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Study focuses on fighting cancer by unlocking the potential of viruses
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 30 (ANI): Researchers recently conducted a new study focused on the development of novel anticancer strategies based on oncolytic viruses, "good" viruses that can specifically infect, replicate in and kill cancer cells.
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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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Study finds how immune cells can be trained to fight infections
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 28 (ANI): The body's immune cells naturally fight off viral and bacterial microbes and other invaders, but they can also be reprogrammed or 'trained' to respond even more aggressively and potently to such threats, report University of California- Los Angeles scientists
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Newly discovered stem cell resting phase could put brain tumours to sleep
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 27 (ANI): Biomedical engineering researchers developed a new cell classifier tool that takes a higher-resolution look at the life cycle of neuroepithelial stem cells, which led to the discovery and exploration of a new resting phase called Neural G0.
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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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Virus that causes COVID-19 can find alternate route to infect cells: Study
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 25 (ANI): Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists identified how SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, gets inside cells to cause infection. All current COVID-19 vaccines and antibody-based therapeutics were designed to disrupt this route into cells, which requ
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Reliance to build giga factories for new energy generation
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], June 24 (ANI): Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) plans to build four giga factories to manufacture and integrate all critical components of a new energy ecosystem, Chairman and Managing Director Mukesh Ambani said on Thursday.
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Research provides roadmap to HIV eradication via stem cell therapy
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 24 (ANI): In a groundbreaking study, a team of University of California- Davis Health researchers have uncovered the stem cells' ability to restore immunity and repair gut damage caused by HIV.
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UK study finds COVID-19 infection impacts brain's grey cells
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 23 (ANI): A novel study that drew on data gathered by UK Biobank suggests COVID-19 survivors may suffer from a loss of grey matter and other brain tissue over time.
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Study discovers compounds that protect lung cells, may block COVID virus
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 20 (ANI): Elovanoids, the bioactive chemical messengers made from omega-3 very-long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids, may block the virus that causes COVID-19 from entering cells and protect the air cells (alveoli) of the lung.
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Studies throw light on how TB destroys lungs and how to protect them
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 16 (ANI): The findings of two new studies have thrown unprecedented light on disease processes in tuberculosis, identifying key genetic changes that cause damage in the lungs and drug treatment that could speed up recovery.
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Researchers find compound that blocks SARS-CoV-2, protects lung cells
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 14 (ANI): Research conducted at Louisiana State University Health New Orleans Neuroscience Center of Excellence reports that 'Elovanoids', bioactive chemical messengers made from omega-3 very-long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids, may block the virus that causes COVID-
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