Washington, March 18: Scientists at the University of Montreal and Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital Research Center may have reached a step closer to realising novel treatments for infertility, for thy have for the first time cloned important sperm-binding proteins.
The researchers say that their success in producing and purifying a protein key to sperm maturation, termed Binder of Sperm (BSP), may have implications for both fertility treatments and new methods of male contraception.
Washington, Mar 18 : Calculating the benefits of HPV (human papilloma virus)-vaccination, Norwegian scientists have found that it may even reduce the number of pre-term births.
Chronic HPV -infections can lead to cellular changes in the cervix that can be a pre-stage to cervical cancer.
Surgical treatment of these pre-stages gives an increased risk of pre-term birth in subsequent pregnancies.
And as the HPV-vaccine can prevent pre-stages of cervical, it can even prevent pre-term births.
London, Mar 18 : While it is said that being severely overweight reduces life expectancy, a new study has found that even mild obesity can take years off one's life.
The study has found that if a person is moderately overweight, he/she will probably live two to four years less than if they stick to their ideal weight.
A research team, led by Richard Peto and Gary Whitlock of the Clinical Trial Service Unit at the University of Oxford, pulled together data from 57 studies.
Washington, Mar 18: A new study by researchers at the University of Warwick has shown that there is no clear link between lack of vitamin D and depression.
Lack of Vitamin D has been related to depression and the symptoms of Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD).
Exposure to sunlight stimulates vitamin D in the skin and a shortage of sunlight in the winter has been put forward as one possible cause of SAD.
Washington, March 18 : Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine say that a potential cure for Alzheimer''s disease may require a combination therapy, which will target the malformations of the proteins that characterise this condition.
Alzheimer''s disease is characterized by two distinctive protein malformations: amyloid plaques, which are sticky deposits made up of a short protein called amyloid beta, and tau tangles, which are made of short filaments of the tau protein.
Washington, Mar 17 : Researchers have developed a new technique in which DNA patches are used to treat dogs with the canine version of Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a paralysing and often fatal disease of muscles.
Called "exon skipping", the technique uses tailor-made snippets of DNA-like molecules as molecular "patches", which cover up mutant DNA sequences that code for making an important muscle protein.
Washington, Mar 18 : Calculating the benefits of HPV (human papilloma virus)-vaccination, Norwegian scientists have found that it may even reduce the number of pre-term births.
London, Mar 18 : While it is said that being severely overweight reduces life expectancy, a new study has found that even mild obesity can take years off one's life.
Washington, Mar 18: A new study by researchers at the University of Warwick has shown that there is no clear link between lack of vitamin D and depression.
Washington, March 18 : Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine say that a potential cure for Alzheimer''s disease may require a combination therapy, which will target the malformations of the proteins that characterise this condition.
Washington, Mar 17 : Researchers have developed a new technique in which DNA patches are used to treat dogs with the canine version of Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a paralysing and often fatal disease of muscles.
