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Eating Apples and Fish During Pregnancy Benefits Babies

... of BBC News reported. Women who ate one or more portions of any type of fish during pregnancy had almost half the chance of having a child diagnosed with eczema within the first five years, the researchers said. The study presented at the recently held American Thoracic Society conference suggests that a...

RNA Play a Vital Role in Gene Activity

...olecules can orchestrate gene activity across vast portions of the human genome - a cell's genetic blueprint. It also suggests they may be important in cancer development and stem cell maintenance. Overall, the work adds another brick to the growing wall of evidence suggesting that RNA is more than a mere gen...

Raipurs Separated Conjoined Twins are Doing Fine

...ies shared a common liver, pancreas and some other portions of the body. Fortunately their heart and urinary organs were separate. The doctors took up the responsibility of meeting the cost of milk, other nutrients and medicines for the kids during their eight-month long stay in hospital. Prabhawati, the...

Obese Infant Kacey Causes Concern

...y are concerned some parents are super sizing meal portions for very young children and have lost sight of what "normal" weight looks like. Dr Tabitha Randell, a consultant pediatrician from Nottingham, is one doctor who believes some parents are killing their children with kindness. According to a surve...

Teachers in Lucknow Protest Against New Book on Sex Education

...sking the books be recalled, until the 'offensive' portions are amended, following earlier protests by various sections over what is being called as 'sexually explicit' text. Agitated teachers protested outside the state education board office here yesterday, saying the books were still in circulation and c...

UK Hospital Performs Heart Surgery Using Robotic Arm

...f heart muscle. The electric current destroys tiny portions of heart tissue which cause an abnormal heartbeat. With the Sensei robot, surgeons use a joystick on a computer console to more accurately position and control the wires, which often need to be placed in locations that are difficult to reach. I...

Research into Suppressed Memories Could Help Treatment for Depression

...he study. "By essentially shutting down specific portions of the brain, they were able to stop the retrieval process of particular memories," Depue said. The authors of the paper said they hope that their work will promote further research into better therapies and possibly even drug treatments for people...

Circassia Announces Acquisition of Organ Transplant Anti-Rejection Technology

... The ToleroTrans technology employs specific small portions of antigen molecules, called T-cell epitopes. Scientists then test these epitopes, utilising blood samples from patients awaiting organ transplantation, to determine which have the potential to desensitize the recipient's immune system, and thereby r...

Research Reveals Anatomy of Suppressed Memories: Study

...he study. "By essentially shutting down specific portions of the brain, they were able to stop the retrieval process of particular memories," Depue said. The authors of the paper said they hope that their work will promote further research into better therapies and possibly even drug treatments for people...

Completely Neutral Evolutionary Changes Helped Shape Our Genome

...o the lab. While hunting for new genes, they found portions of DNA that had been copied from the mitochondria, the energy-making apparatus of human cells that has its own small genome. These mitochondrial sequences are known as numts. When they expanded their study across the whole human genome, they found ...

Clamor for Catheter-based Ablation Increasing Among Heart Patients in US

...s burning, freezing, or otherwise neutralizing the portions of the heart muscle where abnormal electrical pulses set off the irregular heartbeats. The technique aims to restore the ability of the two atria, situated at the top of the heart, to effectively gather blood and prime the ventricles, the hearts main...

Canadian Children Prefer to Eat More Snacks

Canadian fifth-graders prefer larger portions of snacks and fast foods and smaller portions of vegetables than the recommended amounts, according to researchers at Dalhousie University in Can...

Dark Chocolate Possible Medicine for Blood Pressure

...portant vitamins and minerals. Eating five or more portions of fruit and vegetables a day is therefore the best way to protect your heart - and you don't need to worry about over-indulging," suggested Sara Stanner, nutritionist, The British Heart Foundation....

A new century of Alzheimer's disease research

...Alzheimer’s disease. Within the higher-functioning portions of their brains (the areas responsible for thought and memory), twisting tangles of threads made up of chains of tiny “tau” proteins are being assembled inside billions of nerve cells (neurons). Outside the neurons, other amyloid-beta (AB) proteins a...

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