- Triathlete, Leanda Cave, Tweets About Her Diagnosis of Skin Cancer
- Cara Delevingne is the New Kate Moss
- Top Labels Hope for Boost to Made in Italy
- Did Cleopatra Commit Suicide?
- Drive Around in a Motorhome
- About 45 Per Cent of People Use Phones to Talk to Others in Same House
- UNICEF Launches Plantation Drive To Spread Awareness On Routine Immunization
- Malawi Records 1,000 New HIV Infections Weekly
- Thousands Take Part in Mumbai Marathon To Spread Awareness About Cancer
- Adults Get 11 Percent Calories From Fast Food
| Delhi Chief Minister Says Our Hospitals are Well-equipped to Combat Swine Flu Posted:  Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit said the hospitals in Delhi are well equipped to combat swine flu. "According to what has been told to me, our hospitals are well-equipped to combat swine flu. We are providing adequate treatment to the infected patients," she said. According to certain media reports, the number of people infected by the Influenza A (H1N1) virus in the city has so far reached to 759. The 2009 global outbreak of swine flu, ... |
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| London University Invites Students to Participate in a Clinical Trial of Cocaine Posted:  We all do know that use of cocaine is associated with adverse effects on the body. To understand completely what cocaine can do to the body, A London University has invited students to participate in a clinical trial of cocaine. Many hundreds of students have been invited by Kings College London to participate in a study which will involve nasal administration of cocaine. "After cocaine administration, repeated biological samples (blood, urine, hair, ... |
| Posted:  Everyone requires good nutrition, be it man, woman, child or elderly. However, nutrition that men need differs slightly from that required by women. Find out how |
| Engineers Develop World's First Water Producing Billboard for Peru Posted:  By the estimates of The United Nations, close to 2.6 billion people in the world are deprived of the basic clean drinking water. Most of them stay in the underdeveloped parts of the world, where there is no proper facility to produce drinking water. Peru, is no different and people are left to source water from the wells, where pollution is very high and not fit for drinking. UTEC, the University of Engineering and Technology in Lima, Peru, ... |
| General Mechanism That Accelerates Tumor Development Discovered Posted:  Scientists have discovered a mechanism controlled by the CPEB1 protein that affects more than 200 genes related to cell proliferation and tumor progression. The mechanism, which was discovered using Hodgkin lymphoma cells, has been proposed as a general regulatory system that enhances the spread of cancer. The researchers describe that CPEB1 shortens a highly specific region of RNAs (RNAs are the molecules that carry gene information for protein synthesis). ... |
| Diabetes in Dogs Cured Using Single Gene Therapy Posted:  Gene therapy may be the long awaited magic pill for diabetes and other metabolic diseases. Studies in animals have shown promising results. Dogs are the most amazing creatures who give us unconditional love and affection. It is indeed sad that they too can be struck with nasty diseases. Diabetes mellitus is one of them. This epidemic is not just limited to humans-it is increasing amongst dogs as well. Several factors such as breed, age, gender, weight, diet, ... |
| Posted:  Human kidney cells have been engineered from human embryonic stem cells by researchers. Engineered human kidney cells could have applications in regenerative medicine, toxicology and modelling diseases. Researchers from the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) have successfully generated the renal cells under artificial conditions in the lab. "In particular, we are interested in applying our technology to develop predictive in vitro ... |
| Genes Linked to Neurological Disorders Identified in Sea Lamprey Posted:  Researchers have discovered several genes linked to human neurological disorders including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and spinal cord injury in the sea lamprey. The scientists have also reported the whole-genome sequence of the fish. "This means that we can use the sea lamprey as a powerful model to drive forward our molecular understanding of human neurodegenerative disease and neurological disorders," said Jennifer Morgan of the MBL's ... |
| Posted:  Manuka honey could inhibit the growth of cancer cell types including breast, skin, and colon cancer, say researchers. Though the honey, obtained from nectar collected by honey bees from manuka trees found in New Zealand, has been recognised for its anti-bacterial and wound healing properties for many years, it has never been investigated for its potential effects on cancer cells, said a UAE University official. He said that the ground-breaking ... |
| C-section Babies More Prone to Allergies Posted:  According to a new study, babies born by Cesarean section are five times likelier to develop allergies by age two than naturally born peers. Researchers found that C-section babies are five times more likely to develop allergies than babies born naturally when exposed to high levels of common allergens in the home such as those from dogs, cats and dust mites. "This further advances the hygiene hypothesis that early childhood exposure to microorganisms ... |
| Vitamin C Works for People With Physical Stress: Study Posted:  When your nose is slowly clogging, the sniffle that is really bothering you and the cough that's persistently nagging, your mom would waste no time to give you a glass of freshly squeezed orange juice along with a vitamin C supplement in an attempt to get rid of the pesky virus more quickly. When it comes to cough and cold, we still cling to the old wives tale. After all vitamin C is such an age old and widely accepted treatment for cold! The goodness of ... |
