Posts Tagged ‘mouse’

Jakarta, April 2 (ANI): Archaeologists, in Indonesia, have recovered a rare 12th-century stone statue of Lord Ganesha, which is the only one in the country in which the elephant-headed deity is depicted as riding atop a mouse. According to a report in the Jakarta Post, a research team from the Mpu Purwa Historical Object Preservation Center in Malang, East Java, recovered the statue. "The mouse is ... Full story

Washington, March 31 (ANI): American scientists have created a "switch" that allows mutations or light signals to be turned on in muscle stem cells to monitor muscle regeneration in a living mammal. The research team, including 2007 Nobel Prize winner Mario R. Capecchi, say that their breakthrough may lead to a genetic switch, or drugs, that allows people to grow new muscle cells to replace those ... Full story

London, Mar 26 (ANI): Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC) researchers have identified a mechanism that helps regulate the movement of blood-forming stem cells in the body. The finding could lead to improvements in the efficiency of bone marrow transplants. "By identifying the key mechanism by which these stem cells home ... Full story

Washington, Mar 20 (ANI): A novel device implanted inside the spinal cord might offer an effective treatment against Parkinson's disease, according to a study. Researchers at Duke University Medical Centre have developed a prosthetic device, which applies electrical stimulation to the dorsal column ... Full story

Washington, Mar 20 (ANI): Scientists have moved a step closer to developing a drug that could actually stop the progress of Alzheimer's disease. They have identified a molecule that can form the basis for a new therapy for the neurodegenerative disease. A typical characteristic of the brains of Alzheimer's patients is the presence of amyloid plaques, which are abnormal ... Full story

Washington, March 15 (ANI): An Indian-origin researcher at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine has found that imbalance of iron homeostasis is a common feature of prion disease-affected human, mouse, and hamster brains. Dr. Neena Singh, who worked in collaboration with researchers from Creighton University, says that her ... Full story

Washington, Mar 12 (ANI): A well-known enzyme linked with cancer, diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, and stroke has now been found to help create and maintain the brain, according to scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. After selectively disabling the enzyme AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) in mouse embryos, it was found that the overall brain size was reduced by 50 percent, the cerebrum ... Full story

Washington, Mar 10 (ANI): In a novel study, an international team of researchers has identified a protein that plays key role in eye development. Scientists from John Hopkins University School of Medicine and Washington University School of Medicine have found a protein called Pias3 that regulates how the light-sensing nerve cells in the retina form. "We've found a protein that seems to serve as a general switch ... Full story

Washington, Mar 6 (ANI): Challenging a recent study, an Arizona nutritionist has claimed that vitamin C does not reduce the effectiveness of chemotherapeutic drugs in cancer treatment. A study published in Cancer Research concluded that vitamin C, given to mice or cultured cells treated with common anti-cancer drugs, reduces the anti-tumour effects of ... Full story

Washington, Feb 28 (ANI): Duke University researchers are decoding the way people's noses recognize scents - a development that will lay the groundwork for a future of cancer-sniffing artificial noses. In an experiment, researchers tested hundreds of receptor gene types found in human and mouse noses, reports National Geographic News. Scientists ... Full story

Srinagar, Feb 27 (ANI): Web designing is re-scripting the tourism-driven economy of Kashmir valley. The web designing which was inaccessible to the valley until recently, has unlocked new vistas. People in the valley have suddenly rushed to opening web sites. "Earlier, people had no idea about what a website was. But when it was advertised, people started taking interest in it. Now, everyone wants to have a ... Full story

Washington, Feb 25 (ANI): A team of scientists, including an Indian-origin boffin, has identified a specific gene that plays a key role in the weight-gain response to a high-fat diet. The study, conducted on mice, has suggested that blocking this gene could one day be a therapeutic strategy to reduce diet-related obesity and associated disorders, such as diabetes and liver damage, in humans. The researchers found that ... Full story

Washington, Feb 10 (ANI): The immune system of smokers with chronic lung diseases can backfire, and actually worsen their condition, according to new University of Cincinnati (UC) research. In the pre-clinical study, UC environmental health scientists found that activation of a specific cellular receptor (NKG2D) critical to immune system activation is linked with cigarette smoke. This association could worsen one of the most difficult-to-treat respiratory diseases: chronic ... Full story

London, Feb 9 (ANI): In a study on animals, researchers have found that treatment with a naturally occurring protein called brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) could potentially provide long-lasting protection by slowing, or even stopping, the progression of Alzheimer's disease. The study by researchers led by University of California, San Diego, showed that Memory loss, cognitive impairment, brain cell degeneration, and cell death were prevented or reversed ... Full story

Washington, Feb 5 (ANI): Researchers at Brown University have discovered a structure in the brain called the Fragile X granule, which offers a potential target for treating certain kinds of autism and mental retardation. Led by Justin Fallon, professor of neuroscience at Brown, the study's finding opens a new line of research about potential treatments for autism. Austism is a neurological disorder that strikes young children and ... Full story

London, Feb 05 (ANI): A team of American researchers has identified a gene that when mutated causes obesity by dampening the body's ability to burn energy while leaving appetite unaffected. Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine say that the new study could potentially lead to new pharmacologic approaches to treating obesity in humans that do not target the ... Full story

Washington, Jan 7 (ANI): It's the hormone that makes people bond with their mates and helps breastfeeding mothers to fall in love with their babies. Now, scientists have found the first evidence to show that oxytocin plays an important role in helping us to remember the face of a stranger. According to new research in the January 7 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience, the "love" hormone ... Full story