McGill University

Depression may boost risk of type 2 diabetes

But people only with metabolic risk factors like obesity, high blood pressure and unhealthy cholesterol levels and not depression were around four times more likely to develop type 2 diabetes.

Apr 13, 2016, 12:40 PM IST

HIV can develop resistance to gene-editing tool

The problem is that HIV is notoriously good at surviving and thriving with new mutations, so while many viruses are killed by the targeted approach, those that escape the CRISPR/Cas9 treatment become more difficult to target.

Apr 10, 2016, 18:38 PM IST

New method to starve lung cancer

Cancer cells use glucose at rates tens or even hundreds of times larger than that of normal cells.  

Oct 22, 2015, 15:20 PM IST

Know why you feel thirsty

Mechanism that induces thirst discovered.

Oct 16, 2015, 16:52 PM IST

Most of media coverage is about men: Study

 Have you ever realised that more than 80 percent of the names mentioned in the media are those of men? The more mentions a person receives in the media, the higher the chances are that this person is a man, a new study reveals.

Oct 02, 2015, 17:05 PM IST