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Washington, July 7 (ANI): Stanford University Medical Centre scientists have identified certain antibodies in the blood and cerebrospinal fluid of healthy people that may help prevent Alzheimer’s disease.

They say that the levels of the antibodies found in healthy people decline with age and, in Alzheimer’s patients, with increasing progression of the disease.

Alzheimer’s disease is characterized [...]

Washington, July 7 (ANI): Australian and Canadian researchers have developed a new therapy that specifically targets cancer stem cells in acute myeloid leukaemia.

The new treatment targets a protein, CD123, on the surface of cancer stem cells that drive acute myeloid leukemia (AML), which [...]

Washington, July 7 (ANI): Researchers have found that HIV-1 virus moves rapidly in the body, and damages the B-cell antibody-producing system in the gut, within days of infection.

The study by Centre for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology is the first to examine what happens to B cells in the gut in the earliest stage of HIV-1 infection.

“These [...]

Washington, July 3 (ANI): Scientists are making certain plants resistant to the “Grapevine fanleaf virus” GFLV by genetic engineering.

Extremely hot or rainy periods can destroy entire crops, not to mention the wide variety of pests that can appear on the scene.

Bugs [...]

New Delhi, May 27 (ANI): A Chinese official has revealed that the country may manufacture an A(H1N1) influenza vaccine for human use by July.

Yin Hongzhang, head of the biology production department under the State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA), says that studies on samples of a flu strain that China is likely to receive by [...]

London, May 22 (ANI): Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta say that antibodies against some seasonal flu strains from prior years may provide an effective weapon to fight the new H1N1 swine flu.

Anne Schuchat, interim deputy director [...]

Washington, May 14 (ANI): Men, who don’t know when to stop using contraceptive methods after vasectomy, can now resort to a medical home test kit based on a protein discovered at the University of Virginia Health System, called SpermCheck Vasectomy.

The new product line could revolutionize the way men around the world monitor their reproductive status.

“The [...]

London, May 4 (ANI): After the recent swine flu scare, researchers from all over the world have stepped up efforts to build a vaccine, and British scientists are the latest to join the race.

A team from National Institute for Biological Standards and Control (NIBSC) in Hertfordshire have started their work for developing a vaccine against [...]

Washington, May 01 (ANI): A new study had found that patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) have a decreased sense of smell.

SLE is an autoimmune disease that sometimes involves the central nervous system in a condition known as neuropsychiatric SLE (NPSLE).

The sense of [...]

Washington, Apr 30 (ANI): Folic acid, or vitamin B9, may suppress allergic reactions and lessen the severity of allergy and asthma symptoms, according to new research from the Johns Hopkins Children’s Center.

Folic acid is essential for red blood cell health and long known to reduce the risk of spinal birth defects.

In what is believed to [...]

CHICAGO (Reuters) – A new imaging technique that uses tiny, dye-containing particles to “fingerprint” proteins within a single cell may lead to better ways to diagnose and treat cancer, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
If the technique succeeds on a larger scale, it could improve the ability not only to diagnose cancers, but to determine how [...]

Dogs are having a field day in Delhi, with city hospitals getting an average of 500 cases of dog-bite every day. Over the past three months, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) alone has received 3,721 complaints of dog-bite -an average of 40 calls a day – as against the 15,412 in 2008.
The MCD control [...]

Washington, April 3 (ANI): Scientists are concentrating on a newly discovered genetic abnormality, which appears to prevent some men from conceiving children, in order to develop a male contraceptive.

While female oral contraceptives have been available for about 40 years, the only contraceptives available for men are condoms or a vasectomy.

“We have identified CATSPER1 as [...]

Washington, Mar 13 (ANI): Taking a major step towards AIDS research, Rutgers scientists have almost created an HIV vaccine that shows promise in stopping an unusually diverse set of HIV isolates or varieties.

AIDS researchers Gail Ferstandig Arnold and Eddy Arnold and their colleagues took [...]

Washington, Mar 12 (ANI): It may soon be possible to detect Alzheimer’s disease with a simple blood test, say researchers.

The team from the University of Georgia, the Charlie Norwood VA Medical Centre in Augusta and the Medical College of Georgia have found a direct relationship between two [...]

Washington, February 28 (ANI): Scientists at the Emory Vaccine Center have come up with a type of nose drops that may prevent against lethal H5N1 infection.

Upon using the nose drops to immunise mice, they found that the animals were protected for months against H5N1 infection.

The researchers have revealed [...]

London, Jan 30 (ANI): Researchers in France have shown that the colour of a bird’s feathers indicates the strategy its immune system uses to beat pathogens.

Previously, pigments in feathers have been linked to the overall health of birds, reports Nature.

The carotenoids that give the blue-footed booby’s feet their distinctive colour, for example, are also antioxidants [...]

Washington: A research team led by an Indian-origin scientist at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have shown how eating red meat and milk products could increase the risk of cancerous tumours.
Ajit Varki, M. D., and colleagues have found that inflammation resulting from a molecule introduced through consumption of these foods could [...]