Pop star Britney Spears has lost custody of her two children. The court orders have given rights to her ex-husband, Kevin Federline to take physical custody of their two children until further notice. Kevin can take custody on Wednesday as per the court orders.

Washington, Oct 1 : Adolescents who feel relaxed when first exposed to nicotine from cigarettes are the ones likely to get hooked, a new study has revealed.

The University of Massachusetts Medical School conducted the study to find why some adolescents who try smoking get hooked to it while others do not.

Washington, October 1 : A team of researchers at IRB Barcelona have identified two special surface receptors that prevent the spread of colon cancer.

Eduard Batlle, ICREA researcher and head of IRB Barcelona’s Oncology Programme, says that the benign tumour cells called adenomas—the formation of which is the first step in the development of colon cancer—have special surface receptors called EphB2 and EphB3, which detect the presence of certain ligands in the healthy tissue that surround them.

Washington, October 1 : Johns Hopkins researchers say that a popular prostate cancer treatment called androgen deprivation therapy may encourage prostate cancer cells to produce a protein that makes them more likely to spread throughout the body.