The University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) has made a surprising creation – functioning heart and blood cells from skin cells. The stem cell researchers at UCLA modified and reprogrammed skin cells taken from mice to make them similar to embryonic stem cells further developing them into cardiac cells.
It has been found that ‘induced pluripotent […]
The Institute of Gerontology at King’s College London has conducted a research to defend British adult children and has proved that they don’t care less about their divorced parents. The study funded by Economic and Social Research Council.
It has been observed that, despite the fact that the parents are divorced, adult children take care of […]
Women and men are bound to have different sort of stress-related psychological disorders. Women are found to have increased rates of depression and some types of anxiety disorders compared to men. Men have higher chances of alcohol-use disorders than women. Through a new study of emotional and alcohol-craving responses to stress, it has been discovered […]
According to a report published on May 11, 2008 in the online issue of Nature, the COMT gene plays a role in preeclampsia besides playing a role in schizophrenia.
The researchers from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) suggest that a steroid molecule, 2- ME might provide both a diagnostic marker as well as […]
Many people tend to have an inborn advantage of remembering things or in other words have a good and sharp memory. Imagine if you are able to recollect and can store every single jiffy of your life and are also able to recall the memories and incidents that happened from the age of 9 or […]
Here is good news especially for active people and athletes. They will not have to rush to a dermatologist anymore to cure the damages done to their skin during rigorous training practices. The new Hand-e-Balm, a product by Gold Star Products.Inc is a new, all-in-one medication that protects the skin, stops infection and repairs damaged […]
Shopping for a multiple food allergic child can be quite stressful for mothers, especially when enough information about the ‘special diet’ food is not printed on the product. Special diets are the foods that come minus certain ingredients that are known to cause food-allergies.
To save the mothers and children from the trouble of hunting and […]
An anti-obesity drug which suppresses appetite blocks the cannabinoid receptors in the brain, which can even suppress the adaptive rewiring of the brain and is necessary for neural development in children, show studies conducted on mice. Rimonabant (trade name Acomplia) is a drug which has been created by Sanofi-Aventis who is yet waiting for […]
Due to this fast life and mundane routines, people are looking out for new ways to lead a better life. They want to try the best possible means to make it better. According to a study, one third of the 16-35 year old males and a quarter of females examined are consuming alcohol to […]
People take painkillers to get an instant relief from chronic pain, tension, stress etc. But now the issue is that the correct use of opioids and other potent pain medication should be regulated in a lawful manner. A research conducted by the American Pain Society annual meeting has verified that less than 3 percent of […]
