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The right is responsible

The right side of the brain helps people recognise themselves in a picture, say US researchers. A team from the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston report their findings in the current issue of Nature. The study joins a growing body of evidence that demonstrates the right hemisphere plays an important role in self-awareness.// Studies of self-awareness may provide unique ins...

Gene responsible for depression

Brain scan reports have suggested that a new gene may be responsible for some// people being more susceptible to depression. People having the gene that controls depression have less of gray matter and weaker connections in the mood regulating circuit. This gene may be affecting the amygdala, the portion of the brain that processes the emotion of fear, and cingulated, another part of b...

PET Scan find the Area of Brain Responsible for Anorexia Nervosa

Anorexia Nervosa is a condition that usually affects young women and the condition// can sometimes be fatal. Now researcher think it is due to overactive dopamine receptors in the basal ganglia region of the brain. People with anorexia nervosa are driven to be excessively thin and are unaware of the seriousness of their condition.When you talk of Anorexia Nervosa, many will remember t...

Gene responsible for immune deficiency discovered

Expression of gene may be responsible for various immune deficiency syndromes, and researchers// have been able to find the genes that cause two different form of immune deficiency conditions called immunoglobulin A (IgA) deficiency and Common Variable Immunodeficiency (CVID). Immune deficiency syndrome may be hereditary or acquired. Hereditary or primary immune deficiency diseases are...

Genes responsible for social behavior of us

Researchers have been able to unearth the gene responsible for controlling the part of the brain// that is responsible for behaving according to a norm in the social circumstances. In a revealing study, researchers from National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) have been able to establish the neural pathway that decides the social behavior in people. Researchers results came as they w...

Molecule responsible for muscle repair identified

Skeletal muscles repair by themselves from injuries. However at times due to age or disease these muscles are not able to heal itself.// Researchers have identified a molecule that when is deficient, is actually helpful to muscle regeneration. Researchers from University of Illinois-Chicago had reported in their findings that deficient plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) promote...

Arsenic May Have Been Responsible For The Madness Of King George III Of England

An interesting study from hair of King George III reveals that he may// have been consuming Arsenic and this lead to his unusually severe and prolonged bouts of madness. Lancet has published this report this week and at last has been able to throw light on the reason for the madness of the famous English King George III. The study reports to have found high concentrations of arsenic...

Gene That Might Be Responsible For Aging

A new study sheds light on the theory that aging is associated with the shortening of chromosomes in non-reproductive cells. Research results suggest the gene responsible for shortening the ends of chromosomes is inherited via the X chromosome. // Investigators measured the length of the end of the chromosomes, known as telomeres, in white blood cell DNA taken from a random sample of fa...

Enzyme Responsible For Congenital Blindness

Researchers from UCLA had found out that a deficient gene that is also responsible for the presence of an enzyme in the vision cycle that causes congenital blindness in children. The researchers’ study regarding the congenital blinding disease // called Leber congenital amaurosis is published in the August issue of the journal Cell. Researchers suggest that replacement of RPE65, which...

New Virus Held Responsible For Respiratory Infection In Children

A new virus, named human bocavirus, that may be responsible for causing severe respiratory infections in children has been identified by a group of Swedish researchers. The finding of this virus is held to initiate a systematic // search for all the viruses that cause respiratory infections. Only 40 % of the viruses infecting patients have been identified which, outlines the need for...

Genes responsible for cancer in women associated with increased cancer risk in men

Looks like it is time men got their share from women in the inheritance of cancer as well. A genetic mutation linked with a greater risk of breast and ovarian cancers also significantly increases the danger of some cancers in men according to a new research. // Genetic mechanisms have been examined in the familial inheritance of breast cancer among women and the mutation in the BRCA2 g...

Researchers Identify Sipa 1 Gene, Responsible For Cancer Metastasis

Hunter and colleagues have identified a candidate gene, Sipa1, with an amino acid polymorphism that influences metastasis in cancer. Cancer mortality is most often the result of metastasis rather than the primary tumor.//Previous studies from Kent Hunter’s group demonstrated that the genetic background of the host can influence metastatic efficiency. They expressed the polyoma middle-T tr...

Gene responsible for developing prostate cancer identified

Researchers from University of North Carolina have identified a molecule Ack1, which is responsible for suppressing the activity of Tumor// suppressor protein. Tumor suppressor protein is responsible for maintaining the integrity of cell and prevents the cell from developing tumor by maintaining a control growth of cell. Ack1 is found to be a growth promoting tyrosine kinase gene family....

Nurse Held Responsible For Insulin Overdose

A massive overdose of insulin led to the death of 62-year-old Moira Pullar on 17 January 2004 at Monklands General Hospital. The wrong dose was administered by a nurse who failed to cross check// the records in the hospital, or consult a doctor. The overdose of insulin resulted in bronchial pneumonia after cardiac arrest and brain damage. The poor handwriting of one nurse was misread by...

