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Study finds cancer cells eat themselves for survival
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Copenhagen [Denmark], July 3 (ANI): A new study focusing on the membrane of cancer cells showed a completely new way by which cancer cells can repair the damage that otherwise might kill them.
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Novel microscopy method provides look into future of cell biology
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 2 (ANI): UT (University of Texas) Southwestern scientists collaborated with colleagues in England and Australia to build and test a novel optical device that converts commonly used microscopes into multiangle projection imaging systems.
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Researchers engineer cells to destroy malignant tumour leaving other cells
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 28 (ANI): During a new study, researchers at McMaster University developed promising new cancer immunotherapy by using cancer-killing cells, genetically engineered outside the body to find and destroy malignant tumors.
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New study provides avenues for diagnosis, treatment of male infertility
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 28 (ANI): During a recent study, scientists from the University of Toledo found a new movement in sperm that provided them with innovative avenues for diagnostics and therapeutic strategies for infertility in men.
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Immune cells are kept in line by hard-working enzyme
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 25 (ANI): During a new study, researchers at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) shed light on a process in immune cells that may explain why some people develop cardiovascular diseases.
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Delta Plus may not be important for transmissibility but perhaps crucial f
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 25 (ANI): Delta Plus or AY.1 will always remain a variant of concern (VoC) as it is mutated from the Delta variant (B.1.617.2), which is also a VoC, informed the Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB) on Friday.
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Rare genetic defect can cause serious metabolic diseases in human
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 23 (ANI): A rare genetic defect that affects the so-called ALG2 gene can cause serious metabolic diseases in humans, said experts, adding that it does so through the defective formation of proteins and sugar molecules. Till now, its rareness and complexity made it diffi
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Pak govt's national curriculum threatening doctors' medical knowledge
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 22 (ANI): As part of the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf's (PTI) Single National Curriculum, religious scholars appointed as members of the SNC Committee are supervising the content of schoolbooks and have warned textbook publishers not to print any diagram or sket
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LaCONES-CCMB releases guidelines for COVID-19 testing in zoo animals
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], June 21 (ANI): After multiple COVID-19 cases were reported in zoo animals in India during the last month, the Laboratory for the Conservation of Endangered Species (LaCONES) of CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) has released guidelines for zo
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Researchers develop medication device to stop HIV transmission
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 17 (ANI): Researchers have designed a 'new smart segmented device' that delivers medications to stop HIV transmission and will help women to protect themselves against the infection.
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Researchers present new bizarre species of extinct lizard, previously misi
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 14 (ANI): During a recent study, an international research team described a new species of Oculudentavis and provided further evidence that the animal first identified as a hummingbird-sized dinosaur was actually a lizard.
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Researchers find algorithm to better CRISPR gene editing
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 10 (ANI): While researchers had first engineered CRISPR as a gene-editing technology for bacterial, plant, animal and human cells it eventually became a Nobel prize-winning revolution. The technology's potential spans from curing genetically disposed diseases to applica
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