London, March 23: A compound used by TV show detectives to make blood glow, known as luminol, is now being used by scientists to highlight the sites where the immune system attacks the body’s own tissues.
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found that injected luminol glows blue at sites of active immune inflammation in living mice.
The researchers say that this glow can be detected from outside the mice with the aid of scientific cameras.
Washington, March 21: Insects like honeybees and bumblebees prefer the shortest distance when they have to fly from one flower to another, according to an American study.
S. Alan Walters of Southern Illinois University and Jonathan R. Schultheis of North Carolina State University came to this conclusion after studying their pollinator movements down and across rows in watermelon, by tracking pollen flow.
London, March 19: Johns Hopkins engineers say that they have developed a new lab-on-a-chip that can lead to better cancer therapies.
The researchers say that their invention may help figure out how cancer cells break free from neighbouring tissue, an "escape" that can spread the disease to other parts of the body.
Washington, Mar 19: One-time events—like a marriage proposal, a wedding toast, a baby’s birth—always hold that special place in our memory, and scientists have now found how brain remembers such events without them being repeated over time.
In a study on rats, UC Irvine scientists have found that a single brief experience was as effective at activating neurons and genes associated with memory as more repetitive activities.
Washington, March 19: A University of Florida researcher that paralysed people can be enabled to control their limbs in more precise and life-like manner by combining computer learning technology with electrical stimulation, a simple technique that has been in use for decades to prompt muscles to contract.
London, Mar 18: Religious people are less anxious than non-believers when they make mistakes, researchers at the University of Toronto, Scarborough, have found.
In the study, they found that religious people exhibit lower activity than non-believers in a brain region linked to anxiety when erring on a simple test.
London, March 23: A compound used by TV show detectives to make blood glow, known as luminol, is now being used by scientists to highlight the sites where the immune system attacks the body’s own tissues. 
Washington, March 21: Insects like honeybees and bumblebees prefer the shortest distance when they have to fly from one flower to another, according to an American study. 
London, March 19: Johns Hopkins engineers say that they have developed a new lab-on-a-chip that can lead to better cancer therapies.
Washington, Mar 19: One-time events—like a marriage proposal, a wedding toast, a baby’s birth—always hold that special place in our memory, and scientists have now found how brain remembers such events without them being repeated over time.
Washington, March 19: A University of Florida researcher that paralysed people can be enabled to control their limbs in more precise and life-like manner by combining computer learning technology with electrical stimulation, a simple technique that has been in use for decades to prompt muscles to contract.
London, Mar 18: Religious people are less anxious than non-believers when they make mistakes, researchers at the University of Toronto, Scarborough, have found.
