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Washington, July 10 (ANI): Scientists from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre have identified a protein that helps TB bacteria resist immune response, and remain latent in the body for decades.

They hope that the new discovery may lead to new [...]

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 [...]

Washington, June 20 (ANI): Active compounds in green tea can affect the progression of prostate cancer, a new study has found.

As per the results of a study published in Cancer Prevention Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, men with prostate cancer who consumed the active compounds in green tea demonstrated a [...]

Washington, May 16 (ANI): A research team led by an Indian-origin scientist at South Dakota State University has found that a substance derived from Red Sea Coral can help treat skin cancer.

The team led by SDSU distinguished professor Chandradhar Dwivedi looked at the chemopreventive effects of [...]

Washington, May 14 (ANI): Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have built a test facility to evaluate and enhance sensors designed to detect buried land mines.

The unique automated system measures the response of individual electromagnetic induction sensors or arrays of sensors against land mines buried at many possible angles.

Electromagnetic induction sensors work by [...]

Washington, Apr 25 (ANI): Researchers from University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine have identified a potential therapeutic target for maintaining healthy blood pressure.

In the study conducted using mouse model, the team discovered that mice lacking [...]

Washington, April 24 (ANI): Your usual nine to five office shift has a biological reason behind it, and now scientists have found that some genes in the body are switched on once every 12 or 8 hours, which in turn keeps us actively involved in the [...]

Washington, Apr 24 (ANI): Stem cells derived from a patient’s own fat tissue can offer an effective treatment against multiple sclerosis (MS), say researchers from University of California San Diego.

The researchers demonstrated the possible effectiveness of stromal vascular fraction (SVF) cells in MS treatment.

“All three patients in our study showed dramatic improvement in their condition [...]

Washington, Mar 25 (ANI): Scientists at University at Buffalo (UB) have developed a nanoparticle that can silence a gene that triggers drug addiction.

Boffins in UB’s Institute for Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics and UB’s Department of Medicine have developed a [...]

Washington, Mar 20 (ANI): For the first time, researchers at McMaster University have fully designed, manufactured and tested Canada’s first tuberculosis (TB) vaccine, which is all set to go under clinical trial.

Zhou Xing, a professor in the Department of Pathology [...]

Washington, Feb 13 (ANI): Obese adults who drink fructose-sweetened drinks may be at increased risk of developing cardiovascular disease, according to a new study.

Researchers from the Monell Centre have found that obese people who drink fructose-sweetened beverages with their meals have increased levels of triglycerides, which are known to be predictors of cardiovascular disease.

During the [...]

Washington, Feb 10 (ANI): A new study conducted by researchers at Loyola University Health System in Maywood has explained how depression dramatically increases the risk of cardiovascular disease and death after a heart attack.

The researchers have found that depressed patients have higher levels of inflammatory substances in their blood.

Inflammation is the process by which [...]

London, Jan 12 (ANI): Researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Centre have identified a series of gene fusions that might one day serve as a marker for detecting cancer.
Recurrent gene fusions are believed to be the mechanism that leads to cancer development.
The research team claim that they have discovered several gene fusions in [...]