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    13 March 2014

    Similarity in damage due to Alzheimer's Disease in Twins

    Researchers found that twin pairs had similar progressions of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and dementia prior to death and even they also had similar combinations of pathogenesis in two or more unconnected areas of damage to the brain. This unique study was conducted by international team of researchers led by USC psychologist Margaret Gatz.

  • 12 March 2014
    Now blood test can predict Alzheimer’s and Mild Dementia

    A blood test that can predict with 90 percent accuracy if a healthy person will develop mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or Alzheimer’s disease (AD) within three years has been discovered and validated by researchers at Georgetown and six other institutions. They discovered and validated 10 lipid biomarkers out of which 2 are strongly associated with neuropathology of AD.

  • 11 March 2014
    New Class of Antibiotics found for treatment of Superbug - MRSA and other drug-resistant bacterias

    A team of University of Notre Dame researchers led by Mayland Chang and Shahriar Mobashery have discovered a new class of antibiotics to fight bacteria such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and other drug-resistant bacteria that threaten public health.

  • 11 March 2014
    Risk of dying is revealed among healthy people !

    Novel biological markers have discovered by researchers from Finland and Estonia  that are strongly indicative of risk of dying from any disease within the near future. Blood samples from over 17000 generally healthy people were screened for more than a hundred different biomolecules. The health status of these study volunteers was followed for several years. The researchers looked for measures in the blood that could reflect who had died within the following 5 years after the blood sample was taken. In a study published in PLOS Medicine, they describe identification of four such biomarkers of death.

  • 13 July 2010
    Stem cell therapy can help tame cancer to manageable levels

    Within ten years from now, cancer can be tamed with the application of stem cell therapy and the killer disease could be made a manageable one. For this, India should take measures to develop medical practitioners with expertise in the field of cancer biology, latest techniques like gene therapy, DNA micro array and stem cell research, said Dr V Parthasarathy, associate professor, Department of Pharmaceutical sciences, Annamalai University.

  • 6 July 2010
    Leucine-rich, glioma-inactivated 1{LGI1} Identified as Autoantigen Associated With Limbic Encephalitis

    Researchers have identified LGI1 (leucine-rich, glioma-inactivated 1) rather than voltage-gated potassium channels as the autoantigen associated with limbic encephalitis, a finding that may change diagnosis and classification of the disorder.

  • 6 July 2010
    Study says normal adult blood can generate pluripotent stem cells

    In findings likely to make it easier and faster for stem cell biologists to generate patient-specific embryonic-like stem cells, researchers at Children's Hospital Boston have reprogrammed adult blood cells into induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells.

  • 6 July 2010
    Roches new DNA sequencer opens innovation in genomic research

    Roche Diagnostics has announced the Asia Pacific launch of the GS Junior System, the company’s new next-generation DNA sequencing platform for life science research. The GS Junior System, developed by 454 Life Sciences, a Roche company, provides an integrated sequencing and bioinformatics solution, all in a size that is no bigger than a typical desktop laser printer.

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