Research News

Scientists have deployed a new drug discovery technique to identify an anti-diabetes compound with a novel mechanism of action. The finding by the Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), US, may lead to a new type of diabetes treatment by enabling researchers quickly find drug candidates that activate cellular receptors in desired ways.

For the first time, researchers led by the Imperial College London, have genetically modified malarial mosquitoes so that they carry a gene that disrupts egg production in female mosquitoes.

Men diagnosed with infertility are at higher risk of diabetes, heart disease, alcohol abuse and drug abuse compared to fertile men, a new study has revealed.

Researchers have developed a new vaccine strategy that reduces the risk of flu infections in cancer patients at highest risk for influenza.

Reduced antibiotic prescribing by doctors is associated with lower patient satisfaction, a Britain-based survey shows.

Consumption of tea, particularly black and green, greatly reduces the risk of cancer in human beings due to the presence of anti-oxidant agents, according to a researcher with a US university.

Reduced cell density in certain parts of the hippocampus - a brain region that processes and stores memories - may be linked to deficits in short- and long-term memory in people with epilepsy, particularly those with seizures that affect the temporal lobe, new research has found.

Older adults with chronic lymphocytic leukemia, a type of slow-growing blood cancer, may have a better alternative to toxic chemotherapy as their first treatment, results of a phase three clinical trial show.

With diabetes affecting a large section of India's population, the chronic health condition can adversely affect the country's economic growth, experts have warned.

Scientists at University College London (UCL) have found the recipe for painlessness in a study that used genetically modified mice to show a channel responsible for allowing pain signals to pass along nerve cell membranes is vital to feel agony.