Posts Tagged ‘research article’

London, April 6 (ANI): Masturbating or having sex may help men suffering from hay fever clear those bunged noses, say scientists. Sina Zarrintan, a neurologist from the Tabriz Medical University in Iran, says that the logic behind this proposition is based on the fact that the nose and the genitals ... Full story

London, April 1 (ANI): Masturbating or having sex may help men suffering from hay fever clear those bunged noses, say scientists. Sina Zarrintan, a neurologist from the Tabriz Medical University in Iran, says that the logic behind this proposition is based on the fact that the nose and the genitals are both connected to the same part of the nervous system that controls certain reflexes ... Full story

London, March 31 (ANI): Scientists based in America and Britain have found that just one greenhouse can produce a million doses of virus-blocking chemical, giving new hope that one day an anti-HIV protein may be derived from plants. A research article on this finding suggests that a protein produced in Nicotiana ... Full story

London, March 30 (ANI): A study has shed some light on how an enzyme prompts an allergic reaction, and how a vitamin dampens the inflammatory effect, in people with asthma. A consortium of researchers led by Baylor College of Medicine in Houston found that the allergen breathed in by asthmatics triggers the enzyme MMP7, which activates a cascade of events to prompt an allergic reaction. Drs. ... Full story

Washington, March 29 (ANI): Researchers at the University of Navarra Hospital say that high-dosage perioperative brachytherapy can prove very useful in the treatment of head and neck tumours, and for reducing the period of radiation. Brachytherapy is a radiotherapy treatment involving the placing of radioactive sources within the tumour or nearby. The scientists say that their work describes the application of this new radiotherapy technique to ... Full story

London, March 28 (ANI): University of Maryland scientists have reached a step closer to developing new drug therapies to combat active and asymptomatic (latent) tuberculosis infections by characterizing the unique structure and mechanism of an enzyme in M. tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes the disease. "The NAD+ synthetase enzyme that our study describes is absolutely essential for the survival of the tuberculosis bacteria and an important ... Full story

Washington, March 18 (ANI): Scientists at the University of Montreal and Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital Research Center may have reached a step closer to realising novel treatments for infertility, for thy have for the first time cloned important sperm-binding proteins. The researchers say that their success in producing and purifying a protein key to sperm maturation, termed Binder of Sperm (BSP), may have implications for both fertility treatments ... Full story

Washington, March 14 (ANI): University of Arizona scientists have found that there are some caterpillars that munch on drug-laced leaves to get rid of crippling parasites. Lead author Elizabeth Bernays says that this finding is the first clear demonstration of self-medication among insects. She points out that parasitic flies lay their eggs inside woolly bears in the spring, and when the fly larvae hatch, they feed ... Full story

Washington, March 14 (ANI): Don't run here and there in search of good life, for just being grateful to the people around you may fill your life with happiness. Associate Professor, who teaches Psychology at George Mason University, has found that gratitude-the emotion of thankfulness and joy in response to receiving a gift-is the best way to achieve happiness. Through a number of studies he has ... Full story

Washington, March 6 (ANI): Scientists may soon be equipped with a way to block the spread of malaria, as a team of researchers have for the first time revealed the means whereby most deadly malaria parasites are detected and killed by the mosquitoes that carry them. According to background information in a ... Full story

Washington, March 5 (ANI): Studies on how blind mole rats survive very low oxygen environments can help win fight against cancer, say researchers. American and Israeli scientists from the Universities of Illinois and Haifa have found that cellular mechanisms used by the blind mole rat to survive the very low oxygen environment of its subterranean niche are the same as those that tumours use to ... Full story

Washington, March 5 (ANI): Studies on how blind mole rats survive very low oxygen environments can help win fight against cancer, say researchers. American and Israeli scientists from the Universities of Illinois and Haifa have found that cellular mechanisms used by the blind mole rat to survive the very low oxygen environment of its subterranean niche are the same as those that tumours use to ... Full story

Washington, February 23 (ANI): 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" of the virus, just below its ... Full story

Washington, January 14 (ANI): University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers claim that they have created a human eye-inspired photo-detector, which can do away with the oft-noticed problem of distortion in snaps clicked with camera cell-phones or the mammoth telephoto lenses that sports photographers use. Zhenqiang Ma, an Electrical and Computer Engineering Associate Professor, believes that the new light-sensitive material he and his colleagues have created can revolutionise photography ... Full story

Washington, February 10 (ANI): The Burroughs Wellcome Fund and the U.S. Army Research Laboratory are funding a research into why present-day advanced mobile robots have difficulty traversing granular surfaces-like sand, dirt, rubble or slippery piles of leaves-despite being able to explore complex terrains across the globe, and even on Mars. The researchers attached with the study have thus far suggested that robots attempting to move across ... Full story

Washington, February 6 (ANI): A group of scientists have shown that a direct interaction between vitamin D and a common genetic variant alters the risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS), the most common disabling neurological condition. Researchers at the University of Oxford and the University of British Columbia also say that their study suggests that vitamin D deficiency during pregnancy, and the early years, may increase ... Full story

Washington, January 30 (ANI): Scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine say that they have discovered a protein that ferries the critically important clump of proteins around to repair the ends of chromosomes that are lost during normal replication. The researchers say that the importance of their work lies in the fact that without such ongoing maintenance, stem cells would soon cease dividing and ... Full story