Researchers from University of Rochester Medical Centre have made subtle changes in the structure of a key protein that may help in developing new treatments for haemophilia, an inherited blood disorder.
Haemophilia is caused by a lack of a protein, factor VIII, one of several proteins in a chain reaction that enables blood to solidify, or [...]

Researchers have discovered two enzymes that, when combined, could be involved in the earliest stages of cancer.
Manipulating these enzymes genetically might lead to targeted therapies aimed at slowing or preventing the onset of tumours.
“We could conceivably reactivate a completely normal gene in a tumour cell - a gene that could prevent the growth of a [...]

Researchers have derived embryonic stem (ES) cells from rats, a breakthrough that will enable scientists to create far more effective animal models for the study of a range of human diseases.
“This is a major development in stem cell research because we know that rats are much more closely related to humans than mice in many [...]

Treating gum disease in diabetes patients can lower their medical costs by 10 to 12 percent per month, according to a new study.
In periodontal disease, the body reacts to the bacteria causing the gum infection by producing proteins or chemicals called inflammatory mediators.
Ulcers and open sores in the gums become passageways for these proteins and [...]

Blood banks may soon be able to grow human blood platelets for transfusion in their labs, say researchers at The Ohio State University Medical Center.
Publishing their study report in the journal Experimental Hematology, the researchers said that one day it might be possible to grow platelets continuously and in quantities that could ease the chronically [...]

People who hit out during sleep are more likely to develop dementia or Parkinson’s disease, a new study has suggested.
An international team, led by researchers at Montreal General Hospital in Canada, has found that physically “acting out” dreams when asleep could well be an early warning sign of dementia or Parkinson’s disease. In fact, the [...]

The Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3), a scientific instrument of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) onboard India’s first lunar mission Chandrayaan-1, found iron-bearing minerals on the lunar surface, the US space agency said on Thursday.
“The mapper spectrometer has beamed images of the Orientale Basin region of the Moon, indicating abundance of iron-bearing minerals such [...]

A new study has determined that global warming might be leading to the birth of too many male fish.
According to a report in Live Science, some experts believe that the gender of many fish is determined by temperature, because temperature-dependent sex determination, or TSD, occurs in many species.
But, a critical analysis of the fish literature [...]