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Researchers detect new clues to eliminate infant HIV infections
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington [US], April 27 (ANI): Each year over 150,000 infants worldwide are infected with HIV in the womb, at birth, or through breastfeeding. Why transmission occurs in some cases but not others has long been a mystery, but now a team led by Weill Cornell Medicine and Duke University scie
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Researchers find clues to sex differences in autism
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington [US], April 17 (ANI): While it is unclear why autism occurs much more frequently in boys than in girls. In a new Yale-led study, researchers find that autism may develop in different regions of the brain in girls than boys and that girls with autism have a larger number of genetic
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China attempts to shift attention on Covid-19 origins after WHO releases r
Updated : 4 years, 12 months ago IST
Beijing [China], March 31 (ANI): As the international community continues to raise the credibility and transparency of the report by the World Health Organization on Covid-19 origins, China on Wednesday sought to shift attention away from efforts inside its borders to trace the source of the
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Working in night shifts may increase cancer risk, reveals study
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Washington [US], March 13 (ANI): A novel study led by a team of researchers from the Washington State University has shed light on the clues as to why night shift workers may be at increased risk of developing certain types of cancer compared to those who work regular daytime hours.
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Night shift work may increase cancer risk, says study
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Washington [US], March 8 (ANI): A new study conducted by researchers at Washington State University has found new clues as to why night shift workers may be at increased risk of developing certain types of cancer compared to those who work regular daytime hours.
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Study suggests changes in writing style provide clues to group identity
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
London [UK], February 24 (ANI): Small changes to people's writing style can reveal which social group they "belong to" at a given moment, new research showed.
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Clues to Capuchin monkey's long life, large brain revealed in its genome
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington [US], February 15 (ANI): An international team of scientists during recent research have sequenced the genome of a capuchin monkey for the first time. This could lead to uncovering new genetic clues about the evolution of their long lifespan and large brains.
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Study offers clues on why psychiatric drugs work differently for women
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Colorado [USA], February 1 (ANI): New research, sheds light on one reason why drugs for mental illness work differently on men and women, and why these individual differences may exist. Turns out a key protein in the brain called AKT may function differently in males than females.
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New clues why gold standard treatment for bipolar disorder doesn't work fo
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], January 6 (ANI): Lithium is considered the gold standard for treating bipolar disorder (BD), but nearly 70 per cent of people with BD don't respond to it. This leaves them at risk for debilitating, potentially life-threatening mood swings. Researchers at the Salk Institute h
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Routine eye scans may give clues to cognitive decline in diabetes
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US], January 6 (ANI): As they age, people with diabetes are more likely to develop Alzheimer's disease and other cognitive disorders than are people without diabetes.
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Toxin provides clues to long-term effects of diarrhea caused by E. coli
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 10 (ANI): Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have discovered that a toxin produced by the bacterium Escherichia coli (E. coli), long known to cause diarrhea, also has other effects on the human digestive tract.
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Retinas: New potential clues in diagnosing, treating Alzheimer's
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], November 18 (ANI): A study led by the Cedars-Sinai Department of Neurosurgery has identified certain regions in the retina - the lining found in the back of the eye - that are more affected by Alzheimer's disease than other areas.
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