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Biologicals Transfer Proposal between US and Indian Biotechnology

...e David A. Sampson and an Indian delegation led by science minister Kapil Sibal led to the biologics transfer proposal. Under the plan, India’s Department of Biotechnology (DBT) would procure biological material from the American Type Tissue Collection (ATCC) and warrant against their misuse or subsequent ac...

The ideal composition of intravenous lipid emulsion

...nteral nutrition, was an important landmark in the science of nutritional treatment of surgical patients and individuals requiring critical care. The primary importance of this development was that the energy requirements of the patient could be met without the metabolic burden imposed by high-level glucos...

A Component In Milk May Help Control Inflammatory Diseases

...e response," says Mark Cook, a professor of animal science in UW-Madison's College of Agricultural and Life S...dy, in collaboration with researchers in the dairy science and food science departments, to determine whether the amount of anti-inflammatory CLA in milk can b...

High concentration of heavy metals in Herbal medicines

...safety or efficacy prior to their marketing. The science of Ayurveda originated in India more than 5000 years ago and relies heavily on herbal medicine products. In the United States, Ayurvedic remedies have increased in popularity in the recent years. It has been established that 14 of the 70 HMPs contain...

Stem cells Can Generate Organs In Labs

...fic organ regeneration. Sound fascinating and like science .fiction but this is the reality of stem cell research today. The scientists who are able to solve this mystery will instantly revolutionise medical treatment. The current research is one step towards this path. Emmanuel Baetge of CyThera Inc., in...

TWO India Doctors Listed in TIME for Contribution to Global Health

...ries. Experts View: Philip Elmer-DeWitt, TIME science Editor said, “We were looking for people who had p...and we have found 18 heroes contributing to health science from countries like Bolivia, China, Cambodia, Congo, Honduras, Kenya, Nepal, Mozambique, Myanmar, Ni...

Imbalance In Gender Ratio Addressed By Religious Leaders

...ia of Dargah Ajmer Sharif condemned the "misuse of science to snuff out the life of a girl child in the womb....harmony of the delicate balance between nature and science should never be disturbed. Source: Indo-Asian News Service...

Hepatitis B A high cause of Asian Female Mortality

... to female ratios in many Asian countries, reports science portal EurekAlert. Hepatitis B is common in many Asian countries, particularly China, where some 10 to 15 percent of the population is infected. Oster presents new evidence in the forthcoming issue of the Journal of Political Economy that carriers...

Frequent Vacations Ease Mental Stress

... geographic area in central Wisconsin, US, reports science portal EurekAlert. The study conducted between 1996 and 2001 compared psychological stress, quality of marital life and disruptive home life due to work pressures among a group of women who took vacations frequently and those who did not. The rese...

Crusade Against Cancer: Collaborations On The Anvil

...ergence of advanced technologies and post-genomics science will change cancer medicine in ways we cannot yet ...s do better when they are on clinical trails.""The science has reached a critical stage now. We understand cancers so much more that now we need to start bigge...

Statins Reduce Deaths And Strokes After Carotid Surgery

...chart review during a briefing at the AMA's annual science reporters' conference. Carotid endarterectomy is the most frequently performed peripheral vascular surgery procedure, with about 160,000 to 180,000 operations in the U.S. annually. Although an endarterectomy can significantly reduce the risk of s...

Scientist affirm mother’s advice

...to mothers for years, but now, for the first time, science seems to have proved them right. ...

Regular light exercise slows down aging of the brain

...ce and movement at the end of experiments, reports science portal EurekAlert. More active rats were found to have fewer byproducts of oxidative stress in their brains. Fats known as lipids that help stabilisestabilize cell membranes, and DNA, the molecule that contains our the genetic blueprint, both bette...

Sugars Could Contain Key Cancer Inhibiting Compounds

... clinical trials in two years' time. Dr Kat Arney, science information officer at Cancer Research UK said that the research had exciting potential and could point the way to future cancer treatments, "Because adults don't normally need to grow new blood vessels, this discovery could lead to a highly specific...

Scientists Seek New Ways To Grow Hair On Bald Pates

... of middle-aged men are losing their hair. What is science doing about this? Quite a bit, it turns out, reports AP. A British company, for example, says five guys are walking // around with hundreds more hairs than they had before, thanks to an early test of what's been called hair cloning. An American ou...

Food Habits Could Change Your Genes

...tching on or off certain genes in rodents, reports science portal EurekAlert. The new research was conducted in the lines of a two-year-old study, which showed that the activity of a mouse's genes could be influenced by food supplements eaten by its mother just prior to or during the early stage of pregnanc...

Scientist Affirm Mom’s Advice - Keep Yourself Wrapped Up To Avoid Cold

...to mothers for years, but now, for the first time, science seems to have proved them right. ...

Adult Kids Of Alcoholic Mothers Face Health Risk

...one of the world's longest health studies, reports science portal EurekAlert. They studied 2,551 Brisbane mothers and their children at six months, five years, 14 and 21 years of age. Alati said they found teenage children of mothers who drank one or more drinks a day had a twofold risk of problem drinki...

Infectious Diseases of the Wild to grow

...an article in the British Medical Journal, reports science portal EurekAlert. One of the major drivers for these diseases is closer human contact with wildlife, primarily caused by human encroachment into, and modification of, wildlife habitat, he writes. For example, Ebola virus outbreaks often are linked...

No need to hassel with children at meal time, just eat when pregnant!

...ir babies to when they are pregnant. According to science a foetus can swallow about 500 millilitres of amniotic fluid a day and it is believed that those first-savoured flavours play a big role in dictating a child's future tastes. Similar is the action when breastfeeding infants, tastes are passed on wit...

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