S u m m a r y : Vampires might have actually existed. Okay, not your regular Dracula/Salvatore-Brothers/Twilight kind of vampires! But, in the form of people with rare blood disorders known as porphyria, suggests a new study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Real Vampire Stories? What if vampires

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S u m m a r y : Art courses help doctors be better at their profession, suggests a new study published in the journal Ophthalmology. Art & Medicine, Two Worlds Colliding If you’re a medical student, you might want to try your hand at art! At least, according to a new study conducted by researchers

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S u m m a r y : Close personal relationships have a positive impact on health, says a new body of research published in a special issue of American Psychological Association’s journal, the American Psychologist. We Are Social Beings Humans are gregarious: we live in organised communities—we mingle in society. This special trait is

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S u m m a r y : Adipose tissue—fat—might affect cancer development, suggests a new study published in the journal Cancer Prevention Research. Watch out for obesity! Fat & Cancer Fat occurs naturally in our bodies, deposited as layers underneath the skin, and around certain organs; it makes up the bulk of a connective

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S u m m a r y : The more you resist yawning, the more you feel like yawning! New findings shedding further light on the contagious action might be used to design individualised treatment procedures for patients of neural disorders like dementia. The paper is published in the journal Current Biology. All About Yawning

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S u m m a r y : Our gut bacteria ‘talk’ to our very own body cells! This discovery is hoped to pave the way to elaborating treatment procedures for certain metabolic disorders. The new findings are published in the journal Nature. A Conversation Between Humans & Bacteria We co-exist with our gut bacteria,

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S u m m a r y : Cold air temperatures might be an external trigger for heart attacks, suggests a new study presented today, August 30, at European Society of Cardiology Congress. ‘Freezing Hearts’ “Nothing burns like the cold”. Apparently, (one of the characters of) George R.R. Martin was right. Cold air temperatures might

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S u m m a r y : Cocoa compounds are shown to delay the onset of type 2 diabetes, says a new study published in The Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry. The researchers are now looking forward to harvesting these ingredients to treat diabetics. Chocolate, A Cure? Chocolate has been hailed as a healthy food

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S u m m a r y : Farming came with dairy products like cheese, a combination that changed the shape of the human skull years and years ago! The findings are published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Foragers to Farmers: Skull Changes When farming became a thing among earlier human

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S u m m a r y : Less REM sleep is linked with a higher risk of developing dementia, says a new study published in the journal Neurology. What is REM Sleep? Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep is the sleep stage whereby one dozes off to dreamworld: the last of five phases of sleep,

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S u m m a r y : A newly-discovered molecule named Singheart might trigger damaged heart cells to self-repair and regenerate themselves. The findings are published in the journal Nature Communications. What is Singheart? Singheart constitutes a long piece of non-coding RNA. It appears to be involved in the regulation of genes responsible for

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S u m m a r y : ‘Diamond rain’, a form of precipitation that is present inside huge icy planets, has been created by a team of scientists from the DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. The findings are published in the journal Nature Astronomy. The aim of the research was to reproduce the conditions characterising

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