Research News

In an advance towards an effective treatment against the deadly Ebola virus disease, researchers have found that an antiviral compound that blocks the virus's ability to replicate can fully protect monkeys when treated three days after infection.

Researchers have found that a protein involved in the breakdown of glucose a process known as glycolysis plays an important role in coordinating cellular processes crucial to cancer metabolism and brain tumour formation.

Researchers have identified a brain inflammation marker in patients at early asymptomatic stages of Alzheimer's disease.This molecule may provide clinicians with a rapidly detectable biomarker for the transition from preclinical Alzheimer's disease to cognitive impairment and progression to full dementia.

Scientists have discovered a new kind of stem cell one that could lead to advances in regenerative medicine as well as offer new ways to study birth defects and other reproductive problems.

The World Health Organization has set up a Newborn and Birth Defect Surveillance network, a initiative to keep a track of newborns with defects across the globe.

Researchers, including one of Indian-origin, have shown that a next-generation cell-based immunotherapy may offer new hope in the fight against the most aggressive form of brain cancer called glioma.

El Nino, the climate cycle that develops along the tropical west coast of South America every 3 to 7 years, could be transporting cholera-like diseases through bacteria that thrive in seawater, a study said.

People who exercise regularly over several years were less than half as likely to become depressed after a heart attack than those who never exercised, finds a new study.

US researchers have found there is a relationship between prolonged stress and memory loss.The results of the study showed that those who were repeatedly exposed to stress had a trouble with spatial memory.