Washington, Oct 3: Rochester University researchers will soon test a compound found in a daisy-like plant, Feverfew or Bachelor’s Button, for its ability to attack cancer stem cells in humans.

London: Here’s good news for people with Alzheimer’s disease. Now they no longer need to suffer the bad effects of the disease. Israeli researchers have developed a nasal spray crammed with viruses known as ‘bacteriophages’ that can relieve the annihilative signs of Alzheimer’s disease.

The scientists have stated that their spray has the capability to crack up beta amyloid, a sticky protein, which blocks the brain in Alzheimer’s patients to wipe out links among nerve cell.

Washington, Oct 03: According to a new finding, low doses of red wine ingredient resveratrol can help improve the sensitivity of mice to insulin.

It was found that relatively low doses of resveratrol, a chemical found in the skins of red grapes and in red wine that can also activate the SIRT1 enzyme, earlier linked to longevity, DNA repair, and insulin secretion.

Resveratrol is known to activate the SIRT1 enzyme.

Washington, Oct 3: US agency the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new knee-surgery device developed by researchers at the University of Missouri-Columbia which helps in repairing meniscus tears for use in humans.

The device, called BioDuct Meniscal Fixation Device, helps repair meniscus tears, which were previously defined as irreparable.

The meniscus, a padding tissue that provides shock absorption and joint stability in the knee, is essential for normal knee function.

Washington, Oct 03: When it comes to preventing cancer, women are doing less than what they actually believe, says a new poll.

The opinion poll led by Jennifer Irvin Vidrine, Ph.D., assistant professor, Department of Health Disparities Research at M. D. Anderson, and an expert on cancer health disparities, surveyed 800 women in the age group of 18 to 93.

Washington, October 2 : A team of researchers from the University of Michigan Medical School have found that the cells that make insulin in the body of people with diabetes may stop this task because of glitches in the production of a molecule called proinsulin, the precursor out of which insulin is made.