'High cardiorespiratory fitness may buffer the impact of genetic risk of all dementia by 35%.'
The 2024 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their discovery of microRNA, a new class of tiny RNA molecules that play a crucial role in gene regulation.
British scientist Michael Houghton and American scientists Harvey J Alter and Charles M Rice were on Monday jointly awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Medicine.
Their discoveries pave the way for promising new strategies to fight anemia, cancer and several other diseases.
Thanks to science, unfaithful men now have a new excuse--their infidelity might be down to their genes. A study has revealed that men who inherit a genetic variant which affects an important attachment hormone are more likely to have weaker relationships and marital problems, and less likely to be married.
You can cut your cancer death risk with just 30 minutes of walking daily, a new study has revealed. It says that physically fit people are less likely to die from the disease. Researchers at Karolinska Institute in Sweden have found that people who do at least half-an-hour exercise every day have a 34 per cent lower chance of being killed by cancer than those who do not.
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The American trio of Jeffrey C Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W Young won for "for their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm".
Ohsumi, born in 1945 in Fukuoka, Japan, has been a professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology since 2009.
He is the first MD Anderson scientist to receive the world's most preeminent award for outstanding discoveries in the fields of life sciences and medicine.
The reported controversial remarks of President Pranab Mukherjee on Bofors issue to a Swedish daily have no bearing on his upcoming tour of Sweden, the first State visit, beginning on May 31, External Affairs Ministry said in New Delhi on Thursday.
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