Eureka! Skin cells turn into beating heart

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The heart cells created from patients' skin are at the same stage of development as those of a newborn baby. The study is exciting for India which has 60% of world's heart patients. It's a medical first. In a groundbreaking research, scientists have turned patients' own skin cells into fresh beating heart muscle in the lab. A team of scientists from Israel took skin cells from two men with heart failure and mixed the cells up with a cocktail of genes and chemicals in the lab to create the stem cell treatment. The cells that they created were amazingly identical to healthy heart muscle cells! When these beating cells were transplanted into a rat, they started to make connections with the surrounding heart tissue. And since the transplanted cells are from the patient's own tissues this could negate the problem of tissue rejection by the body. The research....

A moment on the lips, a lifetime on the hips

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...And this is not a cliche anymore... Wolfing junk food like burgers, pizzas, pastas, fried chicken, and washing it down with can-loads of cola ? Well, that's a known recipe for disaster and for all the mouth-watering and finger-licking lure, here's the shocking findings from a research conducted in Oxford University. People can put on weight on their waistline within three hours of eating fatty food! So whenever you feel you can't breathe properly after a heavy meal, or have to loosen your belt, it surely is not a temporary sign! A landmark study published in the Physiological Reviews, done by Fredrik Karpe and Keith Frayne, Professors of Metabolic Medicine at Oxford University, found that fat from food finds its way on your waistline, within three hours of a heavy meal. The science of weight gain....

Coming soon: A vaccine for malaria

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It's a eureka moment for scientists ... Experts have made a breakthrough with a malaria Vaccine being clinically tested in Africa right now. The new vaccine is 56 per cent effective in Stage 3 clinical trials which means it could save the lives of 400000 children every year around the world. Consider these facts: Even today , malaria is endemic in 100 countries. Every 30 seconds, a child in Africa dies from malaria. Every 24 hours, 3000 people worldwide, mainly children, lose their lives to the deadly disease. In this scenario, getting this far meant 3 decades of research and $300 million of financial aid. No wonder the Gates Foundation describes this step as the "achievement of the decade". Brainchild of pharma giant GSK and PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative, the vaccine might hit the shelves in....

Never too young for a heart attack

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How different could a 23-year-old Mumbaikar be? So I thought, before I met Pramod, an animator by profession. Stuck in a sort of limbo, a hybrid state of semi-hormonal adolescence and responsible self-reliance, and in between all that, too much grumble, uniformly punctuated by geeky gadget talks. Of course, dreams to change the world. But the one thing, which he would have loved to change, but can't do much about now, is the stamp of a heart attack at 23. "I was in the Vashi local, returning home. Must have been after midnight. It was my 23rd birthday. We had a big party. Food, booze, we had it all. But in the train, I felt a slight pain in my chest. I thought it's just exhaustion. I had mixed drinks, maybe that was causing a havoc. But the pain did not subside at home also. It wasn't a throbbing....