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London: A small human trial has shown significant promise for developing anti-cancer vaccines and personalised cancer therapies in near future. In this case, three people with melanoma received vaccines designed to alert the immune system to mutated proteins found in their tumours. Vaccines made from mutated proteins found in tumours bolstered immune responses to cancer. […]

London: If you love eggs, there is good news for you. Egg consumption could reduce the risk of Type-2 diabetes, says a new research. The study, published in American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, found that men who ate approximately four eggs per week had a 37 percent lower risk of Type-2 diabetes than men who […]

New York: A discarded anti-cancer drug might be more useful in the fight against cancer than previously thought, say researchers from the University of Missouri. Doctors used 6-Thioguanine, or 6-TG, as a chemotherapy treatment to kill cancer cells in patients with leukaemia for decades. However, in recent years, many doctors have shelved 6-TG in favour […]

Showing a clear connection between overall well being and nightmares, Finnish researchers have found that symptoms of depression and insomnia are the strongest predictors of having frequent nightmares

Daily coffee may help reduce beta amyloid levels -- plaque accumulation in the brain -- as a means to prevent, treat and slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease, finds promising research by a team led by an Indian-origin scientist

Bhubaneswar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday inaugurated the expanded and modernized unit of SAIL’s Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP). Modi also visited the plate mill of RSP and held discussions on various development works carried out by the plant authorities. He will later address a public rally to be attended by Odisha Governor S.C. Jamir, […]

Bhubaneswar: Stating that India has overtaken the US in steel production, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said the country has to compete with China, which is far ahead. “India has surpassed America in steel production. But, we are still behind China and when I talk about Make in India, we would not accept to […]

Melbourne: Australian researchers have come up with a unique way of preventing the spread of the dengue virus, a mosquito-borne disease that currently has no approved vaccine, according to a media report on Wednesday. The University of Melbourne-led team of researchers discovered that mosquitoes, exposed to an insect bacterium called Wolbachia, were unable to acquire […]

New York: Consuming a high-fat diet during pregnancy and lactation may put your offspring at higher risk of obesity later in life, a recent research has found. The findings, published in the Journal of Physiology, showed that the mechanism that helps limit the amount of food one eats could malfunction in the offspring as a […]

New York: Including peanut in a high-fat meal may protect your heart from the negative effects of such a diet, suggests a new study. Peanuts can be substituted for high-fat, nutrient-poor foods in the diet that contain solid fats, said the study recently presented at the American Society for Nutrition’s 79th scientific sessions and annual […]

Addis Ababa: The World Health Organisation (WHO) has reiterated its continued support towards defeating the Ebola virus disease which has killed almost 10,000 people since its outbreak. On the sidelines of the annual African Ministers of Planning, Economy and Finance Conference jointly organised by the African Union and the Economic Commission for Africa held in […]

Bhubaneswar: The Banajaga Yatra, the beginning of the Nabakalebara ritual to make new idols of Lord Jagannath and his siblings, began in Puri on Sunday with the launch of the search for the sacred wood for the idols. Gajapati Dibya Singh Dev, of the erstwhile royal family of Puri who is also the first servitor […]

New York: Bioplastics made from protein sources such as albumin or egg white and whey show significant anti-bacterial properties, says a new study. The findings may eventually lead to their use in plastics used in medical applications such as wound healing dressings, sutures, catheter tubes and drug delivery. The bioplastic materials could also be used […]

New York: A new imaging technique that shows the difference between normal and cancerous cells may one day make biopsies a thing of the past. Developed by researchers at the Johns Hopkins University in the US, the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique, so far tested only in test tube-grown cells and mice was described in […]

New York: In the absence of antiretroviral therapy, the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes AIDS can begin replicating in the brain as early as four months after initial infection, a new research has found. The findings published in the journal PLoS Pathogens stress the importance of routine HIV testing to catch the infection as […]