The simple process could also help you identify issues like blood pressure concerns, hemoglobin or low blood count.
'Good cholesterol acts as cholesterol scavengers, picking up excess cholesterol in the blood and taking it back to the liver where it is broken down,' says Dr Amit Bhushan Sharma.
The baby boy was born last week through IVF and surrogacy.
'Indiscriminate use results in resistance to pathogens, rendering these life-saving drugs useless.' 'Unnecessary antibiotic treatment could have other detrimental health effects that affect immunity and metabolism,' notes Aparna Kotekar.
Researchers at Imperial College London, the French National Research Institute CNRS and other international institutions have discovered three new genetic variations that increase the risk of obesity, giving new insight into the reasons why some people become fat and others don't.
'COPD causes an economic loss of Rs 35,000 crores.' 'We cannot afford to lose such a huge amount due to one disease.' 'COPD is a non-communicable disease and that's why it remained low in priority.' 'The time is right to shift the focus to COPD as HIV/AIDS and TB are under control. 'This badly neglected disease has become the second largest cause for deaths in India.' 'It is time for us to wake up and give due importance to this disease.'
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DCM Shriram Consolidated Ltd said Shriram Bioseed Genetics India Ltd became its subsidiary as the company increased holding in Shriram Bioseed to 51 per cent from 49 per cent.
If the protests die down and the bureaucracy speeds up, India might just get a new world-class university. Mining magnate Anil Agarwal is putting $1 billion into this dream.
'A pandemic like this will leave behind a trail of political, economic, social and psychological scars.' Coronavirus is going to impact every being on earth even if they do not contract it.' 'Everyone will pay a price,' cautions Ramesh Menon.
Insurers say they will have to study the available data to work out by how much premiums will have to go up to be able to cover mental illnesses as well
One of the advantages of an economic downturn is that there are great deals around. The challenge is that many of us are bad at negotiating.
'This is an improved version of BCG that also gives immunity against the coronavirus.'
Efforts by Indian activists to challenge the Biotechnology Regulatory Authority Bill, now pending in Parliament, may get a boost from a controversy that has broken out in the US
Eliud Kipchoge's story is unusual because when he came into competitive running it was not in the marathon. Fortunately for himself and the rest of us, he then turned to the marathon. Aakar Patel salutes the great runner's incomparable spirit.
Department of Biotechnology offers post-graduate students the chance to train with the top Biotech companies in India.
According to Dr V N Katoch, Director Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) several influenza viruses keep on circulating among human, birds and animals like pigs and keep on recombining and reasserting with each others. These changes cause genetic variations among these viruses and new viruses emerge in this process.
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Pop music icon Michael Jackson is near death, suffering from a potentially fatal genetic disease that has affected his lungs and stripped him of vitality, Jackson-biographer Ian Halperin has claimed in a recent interview.
'As people have moved from cities to small towns and villages, they have carried the infection into new territories.' 'Poor healthcare infrastructure in these places should be a big worry in the days to come.'
The Government of India's Department of Biotechnology offers Assocatiateship for Young Scientists 2007-2008
A study has shown that closely related cousins who marry tend to have more children and grandchildren than others.
BMS, BKS and SJM are trying to forge common cause with outfits on the other side of the ideological divide over the government's policies they are not in agreement with.
MPs will first attend a 'Farm Progress Show' in Iowa, then visit the Monsanto headquarters in St Louis, Missouri.
Is it sustainable?' 'Or is it like an overdose of a medicine that saves your life in the short run but kills you through long-lasting side-effects?' asks Shekhar Gupta.
It is important to visit an obstetrician as soon as you miss your first period after intercourse, suggests Dr Danny Laliwalla.
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.
Citing an example, the WHO report said a boy living in the Glasgow suburb of Calton is expected to live to 54, 28 years less than a boy born in affluent Lenzie near by. That same child from Calton will typically have a shorter life than a child born in India, where life expectancy is 62, the report said.
'The majority of transmission will be via people who are within two metres of one another.' 'The closer you are, the more likely that you'll be infected.'
The launch of a genomics project will improve productivity of this multi-purpose domestic animal.
The age at which girls attain sexual maturity in urban India has dropped.
'Stop wearing clothes which might be trendy, but doesn't go well with your body type.'
Researchers have identified hundreds of genes that are switched on and off differently in the male and female brains, a finding which suggests that many behaviour patterns regarded as typical of each sex could be founded on nature and nurture.
The move comes a day after China lifted the 76-day lockdown in Wuhan, where the pandemic originated. China's National Health Commission (NHC) on Thursday reported 63 new confirmed cases of the coronavirus, including 61 imported ones taking the total to 1,104 cases.
Environmentalists are up in arms over a move to release an army of genetically modified mosquitoes to fight Dengue fever in Malaysia, reports said. Reports said the male mosquitoes will be freed in Ketam Island, a village south of Kuala Lumpur, to kill Aedes mosquitoes, which is responsible for Dengue fever.
Dermatologist Dr Kolhe tells you how to keep the skin under your eyes looking fresh and healthy.
If people can lobby me for making changes in policies that goes against the country's interest, I won't keep myself in this position, says the vice chairman of NITI Aayog.
Scientists have paved way for helping humans live longer and healthier by creating baker's yeast capable of living up to 800 yeast years without apparent side-effects.
US Olympic medallist Dawson was born in South Korea's Busan where, at the age of three, he was separated from his mother in a bustling marketplace.
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