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Well-functioning fat key to fewer old age ailments, suggests study
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Copenhagen [Denmark], February 22 (ANI): Fat tissues play a pivotal role in human health. However, with age, they lose function and can lead to type 2 diabetes, obesity, cancer and other ailments. High levels of lifelong exercise have the potential to counteract this deterioration, according
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Shalimar Group adopts Soy Fed, India's first-ever feed label, introduced b
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], February 14 (ANI/BusinessWire India): Following the launch of India's first feed label, 'Soy Fed,' by Right To Protein, a nationwide public health initiative last year, Shalimar Group, a pioneer in the poultry industry, has joined the league of adopters after Sn
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Research reveals cultivation of plants with genes from one parent
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Los Angeles [US], November 22 (ANI): According to a study led by the plant biologists at the University of California, scientists are a step closer to breeding plants with genes from only one parent. Their findings have shown the underlying mechanism and could lead to easier as well as rapid
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Biologists identify new targets for cancer vaccines
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 16 (ANI): Over the past decade, scientists have been exploring vaccination as a way to help fight cancer. These experimental cancer vaccines are designed to stimulate the body's own immune system to destroy a tumour, by injecting fragments of cancer proteins found
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Study finds how to protect molecular guardians of brain from Parkinson's d
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Berlin [Germany], March 20 (ANI): A research team at the University of Konstanz has described a new approach for developing future treatments for Parkinson's disease. The biologists demonstrated that the ubiquitin-like protein FAT10 inhibits the molecular defence mechanisms, protecting the b
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Ingredients in sunscreen can damage freshwater ecosystems: Researchers
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 6 (ANI): The active ingredients found in sunscreen have detrimental effects on freshwater ecosystems, according to new research by University of Alberta biologists,
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Study finds new insights on promoting healthspan
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
California [USA], July 17 (ANI): Molecular biologists and bioengineers have unravelled key mechanisms behind the mysteries of ageing. They isolated two distinct paths that cells travel during ageing and engineered a new way to genetically program these processes to extend lifespan.
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Researchers study role of mutation in blood cancers
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 8 (ANI): A team of researchers, biologists, oncologists discovered a new genetic mutation that disrupts how DNA sends messages to the rest of a cell which has been linked to a large number of blood cancers.
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Study reveals role of mutation in blood cancers
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Feb 3 (ANI): A team of researchers -- including biologists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) and an oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) -- has discovered how a mutation triggers a chain of biological events that lead to most leukaemias.
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Biologists explain how beauty sleep works
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 18 (ANI): A team of biologists have explained how having a deep undisturbed good night sleep could help prepare us mentally and physically to take on the tedious activities of the day ahead.
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Beauty sleep could be real, say body clock biologists
Updated : 6 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Jan 16 (ANI): While taking a good night sleep, makes one feel energetic and refreshed for the day, Biologists have explained for the first time why having a good night's sleep really could prepare us for the rigorous activities of the day ahead.
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Study finds leaf-eating Asian monkeys do not have a sweet tooth
Updated : 6 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Sep 1 (ANI): Asian Colobine monkeys are unable to taste natural sugars, and in fact have a generally poor sense of taste as the receptors on their tongues do not function in the same way as for fruit-eating monkeys, found biologists.
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