| Times Square: Happiest Spot in New York City Posted:  Times Square has been voted as the most happiest and satisfied spot in the New York city. The flashy strip and its surrounding streets, along with Midtown in general, host the most satisfied people in the city, according to a study of Twitter messages sent from the area. Researchers from the University of Vermont mapped out the city's happiest areas using a complex formula that can pinpoint tweet locations and rate their relative 'happiness' ... |
| 10 Million Chinese Suffer from Rare Diseases, Says Expert Posted:  In China, nearly 10 million people are suffering from rare diseases, but are facing difficulties in receiving proper diagnosis and treatment, says medical expert. Speaking at a conference on rare diseases in Beijing, Ding Jie, vice director of the Peking University First Hospital, said many patients fail to get a correct diagnosis because of doctors' limited medical knowledge about rare diseases. Most of such diseases are genetic and therefore ... |
| Posted:  Men who stay awake all night tend to consume bigger portions of calorie-dense foods the next day, say researchers. Researchers from Uppsala University in Sweden analysed the eating patterns of 16 normal-weight males under buffet-like conditions after they were deprived of sleep all night, following a night of a solid eight-hour rest. Respondents were asked to select their portion sizes of seven meals and six snack items in both states. Lead ... |
| Scientists Identify New Type of Gene That Regulates Tumor Suppressor PTEN Posted:  A new so-called pseudogene that regulates the tumour-suppressing PTEN gene has been discovered by Karolinska Institute researchers. They hope that this pseudogene will be able to control PTEN to reverse the tumour process, make the cancer tumour more sensitive to chemotherapy and to prevent the development of resistance. The findings, which are published in the scientific journal iNature Structural and Molecular Biology/i, can be of significance in the future development ... |
| Breakthrough Prize for Science from Facebook and Google Posted:  They seem to have united for a good cause, FACEBOOK'S and Google's founders have cast aside their professional rivalries and teamed together to introduce a reward called the "Breakthrough Prize" for science. Apparently, this reward is double the value of the Nobel prize. Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan, and Google co-founder Sergey Brin and his wife Anne Wojcicki have come together to launch the Breakthrough in Life Sciences ... |
| Leaving Tweets Even After Your Death Possible With New App Posted:  Is it possible to leave tweets even after one's death ? Eerie as it may sound, we do have some interesting technology that can make life at the grave interesting! The LivesOn app, lives true to its name and ensures you can tweet even after you are gone from this earth. The application, which will be launched from March this year, is a special twitter application that will allow tweet messages even after death. The application will continue to leave tweet ... |
| Potential Alzheimer's Drug Deciphered Posted:  From Gottingen and Bonn, researchers have shed light on why the chemical compound known as "methylene blue" is a potential candidate for treating Alzheimer's. The compound is considered as a potential Alzheimer's drug because it prevents the harmful clumping of so-called tau proteins typically associated with this disease, but until now it was unknown why it had this effect. According to scientists including Markus Zweckstetter and Eckhard Mandelkow, ... |
| In Human Brain, Conductor of Speech Uncovered Posted:  The neurological basis of speech motor control, the complex coordinated activity of tiny brain regions that controls our lips, jaw, tongue and larynx as we speak, is being uncovered by researchers. The discovery has potential implications for developing computer-brain interfaces for artificial speech communication and for the treatment of speech disorders. It also sheds light on an ability that is unique to humans among living creatures but poorly understood. ... |
| US Mom Accused of Cyber-bullying Son Posted:  A US woman has been banned from posting anything about her kids online as she has been accused of cyber-bullying her ten-year-old son on Facebook by calling him an "a-----e". According to court documents the woman said that she wrote the insult about her son because that's what "he is." An appeals court said that ' her testimony reflected a lack of insight as to the nature of her conduct toward her oldest child,' the News York Daily News reports. The ... |
| One in Ten Television Programmes Now Watched on Smartphones Posted:  According to industry data, more than one in 10 television programmes are now watched through an on-demand service rather than on a TV set. A record number of people now choose to save their programmes for viewing later rather than watching it live, with more than half now owning digital recorders. According to the Daily Mail, the increase in viewers using the web to watch TV has led to a boom in online advertising. Research from Thinkbox, ... |
| Aging Women Talk More About Old Age and Waning Youth Posted:  Women seem to be putting themselves down constantly as they get older, and the usual refrain of 'I look so old' is being replaced by 'I look so fat' , according to a recent research. What begins as "I don't like the way my legs look", or "I envy your long legs", soon changes into old talk with more mention about wrinkles and looking old. Trinity University psychologist Carolyn Black Becker got a bit intrigued about old talk and teamed up with a fitness ... |
| Ice Loss Will Add to Uneven Rising Sea Levels Globally Posted:  How sea-level will rise over the coming century could affect some regions far more than others was shown by sophisticated computer modelling. The model shows that parts of the Pacific will see the highest rates of rise while some polar regions will actually experience falls in relative sea levels due to the ways sea, land and ice interact globally. Reporting in the journal Geophysical Research Letters researchers have looked ahead to the year 2100 to ... |
