Sunday, 29 September 2013
Islamabad, Sep 30 (Newswire): University of Utah researchers have discovered a new class of compounds that stick to the sugary coating of the AIDS virus and inhibit it from infecting cells -- an early...
Scientists discover an organizing principle for our sense of smell based on pleasantness
Sunday, 29 September 2013
Islamabad, Sep 30 (Newswire): The fact that certain smells cause us pleasure or disgust would seem to be a matter of personal taste. But new research at the Weizmann Institute shows that odors can be...
Deep brain stimulation studies show how brain buys time for tough choices
Sunday, 29 September 2013
Islamabad, Sep 30 (Newswire): Take your time. Hold your horses. Sleep on it. When people must decide between arguably equal choices, they need time to deliberate. In the case of people undergoing deep...
Rotating magnetic moments: spin pumping effect demonstrated for first time
Saturday, 28 September 2013
Islamabad, Sep 29 (Newswire): Bochum's physicists led by Prof. Dr. Hartmut Zabel have demonstrated the spin pumping effect in magnetic layers for the first time experimentally. The behaviour of the spin...
Risk factors for complications after spine surgery identified in new study
Saturday, 28 September 2013
Islamabad, Sep 29 (Newswire): In the last 20 years, due to diagnostic and surgical advances, more and more patients have become appropriate candidates for spine surgery, and the number of these procedures...
Rogue receptor opens door for rare kidney disease
Saturday, 28 September 2013
Islamabad, Sep 29 (Newswire): Effects of a particularly devastating human kidney disease may be blunted by making a certain cellular protein receptor much less receptive, according to new research by...
Evolutionary tree of life for mammals greatly improved
Thursday, 26 September 2013
Islamabad, Sep 27 (Newswire): An international research team led by biologists at the University of California, Riverside and Texas A&M University has released for the first time a large and robust...
Bioengineers reprogram muscles to combat degeneration
Thursday, 26 September 2013
Islamabad, Sep 27 (Newswire): Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have turned back the clock on mature muscle tissue, coaxing it back to an earlier stem cell stage to form new muscle....
Some brain wiring continues to develop well into our 20s
Thursday, 26 September 2013
Islamabad, Sep 27 (Newswire): The human brain doesn't stop developing at adolescence, but continues well into our 20s, demonstrates recent research from the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry at the...
Vitamin D deficiency linked with airway changes in children with severe asthma
Wednesday, 25 September 2013
Islamabad, Sep 26 (Newswire): Children with severe therapy-resistant asthma (STRA) may have poorer lung function and worse symptoms compared to children with moderate asthma, due to lower levels of vitamin...
Virus kills breast cancer cells in laboratory
Wednesday, 25 September 2013
Islamabad, Sep 26 (Newswire): A nondisease-causing virus kills human breast cancer cells in the laboratory, creating opportunities for potential new cancer therapies, according to Penn State College of...
Newly identified antibodies may improve pneumonia vaccine design
Wednesday, 25 September 2013
Islamabad, Sep 26 (Newswire): Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have discovered how a novel type of antibody works against pneumococcal bacteria. The findings, which...
Possible new blood test to diagnose heart attacks
Monday, 23 September 2013
Islamabad, Sep 24 (Newswire): Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine researchers are reporting a possible new blood test to help diagnose heart attacks. In the Journal of Molecular and Cellular...
Stem cells, potential source of cancer-fighting T cells
Monday, 23 September 2013
Islamabad, Sep 24 (Newswire): Adult stem cells from mice converted to antigen-specific T cells -- the immune cells that fight cancer tumor cells -- show promise in cancer immunotherapy and may lead to...
Common stimulant may speed recovery from general anesthesia
Monday, 23 September 2013
Islamabad, Sep 24 (Newswire): Administration of the commonly used stimulant drug methylphenidate (Ritalin) was able to speed recovery from general anesthesia in an animal study conducted at Massachusetts...
Hope for powerful new C. Difficile treatment
Sunday, 22 September 2013
Islamabad, Sep 23 (Newswire): MGB Biopharma, a biopharmaceutical company which has licensed technology from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland, is developing a powerful new antibiotic...
Biodiversity loss may be contributing to amphibian-killing fungal infection
Sunday, 22 September 2013
Islamabad, Sep 23 (Newswire): Researchers at Oregon State University have shown for the first time that loss of biodiversity may be contributing to a fungal infection that is killing amphibians around...
Engineers use short ultrasound pulses to reach neurons through blood-brain barrier
Sunday, 22 September 2013
Islamabad, Sep 23 (Newswire): Columbia Engineering researchers have developed a new technique to reach neurons through the blood-brain barrier (BBB) and deliver drugs safely and noninvasively. Up until...
Early detection is key in the fight against ovarian cancer
Saturday, 21 September 2013
Islamabad, Sep 22 (Newswire): Ovarian cancer is a rare but often deadly disease that can strike at any time in a woman's life. It affects one in 70 women and in the past was referred to as a silent killer,...
Not tonight deer: A new birth control vaccine helps reduce urban deer damage
Saturday, 21 September 2013
Islamabad, Sep 22 (Newswire): A new birth control vaccine for white-tailed deer -- a growing nuisance in urban areas for gardens and landscaping -- eliminates the dangerous reproductive behavior behind...
Learning how gut bacteria influence health: scientists crack sparse genome of microbe linked to autoimmunity
Saturday, 21 September 2013
Islamabad, Sep 22 (Newswire): Scientists have deciphered the genome of a bacterium implicated as a key player in regulating the immune system of mice. The genomic analysis provides the first glimpse of...
World-first viral therapy trial in cancer patients
Thursday, 19 September 2013
Islamabad, Sep 20 (Newswire): Researchers from the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (OHRI), the University of Ottawa (uOttawa), Jennerex Inc. and several other institutions have just reported promising...
Potential molecular target to prevent growth of cancer cells identified
Thursday, 19 September 2013
Islamabad, Sep 20 (Newswire): Researchers have shown for the first time that the protein fortilin promotes growth of cancer cells by binding to and rendering inert protein p53, a known tumor suppressor....
MRI research demonstrates ALS attacks multiple parts of the brain
Thursday, 19 September 2013
Islamabad, Sep 20 (Newswire): Recently published studies by a researcher in the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry demonstrate that ALS -- known as Lou Gehrig's disease -- damages neurons in parts of...
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