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Washington, Nov 11: Women who are naturally thin may want to start considering putting on weight, for a new study has found that young women who are constitutionally or severely thin, may suffer fr

Mumbai: Dealers told that the Indian currency relieved, on Thursday, as oil firms purchased US dollar and as worries about RBI intervention weighed on persuasion, but trading was dense ahead of a p

Due to strong demand, large volumes of CTC tea were sold at high rates, during last week, in Coonoor.

Big B’s mother Teji Bachchan (93), who has been admitted in Lilavati Hospital for sometime, was transferred to the intensive care unit (ICU) after her condition became more serious.

A new technique of combating HIV infection has been discovered by scientists at University of California-San Francisco and the University of Toronto.

An HIV infection relies on the remnants of ancient viruses, human endogenous retroviruses (HERV) that have become part of the genome of every human cell. Nearly 8 percent of DNA in human genome consists of viral genes, which are already present from millions of years ago. When modern virus attacks a cell, the ancient genes get triggered off producing tiny proteins that move to the surface of cell after HIV infection and indicate a distinctive signal –called HERV.