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Newborns Know how to make eye contact

...e often toward, and longer at, the images of faces looking directly at them than those with averted eyes, the... the babies' brain activity during the test. When looking at the face that appeared to be gazing directly at them, the infants had more of a certain component...

Anger and exercise set off irregular heartbeats

...implantable heart defibrillators. Future therapies looking at anger management techniques and ways to stop responses to physical stress may help patients avoid abnormal heart rhythms....

Cultivating gold on a fig tree

...r than just being a fungus. The group will soon be looking into making the nanoparticles on a large scale, which could be attained by genetically modifying actinomycetes to produce??more of the enzymes which cause the gold to form....

Brain scans show why we always have room for dessert

... functional magnetic resonance imaging -- a way of looking at brain activity "live" -- while doing what they thought were simple computer tasks.Gottfried and colleagues showed them abstract, computer-generated images while at the same time wafting their way the odors of either vanilla ice cream or peanut but...

Scientists Have Traced How The SARS Virus evolved

...et infected the man, rather it makes the continual looking for a reservoir host important .”...

Scientists Have Traced How The SARS Virus evolved

...et infected the man, rather it makes the continual looking for a reservoir host important .”...

The Potential Of Cadaver Transplantation Programme In India

..., 5000 hearts and 5000 livers - and we could start looking at the problem of organ shortage in rest of Asia and other parts of the world. The cadaver programme needs to be given a priority and efforts should be made to encourage hospitals to promote the programme in India, this would result in a win-win si...

A Closer Look into Vitamin D and Fractures

...alues of vitamin D for older adults in addition to looking more closely at the possible role that calcium supplementation may have in mediating the effects of vitamin D....

Enzyme Responsible For Congenital Blindness

...rmed an expression screen in cultured human cells, looking for a gene that caused these cells to convert vitamin A into 11 cis retinol. The researchers are now studying the effects on retinoid isomerase activity of specific disease causing mutations in the RPE65 gene, which should provide more data on the ...

Laboratory grown vegetarian meat

...al use, and now a small handful of researchers are looking into growing edible muscle cells, said Jason Matheny, University of Maryland. Industrializing the process could involve growing muscle cells on large shets or beads suspended in a growth medium. The sheet would have to be stretched or the beads wou...

Remifemin, An Indian Herb For Hormone Replacement Therapy

...es, improved mood and vaginal symptoms. “I've been looking for a menopause herb that actually worked for at least the last 15 years and I'm very excited about this because this is the first decent clinical trial that I've seen showing a herbal therapy that works,” Professor Eden says. The drug Remifemin is...

Parents Should Beware of Violent Video Games

...rm studies following children over many years, and looking at all the factors that could influence aggressive behavior, including discipline at home, poverty and how well a child is doing at school. Source:IANS...

Red haired withstand to pain more than blond headed

... cancer. It’s difficult to regulate and people are looking for drugs in that area”. Jackson acknowledged the earlier work done by Jeffrey Mogil at Mc Gill University in Montreal, Canada. Mogil identified a mutant version of a gene called melanocortin-1 (Mc1r) that is linked to ginger hair and fair skin and...

Pepsi, Coke Join Hands To Spread AIDS Awareness

...d to the National AIDS Control Organization (NACO) looking to Coke and Pepsi for support was the encouraging response they received for advertisements featuring cricket stars advising on the need for preparedness. Some campaigns even had them carrying condoms along with the cricket gear. Backed by 10 countr...

Low Cost Tissue Culture Vaccine For Encephalitis

...in which 12 persons died. The health ministry is looking out for cheaper tissue culture encephalitis vaccine, which is produced by China and Korea which is an alternative to expensive mouse brain vaccine, which is produced by Central Research Institute, (CRI) in India. ‘‘The Drug Controller General of Indi...

Molecule That Aids Bacterial Infections Identified

...called the blood-brain barrier. The team began by looking for new bacterial genes that allowed them to penetrate the barrier. Through a process that involved generating and screening thousands of Streptococcus mutants in a laboratory model of the human blood-brain barrier, the researchers found that a gene ...

Cannabis to be tested to help patients with respiratory diseases

...eathe.Researchers from Imperial College London are looking for volunteers to test whether cannabinoids, the a...bstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The team is looking for volunteers aged between 50 and 70, who don't have breathing difficulties. The volunteers will be...

Risk of colon cancer to be assessed by simple blood test

...test to predict a person's risk of colon cancer by looking for a particular biological marker in the blood. If successful, the test could be broadly applied to identify those who most need to be monitored with invasive but standard colonoscopy or who should make changes in their diet or in other factors to h...

Abbott’s Laboratories R&D Capabilities Questione

... hasn't been all that great the last few years and looking at the history, they do a very good job at marketing, and it doesn't seem like R&D is up to the same caliber as their marketing." Victory Capital Management owns the shares of Abbott. Another Shareholder of Abbott is The Fifth Third Asset Management,...

Medical community worried that new curriculum will 'Promote Quackery'

...rld-class doctors and the government should now be looking at strengthening the research capability of Indian medical field. "Moreover, the Supreme Court and various other courts of the country have repeatedly opined that one doctor of one pathy (system) cannot practice another pathy," Agarwal said. The a...

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