SUNY Scientists Find Longer DRD4 Gene Can Lead to Double Risk for Promiscuity, Infidelity John Coleman, a 22-year-old from Syracuse, N.Y., has been engaged for the last two years and cannot fathom having sex with anyone other than his girlfriend. “I find cheating appalling,” said Coleman. “There’s got to be something going on in your head to cheat.” It turns out Coleman is right. In what is being called a first of its kind study, researchers at Binghamton University, State University of New York (SUNY) have discovered that about half of all people have a gene that...

Among those who developed syndrome, many had later occurrences, study found MONDAY, Dec. 6 (HealthDay News) — Women who experience restless legs syndrome (RLS) during pregnancy are at increased risk for having it again during future pregnancies or developing a chronic form of the condition later in life, researchers have found. RLS causes unpleasant sensations in the legs. Symptoms are generally worse at night and tend to progress with age. Movement generally relieves symptoms. Italian researchers recruited 74 women who had RLS during pregnancy and 133 who did not. Six-and-a-half years later,...

Scientists have announced a ‘revolutionary’ discovery which could reverse the nerve damage and paralysis caused by multiple sclerosis, reported the Daily Express. The news story is based on a laboratory study in animal and human cells. The study established the role of particular substances in the natural repair of myelin, the substance that insulates nerve cells in the brain and that is damaged in multiple sclerosis (MS). This type of research is a crucial first step in understanding the neurological processes underlying diseases such as multiple sclerosis. The findings have been called...

The length of men’s digits reveals surprising facts about health, sex and ambition Men across Britain got measuring on Wednesday, after a study was published suggesting the chance of getting prostate cancer could be deduced by finger size. An index finger longer than a ring finger on your right hand (it was written in the British Journal of Cancer) meant less risk. Great, we all thought, taking out rulers – let’s get a potentially depressing glimpse into the future! Further reading revealed that this was not the first time scientists had ascribed incredible predictive powers to the...

By Denise Ryan, Postmedia News VANCOUVER — Thanks to scientist Justin Garcia, you can now blame your promiscuous sexual behaviour on your genetic makeup — but you might not get away with it. Garcia’s research, based on DNA scraped from the cheeks of 181 young, sexually active adults, shows a link between a variant of DRD4 — a gene that affects dopamine receptors — and infidelity, one-night stands, drinking and thrill-seeking. DRD4 was instantly dubbed the “slut gene.” We all have the so-called “promiscuity” or “cheating gene,” Garcia said from...

By Thomas Grillo Genetic scientists at Harvard Medical School said they have partially reversed aging in lab mice — transforming gray-haired, feeble rodents from the mouse equivalent of “an 80-year-old person to a teenager” — an astonishing achievement that may someday make Ponce de Leon’s mythical “Fountain of Youth” a reality for humans. “This study teaches us for the first time that aging can be reversed,” said Ronald DePinho, co-author of the new research paper and a scientist at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. The research team produced engineered mice that aged...

A gene therapy technique which aims to ease memory problems linked to Alzheimer’s Disease has been successfully tested in mice. US scientists used it to increase levels of a chemical which helps brain cells signal to each other. This signalling is hindered in Alzheimer’s Disease, the journal Nature reported. The Alzheimer’s Research Trust said the study suggested a way to keep nerve cells in the brain communicating, Ageing populations in many countries around the world mean that Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia are set to increase. Researchers at the Gladstone...

Chicago, United States (AHN) – According to a research study from the Smell and Taste Treatment and Research Foundation in Chicago, men are more sexually aroused by the scent of pumpkin pie mixed with lavender, than any other fancy perfume. Lead researchers, Dr. Alan Hirsch and Dr. Jason Gruss tested 24 different scents on men aged 18 to 64 and recorded their penile blood flow. Black licorice and doughnut, was the next highest sexually arousing scent and only garnered 31.5 percent response; pumpkin pie and lavender scored 40%. Perfume Lily of the Valley and buttered popcorn were at the...

Experts in HIV-AIDS are hailing the discovery that an antiretroviral medication appears to also prevent HIV infection as an important finding, but say the medication can’t replace condoms. The study, released Tuesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, looked at Truvada, a medication already used in HIV patients to reduce their “viral load” — the amount of the virus in their bodies. FragranceNet.com’s Black Friday Deal is On…Use Code BFLS for Free Shipping On All Orders…Ends 11.29.10 The research found that when uninfected gay and bisexual men took...

“A pill that could add decades to the average lifespan moved a step closer yesterday,” reported the Daily Express.  It said that scientists have found an anti-ageing enzyme that protects cells from decay. This research looked at how a calorie-restricted diet and the action of a protein called Sirt3 affected the development of age-related hearing loss in mice. It found that mice that were capable of producing Sirt3 in response to having a calorie-restricted diet had slower development of age-related hearing loss than those unable to produce Sirt3. This laboratory study gives us a new insight...