Health & Food

April 6: A new research has found that a protein complex plays a key role in clearing potential traffic jams in the production of RNA. The research was published in the journal Genes & Development. "The 'Ccr4-Not' complex is involved in nearly every step of this process from start to finish. Our new research shows that this complex has an additional function that helps maintain normal cellular...

Paris, Apr 4: One in five deaths globally are linked to poor diet, experts said Thursday, warning that overconsumption of sugar, salt and meat was killing millions of people every year. The United Nations estimates that nearly a billion people worldwide are malnourished, while nearly two billion are "overnourished". But the latest study on global diet trends, published in The Lancet, showed that...

Apr 3: A recent study has found that tobacco consumption leads to the formation of precancerous cells that fertilize cancer growth. There have been a lot of studies dedicated to cancer-related topics, exactly how this precancerous field influences cancer has been often overlooked. As part of the study, the researchers wanted to understand how these precancerous cells may impact neighboring cancer...

Washington, Mar 31: Eating habits of white individuals disproportionately affect the environment as their foods require more water and release more greenhouse gases during production, a study claims. The study, published in the Journal of Industrial Ecology, takes an in-depth look at what different demographic populations eat, how much greenhouse gas those foods are responsible for, and how much...

Washington, Mar 25: Consuming just one or two cups of sugar-sweetened drinks daily may accelerate the growth of intestinal tumours, say scientists who also discovered how sugar can directly feed cancer growth. Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and Weill Cornell Medicine in the US conducted the study on mice. "An increasing number of observational studies have raised awareness of the...

New York, Mar 17: The latest US research on eggs won't go over easy for those who can't eat breakfast without them. Adults who ate about 1 ½ eggs daily had a slightly higher risk of heart disease than those who ate no eggs. The study showed the more eggs, the greater the risk. The chances of dying early were 17 per cent higher. The researchers say the culprit is cholesterol, found in egg yolks and...

Mar 15: Green Tea has once again been found as the Hail Mary for not just obesity but various other inflammatory biomarkers linked with poor health, finds a recent study. The study was done on mice to find out what other benefits can green tea actually provide and was published in the Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry. The researchers found that the mice who were fed a diet of 2 per cent green...

New York, Mar 12: Just one cigarette a day during pregnancy can double the risk of sudden unexpected infant death (SUID), warned a study. SUID is defined as sudden and unexpected death of a baby below one year of age, in which the cause is not obvious before investigation. For women, who smoked an average of 1-20 cigarettes a day, the odds of SUID increased by 0.07 with each additional cigarette...

Washington, Mar 11: People living in India experience the health problems associated with ageing at an early stage than those living in Japan or Switzerland, according to a first-of-its-kind study published in The Lancet Public Health. Researchers at the University of Washington in the US and colleagues found that a 30-year gap separates countries with the highest and lowest ages at which people...

The liver is the only organ in the body that can regenerate. A recent study shows that the blood-clotting protein fibrinogen may hold the key as to why some patients who undergo a liver resection, a surgery that removes a diseased portion of the organ, end up needing a transplant because the renewal process doesn't work. "We discovered that fibrinogen accumulates within the remaining liver quickly...