Recent research has shown that Type-1 diabetes and celiac disease share some genetic roots. The researchers, from the University of Cambridge and Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, analyzed data collected from 9,339 healthy people, 8,064 people with type-1 diabetes and 2,560 people with celiac disease. Data analysis showed those four celiac disease genetic mutations that also appeared in people with type-1 diabetes and two diabetes mutations that also appeared to raise the risk of celiac disease.

Taking a step further towards the advancements in medical science, researchers are quite close to developing a simple, low-cost method to create ‘smart fabrics’ which would be capable of detecting diseases, monitoring heart rates, and other vital signs.

It has been informed by the US and Chinese reseachers Nicholas A. Kotov, Chuanlai Xu and colleagues that electronic textiles, or e-textiles, already are a reality.

When the U.S. senate failed on Thursday to pass a $14 billion rescue package for Detroit's three major car manufacturers, it took on the role of Christmas Grinch for autoworkers.

On Thursday, the senate got only a few ‘yes’ votes short of the 60 needed to block a filibuster on the bailout bill, effectively killing any chance of Congress providing a lifeline to the financially drowning automakers this year.

Following when the news was out, markets across the Asia-Pacific region were down more than 3 percent and Japan's Nikkei average and Hong Kong's Hang Seng were both down by more than 5 percent.