A new study conducted by researchers of McGill University in Montreal, Canada, has shown that childhood abuse victims can carry chemical changes to their DNA into adulthood.
Study leader Michael Meaney, a neurobiologist at the university, says that the research team observed that suicide victims with childhood abuse history were more likely to carry such chemical [...]
Jogging triggers cravings for fruits, while swimming prompts a desire for biscuits, says a new study, which found how our bodies react to different types of exercise.
The study has shown that intensive activity need not increase the appetite but certain workouts result in hankerings for particular foods.
Dr David Stensel of Loughborough University’’s School of Sport [...]
In a study on the need for sleep in animals, scientists at North Carolina State University have identified almost 1,700 genes associated with the variability of sleep in fruit flies.
Led by Dr. Trudy Mackay, the study has shown that the fruit fly is genetically wired to sleep, although the sleep comes in widely variable amounts [...]
A potential new flu vaccine to cure almost all kinds of the disease, including bird flue, may be available in just two years because scientists have identified 10 antibodies that target an “Achilles heel” in most forms of influenza.
The researchers have revealed that the antibodies they have discovered target the weak spot in the “neck” [...]
Researchers from Duke University Medical Centre have found certain vital clues to healing arthritis caused by traumatic injury.
They have identified a strain in laboratory mice that has “superhealing” powers, which can help resist inflammation after a knee injury, and avoid developing arthritis at the injury site in the long term.
“After a patient’’s traumatic injury, orthopaedic [...]
Researchers from University of California, Irvine, have suggested a new approach that may offer a safer and more convenient treatment for patients whose breast cancer spread to their spines.
The team led by orthopaedic researcher Joyce Keyak has found that injecting radioactive bone cement into the vertebral body may help thwart cancer metastases to spine.
“With further [...]
In what may spark a completely new class of drugs to treat type 2 diabetes, University of Oxford researchers have developed a cheap and efficient drug discovery method that can be helpful in identifying a new player in the body’’s insulin secretion process.
The researchers say that the new approach may allow small academic labs to [...]
London, Feb 18 (ANI): Neither affluence nor being female offers a defence against the ill heath caused by smoking, according to a new study.
The study has shown that smoking itself is a greater source of health inequalities than social position.
Among both men and women, smokers of all social classes had a much higher risk of [...]
Washington, Feb 18 (ANI): Researchers from University of the Basque Country team have developed nano-hydrogel – small particles that are capable of detecting cancer cells and release medication where required.
The hydrogels are polymers in the shape of a net. They can swell up — by absorption — but cannot be dissolved in a liquid.
This type [...]
London, Feb 19 (ANI): Poor sleep could actually lead to illnesses including psychiatric conditions, attention deficit disorder, post traumatic stress and depression, according to a new study.
Sleep problems have long been associated with mental health conditions, but it was believed that they were a side effect of the disease.
Now, however, American scientists reckon that sleeping [...]