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Washington, Sept 10 (ANI): Researchers at the University of Leicester and Institute for Molecular and Cellular Biology in Portugal have found that vitamin C can help protect DNA damage of skin cells and lead to better skin regeneration.

Previous research has shown that DNA repair is upregulated in people consuming vitamin C supplements.

In the new [...]

Washington, Sept 9 (ANI): University of Exeter researchers have found new evidence to explain how female insects can influence the father of their offspring, even after mating with up to ten males.

In the study, boffins found that female crickets are able to control the amount of sperm that they store from each mate to [...]

London, Aug 29 (ANI): Inching closer to curing diseases like Parkinson’s using cells generated from a patient’s own body, researchers have successfully reprogrammed human nerve cells back to an embryo-like state by using just a single gene.

It is known that embryonic stem cells are pluripotent – they can develop into any of the body’s cell [...]

Washington, Aug 27 (ANI): Researchers at Tel Aviv University have developed a unique device, called Dermastream, which could heal bedsores and chronic ulcers in bedridden elderly and infirm.

When ill, such people are prone to painful and dangerous pressure ulcers, and diabetics are susceptible to wounds caused by a lack of blood flow to the extremities.

“The [...]

Washington, August 26 (ANI): A new study has shown that pregnant women with pre-eclampsia have unusually high levels of a chemical compound called ‘ergothioneine’, which is found in unpasteurised food, in the red blood cells.

The finding made by scientists at the University of Leeds attains significance because they suggest that ergothioneine is an indicator of [...]

Washington, August 26 (ANI): A team of researchers in Germany have found that not only a gene called SHOX is involved in the development of short stature, but sequences of genetic material on the X and Y chromosome that regulate it are also crucial for growth in children.

Professor Gudrun Rappold, the Director of the Department [...]

London, July 9 (ANI): An international group of researchers have for the first time come up with genetic evidence linking schizophrenia to a specific region of DNA – on chromosome 6.

Lead researcher Nancy Buccola, Assistant Professor of Clinical Nursing at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, says that this is the same area where [...]

Washington, July 8 (ANI): Scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and the University of Heidelberg, Germany, have identified 20 genes that play a vital role in maintaining cholesterol balance.

The researchers believe that the newly identified genes may help uncover the mechanisms that regulate cholesterol levels, and lead to new treatments for cholesterol-related [...]

Washington, July 7 (ANI): If Medical College of Georgia researchers are to be believed, organ transplantation in future may include microscopic beads that create “designer” immune cells so that patients may tolerate their new organ.

Dr. Anatolij Horuzsko, reproductive immunologist [...]

Washington, July 7 (ANI): Purdue University researchers have come up with a new prostate cancer “homing device” that can improve detection, and allow for the first targeted treatment of the disease.

The researchers have revealed that they have [...]

Washington, July 4 (ANI): Keanu Reeves has apparently set his sights on a new career, for the actor wants to get trained to become a chef.

The ‘Speed’ star was so impressed with a cookbook by famed French chef Herve This that he says that it has changed his life.

This, who uses science to perfect [...]

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 [...]

Washington, June 30 (ANI): A new study has found that an extract derived from bone marrow cells is as effective as therapy using bone marrow stem cells for improving cardiac function after a heart attack.

The study was conducted in mice using a novel stem cell delivery method developed by researchers to show that the extract [...]

London, June 25 (ANI): Scientists have long known that a restricted diet extends life. Now, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have identified two enzymes that provide a new molecular explanation for how eating less leads to living longer.

Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator Andrew Dillin and colleagues identified two proteins, WWP-1 and [...]

Washington, May 27 (ANI): In what may have important implications for controlling diseases that spread from rats to humans, Johns Hopkins scientists have found that rodents spend the majority of their lives close to their homes.

The researchers have also observed that some rodents may, in the face of danger, travel as far as seven miles [...]

Washington, May 25 (ANI): Scientists from University of Kiel, Germany have identified a genetic link between dental disease periodontitis and coronary heart disease (CHD).

Dr. Arne Schaefer, of the Institute for Clinical Molecular Biology, University of Kiel, Germany, said that they have discovered a genetic variant situated on chromosome 9, which was shared between the two [...]

Washington, May 20 (ANI): A new study from University of California, Los Angeles has identified a genetic variant that may increase a child’s risk of developing autism, particularly boys.

The research team has discovered a variant of a gene called CACNA1G that, according to the researchers, that makes boys four times more likely to develop autism, [...]

Washington, May 16 (ANI): In a bid to diagnose and treat renal diseases early and more successfully, researchers from nine European countries have spent four-and-a half years to create a three-dimensional virtual “Kidney Atlas”, which incorporates the latest research findings on the [...]

Washington, May 15 (ANI): Scientists from Peninsula Medical School and the University of Bristol have discovered a common genetic variant that might make it difficult for women to quit smoking during pregnancy.

They found that variation in 15q24 [...]

Washington, May 14 (ANI): Scientists at The University of Nottingham claim to have discovered how the deadly meningococcal bacteria avoid the body’s natural defence mechanism and attack the brain.

Their work attains significance because it may pave the way for better treatment and vaccines for meningitis, and eventually save the lives of hundreds of children.

Bacterial meningitis [...]