London, October 3: Laboratory experiments conducted at the University of Leicester have shown that compounds extracted from sticky rice, red wine, berries, and spice have the potential to fight against cancer.

Professor Will Steward, an expert in molecular medicine, has revealed that tests on human cells have shown that drugs made from the foods and wine may reduce the risk of cancer by 40 per cent.

The researcher said that such drugs could be taken like daily vitamins to protect against tumours in the breast, bowel and prostate.

London, Oct 2 : Some Caribbean forests were at their densest during the 'Little Ice Age', a new study by a palaeontologist from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, has revealed.

During the course of her study, Maria Lozano-Garcia found that the normal dry season was either shorter or nonexistent during the Little Ice Age (1350-1850), as indicated by a sharp increase in the amount of pollen from both lowland and upland forests deposited in core-samples taken from Lago Verde.

London: According to the British researchers, daily consumption of dark chocolate in limit, may improve physical condition by lessening blood pressure and meliorating brain function.

Dark chocolate contains higher levels of polyphenols, an antioxidant chemical, which has been linked with health advatages, for example a reduction in blood pressure.

London: Suggestions for working women, especially those who do the graveyard shift, just don’t allow job stress destroy your physical condition.

A recent study by European scientists has revealed that women who feel strained on the job could be at a noticeably increased risk of having breast cancer.

London, Oct 1 : A day after the British Police launched a new search for a new suspect in the Madeleine McCann case, Portuguese cops have claimed that the three-year-old died after she fell down a flight of stairs.

Police reports said that the tot, who went missing in May this year during a family holiday in Portugal, fell down a flight of ten stairs leading up to the McCann family apartment's patio doors.

London, Oct 1 : Researchers have discovered a regulatory protein, called CTLA-4, which they believe is a second molecular “switch” responsible for turning off the immune system’s response against HIV.

The study in which the protein was discovered was conducted by researchers at the Partners AIDS Research Center at Massachusetts General Hospital (PARC-MGH) led by Dr Bruce Walker.

Last year members of the same team identified a molecule called PD-1 that suppresses the activity of HIV-specific CD8 T cells that should destroy virus-infected cells.