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Inactivation of Rad9 in Tumor Cells Would Be Advantageous In Cancer Therapy

...ancer therapy. Inactivation of Rad9 enhances the power of radiation treatments by making it easier for radiation to inflict fatal damage to a tumor cell. The findings were published in the journal Molecular and Cellular Biology. It was found that Rad9 proteins interact with chromosomes telomeres. Telom...

Novel Study Unravels a New Dimension to Decision Making

...nt information while the subconscious has a higher power to process more information, leading to sound decisions. Author Dr Ap Dijksterhuis has said, "The take-home message is that when you have to make a decision, the first step should be to get all the information necessary for the decision.Once you hav...

Killing Power Of Bleach Enhanced By Addition Of Vinegar

...considering the pH, which affects the disinfecting power of the solution, commented Norman Miner, a senior researchers involved in the study. If the pH of the solution is about 8.5 or more, the bleach may not be active against microbes. However, if the pH is less than or equal to 6.8, it has been found t...

Molecular Computer Developed To perform Calculations From Within Human Body

...puters have the potential to surpass the speed and power of existing silicon computers because they can perform many calculations simultaneously and pack a vast number of components into a tiny space. Willner said his computer would eventually be incorporated into bio-sensing equipment to help with intel...

Virus Implicated In Prostate Cancer Using "Virus Chip"

...ender the body vulnerable to prostate cancer. "The power of the virus chip resides in its ability to simultaneously screen for all viruses, without preconceptions or bias," said Joe DeRisi, PhD, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigator at UCSF who developed the chip with colleagues in his lab....

Anorexia - Overcoming Hunger Pangs Isn’t Just About Will Powe

... avoiding food isn’t just about extraordinary will power alone. The neurotransmitter is known to be neuropeptide Y (NPY). The oversupply of NPY makes it hard for obese people to lose weight. In anorexia, there is a lack of NPY that disrupts the balance of the NPY system, making it easier to starve. It is...

Mind Training Can Unravel The Power Of The Subconscious Mind

...h Africans to improve their lives by unlocking the power of the subconscious mind. Jeetendra Adhia's workshops in various cities seek to teach// people how to use the subconscious activated state of the mind which he says lies between the conscious state and sleep. "Even the most successful people have n...

A Potent Sedative Kills Great-grandfather

...old the nurse, “You were a talented nurse with the power to do great good. It is very sad that you behaved in such a way as to ruin all that. I am sure your motives were to help this very, very sick man although you did so in a way that was hardly appropriate. I bear in mind this is the end of your career....

Protection Measures against Elder Abuse

...roblem. Recently nine authorities were given the power to act against those who are found to be involved in Elder Abuse. The nine authorities are Essex, Hertfordshire, Brent, Redbridge, Liverpool, Hull and East Riding of Yorkshire, Poole, Bournemouth and Dorset. Statistics shows that about 200 of the 63...

Plastic Surgery Is Primetime among Ethnic Groups

...cceptance of the specialty, and increased economic power within these ethnic groups. Hispanics comprised 9 % of the 10.2 million cosmetic plastic surgery procedures in 2005. The most commonly requested surgical cosmetic procedures for Hispanics were nose reshaping, breast augmentation, and liposuction. ...

A New Focus For The Mechanism Of Nerve Growth

...ion as molecular motors; the most familiar myosins power contraction in heart and skeletal muscles. Myosin II motors are involved in functions such as directed cell movement, cell division and wound closure. While skeletal myosins have been studied in detail, non-muscle myosins are just beginning to be und...

Medical Colleges, Confident of Meeting Standards Before 90-days deadline

...liation. MCI is the authorized body that has the power to accord affiliation to medical colleges across the country, has issued a 90-day deadline for the three colleges, which is due to end in May. A month has passed since the meeting, but Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College, Hospital (Jamshedpur)...

A gene related to aggression weakens the brain

...d, "These new findings illustrate the breathtaking power of 'imaging genomics' to study the brain's workings in a way that helps us to understand the circuitry underlying diversity in human temperament. By itself, this gene is likely to contribute only a small amount of risk in interaction with other genet...

Bamboo Shoots Causes Botulism Outbreak

...e weapons are considered categorized ‘A’ for their power to disseminate, cause high mortality rate, and public panic. Thai officials have given no indication that the food poisoning has arisen from anything other than contaminated food. The Thai Cabinet has also approved of 33 million baht (US$851,000, 7...

New Network To Ease Blood donation In India

...was nearing its peak. "I got the idea of using the power of the Internet to save lives," Poacha explained. They run the site from their own resources and some donations. Nearly 30 new donors are registered each day. He has a volunteer - Ramesh Sannareddy - helping with the revamped site. Why blood? "I ...

Pranab Mukherjee Urged Military Doctors To Remain On The Cutting Edge

...ys been on the alert in coming to the aid of civil power during natural disasters and we have to constantly evolve new doctrines to tackle new threats, Singh maintained. --Edited IANS...

3-D Imaging For Monitoring Reactor Systems, Power Plants

...be better monitoring of reactor systems, including power plants. Industrial plants need tomography for th...ze the energy conversion efficiency while reducing power plant emissions. "Right now, the way to convert coal or natural gas to liquid fuels is in high-tem...

The Face Of Indian Health Care: A World Health Day Evaluation

...t action of the medical staff who switched off the power supply. The poor mother’s cry is lost in a country with a population of over a billion where the death of one single baby girl would mean nothing at all. But I bet the poor mother would dare to become pregnant again. July 2005, India: Ultaf Bi, a r...

Prayers Do Not Help Healing Process In Bypass Patients

...tients of whom 65 percent believed strongly in the power of prayer. Two Catholic monasteries and one Protestant prayer group took up the task of praying for these patients, who were divided into three groups. The first group was told that someone was praying for their recovery, while the other two were tol...

Supercomputers To Assist In Thwarting Bird Flu Epidemic In Future

...l Medical Sciences. “This new work exemplifies the power of such models and could aid policymakers and health officials as they plan for a possible future pandemic.” The pandemic simulation model has been implemented in the Laboratory’s celebrated Scalable Parallel Short-range Molecular dynamics (SPaSM) ...

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