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Researchers find causes of brain disorders in people with Huntington's dis
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 19 (ANI): Huntington's disease is a genetic brain disorder caused by a mutation in the huntingtin gene. HD is a neurological disease that has no cure and produces personality changes, dementia symptoms, and uncontrollable convulsive movements, eventually leading to
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Study reveals antibiotics might worsen melanoma by depleting the gut micro
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Washington [US], September 17 (ANI): According to a new study by researchers at Emory University in Atlanta, the use of broad-spectrum antibiotics in mice with malignant melanoma, an aggressive form of skin cancer, accelerated their metastatic bone growth. This likely happened because the dr
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Fungal intruder shrinks, develops to aid infection spread in brain: Study
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 17 (ANI): According to new research from the University of Utah Health, a fungus that is a major cause of fungal meningitis undergoes a remarkable change once it enters the body, allowing it to infect the brain.
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Researchers find exercise might be a developing treatment for movement dis
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Montreal [Canada], September 17 (ANI): Spinal cerebellar ataxia 6 (SCA6) is a hereditary neurological disease that impairs motor coordination. Because SCA6 affects only about one in 100,000 people, medical researchers have paid it little attention. There is currently no known cure and just
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Researchers find macrophages may be scavenger cells of the immune system
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 17 (ANI): Alveoli are microscopic air sacs in our lungs that exchange gases between the air we breathe and our blood. To keep this process running properly, the alveolar epithelial cells create a material called "surfactant," which coats the alveoli like a film. Th
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MoS Rajeev Chandrasekhar to visit India's first Lithium Cell Manufacturing
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Tirupati (Andhra Pradesh) [India], September 16 (ANI): The Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar will visit India's first lithium cell manufacturing facility at Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh on Friday.
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Experimental test promises to predict side-effects and cancer's return in
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Washington [US], September 15 (ANI): A research test is designed to predict which patients treated with immunotherapies are likely to have their cancer recur or have severe side effects.
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Discovery of blood stem cells that could change medicine of the future: St
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 14 (ANI): Biomedical engineers and medical researchers at UNSW Sydney have independently made discoveries about embryonic blood stem cell creation that could one day eliminate the need for blood stem cell donors.
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Researchers develop drug that marks cancer cells for destruction by immune
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 14 (ANI): Tumour cells are infamous for their ability to evade the human immune system; they construct physical barriers, disguise themselves, and handcuff the immune system with molecular tricks.
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Researchers reveal how visual information travels from retina to midbrain
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 13 (ANI): Neuroscientists have revealed the precise connections between sensory neurons inside the retina and the superior colliculus, a structure in the midbrain. Neuropixels probes are a relatively recent development, representing the next generation of electrode
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Find out how human cells become Zika virus factories
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Los Angeles, September 13 (ANI): The Zika virus has a cunning plan. Once a virus has entered the body, it tends to head straight for dendritic cells, which are necessary for an efficient immune response.
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New approach for clearer fatty liver observation found
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], September 12 (ANI): Obesity can cause a number of health problems. Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), a kind of fatty liver disease that can lead to cancer, is more common in obese people. Treatment for NASH patients has yet to be discovered, owing in part to the lack of sui
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