Coroner Says Sativex Is Responsible For Death Of Patient

A marijuana plant based experimental medicine known as Sativex, is responsible for the death of Rene Anderson, a diabetic pensioner, a coroner has ruled in the UK. The drug was prescribed to Mrs. Anderson to ease the numbness and pain in her limbs due to diabetes. // The medicine is reported to have resulted disturbed behavior, and the patient was later taken to hospital in an intox...

Alcohol Is Responsible For 60 Different Diseases

Alcohol is responsible for 60% of the diseases across the world, according to the Center for Social Research on Alcohol and Drugs’ Professor // Robin Room. About 4.4% of deaths are accounted for by high blood pressure, and another 4.1% by tobacco. Alcohol is also responsible for as many deaths as blood pressure and smoking, and the licensing laws have reportedly failed to take note of t...

Scientists Identify Gene Responsible For Depression

The Journal of Science has published a research report which has identified the gene responsible for regulating memory, mood and sleep, and also plays an important// role in determining a person's susceptibility to depression. For people suffering from depressive illnesses, the best pharmacological treatments are those that increase levels of serotonin. The gene, called p11, is closely re...

Fixational eye movement responsible for visibility

Professor Susana Martinez-conde and her research team from Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix have found that Microsaccades, which are rapid// movements occurring inside the eye even when the person is looking at a fixed point, are also responsible for proper visibility. Even when we are gazing at a fixed object our eye are continuously moving which make things visible and if t...

Metal traces in infant formula cans responsible for recall.

The infant formula Gentlease is being recalled from the market as stated by the FDA due to presence of presence of metal particles in some cans. // So this brand would not be sold in markets in US. The makers of Gentlease powdered infant formula, Mead Johnson Nutritionals of EVANSVILLE, Indiana, initiated the voluntary recall of 24-ounce cans with batch number BMJ19 printed on the bott...

Genes That Were Responsible For The Cause Of Blindness Identified

Scientists have identified those two genes that were responsible for the cause of blindness that affects millions of older people // throughout the world and they added that the new development could pave way for new treatments. Nearly three-quarters of people in the world suffer from age-related macular degeneration (AMD) a most common cause of blindness. AMD is marked by a progress...

Protein Responsible for Memory Loss in Alzheimer's disease

Professor Karen Ashe, of the University Of Minnesota Medical School in Minneapolis said that a protein complex in the brain of mice results in memory loss. // This could be a new target for drug designing to treat patients with Alzheimer's disease. The team of scientists used genetically engineered mice that suffered from memory loss similar to people with Alzheimer's. Statist...

Get that wedding ring on if you want to be branded a responsible parent!

According to a social psychologist at the University of Alberta people who do not wear wedding rings are more neglectful of children compared to people who wear them. // In addition Dr. Andrew Harrell, director of the U of A Population Research Lab states that young attractive people who do not wear wedding rings are the most neglectful child caretakers of all. His conclusions are bas...

Gene Responsible For Mammary Gland Function, When Mutated Results in Leukemias

According to the investigators at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital it was found that a gene responsible for regulating the normal mammary gland function during nursing can also initiate leukemias. // This gene results in leukemia only if it undergoes mutation and fuses with another gene. The discovery of the normal function of this gene suggests that drugs used to inhibit the activi...

11 Year Old Attains Motherhood And The Teenage Boy Responsible For This Is Prosecuted

An eleven year old girl becomes pregnant because of having unprotected sex with a 15 year old boy. The boy is charged with rape keeping in mind the age of the girl//. The girl is from West Lothian and is now considered to become one of the UK's youngest mothers. She said that she was eager and looking forward to have her child. Green MSP Patrick Harvie and other such campaigners have as...

New Strain Of E Coli Responsible For Outbreak

Health Protection Scotland (HPS) said that a new strain of E. coli O157was responsible for the outbreak in Fife. Further the strain had been seen in Europe and Australia, but is apparently very rare in UK. // 'This unusual strain reacts differently in the laboratory from other types of E.coli O157 and this is why we are interested in finding out more about it,' said HPS consultant Dr...

Pneumonic plague Might Be Responsible For The epidemic In Congo - WHO

WHO has stated, that it suspects that ‘Pneumonic plague’ is responsible for killing 100 people in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, according to preliminary test results// that it has conducted. The authorities from WHO have said that isolation wards have been set up to treat patients. They also explained that the control measures have been hard to implement because of the lack of sec...

Gene Responsible For Metastasis Found By Korean Scientists

A study was conducted by the Korean scientists from the Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology//. The lead researcher Im Dong-soo said that the research team has found a human gene that aids in the growth and spread of cancer cells. The researchers were very happy about the discovery and said that it would help in the development of new drugs for various can...

