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Stem Cells from Human Fat Tissue to Hunt for and Kill Cancerous Tumours

...by a team of researchers led by Cestmir Altaner at the Cancer Research Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava. As part of the study to find a less toxic method than ch...

Alternative Splicing in Neuronal Development

In the July 1st issue of G&D, Dr. Douglas Black (UCLA) an...nal development. Alternative splicing refers to the processing of an RNA transcript into different mRNA molecules by including some exons and excluding ...

Smashing Times for Stressed Spaniards

...rgentine Jorge as, picking up a hammer, he goes on the rampage, demolishing a hotel room in the middle of Madrid. Elsewhere in the same hotel, seven 'colleagues' are doing the same to another 2...

Dark Chocolate Possible Medicine for Blood Pressure

...colate each day could lower blood pressure and cut the risk of stroke. Dark chocolate is not only good for your heart , it may also stave off hardening of the arteries among smokers, and it has more antioxidants per gram than red wine, green tea or berries. ...

Therapeutic Cancer Vaccine Trials

... and respond better to subsequent treatment. In the July 1 issue of Clinical Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, a team of National Cancer Institute researchers asks a fun...

In China, Online Gamers Raking in the Cash

...lves has become a handy source of extra income for the 21-year-old -- and a full-time job for thousands o... basketball to sitting in front of a computer, but the courts are always too crowded. "China has too large a population and too limited space for enterta...

Gene Variation Increases the Risk of Lung Cancer

Scientists from the National Cancer Institute identified Variations in...cially strong among heavy smokers, suggesting that the inflammatory response is important in modulating the damage caused by tobacco smoke. A publication...

Nutrition Education Has Proved to Be Futile

...in US seems to have been in vain thus far . But the government is planning to spend over a billion dol...nly four demonstrated any real success in changing the way kids eat or any promise as a weapon against the growing epidemic of childhood obesity. No dif...

Patients Find Healthy Vein in Old Austrian Mine

High in the Austrian Alps, patients wait in bathrobes and sand...inute ride, they arrive in one of four stations at the "Heilstollen," or "health mine," in the heart of Radhausberg mountain south of Salzburg -- a brief t...

Epilepsy Increases Suicide Risks

... more likely than their peers to commit suicide in the six months following the diagnosis , Danish researchers report. Epileptics are three times more likely to commit suicide than...

Variation in Genes Related to Inflammation Increase Lung Cancer Risk

...ted by a team of researchers led by Eric Engels at the National Cancer Institute and the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. As part of the study, researchers compared diffe...

Survey Finds Wide HIV Ignorance in the UK

More than 20 percent people aged 18 to 24 in the UK are so ignorant about HIV, that they believe that the virus has a cure, according to a poll. The poll was conducted to mark the 25th death anniversary ...

Smokeless Tobacco Promotion

..., public health researchers discuss whether or not the public should be informed that using oral, smokel...azardous to health than smoking tobacco. Arguing the case for providing such information, Carol Gartner and Wayne Hall (University of Queensland, Austral...

A Drug That Helps Cut Alcohol Craving

...drinkers has shown that a craving-curbing drug has the potential to counter problem drinking. During the study, published in Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, 403 participants were administered...

Reduction in Antidepressant Leads to Suicidal Risks

Regulatory warnings regarding the risk of suicidal thoughts and behaviors appear to be associated with reductions in the number of antidepressant medication prescriptions among children and adolescents covered by Tenness...

Anti-depressants Do Not Increase the Overall Risk of Most Birth Defects

...s , during pregnancy do not significantly increase the overall risk for most birth defects. However, ea...g pregnancy is associated with a small increase in the risk of certain rare birth defects but they are different birth defects. The studies show how imp...

Young Girls Turning to Speed for Losing Weight

...evealed that girls as young as 15 are resorting to the drug speed, class A and class B, for losing weight...rls as replacements for meals. Herne warned that the drug can lead to binge eating, which in turn would result in eating disorders. There is anecdotal ...

Same-sex Marriage: Shahzina Tariq Vows to Live With groom

Shahzina Tariq, the bride in the same-sex marriage, has said she would prefer to stay with Shumail Raj, the bridegroom , after the co...

Anchoring Lives Aboard Warship: Nimitz

After being the focus of national attention, USS Nimitz, the lead aircraft carrier of the United States, has sailed off the Chennai coast . While everyone talke...

Macrobiotic Diet Made Courtney Love Gain 50 Pounds, Not Lose!

...ic diet, but meal replacement shakes and a lock on the fridge. The former Hole singer, who shed 44 pounds in four months, said that the macrobiotic diet plans, given to her by Gwyneth Paltrow's chef, made her gain 40 to 50 pounds. "I ...

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