Washington, May 16 (ANI): A research team led by an Indian-origin scientist at South Dakota State University has found that a substance derived from Red Sea Coral can help treat skin cancer. The team led by SDSU distinguished professor Chandradhar Dwivedi looked at the chemopreventive effects of sarcophine-diol, made from a substance called sarcophine that can be isolated from soft coral found in... 

Washington, May 8 (ANI): People tend to judge their confidence while making choices several times a day, and now researchers have uncovered the biological mechanisms behind the belief that a choice is likely to be correct. Many studies have shown that choice certainty is closely associated with reaction time, and with decision accuracy. The new study tested the possibility that the same brain cell... 

Washington, May 5 (ANI): A team of scientists at the University of Georgia (UGA), US, has developed a microscope that is capable of live imaging at double the resolution of fluorescence microscopy using structured illumination. The fluorescence microscope has allowed a generation of scientists to study the properties of proteins inside cells. Yet, as human capacity for discovery has zoomed to the... 

Washington, Apr 30 (ANI): In a major breakthrough, scientists have found a preventative therapy for Type 1 diabetes- by making the body’s killer immune cells tolerate the insulin-producing cells they would normally attack and destroy, prior to disease onset. Type 1 diabetes is a serious autoimmune condition, in which the body attacks its own insulin producing cells and is characterised by a... 

Washington, Apr 27 (ANI): Researchers from Fox Chase Cancer Centre have shown that robot assisted kidney cancer surgery is more beneficial for patients compared to open surgery. The standard treatment for kidney cancer is to surgically remove the entire or a portion of the kidney. The surgeons are using the da Vinci robot assisted surgical system for patients with kidney cancer, or renal cell carcinoma. “Our... 

Washington, Apr 25 (ANI): American researchers have found how to turn off a certain receptor that promotes the growth of leukemia cells. The study by researchers from the Children’s Cancer Hospital at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center has been presented in a platform session at the 22nd annual meeting of the American Society of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology (ASPHO). “There... 

London, Apr 24 (ANI): Researchers at Seoul National University in South Korea have created the world’s first transgenic dog. Cloned beagle named Ruppy – short for Ruby Puppy – and four other beagles all produce a fluorescent protein that glows red under ultraviolet light. The research team led by Byeong-Chun Lee created the dogs by cloning fibroblast cells that express a red fluorescent... 

Washington, April 23 (ANI): Researchers at University of British Columbia have identified a ‘molecular key’ that has the potential to increase the success of blood stem cell transplants. Blood stem cell transplants are currently used to treat diseases such as leukemia, Hodgkin’s lymphoma and aplastic anemia. During the procedure, donor blood stem cells – which can produce red... 

Washington, April 22 (ANI): A protein, CXCL12, that normally controls intestinal cell movement, has the potential to halt colorectal cancer spreading, say researchers. Medical College of Wisconsin Cancer Center researchers in Milwaukee say that the new research represents a potential mechanism by which CXL12 may slow cancer spreading. Controlling this process could lead to new biological therapies... 

Washington, April 18 (ANI): Tracked how the cancer process began in 33 men with prostate cancer who died of the disease, Johns Hopkins researchers are now pointing to a set of genetic defects in a single cell that are different for each person’s cancer. “These were not your average autopsies.  We dissected every bit of tumor – in the primary and metastatic sites – and recorded exactly where...