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For many of us, the day begins with a steaming cup of coffee. We get over our sleep hangovers and get geared for the day after tasting that special caffeine ambrosia. But now a research published in the June 25th issue of Journal of Agricultural and...
Ageing is often related to degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, but now a breakthrough is achieved in the research for treating these. Scientists have found a way of giving old and tired muscles, responsible for degeneration,...
When the neurologists were thinking that they had deciphered the functioning of the different parts of brain, a new discovery has now forced them to review their research. The doctors have accidentally stumbled upon a new area in brain responsible...
Drug resistant tuberculosis has emerged as a deadly killer in recent years especially in the countries of Africa and Asia. Scientists have now been able to decode the gene map of a strain of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis. Researchers of the...
Scientists have confirmed that smoking has a high possibility to turn on cancer genes in an individual's body 'permanently'! As per the study there are details which even mention how this cancer can be dangerous even if the person quits smoking....
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Smoking, Caners, Smokers, Non smokers, Former Smokers, DNA, research, British Columbia Cancer Research Centre, CABYR, ENTPD8, Health & Fitness
American scientists have come up with a new method of treating cancer. They aspire to start clinical trials of the method, which has minimum risks of invasion, soon on individuals with prostate cancer.
The process, called irreversible...
Do you know why we yawn? Not when we feel sleepy, not when we are getting bored, not because we are sitting idle, not for low oxygen level in the blood, but for a reason, which might surprise all. Researchers have found that we yawn because it is a way...
From ages milk has been advocated as one of the best food source for its calcium content.
A new crop of no-milk lovers are emerging who strongly believe that milk causes congestion, allergies and intolerance, breast cancer and also heart disease...
Huge funds invested, in the US National Cancer Institute, for the search for common genes linked to cancer. According to the statisticians, it is unlikely to be successful.
It is being said that there is less possibility of existence of such genes or if...
In a first national survey, since mid 1970s, conducted by National Institutes of Health (NIH) in U.S., concluded on vision problems. It finds that 94 percent of Americans of more than 12 years of age have good vision. The other six percent i.e. 14...
Have you ever had a thought that exercise can reduce skin cancer too? In mice it is doing so. It came out in a new study where two groups of mice were exposed to ultraviolet B (UVB) light. The group, with a running wheel, developed thirty-two percent...
Scientists at the University of Florida's Institute on Aging have come to the conclusion after a research that less food and workouts can reduce or even reverse aging cells and organ damage in rats.
The research shows that even small reductions in...
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University of Florida, Institute on Aging, Research, Aging Cells, Calories, Health, Molecular Process, Liver Functions, Organs, Molecules, Free Radicals, Cellular Oxidation, Inflammation, Christiaan Leeuwenburgh, Cell Deaths, Health & Fitness
The researchers at Cambridge and Oxford Universities have observed the process on how viruses seize the genetic process of cells. They have claimed to identify the crucial key elements and their roles. The research is published in 'Nature'. It may lead...
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HIV, Cambridge University, Oxford University, Viruses, Genetic Code, Cells, Nature, Genes, Ribosomal Frameshifting, Research, Images, Electron Microscopy, Ian Brierley, Antivirals, Health & Fitness
The researchers at University of Michigan concluded a study that says women live longer than men everywhere in the world. Though it is recognized since mid- 18th century. It isn't a recent trend and initiated from evolutionary history.
Sexual roles of...
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Research, University of Michigan, Men, women, History, Males, Females, Male Physiology, Longevity, Lifestyles, Health & Fitness
This is the puzzled and conflicting world of alcohol research. The past two decades of research suggests alcohol carries some health benefits if taken moderately.
It has been said that alcohol can cure cancer and can save from heart disease, reduces the...
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Alcoholics, Alcohols, Research, Benefits, Cancer, Diseases, Drugs, Heart Disease, Diabetes, Osteoporosis, Health Problems, Health & Fitness
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