For the first time, medical experts have challenged the established view that the tuberculosis bacteria coughed up in sputum by infected individuals multiply rapidly. Experts at the Universities of Leicester and London have identified that the TB bug lays down body fat that may help it survive passing from one …
For the first time, medical experts have challenged the established view that the tuberculosis bacteria coughed up in sputum by infected individuals multiply rapidly. Experts at the Universities of Leicester and London have identified that the TB bug lays down body fat that may help it survive passing from one …
For the first time, medical experts have challenged the established view that the tuberculosis bacteria coughed up in sputum by infected individuals multiply rapidly. Experts at the universities of Leicester and London have identified that the TB bug lays down body fat that may help it survive passing from one …
Ovarian cancer is one of the most common gynaecological neoplasms, especially in industrialised countries. Some environmental exposures, notably talc and asbestos, have been suspected as ovarian carcinogens. April 2008
It is a grim dilemma: spend years more on a kidney transplant waiting list, and possibly die before you ever reach the top, or accept a diseased organ that has been patched up. With the wait for healthy kidneys standing at two to six years in the US and Australia, …
San Diego: Dr John Kelsoe has spent his career trying to identify the biological roots of bipolar disorder. In December, he announced he had discovered several gene mutations closely tied to the disease, also known as manic depression. Then Kelsoe, a prominent psychiatric geneticist at the University of California, San …
Does putting full sets of clinical trial data in the public domain affect a company's commercial interest? It might. But does the public interest not outweigh this? Yes, because if the product is useless or harmful, there should be no commerce in it in the first place. The scientific study …
A genetic circuit in HIV that decides whether it switches on or stays dormant could hold the key to anti-HIV therapy, according to a new study. As part of the study, researchers at the University of California have in fact been able to "switch off' the circuit, driving HIV to …
Overeating disrupts entire networks of genes in the body, causing not only obesity, but diabetes and heart disease, in ways that may be possible to predict, researchers reported on Sunday. The researchers developed a new method of analyzing DNA and used it to discover that obesity is not only complex
With global pharma companies waking up to technology outsourcing services as a tool to reduce the time to market of their R&D; harvest, Accenture is looking at expanding the scope and scale of its lifescience centre of excellence in India. Accenture's life science R&D; centre in Bangalore is its largest …
THE second part of Frontline's interview with David Baltimore, the reputed American biologist and Nobel laureate, includes a discussion on a wide range of issues including his own research; funding in health-related research and development; the "moral conundrum' of high investments in product development by drug companies versus making drugs …
If a link with cancer wasn't bad enough, radiation may be bad for your heart too. A review of 65,000 staff who worked in the UK's nuclear industry between 1946 and 2002 has discovered a link between circulatory disease and staff who worked in high-exposure jobs. The increased risk is …
The Assam government on Thursday banned clinical trials on humans of a genetically engineered vaccine developed by Dhaniram Baruah, a cardiac surgeon from the State. He claimed that the vaccine corrected genetic defects causing heart diseases and diabetes and even prevented cancer. Dr. Baruah was jailed by the State government …
U.S. regulators have announced plans to reduce the number of animals used to test the safety of everyday chemicals. Instead of using animals such as rats and mice, scientists will screen suspected toxic chemicals in everything from pesticides to household cleaners using cell cultures and computer models. Safety of chemicals …
A drug used for the treatment of acne offers hope to patients of Japanese encephalitis, a viral disease with no specific treatment and a high mortality rate. The dreaded disease claimed 26 lives in the state last year. A study, conducted at the National Brain Research Centre in Manesar, Haryana, …
London: Is frog the answer to diabetes? "Yes', if researchers are to be believed. A joint team of experts from the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland and United Arab Emirates University has discovered that a substance on the skin of South American "paradoxical frog' boosts the production of insulin
Indians, regardless of their body weight, have cells that are more resistant to insulin, a reason that makes them more prone to type 2 diabetes, says a new study. In a study published in the March issue of
The International Partnership for Microbicides (IPM) has signed an agreement with pharmaceutical company Pfizer under which the pharma major will give IPM a royalty-free license to use maraviroc, its newly approved HIV treatment, as a microbicide for the prevention of HIV infection. Maraviroc is one of a new class of …
