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Biotechnology on the lead

... weapons are going to be increasingly attractive," she said. "I think that they're definitely cheaper, probably easier to get hold of, they're easier to conceal, there is information about them available on the internet and through other sources, and they are terrifying. She said biotechnology was more l...

The phenomenon of sexual attraction

... attractiveness is altered by the chemical signals she sends out. They exposed 76 men to synthetic vaginal pheromones without their knowledge. They then showed them a series of photographs of women and played tapes of their voices. The pheromones, which can be perceived by the nose even though they are...

Toddlers stressed out

...d combine pleasure with finding out about numbers, she said the government's proposals were aimed at ensu...ure to learn lessons that were beyond their reach, she said, but would be encouraged with basic skills such as speaking, say the experts....

Older men 'father' schizophrenics

...lmost all divisions in a woman's eggs occur before she is born. Egg abnormalities also usually involve larger chromosomal changes, and are therefore easier to test for. Schizophrenia is the most common serious mental illness. It affects one person in a hundred at some time in their life, and the rate i...

Miscarriage linked to late embryos

... egg implants in a woman's uterus, the more likely she is to have a miscarriage, new research has found.The report in the latest New England Journal of Medicine details the most precise information the timing of implantation - the true start of pregnancy - influences its success or failure. Fertilised e...

More about HIV

...rapidly a patient can deteriorate, even when he or she is faithful in taking medications. And they now know that the body will take its cues - both positive and negative - from the mind. In the fight against a disease like AIDS, the connection between mind and body can make the difference between dying f...

Photographs as a parameter

... the eye. "The eyes are the windows to the world," she says.Hu Ssang studied vascular changes on the micrometer scale - far too small to be seen with the naked eye. He developed a computer program to measure and compare the ratio between the size of arterial blood vessels, taking blood to the eye, and ve...

Eating More Often May Help Lower Cholesterol

...olesterol levels may depend not only on what he or she eats, but also how often. The Researchers found that middle-aged and older adults who ate frequently throughout the day had lower "bad" LDL cholesterol levels compared with those who tended to down one or two large meals per day. This was despite the...

Armpit odour enhances mood

...nd frightened people. Hormonal changes in old age, she said, were likely to make the odour of the elderly, particularly women, signal approachability....

DNA biochip for genetic screening

...and more cost efficient technology for DNA chips,” she says. “Our novel platform technology will allow scientists to make custom-designed biochips containing not only DNA, but other types of molecules, such as RNA, peptides or libraries of organic molecules. Other prevalent technologies do not have the s...

Early puberty more resistance

...bles, such as age when her periods start, age when she first has a child and age at which the menopause started, on deaths from hip fractures. They studied 54,000 women over a period of 31 years. Of these, 465 died as a result of a hip fracture in the course of the study. Those whose first period was s...

Genes for Vision discovered

... way to coax stem cells to becoem photoreceptors?” she said. A little more than half of the mutant genes for degenerative diseases of the retina had been identified when Cepko began his study. Using a computer program that compares snippets of genetic material taken from mouse retinal tissue with a hug...

A new study surpasses Gene Therapy Hurdle

... and Blood Institute in Bethesda, Md.Specifically, she said, researchers have been trying for about 12 years to find ways of getting red blood cells to produce more hemoglobin as a treatment for such diseases as sickle cell anemia, while not forcing other blood cells to make the substance. That hurdle wa...

Magnesium sulfate offers no help in migraine treatment

...of metoclopramide in relieving migraine." However, she added that "because 95% of the patients were women, the data may not be generalizable to men."...

Final push to eradicate leprosy

...WHO director-general Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland said she was confident the target would be reached. At the end of 2000, there were approximately 600,000 leprosy cases registered for treatment across the world, with almost two-thirds in India. A new combination of drugs known as multi-drug therapy can trea...

Why skin sags

...king at a person's face could unveil whether he or she is a smoker, the actuality is that smokers age faster than non smokers.A study by dermatologists, published in The Lancet, shows that smoking actuates the genes responsible for a skin enzyme that breaks down collagen in the skin.// Collagen is the m...

Breast feeding can alter hormones

...ntly shorter, long cycles significantly longer.And she added that the time from the start of the cycle to ovulation, which is not usually shorter than five days, was less than this amount of time in a third of the women who took in the pheromones....

Herbs: rich soure of antioxidants

...y, chilli and black pepper. Herbs came out on top, she says. Herbs can be consumed in a variety of ways. Some people prefer to dring herb extracts, which can be make by adding herbs to hot water to make potent antioxidant teas.Others use concentrated herbal oils available in some health food stories. Mo...

Herbs: rich soure of antioxidants

...y, chilli and black pepper. Herbs came out on top, she says. Herbs can be consumed in a variety of ways. Some people prefer to dring herb extracts, which can be make by adding herbs to hot water to make potent antioxidant teas.Others use concentrated herbal oils available in some health food stories. Mo...

Heavy Drinking Raises Risk of Liver Cancer

...hepatitis infection approximately doubles if he or she also drinks alcohol regularly," Donato noted. "Prudently, they should totally abstain from drinking alcohol."...

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