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IIT Alumni Council to onboard industry partners for rapid deployment of fr
Updated : 11 months, 2 weeks ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 2: The IIT Alumni Council acts as a knowledge centre and enabler to identify and deploy frontier technologies. Cost-effective access to these shortlisted technologies is critical for India to achieve stated goals for socio- economic progress, import substitution, env
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Study finds imaging system that takes diagnosis step further
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
Recognising the benefits of imaging and spectroscopy, UBCO's Integrated Optics Laboratory (IOL) researchers developed imaging systems that use terahertz radiation.
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Increasing omega-3 intake might help protect your hearing: Study
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
A new population-based cross-sectional investigation discovered an inverse relationship between blood levels of the omega-3 fatty acid docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and hearing difficulties. Higher DHA levels in middle-aged and older people were 8-20% less likely than lower DHA levels to report
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Study reveals new enzyme may aid anticancer medicine development
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Many of the medications we use to treat cancer and infectious disease are - or are derived from natural chemicals, but it's difficult to know how nature assembles them.
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Novel AI-based software allows quick, reliable imaging of proteins in cel
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
In a cryo-ET experiment, scientists utilise a transmission electron microscope to create 3D images of the cellular volume containing complicated biomolecules, known as tomograms. To obtain a more detailed image of each protein.
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Researchers reveal role of polyphenols in regulating inflammatory immune r
Updated : 3 years ago IST
PCB2DG, an anti-inflammatory polyphenol, inhibits glutamine absorption by targeting and directly interacting with the main glutamine transporter protein, alanine serine cysteine transporter 2 (ASCT2). This reduction in intracellular glutamine accumulation in CD4+ T cells also inhibits the pr
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Peptide 'fingerprint' enables earlier diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [U.S], July 21 (ANI): Neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's disease or Parkinson's disease are caused by folding errors (misfolding) in proteins or peptides, i.e. by changes in their spatial structure. This is the result of minute deviations in the chemical composition of th
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MAHE researchers discover biomolecules preventing insulin effects on blood
Updated : 7 years, 7 months ago IST
Manipal (Karnataka) [India], Aug 7 (BusinessWire India): Insulin, a hormone secreted by the pancreas, plays an important role in stimulating the muscle, fat, and liver cells to consume glucose and produce energy. In addition to this, insulin also carries out specialised functions in cells su
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded for method to visualise biomolecules
Updated : 8 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], October 4 (ANI): The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to confer the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017 to three scientists for developing a technique to produce detailed images of life's complex molecular machinery.
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