Genes Responsible For Noise-Induced Hearing Loss Identified

A new study published in the journal, Human Mutations, claims that researchers have identified the genes that are responsible for noise induced hearing loss (NIHL). Researchers at the University of Antwerp//, Belgium found that three genes involved in potassium recycling could be implicated. The study led by Professor Guy Van Camp identified the genes during a study of 1,000 men who we...

Staying Indoors Responsible for 1995 Heat Wave Killings

A new research study on the higher-than-average mortality rates of the July 1995 heat waves in Chicago has attributed older people staying indoors in their apartments// as being responsible for the heat wave killings. The study found higher mortality rates in areas where the businesses were run-down and dominated by liquor stores and bars where older people felt less comfortable goin...

Toxic and Addictive Foods Responsible For Obesity

In a study published in the journal Nature Clinical Practice Endocrinology and Metabolism, scientists have attributed hormonal imbalances caused by high calorie,// low fat western diet to be responsible for the obesity. Robert Lustig, a Pediatrician at the Children's Hospital of the University of California in San Francisco, said: "Our current western food environment has become highl...

Agricultural Subsidies Responsible For Obesity, Says Expert

Dr. Philip James, the British chairman of the International Obesity Task Force, has blamed agricultural subsidies as being responsible //for the obesity epidemic in poor countries. "The trade policies that are currently in play are those which subsidize and distort the market to make fats and sugars cheaper and fruits and vegetables more expensive," James said at the 10th Internationa...

Placental Proteins Could Be Responsible For Pre-eclampsia

Scientists have reported a breakthrough, towards the testing and cure for the pregnancy disorder pre-eclampsia.// The researchers from the US National Institutes of Health team found women with pre-eclampsia had high levels of two proteins several months before developing the condition. Reporting their findings they explained that the two proteins secreted by the placenta might be res...

Greater g factor in men responsible for sex differences in general mental ability

An astonishing recent discovery is that men have a 4- to 5-point IQ advantage over women by adulthood. This was confirmed by a study conducted on 100,000 17- to 18-year-//olds on the Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT). During the school years, the sex difference is not obvious because girls mature faster than boys. This is the reason why sex difference was not detected for years....

Molecule responsible for age associated macular degeneration identified

CLEVELAND--A dart-like molecule that sticks to proteins in the eye is the main trigger for the unchecked growth of blood vessels, according to researchers at Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Clinic Cole Eye Institute. //Uncontrolled blood vessel growth is one of the main reasons for the development of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the leading cause of blindness...

An Irresponsible Cancer Diagnosis Resulted In Death

A 39 year old woman and a mother of two children died of breast cancer due to sheer irresponsibility of the manager of a private clinic in Sheffield. //Dr.John Philip was not qualified to read mammograms according to the former chief executive of the Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, David Jackson. The woman who is identified as Mrs. A, went for a check up in 1994.The doctor, J...

Study Uncovers Mutation Responsible for Noonan Syndrome

Scientists have discovered that mutations in a gene known as SOS1 account for many cases of Noonan syndrome (NS), a common childhood genetic //disorder which occurs in one in 1,000-2,500 live births. NS is characterized by short stature, facial abnormalities, and learning disabilities, as well as heart problems and predisposition to leukemia. Led by researchers at Harvard Medical Schoo...

Researchers Discovered the Gene Responsible for Brittle Bone Disease

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health have discovered that a previously unexplained fatal form of Osteogenesis //Imperfecta--a disorder that weakens bones and which may cause frequent fractures--results from a genetic defect in a protein involved in the production of collagen. The affected gene contains the information for cartilage associated protein, or CRTAP. The function...

New Technology Reveals Proteins Responsible for Diseases

A new technology developed at the University of Toronto is revealing biochemical processes responsible// for diseases such as cystic fibrosis and could one day pave the way for pharmaceutical applications. Researchers have designed a device to test for proteins that play an important role in human health and disease. The technology, iMYTH (or integrated membrane yeast-two hybrid syst...

Genes Responsible for a Blinding Condition Identified

A US study says that two genes could determine the vulnerability of the elderly to an advanced form of age-related macular degeneration// (AMD), researchers report. Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a disease associated with aging that gradually destroys sharp, central vision. Central vision is needed for seeing objects clearly and for common daily tasks such as reading and driv...

Local Councils Should Be Responsible for Tackling Health Inequalities

The responsibility and resources for public health and tackling health inequalities should lie// with local councils rather than with the NHS, argues an expert in this week’s BMJ. Professor Tim Blackman of Durham University says that partnerships between local government and the NHS would then become a true meeting of the two sides of health prevention and treatment. There...