The American Cancer Society released an analysis in which they depicted higher lung cancer rates in Upstate (located north of core New York metropolitan area) versus New York City. The Cancer Burden in New York State suggests that the huge difference exists due to the prevalence of excessive smoking...
The international research team had created synthetic pores that mimic the activity of cellular ion channels, which play a vital role in human health by blocking the types of materials allowed to enter cells.
A team of researchers from Harvard University and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have used recent advances in marine biomechanics, material science and tissue engineering to turn inanimate silicone and living cardiac muscle cells into a freely swimming jellyfish.
A new study that is being published in the American Journal of Public Health reveals that 40.2 percent of the Americans have heard of e-cigarettes and over 70 percent believe they are less harmful than regular cigarettes. In addition, current smokers are more likely to use e-cigarettes than non-smok...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Afinitor in advanced breast cancer treatment. The medicine is only for postmenopausal women battling an advanced form of estrogen-sensitive tumor known as hormone-receptor positive, HER2-negative breast cancer. The pill-based drug is being used ...
The discovery of the new planet Gilese 581 that was announced in the year 2010, is now back officially with No 1 ranking on the list of a potentially habitable worlds outside of our solar system.
UCLA researchers have developed a new and innovative transparent solar cell that is an advance towards giving windows in homes and other buildings the ability to generate electricity while still allowing people to see outside.
The first model to be completely simulated by computer software is 'Mycoplasma Genitalium', the world's smallest free living bacterium that lives in the genital and respiratory tracts of humans and other primates. This organism is responsible causing sexually transmitted disease.
NASA along with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the State Department and Nike Inc. opened the fourth instalment of the Launch initiative Friday.
Most of us would have been curious to know what space smells, because it's so cold and vast and dark. With all this, we tend to recline over the thought that what our olfactory nerves would sense in space? Well, the Astronauts returning after their space walk can help probe into this interesting asp...
A new study done by the researchers from the Queen Mary University of London claims that, " A polypiill containing four different medicines had a close association in reducing both blood pressure and cholesterol levels in patients who have never been a victim of heart disease."
Just after June 14 escape of 2012 LZ1 a hazardous asteroid; another asteroid that is the size of the city block will make its close approach to Earth on the 22July evening.
