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Here’s Why You Need Vitamin B12, And Where You Can Find It

October 22, 2016 Srijitaand, B12, Can, Find, Here's, It, Need, Vitamin, where, Why, You

What happens if you don’t get enough vitamin B12? “Vitamin B12 deficiency causes tiredness, weakness, constipation, loss of appetite, weight loss, and megaloblastic anemia,” the National Institutes of Health says. “Nerve problems, such as numbness and tingling in the hands and feet, can also occur. Other symptoms of vitamin B12 deficiency include problems with balance, depression, confusion, dementia, poor memory, and soreness of the mouth or tongue.” A paper published this summer theorized that Mary Todd Lincoln’s well-known psychological and emotional problems were caused by a shortage of the vitamin.…

Algorithm developed to find precise cancer treatments

August 12, 2016 SrijitaAlgorithm, Cancer, developed, Find, precise:, to, treatments

Algorithm developed to find precise cancer treatments (Getty Images) To understand and treat Cancer better, University of Hawai’i Cancer Center researchers have developed a computational algorithm obtained from tumor samples. “A growing problem in cancer research is figuring out how to analyze the many kinds of big genomic data for different cancers. The overwhelming quantity and complexity of the data has created an analysis bottleneck that has slowed the translation of the knowledge within the data to the clinic,” said researcher Gordon Okimoto. “We have figured out a way to…

New lung cancer find paves way for better therapies

August 4, 2016 SrijitaBetter, Cancer, Find, for, Lung, New, Paves, therapies, Way

A team of researchers has successfully inhibited tumour growth in a new subtype of lung cancer. (Getty Images) A team of researchers has successfully inhibited tumour growth in a new subtype of lung cancer. Adenocarcinomas, a non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), account for about 40 percent of cancer diagnoses, but few treatments are available for the disease. The team led by Elena Levantini of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) identified a subtype of human adenocarcinoma. The research could help determine which individuals are at greatest risk of developing lung…

Yale Researchers Find the Part of the Brain That Determines How Well You Handle Stress

August 4, 2016 SrijitaBrain, Determines, Find, Handle, How, of, Part, Researchers, Stress, That, The, Well, Yale, You

Humans are amazingly resilient in crises, but some cope with life’s stresses better than others. On any given day people face any number of minor annoyances such as being stuck in traffic or spilling coffee on their shirts or forgetting their keys. Then there’s the persistent stressors that come from work, relationships and finances. And there’s the uncontrollable anxieties of global terrorism, mass shootings and Zika-carrying mosquitoes. But why are some people able to deal with it all so calmly, while others freak out? A team of researchers at Yale…

Google Wants to Help You Find Time for What You Love

April 13, 2016 SrijitaFind, for, Google, Help, love, Time, to, Wants, What, You

If you are unable to find time for the things you love with your hectic work life getting in the way, Google thinks it may have a solution. The search giant is introducing a new feature into its Calendar app called Goals that will help you find the right time to do these activities. “One day it’s ‘I got called into a last-minute meeting.’ The next day it’s ‘I have a friend in town,’” Jyoti Ramnath, product manager for Google Calendar, wrote in an official blog post. “And before you…