| Historic Czech Breweries Get Back on Tap Posted:  Historic Czech breweries are getting back on tap with new owners seeking to tickle the taste buds of the world's greatest beer lovers with exotic new flavours. The breweries has risen from the ashes after closure or near-collapse. Along with a wave of new micro-breweries, these revamped elders -- many with several hundred years of beer-making under their belts -- are offering an alternative to the Czech Republic's world-famous trademark bottom-fermented ... |
| Superiority of Males Over Females is a Result of Natural Selection Posted:  On a popular hypothesis that suggests superiority of males over females in spatial navigation is a result of natural selection, a new study has raised question. Some evolutionary psychologists argue that males' slight, but significant, superiority in spatial navigation over females - a phenomenon demonstrated repeatedly in many species, including humans - is probably "adaptive," meaning that over the course of evolutionary history the trait gave males an advantage ... |
| Triathlete, Leanda Cave, Tweets About Her Diagnosis of Skin Cancer Posted:  ... |
| Cara Delevingne is the New Kate Moss Posted:  The British model of the moment, Cara Delevingne, set the catwalk alight at London Fashion Week with looks that have won her comparisons to her celebrity compatriot Kate Moss. Burberry, Topshop Unique, Peter Pilotto and Issa London all hired the pixie-like 20-year-old with her distinctive dark eyebrows to strut her stuff at their shows, delighting photographers and enchanting critics. Backstage after the Burberry show, Delevingne looks relaxed in a ... |
| Top Labels Hope for Boost to Made in Italy Posted:  For Milan Fashion Week, Italy's top luxury brands take to the catwalks, as the industry waits keenly for general election results which may have a knock-on effect on culture and Made in Italy. After New York and London, it's the turn of Italy's luxury capital: charcoal greys, burnt oranges, hot reds and glitter have dominated the catwalks so far and all eyes are on Milan to bring that touch of Italian sophistication. But as houses show off their hotly-awaited ... |
| Posted:  On the long held theory that Cleopatra VII, the last pharaoh of Egypt, committed suicide along with her two handmaidens soon after the conquering of her country by Rome, a new book has cast doubt. For 2000 years, historians and Egyptologists have assumed that Cleopatra took her life to prevent the victorious Roman general Octavian from carrying her back to Rome in chains and humiliating her by displaying her in his triumph. But Pat Brown, author of ... |
| Posted:  A Punjab-based automobile fabricator has launched what is called a motorhome - a super-luxury caravan. Miss the comfort of a personal bed, having a shower or cooking while on the move? For the price of a high-end luxury car, all this could be yours. Built on a Fiat Ducato chassis imported from Italy, the motorhome is equipped with a lounge, a tiny kitchen, refrigerator, a toilet and separate shower and a luxury bedroom to provide the personalised ... |
| About 45 Per Cent of People Use Phones to Talk to Others in Same House Posted:  According to a new survey, about 45 per cent of people have admitted that they use phone calls, text messages, tweets and emails to communicate with friends and family members in the same house. The study found that one in five (22 per cent) prefer to speak on the phone or on social media such as Facebook and Twitter rather than face-to-face, the Daily Mail reported. And three-quarters (73 per cent) of the population would struggle to go for just one ... |
| UNICEF Launches Plantation Drive To Spread Awareness On Routine Immunization Posted:  UNICEF Sunday launched a year-long plantation program "Nurturing Trees, Nurturing Lives", to intensify awareness about routine and polio immunization and to emphasize need for vaccination of every child. "On this day last year, India was removed from the polio endemic countries list by the World Health Organization (WHO). If we could stop polio, we can surely also prevent other life threatening diseases in children such as measles, Hepatitis-B, diphtheria," said ... |
| Malawi Records 1,000 New HIV Infections Weekly Posted:  Malawi on average records 1,000 new HIV cases in a week, according to a official report. Over a tenth of the population is HIV positive in the AIDS-ravaged country. "It's a great concern to us that despite efforts by government to prevent HIV and AIDS, the country continues to register about 1,000 new cases of HIV every week," Edith Mkawa, a senior health ministry secretary in charge of nutrition, HIV and AIDS, told reporters. "The number is very high. ... |
| Thousands Take Part in Mumbai Marathon To Spread Awareness About Cancer Posted:  In order to spread awareness about the fatal disease of cancer more than twelve thousand people, belonging to various age-groups, ran together on the streets of Mumbai. The event had three different categories of race for children, senior citizens and adults. The first category for children and adults has comprised a race of four kilometers, second and third category for young adults was of a ten and 21 kilometers. "Our rotary has organized ... |
| Adults Get 11 Percent Calories From Fast Food Posted:  Consumption of calories from fast food among US adults is about 11.3 percent between 2007 to 2010, according to a report. The report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was based on data pulled from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), CBS News reported. Fast food is a quick alternative to making a meal at home, and it's steadily becoming am increasing part of the American diet, the report noted. However, ... |
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