Frog substance shown to kill human flu viruses

Science |  News | 0 Comment | 05 May, 2017

According to a recent research led by Joshy Jacob of Emory University with a team at the Rajiv Gandhi Center for Biotechnology in Poojapura have confirmed that a compound in the s...Read more

New blood test to predict benefits of prostate cancer treatment

Science |  News | 0 Comment | 04 May, 2017

A new blood test could predict which men with advanced prostate cancer will respond to new targeted treatments for the disease. Researchers were able to detect tumour DNA in men's blood an...Read more

Simple blood tests for improving hypertension treatment

Science |  News | 0 Comment | 03 May, 2017

Using two simple blood tests, Western University researchers were able to drastically improve treatment for resistant hypertension across three sites in Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa. By...Read more

Stereotactic radiation highly effective for kidney cancer

Science |  News | 0 Comment | 03 May, 2017

New research at UT Southwestern Medical Center’s Kidney Cancer Program of the Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center showed that treating metastatic kidney cancer with an advan...Read more

A new drug for diabetes

Science |  News | 0 Comment | 02 May, 2017

Indian scientists have found that a plant-derived substance called chalcone can be used to make an effective anti-diabetic drug. Chalcone, which is ubiquitously found in many plants, improv...Read more

Success in 3-D bioprinting of cartilage

Science |  News | 0 Comment | 02 May, 2017

A team of researchers at Sahlgrenska Academy has managed to generate cartilage tissue by printing stem cells using a 3D-bioprinter. The fact that the stem cells survived being printed in th...Read more

A new test kit for early cancer detection

Science |  News | 0 Comment | 02 May, 2017

Scientists around the world are striving for effective detection of cancer in the early stages, and a Chinese scientist may have found a quick way of knowing whether malignant tumors exist ...Read more

A promising technology for killing microbes

Science |  News | 0 Comment | 02 May, 2017

A team of researchers from Rutgers University has invented an inexpensive, effective way to kill bacteria and sanitize surfaces with devices made of paper. They found out that by applying ...Read more

A glow stick for detecting cancer

Science |  News | 0 Comment | 02 May, 2017

Chemiluminescence, or chemical light, is the principle behind the glow sticks or light sticks used as quick tools to grab when the electricity goes out. But they can also be used to diagnos...Read more

Diabetes app to forecast blood sugar levels

Science |  News | 0 Comment | 28 Apr, 2017

Columbia University researchers have developed a personalized algorithm that predicts the impact of particular foods on an individual's blood sugar levels. The algorithm has been integrated...Read more

New eye test for detecting early signs of glaucoma

Science |  News | 0 Comment | 28 Apr, 2017

In clinical trials, the pioneering diagnostic developed by researchers at University College London (UCL) and the Western Eye Hospital allowed doctors to see individual nerve cell death in ...Read more

Nanodiamond-enhanced MRI offers wide range of diagnostic applications

Science |  News | 0 Comment | 27 Apr, 2017

Nanodiamonds - synthetic industrial diamonds only a few nanometers in size - have recently attracted considerable attention because of the potential they offer for the targeted delivery of ...Read more

Indian scientists getting closer to new HIV vaccine

Science |  News | 20 Comment | 27 Apr, 2017

Indian scientists have recently identified a new antibody against HIV subtype-C from Indian patients. This finding will help design vaccines against HIV in the future. When given along with...Read more

Mango leaves used for developing fluorescent quantum dots

Science |  News | By BioSpectrum Bureau | 0 Comment | 19 Apr, 2017

Researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay have been able to produce cheap probes for bioimaging and for intracellular temperature sensing by developing fluorescent gr...Read more