Simple way to improve memory

Chewing the same flavour gum when taking a test as you did while studying will improve your memory !


 

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A tear-based screening test for childhood blinding condition

Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is one of the most common serious eye complications that occur in premature babies. It can lead to incomplete blood vessel growth in the retina, and eventual loss of vision. A group of researchers have identified a biomarker that can help detect the risk of ROP from just a teardrop.

Premature babies are administered oxygen to help them survive in incubators. This process, however, has to be monitored carefully as overexposure to oxygen can be highly toxic to blood vessels, including those in the retina. Overexposure to oxygen in neonatal care is a major cause of ROP.

Low oxygen levels in the retina when the child is out of incubator cause abnormal blood vessel growth in the retina, which in turn causes loss of neurons and vision loss. About 40 to 50 per cent of premature infants develop ROP, and of them 10 to 18 per cent progress to develop severe stages of this disease leading to blindness.

Researchers who have been working on genetic or protein-based markers for ROP for many years, have identified a few proteins that cause inflammation in the eye leading to abnormal blood vessel growth.

The levels of these inflammatory proteins—Complement component C3 and Matrix metalloproteinases 2 & 9—were found to be higher in tear samples of preterm babies with ROP. Based on these findings, the group is developing a diagnostic test for ROP.

Researchers have also explained the role of inflammation caused by reduced oxygen levels in the eyes in the development of this condition. During the last few years, a screening programme for ROP was conducted at all major neonatal intensive care units.

“While several risk factors for ROP such as low gestational age, low birth weight, oxygen supplementation, sepsis, multiple births and maternal health during pregnancy were thought to help in predicting the risk of ROP progression in premature infants, but these factors can’t help in predicting the risk of severe ROP,” says , a scientist.

“Besides identification of biomarker for this condition, our team is also working to fill the gap in existing knowledge about underlying molecular pathology of ROP”.

ROP is a ‘self limiting’ condition and it disappears by itself in most premature babies while progressing to severe stage in some. Therefore, early diagnosis can help identify those at risk. Vision loss in such babies can be prevented through early interventions like laser surgery or drug-based treatments likely to become available in future.

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Simple Test to Check Authenticity of Organic Foods

We all think that those mentioned as organic foods are truly organic. It is not necessarily so. Thinking it is genuine, we pay a hefty price for organic foods, as it is healthy. No one wants to be cheated. So, here are some simple tests to find if the foods are truly organic.

Organic food products in are either a result of farmers growing crops, without the use of synthetic fertilisers or are processed products made from organically produced raw materials.
While some people can afford to grow their own organic vegetables on their terraces or farms, not many have the luxury to do so and have to depend on the organic food available in the market.

But, are you sure that the food you are paying a hefty price for is actually organic?

A B.Tech graduate has a simple test for you to see whether your organic food is, in fact, organic, or is mixed with urea, pesticides or any other foreign ingredients.
The researcher's father, had wished for his daughter to utilise her education to develop something that could be of use to the common man. Taking her father’s advice and applying her knowledge about biotechnology, she developed an apparatus that can easily show any user whether the food on their table is infused with chemicals or not.
Speaking to the media, the lady said-

“Nowadays, most of the milk we consume is contaminated with urea, detergent, soda and so on. They are added to increase the stability and the colour.

A case had also been filed in the past asking the court to certify organic food products.”She developed strips of A4 sheets, like a litmus paper that could be dipped in milk and a change of colour would indicate the impurities in it. She dipped the A4 sheets in a reagent that she discovered while working on a pesticide detection tool. “The reagents I used are the ones labs generally use to detect urea or pesticide,” she told the media.

Once ready, the strips can be used by a layman to test the authenticity of their organic products.

“The pesticide detection tool is made from decolourised sketch cartridge in which the reagent is introduced. It has a stability of 10 days and costs Rs 5 per 10 strips. Since it is based on the colourimetric method, even a common man can use it without any technical skill,” she explains.

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Simple smell test can help identify those at Alzheimer’s risk

Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in the US have developed a method to identify those at risk for Alzheimer’s disease on the basis of their ability to recognise and recall odours.

The non-invasive protocol testing the ability to recognise, remember and distinguish between odours was able to identify older individuals who -- according to genetic, imaging and more detailed memory tests -- were at increased risk of Alzheimer’s disease, the study said.

