Melbourne, Dec 8 (ANI): Living in a city can influence the expression of your genes.
The study, conducted by geneticist and supervising author Dr Greg Gibson of Georgia Tech in the US, has been published in today’s edition of Nature Genetics.
To reach the conclusion, Gibson and colleagues recruited 200 Moroccan individuals from two ethnic groups – [...]
Washington, Dec 4 (ANI): An experimental drug for hepatitis B has been found extremely effective in the trials conducted over chimpanzees, say researchers.
The medication, dubbed SPC3649, has been found to inhibit the virus in chimpanzees and researchers hope it would help treat chronic infections in humans also.
It uses a proprietary nucleic acid called “locked nucleic [...]
Melbourne, Nov 24 (ANI): While big birds are very loud, they are not as creative and intricate as their petite feathered friends when it comes to singing, according to a new research.
A bird’s song is as much the outcome of the evolutionary battle for sexual selection as its beautiful plumage, and a survey of the [...]
Melbourne, Nov 24 (ANI): Healthy female wallabies are more likely to give birth to boys than daughters, a new study has found.
The latest evidence supports Trivers-Willard hypothesis that mothers will give birth to different sexes depending on their condition.
The researchers believe that female wallabies in better condition are likely to have boys, because strong males [...]
Melbourne, November 23 (ANI): A clinical trial of spray-on skin that heals burns in days is set to begin in the US in December.
Dr James Holmes of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, will be running the trial of Avita Medical’s ReCell technology.
ReCell uses a postage stamp-sized piece of skin from a patient to [...]
Sydney, November 10 (ANI): Using what they call the world’s first 3-D solar panel system, scientists in the US have created photovoltaic cells that work underground.
According to a report in ABC Science, the breakthrough is taking solar panels off the roofs of homes and cars, and moving them under the house and into the walls. [...]
Melbourne, Sept 25 (ANI): Australian scientists say malarial parasite is fast developing resistance to chloroquine, the inexpensive and effective drug used to treat malaria.
Dr Rowena Martin, a biochemist, and colleagues at the Australian National University in Canberra have published their study in the journal Science.
ABC Science Online quoted Martin as saying: “Chloroquine is called ‘the [...]
Melbourne, Sept 23 (ANI): Australian scientists have found that cockroaches hold their breath in order to stay alive.
The study done by Dr Craig White, an animal physiologist at the University of Queensland, Brisbane and his team has been published in the Journal of Experimental Biology.
Butterfly pupae and beetles can hold their breath for hours, cockroaches, [...]
Melbourne, September 10 (ANI): A new research has found that Australian lacewings build tougher silk than silkworms.
Scientists at CSIRO Entomology have learnt that silk made by the common Australian green lacewing can be stretched up to six times further than silkworm silk.
Moreover, its unusual structure makes it potentially much [...]
Melbourne, Sept 4 (ANI): The thinner your thighs, the greater your risk of heart disease – that’s the conclusion of a new study.
According to the research, which looked at more than 2800 men and women with an average age of around 50, thigh circumference is linked to the risk of heart disease and premature death.
The [...]
Melbourne, Aug 14 (ANI): A new research conducted by Australian scientists has shown that some female fish find different male traits attractive from year to year.
According to the researchers, the changing preferences of female fish may play an important role in evolution.
In the study, lead author Tobi Lehtonen and Dr Bob Wong, of Monash University [...]
Melbourne, August 12 (ANI): Repeated predictive texting, not radiation, is to be blamed for affecting brains of young people using mobile phones, says a new study.
Epidemiologist Professor Michael Abramson of Monash University and colleagues tried to detect a consistent relationship between mobile phone use and brain power.
Researchers found that 94 per cent of kids studied [...]
