UK: MEMORY PILL TO AID ELDERLY?
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A memory-enhancing pill may be developed to deal with the problem of amnesia, which affects elderly people. Scientists at University College London's Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research have found during tests involving a laboratory mouse that it lacked a gene which plays a key part in learning at the start of its life but which has an adverse impact in later life. Humans have the same gene and the indications are that it could lead to memory loss among middle-aged people.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 2000
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UK: NEW STUDY INTO FERTILITY
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Male fertility diminishes by a considerable degree with age, according to research announced on 1 August 2000 that for the first time attempted to measure the decline in fertility in men with no known problems in this area. Research covered families of babies born in the Avon region of the UK between 1 April 1991 and the end of the following year. Information from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Pregnancy & Childhood data was examined by Brunel University and Bristol University in the UK and found that the capability of a male to father a child diminishes from the age of 24, six years before a woman's fertility declines. The chances of women with partners that are older by five years were less likely to conceive inside 12 months compared with women with partners of the same age or who were not as old.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 2000
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UK: HUMAN BONE TISSUE CREATED IN TEST TUBE
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The treatment of bone diseases such as arthritis and osteoporosis could be enhanced significantly after scientists succeeded in growing human bone tissue with the aid of a glass-like material called Bioglass. The ceramic material, which is used in medical procedures already, may be employed to construct 3D structures for transplant surgery. Hammersmith Hospital's Professor of Pathology, Julia Pollak, believes that the artificially created bone developed in the laboratory could be used on people with acute bone disorders. Bioglass can release salts allowing the proliferation and maturity of bone cells and subsequently creating a fully formed bone tissue.
Publication Name: The Independent
Subject: Retail industry
ISSN: 0951-9467
Year: 2000
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