Washington, Nov 11: College time is when students seek time to gulp down cans of beer, but Rice University pupils are a bit different, for they have created a beer, called ‘Bio-Beer’, that could extend your life.

The Bio-Beer has three genes spliced into special brewer''s yeast that produce resveratrol.

Resveratrol is the chemical in red wine, which is believed to protect against diabetes, cancer, Alzheimer''s and other age-related conditions.

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Washington, Nov 11: Sleeping less than seven and a half hours per day can raise your chances of developing a heart disease, according to a new study.

The study has been published in the November 10 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

In addition, a combination of little sleep and overnight-elevated blood pressure appears to be associated with an increased risk of the disease.

Wellington  - New Zealand prime minister-elect John Key, whose conservative National Party won the largest number of parliamentary seats in last weekend's election, was in talks Tuesday with political allies on the shape of his government.

Amid signs that he would run a minority government rather than a formal coalition, Key had a brief meeting with Rodney Hide, leader of the free market ACT party, and another with leaders of the Maori Party, which both won five seats in Saturday's election.

Nasik (Maharashtra), Nov. 11: A Nasik court on Monday sent five of the total nine suspects arrested in connection with the September 29 Malegaon blast case to judicial custody till November 17.

Ramesh Shivji Upadhyay, Sameer Kulkarni, Ajay Eknath Rahirkar, Rakesh Dattatreya Dhawde and Jagdish Chintaman Mhatre were produced before the court on the expiry of their police custody.

An Indian army officer Lieutenant-Colonel Srikant Prasad Purohit, who was arrested on November 5, will be produced in court on November 15.

The officer is accused of helping Hindu militants with bomb-making and other logistics in the attack in the Muslim-dominated towns of Malegaon and Modasa in September.

Washington, Nov 11 : A new study has found that babies placed in incubators after birth are less likely to have depression as adults.

An international team of researchers has found that infants who receive incubator care after birth are two to three times less likely to suffer from depression.

"In mammals, separation between mother and child after birth has always been considered a major stressor that can cause behavioural problems well into adulthood," said coauthor Richard E. Tremblay a professor of psychology, pediatrics and psychiatry at the Université de Montréal and director of the Research Unit on Children''s Psycho-Social Maladjustment at the Sainte Justine Hospital Research Center.