Month: May 2013

Children of parents who live to a ripe old age are more likely to live longer, and are less prone to cancer and other common diseases associated with ageing, according to a new study.

Experts at the University of Exeter Medical School, led an international collaboration which discovered that people who had a long-lived mother or father were 24 percent less likely to get cancer.

The scientists compared the children of long-lived parents to children whose parents survived to average ages for their generation.

Scientists have revealed a mechanism responsible for the creation of giant synapses in the brain that allow us to efficiently process auditory information

Humans and most mammals can determine the spatial origin of sounds with remarkable acuity. We use this ability all the time-crossing the street; locating an invisible ringing cell phone in a cluttered bedroom.

The rise of diseases linked to modern lifestyle has also led to the search for new ways of handling these challenges.

Japan has taken the lead by launching a device for women to measure their body temperature, which tells a lot about their health, body rhythm and gynecological illness.

In Japan, a survey among 50 female workers in the age group of 20 and 30 revealed that just 10 per cent measure their body temperature regularly.

To reverse this trend, two enterprises – Toshiba and Rakuten – have developed a smart phone based application service with easy connected thermometer.

Scientists have designed a novel, small molecule that could open up new avenues in the treatment of prostate cancer.

In a study published online May 28 in the journal Nature Communications, Jung-Mo Ahn, associate professor of chemistry at the University of Texas in Dallas, and his colleagues at the university`s Southwestern Medical Centre described the rational design of the molecule.

Their laboratory tests showed the molecule`s effectiveness at blocking the cancer-promoting function of proteins called androgen receptors.

UCLA researchers have found that bacteria ingested in food can affect brain function in humans.

In an early proof-of-concept study of healthy women, they found that women who regularly consumed beneficial bacteria known as probiotics through yogurt showed altered brain function, both while in a resting state and in response to an emotion-recognition task.

The study was conducted by scientists with UCLA`s Gail and Gerald Oppenheimer Family Center for Neurobiology of Stress and the Ahmanson–Lovelace Brain Mapping Center at UCLA.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) Wednesday called on nations to ban all forms of tobacco advertising, promotion and sponsorship to help reduce the number of tobacco users and keep young people from becoming addicted.

As the May 31 World No Tobacco Day approaches, Douglas Bettcher, director of the WHO’s Prevention of Noncommunicable Diseases Department, said most tobacco users start their deadly drug dependence before the age of 20.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has identified a new virus, similar to the dreaded Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) virus, and has termed it as a `threat to the entire world`.

The SARS-like virus termed as MERS has killed 24 people so far, with more than half of 44 people diagnosed with the disease, the New York Daily News reports.

When Gaurav asked for a mobile phone, with all his classmates showing off their smartphones, his mother was unwilling to spend too much on something she believed was only good for making calls. She bought him a smartphone from a lesser known brand, for just upwards of Rs.4,000. But, did she consider how safe it was?

One key aspect of mobile phone safety that most people are unaware of is its SAR or Specific Absorption Rate value. It is a measure of the amount of energy absorbed by the body when exposed to radio frequency (RF) electromagnetic waves such as those emitted by mobile phones.

Washington, May 29 (ANI): Men and women will lie about their sexual behavior to match cultural expectations about how they should act – even though they wouldn’t distort other gender-related behaviors, a new research has suggested.

The study found that men were willing to admit that they sometimes engaged in behaviors seen by college students as more appropriate for women, such as writing poetry.

The same was true for women, who didn’t hide the fact that they told obscene jokes, or sometimes participated in other “male-type” deeds.