“There is increasing evidence that the neurodegeneration behind Alzheimer’s disease starts at least 10 years before the onset of memory symptoms,” said principal investigator Mark Albers of the MGH Department of Neurology. 

“The development of a digitally-enabled, affordable, accessible and non-invasive means to identify healthy individuals who are at risk is a critical step to developing therapies that slow down or halt Alzheimer’s disease progression,” Albers noted.

It is well known that brain circuits that process olfactory information can be affected by Alzheimer’s disease, and several studies have documented a diminished ability to identify odours in affected individuals. 

The study recruited 183 participants, most of whom were enrolled in ongoing studies at the MGH-based Massachusetts Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. 

At the time of the olfactory testing, 70 were cognitively normal, 74 tested normal on cognitive tests but were personally concerned about their cognitive abilities, 29 had mild cognitive impairment and 10 had been diagnosed with possible or probable Alzheimer’s disease. 

Results of the test significantly differentiated among the four groups of participants, and those results correlated with the thinning of two brain regions -- the hippocampus and the entorhinal cortex -- previously associated with Alzheimer’s risk. 

The researchers also found that participants’ ability to remember a previously presented aroma also showed significant differences between the two cognitively normal groups and participants with Alzheimer’s disease, whose results were no better than chance.
Poor performers in the memory test were more likely to have the variant of the APOE gene associated with increased Alzheimer’s risk, said the study published online in the journal Annals of Neurology.

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Genetic test could help identify kids at low-IQ risk

Researchers claimed to have developed a genetic test that could spot children with impaired thyroid function at risk of developing low IQ.

After studying the genetic and IQ data of 3123 children under 7 with a common gene variant, researchers found that those with thyroid hormone levels less than the normal range had a four-fold greater risk of having an IQ less than 85 if they also had reduced thyroid hormone levels, News.com.au reported.

Lead researcher Peter Taylor, from the University of Cardiff, said that kids with satisfactory thyroid hormone levels, together with the genetic variant, have normal IQ levels, which raises the possibility that children at risk could be treated with standard thyroid hormone tablets to compensate for impaired thyroid hormone processing.

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Simple vinegar test to prevent cervical cancer death

A simple vinegar test could prevent 73,000 deaths from cervical cancer worldwide each year.

Wealthy countries have managed to reduce cervical cancer deaths by 80 per cent thanks to the widespread use of regular Pap smears. But cervical cancer remains the leading cause of cancer death among women in India and many other developing countries lacking the money, doctors, nurses or laboratories for widespread screening. The vinegar test, while not perfect, offers a solution to that problem. 

A primary health care worker swabs the woman's cervix with vinegar, which causes pre-cancerous tumours to turn white.The results are known a minute later when a bright light is used to visually inspect the cervix. Aside from the cost savings,the instantaneous results are a major advantage for women in rural areas who might otherwise have to travel for hours to see a doctor.  one of the women who participated in the study, says it saved her life. Many women refused to get screened. Some of them died of cancer later.

This low-tech visual examination cut the cervical cancer death rate by 31 percent, the study found. It could prevent 22,000 deaths in India and 72,600 worldwide each year, researchers estimate. 

India has nearly one-third of the world's cases of cervical cancer - more than 140,000 each year. "It's not possible to provide Pap smear screening in developing countries. We don't have that much money or staff or equipment, so a simpler method had to be found.

Starting in 1998, researchers enrolled 75,360 women to be screened every two years with the vinegar test. Another 76,178 women were chosen for a control, or comparison group that just got cancer education at the start of the study and vouchers for a free Pap test - if they could get to the hospital to have one. Women in either group found to have cancer were offered free treatment at the hospital. Still, this quick and free cancer screening was a hard sell in a deeply conservative country. Social workers were sent into the slums to win people over. 
The study was planned for 16 years, but results at 12 years showed lives were saved with the screening. Hence independent monitors advised offering it to the women in the comparison group. 
More progress against cervical cancer may come from last month's announcement that two companies will drastically lower prices on HPV vaccines for poor countries. Pilot projects will begin in Asia and Africa; the campaign aims to vaccinate more than 30 million girls in more than 40 countries by 2020.