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Parents who force their kids to finish everything served to them may be doing more harm than good, as new research said. In order to promote the development of normal eating behavior, it is important for children to decide how much they want to eat. The findings published in the Journal of Pediatric Psychology

US scientists claim to have found the taste of fat and they believe the new taste could hold the key to tackling obesity and heart disease. The study reported in the journal Chemical Senses.

Most children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) suffer from a condition known as macrocephaly in which the head is larger than normal. To get a better understanding of the disorder, the signs of risk and for the development of new drugs, researchers at Yale School of Medicine developed "miniature brains" from skin cells of autistic patients.

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Juvenile arthritis is a form of auto-immune disease that involves chronic inflammation of the joints and eyes that can lead to pain, vision loss and disability. A new study has revealed that taking antibiotics may double the risk of a child contracting juvenile arthritis. The findings are published in Pediatrics.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has banned drug imports from an India manufacturing unit of Emcure Pharmaceuticals Ltd over violations of standard manufacturing practices, the latest in a series of Indian firms to face such action.

In normal plants, a defense hormone that keeps bad bacteria out from the surface as well as inside the plant's roots and actively recruits the good ones has been detected by researchers. For the study, the researcher team introduced 38 strains of bacteria that they had isolated from roots grown in the wild soil into a sterile clay. The researchers showed that when they grew plants in that synthetic soil, the presence of salicylic acid determined which microbes colonized the roots. The findings are published in the Science Express.

IOL Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals  has received US FDA approval for marketing APIs in US after successful inspection of its ibuprofen manufacturing facility situated at Barnala in Punjab. The said facility at Barnala has also been approved by ANVISA Brazil, WHO and MOH Japan. These approvals will help to build and sustaining the growth by its API business in coming years.

Scientists have discovered thousands of toxins hidden deep within the venom of a sea cone snail in Queensland, which may help develop new drugs to treat pain, cancer and other diseases. Researchers used biochemical and bioinformatics tools to develop a new method to analyse the structure of the venom toxins, allowing them to delve deeper than ever before.

(Business Wire India); Biocon Ltd, Asia's premier biopharmaceuticals company, announced today that it has delivered a strong consolidated financial performance for Q1 FY16.