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Research: Network neuroscience theory best predictor of intelligence
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Scientists have labored for decades to understand how brain structure and functional connectivity drive intelligence. A new analysis offers the clearest picture yet of how various brain regions and neural networks contribute to a person's problem-solving ability in a variety of contexts, a t
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We need more evidence to prove that COVID-19 is a bio warfare weapon: Top
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Amid a surge in coronavirus cases in several countries across the globe, top health experts believe that COVID-19 is a biological warfare weapon but more evidence is needed to prove this.
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Researchers discover new mechanism to boost RNA therapies
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Investigators from the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai have identified how biological pacemaker cells--cells that control your heartbeat--can "fight back" against therapies to biologically correct abnormal heartbeat rates. The research also uncovered a new way to boost the effectivenes
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Biological E gets DCGI's nod to manufacture, market 14-valent pneumococcal
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Streptococcus pneumonia infection remains one of the leading causes of death among children under five in India and developing countries. BE's PCV14 Vaccine will help prevent invasive pneumococcal infection and save millions of lives worldwide. PCV14 may be administered to infants of 6, 1
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Study etches out mechanism of drug as ADHD medication
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
According to a recent study published in 'Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging', the most common ADHD medication drug, methylphenidate, is now better understood in terms of its mechanism.
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Study reveals biological effectiveness of insecticidal malaria nets' gets
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Insecticidal malaria nets, which are meant to be biologically effective for at least three years, could potentially save lives, but research revealed that they may lose their effectiveness after just one year.
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Study: HIV speeds up body's aging processes soon after infection
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
HIV has an "early and substantial" impact on aging in infected people, accelerating biological changes in the body associated with normal aging within just two to three years of infection, according to a study by UCLA researchers and colleagues.
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Study reveals key role of protein in helping drive bowel cancer
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
The study revealed the essential structural understandings of the mysterious but significant tankyrase protein, which is a key player in the development of bowel cancer.
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Researchers trace neural pathways that cause vomiting after consuming cont
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
The urge to vomit after eating contaminated food is the body's natural defensive response to get rid of bacterial toxins. However, the process of how our brain initiates this biological reaction upon detecting germs remains elusive.
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Coral select algae partnerships to ease environmental stress
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Corals live symbiotically with a variety of microscopic algae that provide most of the energy corals require, and some algae can make coral more resilient to heat stress. In assessing one of the main reef builders in Hawai'i, Montipora capitata or rice coral, researchers found that the symbi
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Researchers find why Cancer cells require proteins, copper
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Study revealed why metal copper are required by human cells to perform essential biological functions. The conclusion drawn from studies demonstrating higher copper levels in tumor cells and blood serum from cancer patients is that cancer cells require more copper than healthy cells.
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Study reveals muscle strength tied to biological age
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Disease, poor food, smoking, and other lifestyle factors all hasten biological ageing beyond chronological age. In other words, you're ageing more quickly than you should be. And for the first time, researchers have discovered a link between accelerated biological age and muscle weakness ind
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