MANCEHSTER: A simple blood test to identify if men have lost crucial genetic material in later life could finally close the gap in life expectancy between men and women, scientists believe.

New research shows that when men lose their Y sex chromosome they are hundreds Read More »

NEW YORK: Engineers working on developing an advanced sensor capable of monitoring the body’s electrical and biochemical signals have come up with a design that acts like the tricorder device seen in Star Trek.

The tricorder device in Star Trek is one of those gadgets from Read More »

NEW YORK: Middle-aged people with high blood pressure are three times more likely to develop a common form of dementia, the largest study of  its kind has found.

Millions of people have been urged to take pills to lower blood pressure after research suggested it could Read More »

LEICESTER: Two enzymes that play an important role in the pathogenesis of neurodegeneration, and whose inhibition was seen to improve disease symptoms in fruit fly models, have been identified. Moreover, inhibition of one of these enzymes with a drug-like compound was found to reverse movement Read More »