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Researchers find safer, greener way to make solar cells
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
London [UK], May 20 (ANI): Scientists at Swansea University, SPECIFIC Innovation and Knowledge Centre have found a way to replace the toxic, unsustainable solvents currently needed to make the next generation of solar technology.
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Lipid droplets help protect kidney cells from damage: Study
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
London [UK], May 18 (ANI): Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have found out how microscopic structures called lipid droplets may help to prevent a high-fat diet causing kidney damage. The work in fruit flies, published in PLoS Biology opens up a new research avenue for developing be
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Study finds what makes plant cell walls both strong and extensible
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 15 (ANI): A plant cell wall's unique ability to expand without weakening or breaking- a quality required for plant growth- is due to the movement of its cellulose skeleton, according to new research Penn State researchers that modelled the cell wall.
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New research optimizes body's own immune system to fight cancer
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 15 (ANI): A groundbreaking study led by engineering and medical researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities shows how engineered immune cells used in new cancer therapies can overcome physical barriers to allow a patient's own immune system to fight tumours.
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Registered 372 FIRs against Covid cheats, arrested 91 persons so far: Delh
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 11 (ANI): Delhi Police on Tuesday informed that it has so far registered 372 FIRs against "Covid cheats" and arrested 91 persons for the same.
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Scientists develop better way to block viruses causing respiratory infecti
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 11 (ANI): Researchers have improved a method in rodent models intended to help keep children healthy by engineering a short chunk of protein, or peptide, that can prevent the attachment of human parainfluenza viruses to cells.
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Scientists discover way to trick cancer cells into consuming toxic drugs
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 7 (ANI): A new research led by a team at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) points to a promising strategy to boost tumours' intake of cancer drugs, thereby increasing the effectiveness of chemotherapy treatments.
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Researchers find new map revealing genes that control skeleton
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Sydney [Australia], May 5 (ANI): Research led by the Garvan Institute of Medical Research has for the first time mapped the unique genetic profile of the skeleton's 'master regulator' cells, known as osteocytes.
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Research finds association between genetic changes in head-neck cancer, im
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 2 (ANI): A multi-institutional study, drove by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal, distinguished both the hereditary abnormalities that drive pre-cancer cells that lead to an intrusive kind of head and neck cancer and patients who are liable to r
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Study focuses on engineering T cells to attack cancer broadly
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Richmond (Virginia) [United States], May 1 (ANI): Through T cell engineering, researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center show that it's possible to arrest tumour growth for a variety of cancers and squash the spread of cancer to other tissues.
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Clinical study identifies genetic changes in head-neck cancer, association
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington [US], April 27 (ANI): A multi-institutional team of researchers has identified both the genetic abnormalities that drive pre-cancer cells into becoming an invasive type of head and neck cancer and patients who are least likely to respond to immunotherapy.
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Researchers discover nanobodies inhibit SARS-CoV-2 infection
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Melbourne [Australia], April 26 (ANI): In a groundbreaking discovery, Australian researchers have identified neutralising nanobodies that block the SARS-CoV-2 virus from entering cells in preclinical models.
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