A Canadian study involving 8,815 adults from Ontario has found a possible link between bariatric surgery and increased risk of self-harm including suicide. Researchers from Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, including Junaid A….
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Ovarian tissue transplants appear to be safe and effective, study finds
Ovarian tissue removal, storage and transplant appear to be safe and offer women a good chance of becoming pregnant, a new study has revealed. Largest of its kind, the study saw researchers…
Two-qubit logic gate developed; now it’s the turn of quantum computer chip
Logic gates are the building blocks of computer chips and that was one thing that researchers didn’t have in their possession to build a full-fledged quantum computer chip. However, that’s out of…
Light-based memory chip can store data permanently
The world’s first entirely light-based memory chip to store data permanently has been developed by material scientists at Oxford University in collaboration with scientists at Karlsruhe, Munster and Exeter. The device, which…
Study: Medical marijuana has a reasonable safety profile in chronic pain patients
A new study has found that medical marijuana, when used by chronic pain patients, has a reasonable safety profile and that it doesn’t result in increase in serious adverse events. Researchers found…
Age-related blindness could be treated using stem cell therapy
Age-related blindness is one of the most common forms of blindness across the globe and with the aim of finding a treatment for this, a clinical trial investigating stem cells’ potential is…
Aspirin found to improve survival rate in all gastrointestinal cancers
Aspirin is seemingly becoming one of the centerpieces of cancer research with a new study now suggesting that the drug improves survival rates of patients with tumours situated throughout the gastrointestinal (GI)…
Cancer survival improves across Europe, but UK still lags behind the best
Results of EUROCARE 5 are out and according to the findings, cancer survival across Europe has improved a lot, but UK is still behind the best in the game. The report is…
Researchers investigate whether Vitamin B can be used to enhance dreaming
There could be a potential link between dreams a person is having and Vitamin B’s role in it according to a University of Adelaide researcher and to check if that’s the case,…
The Crick applies to HFEA for use of “genome editing” techniques on human embryos
Use of genome editing techniques on human embryos is a territory that is constantly under debate for there are supporters who believe that the research will enable us to find cure to…
Smoking increases risk of type 2 diabetes by 37%
In a study that the first to look into a causal relation between smoking and increased risk of type 2 diabetes, researchers have suggested that current smoking increases the risk of type…
Discovery of highly efficient catalyst could fuel hydrogen economy
Clean energy alternatives are the need of the hour with increasing global warming due to fossil fuel emissions and one of the most promising is hydrogen fuel. One of the primary means…
Over 50% of all turtles in the world have ingested plastic
Plastic pollution is one of the most dangerous forms of pollution and marine animals are increasingly becoming victims of plastic ingestion because this waste almost always washes up in oceans through streams, rivers and the…
First double meteor impact conclusively proved in Sweden
Double impact craters created at the same time are very rare and one such instance has been found at the Swedish county of Jämtland, which researchers say were created some 460 million…
Gut bacteria impacts body weight, fat and good cholesterol levels: Study
New research suggests bacteria living in our guts impact our body weight, fat and good cholesterol levels. The new health study, led by Jingyuan Fu from the University Medical Center Groningen in…