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Researchers reveal level of copper in tumor cells
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Small amounts of the 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 shows Earth's first known mass extinction event 550 million years ag
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The earliest morphological traces of life on Earth are often highly controversial, both because non-biological processes can produce relatively similar structures and because such fossils have often been subjected to advanced alteration and metamorphism. Stromatolites, layered organo-sedimen
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Earth's oldest stromatolites and the search for life on Mars
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The earliest morphological traces of life on Earth are often highly controversial, both because non-biological processes can produce relatively similar structures and because such fossils have often been subjected to advanced alteration and metamorphism. Stromatolites, layered organo-sedimen
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Researchers discover cytoskeleton acts as cells' bouncer for bacteria
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P.a.) are resistant to most antibiotics and cause life-threatening infections of wounds or the lungs. The P.a. bacteria species has an entire arsenal of strategies for evading the immune system and infecting tissue. Researchers working with Prof. Dr. Winfried Romer an
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Researchers seek to understand why vaccine responses vary from person to p
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
While vaccines are one of the most powerful public health tools for protecting against infectious disease, not everybody is conferred the same level of protection. Many factors determine whether an individual responding to vaccination will generate an effective response, including specific b
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New Pesticide Usage Norms to Impact Agri-Export from Developing Countries
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], November 1 (ANI/PRNewswire): A well-guided effort is underway to seek the revocation of the inconsistent trade measures imposed by WTO at the next meeting of the World Trade Organisation - Sanitary and Phytosanitary Committee (November 7th - 11th, 2022). At issu
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Study finds inverted dancers have more acute visuomotor perception
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
According to researchers, the inversion effect can now be overcome in the perception of biological motion by persons on Earth with extensive visuomotor experience with inverted movements, such as vertical dancers.
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Strict parenting can genetically lead children to depression: Study
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
London [UK], October 22 (ANI): As a result of strict parenting, the way the body perceives the children's DNA might alter. Children who grow up with restrictions may have these modifications "hard-wired" into their DNA, increasing their biological risk of depression in adolescence and later
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Discovery of million years old genes in yeast reveals how parasitic DNA im
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 20 (ANI): New research from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, in collaboration with the National Institute for Biological Sciences in Beijing, China has uncovered a selfish gene family that has survived for over 100 million years - 10 times longer than any
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Research: Strict parenting may genetically predispose child to depression
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
London [UK], October 18 (ANI): The way the body interprets the children's DNA can change as a result of strict parenting. Children who experience their parents as harshly can really experience these changes becoming "hard-wired" into their DNA, which increases their biological risk for depre
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Adult brain may partially recover from genetic blindness: Study
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
California [US], October 15 (ANI): A new understanding of how some visually impaired people may come to see provides a new perspective on the brain's potential. Researchers from the University of California, Irvine School of Biological Sciences and the School of Medicine collaborated to unco
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Adopted from India, Swiss woman lands in Mumbai in search for biological m
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], October 14 (ANI): Bina Makhijani Muller who was adopted in 1978 by an Indian couple and taken to Switzerland, has been searching for her biological mother for over the past decade.
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