Gene

Do not blame your genes for not being able to reduce that ever-burgeoning waistline. While your genes can increase the risk of obesity, they do not hamper weight-loss, researchers have found.People carrying a gene associated with fat mass and obesity (FTO ...

Good news for those who fear that they may suffer diabetes in future, the recent research conducted in the United States and the Netherlands have shown that lipid genes (genes that control lipid levels in the body) can hint the occurrence ...

Avesthagen Limited achieves another milestone as it announces the launch of its commercial Whole Genome Scanning (WGS) service in India.Humans, including every other organism, have a genome encoded by deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) that contains all of the biological information needed to ...

Years ago Keats wrote, 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci', which means a girls without mercy. The truth of the poem can haunts till date as proven by a recent research. The research claims that the presence of a pretty woman ...

It may seem surprising but the fact is that chickens outperform human's ability to see colours. The researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found that chicken retina is more powerful than a human retina.Researchers have mapped ...

Scientists from University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Centre have got some good news. Now, according to the researchers, an anti-aging gene might play a critical role in regulation of high blood pressure.In all these days, persistent high blood ...

Scientists from University of Utah have identified a genetic mutation linked to hereditary form of a rare neuroendocrine tumour called paraganglioma (P.G.L.).According to the researchers, the gene, called hSDH5, is required for activation of an enzyme complex that ...

A breakthrough in the medical field has come as a boon for thousands of families across the globe. The new treatment will restore a muscle function known as Floppy Baby Syndrome. It is a congenital myopathy disorder that ...

Care for a cytochrome,enzymes,garden plants,gene,olives,strawberry-flavoured banana? Well, the day is not very far when you'll be able to savour one, courtesy the efforts of a research team, including an Indian-origin scientist, at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston. They ...

New research from the University of Illinois suggests that exposure to oestrogen may impair some cognitive functions. ...

Refuting claims of previous studies, researchers from Leiden University Medical Centre in the Netherlands have revealed that family history cannot be taken as a strong predictor of breast cancer risk in women. ...

A new study by researchers at the Cancer Institute New South Wales (NSW) has shed light on a mysterious cancer that is also the state's third-deadliest cancer. ...