TOKYO – Matusushita Electrical Industrial Co. claims to have developed technology that can determine a person’s response to medication as well as their risk of developing diseases.

Matsushita, better known through its well-established brand, Panasonic, collaborated with researchers at Konan University for this project. The company claims the technology is the first of its kind in the world. The technology uses artificial DNA that is dissolved in a solution rather than being attached to an electrode.

The technology electronically identifies sequence variations in a specific DNA strand, called single nucleotide polymorphisms, or SNP’s. An SNP refers to one base pair and its position in the DNA sequence that is different from the other base pair. It is these differences in base pairs which are said to generate individual differences in each person’s reaction to drugs, development diseases and other health related factors.

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According to a Swedish research, marriage or having a partner may decrease the risk of developing dementia considerably. The study has been presented at a US conference.

The researchers are of the view that it is social interaction between couples that helps to avoid the disease.

The Alzheimer’s Research Trust is considering the results quite worrying as in the UK divorce rates are considerably high.
“For some people, the problem might be even greater” the Karolinska Institute’s study suggests

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WASHINGTON: Baja California, the part of Mexico got clearance in the epidemic of “Salmonella-Tainted-Tomatoes”, but the U.S officials couldn’t find any of the consequences.

Meanwhile, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is trying its best to find out the major factors of the salmonella infection that led many American into illness. The restaurants and hotels are being investigated by the team of the U.S regime and FDA.

The officials of the FDA have found the solitary reason that there had been a large amount of tainted-tomatoes in the hotels and restaurants of the United States.

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