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Researchers find single chest X-ray predicts risk of heart attack
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Study found that single X-ray that predicts the 10-year probability of dying from a heart attack or stroke caused by atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.
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Scientists reveal first close-up look at bats' immune response to live inf
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Scientists at Duke-NUS Medical School and colleagues in Singapore have sequenced the response to viral infection in colony-bred cave nectar bats (Eonycteris spelaea) at single-cell resolution. Published in the journal Immunity, the findings contribute to insights into bat immunity that could
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Venom in snakes and salivary protein in mammals share a common origin: Stu
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Snakes, some lizards and even a few mammals can have a venomous bite. Although these lineages split more than 300 million years ago, their venoms have evolved from the same ancestral salivary protein, reported scientists today in BMC Biology.
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Mosquitoes bite some of us more than others, here's why
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A study published by "The Rockefeller University" finally answers why mosquitoes have a certain preference for biting some humans more than others.
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Research shows migraines caused by alterations in metabolite levels
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Migraines are a pain in the head and in the hip pocket, but newly discovered genetic causes by QUT researchers could lead the way to new preventative drugs and therapies.
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Neurotic personality trait might be caused by blood pressure: Study
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Diastolic blood pressure, which is the lower of the two numbers in a blood pressure reading, is highly likely to cause neurotic personality traits.
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Poor diet damages blood vessels: Study
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Metabolic disease affects blood vessels in different organs of our body in a unique way, suggests the findings of recent study
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Cellular secrets of aging unlocked by researchers
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
New research has uncovered how genetic changes that accumulate slowly in blood stem cells throughout life are likely to be responsible for the dramatic change in blood production after the age of 70.
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MoHFW's India Hypertension Control initiative is saving lives across the C
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], November 25 (ANI/BusinessWire India): A deadly silent epidemic, high blood pressure (BP) or hypertension affects 1 in 4 Indian adults yet only about 12% of them have it under control.
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Study: CAR T cell therapy reaches beyond cancer
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Engineered immune cells, known as CAR T cells, have shown the world what personalized immunotherapies can do to fight blood cancers. Now, investigators have reported highly promising early results for CAR T therapy in a small set of patients with the autoimmune disease lupus. Penn Medicine C
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Study: Persistent asthma associated with plaque buildup in carotid arterie
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Adults with chronic asthma may have a higher risk of heart attack or stroke due to carotid artery plaque development as compared to those without asthma, participants in the study had increased plaque formation in their carotid arteries--large arteries on the left and right sides of the neck
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Discovery suggests new way to target mantle cell lymphoma
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
A form of blood cancer known as mantle cell lymphoma is critically dependent on a protein that coordinates gene expression, such that blocking its activity with an experimental drug dramatically slows the growth of this lymphoma in preclinical tests, according to a study from Weill Cornell M
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