London, Mar 4 : Scientists from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Centre have identified a gene that appears to play a critical role in severity of lung disease in people with cystic fibrosis.
After studying nearly 3,000 cystic fibrosis patients, the team found small genetic differences in a gene called IFRD1 linked to lung disease severity.
"This is a good example of researchers with different expertise coming together and using the knowledge gained from mapping the human genome to make discoveries that improve our understanding of cystic fibrosis," Nature magazine quoted Carl Langefeld, Ph. D., a study co-author and Wake Forest University School of Medicine researcher as saying.
Washington, Mar 4 : Women who are fat have alterations in their ovaries which might be responsible for an egg''s inability to make an embryo, says a new study.
Washington, Mar 4 : The more obese a man, the worse his sex life, concludes a new study, which claims that fatness could be biologically associated with diminished sexual quality of life.
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Washington, March 4: Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have warned that older adults who have impaired glucose tolerance, but are not considered diabetic, may be at an increased risk of heart disease. 
Combined research by American and Irish researchers revealed that women suffering from deficiency of vitamin B12 in their blood before and after conception have higher risk of giving birth to baby suffering from neural tube defects, a class of birth defects affecting the brain and spinal cord.
