Caribbean frogs started with a single, ancient voyage on a raft from South America
Massif de la Selle. Nearly all of the 162 land-breeding frog species on Caribbean islands, including the coqui frogs of Puerto Rico, originated from a single frog species that rafted on a sea voyage from South America about 30-to-50-million years ago, accord...Getting Started with MicroRNA Research
Illumination of a Critical Regulation Pathway of Protein Expression MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a recently identified class of cellular RNAs that regulate protein expression at the translational level. The active, mature miRNAs are 1724 base, single-stranded RNA molecules...International Osteoporosis Research Centre To Be Started In India.
Avestha Gengraine Technologies (Avesthagen) of India is collaborating// with Clinical and basic Research and Industrialization fund for Developing Countries (IFU) of Germany for Osteoporosis research. This joint venture is estimated of 5 million euro. Avesthagen said “"The alliance will cover diagnosis, treatment and prevention of osteoporosis and related bone disorders.” The research stu...Condom vending machine to be started in Jharkand
Jharkand has 900 cases of AIDS and 35 people have died of it in the last three years. Unofficial estimates, however, put the number of deaths at more than 100 and more than 2,000 full-blown AIDS cases. The increase //in AIDS patients in Jharkand is increased due to very low awareness in Jharkand. Jharkand plans to open condom booths in public places to reduce the transmission of risk...Worlds Largest Cord Blood Bank to be started in India
South Korean Biotech Company, Histostem, will invest $20 million to establish the world’s largest umbilical cord blood bank in Mumbai, India, to provide stem cells for transplant surgeons globally. The Indian government will // receive a 10% equity stake in this venture and two seats on the board of directors to ensure that government guidelines are followed, Said company president Mike S...GlaxoSmithKline’s Tykerb is to Be Started Earlier in Breast Cancer, Study Find
London: Statistics from a Phase III study has shown that GlaxoSmithKline's Tykerb along with Roche's Xeloda is far better than Xeloda alone in women with HER2// positive advanced breast cancer, where the disease had progressed despite previous therapy involving Herceptin. Basis the findings, researchers opined that, Tykerb should be checked out for its use during the early treatment o...