Canberra, June 11 (IANS) Australia will deliver funds for new dementia research on the impact of Vitamin B12 levels, Minister for Health Tanya Plibersek and Minister for Mental Health and Ageing Mark Butler said on …
A new research suggests that like salaries, people are generally happier if they keep up with the Joneses and are even happier when they’re having more sex. On the other hand, less sex than their peers can make people …
For decades, mice have been the most commonly used animal model to study human diseases both for physiological or psychological research because they are mammals and share a high degree of similarity with humans. Because of this …
Tadpoles re-growing their tails within a week of losing them hold vital lessons for human healing and regeneration, according to researchers. The discovery made by Enrique Amaya, professor of life sciences and his team at The …
Bats are amazing creatures, which have survived for 65 million years against all odds, offering vital clues to immunity and human longevity, according to an Australian study. 'Bats are a natural reservoir for several lethal …
Scientists have developed a hybrid printer which will help print 3D tissue that simplifies the process of creating implantable cartilage. These cartilages could eventually be implanted into injured patients to help re-grow …
An instrument to accelerate advancement of research in nanoparticles for drug delivery was gifted on Tuesday to a professor from Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay by Izon Science, a New Zealand-based nanotechnology company, …
Deafness, night-blindness and a loss of peripheral vision through progressive degeneration of the retina are all hallmarks of the 'Usher syndrome' which occurs due to a generic mutation.
Researchers have pinpointed the gene …
A vaccine for kidney cancer is now being tested in Germany. The vaccine was tested on 19 patients with renal cell carcinoma so advanced that other therapies were no longer effective, Xinhua reported Monday."Seven of these …
Consuming larger amounts of choline during pregnancy may lower an infant's vulnerability to mental and stress-related illnesses, and chronic conditions, like hypertension, later in life, claimed nutrition scientists and …
A recent study has proved that long-term consumption of GM crops could lead to tumours and other severe health impacts. This has led the environment group Greenpeace on Monday to demand suspension of on-going genetically modified …
Ever played the Chinese whisper game where people whisper a message into the ear of the next person in line and by the time the last person speaks it out loud? Well, researchers have found that our memory is a lot like the …
Child Sexual abuse victims go through a lot of suffering in life. If that wasn't enough, in a recent study by the University of Toronto, it has been found that men who go through childhood sexual abuse are thrice as likely to …
Scientists might have stumbled upon the reason some people are more creative than others. A newly discovered stem cell might hold the key to greater creativity and higher cognitive functions in humans. This family of stem cells …
