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World Kidney Day: One third of children with kidney tumour have hereditary
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Utrecht [Netherlands], March 5 (ANI): It is often seen that a perfectly healthy young person, who is not just fit but also active, gets diagnosed with diabetes. The reason? Their genes! But what about complications like a kidney tumour? A recent study has made a shocking discovery that one-t
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Pregnancy weight gain linked to growth patterns in daughters: Study
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Texas [US], February 9 (ANI): People often say obesity is hereditary. But how much of it is true? According to a new study from researchers at The University of Texas at Austin, rapid weight gain in the first and final months of a pregnancy may play a key role in the development of excess fa
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Love for nature is partially heritable, suggests study
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Singapore, February 7 (ANI): How many of us love visiting nature parks and taking a quiet stroll there, with nothing but the sound of birds? Did our parents do the same thing when they were young? According to a large-scale study of UK twins led by Chia-chen Chang at the National University
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Cerebral palsy can be genetic: Study
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Boston (Massachusetts) [US], January 25 (ANI): Cerebral palsy is a non-progressing motor impairment that begins in early childhood. It has widely been viewed as the result of oxygen deprivation during birth or other birth-related factors such as prematurity.
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Science-based nutraceuticals, the authentic way on the first International
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 2 (ANI/Target Media): Nutraceuticals are composed of bioactive ingredients such as vitamins, minerals, fibres, proteins (including enzymes), probiotics (including prebiotics and synbiotics), and amino acids that assist in the prevention and management of diseases
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Patients with noncancerous brain tumors affecting hearing may benefit from
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 18 (ANI): The findings of a recent study indicated that the blood pressure drug losartan can benefit patients suffering from neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2). It's a hereditary condition associated with vestibular schwannomas or noncancerous tumours along the nerves in t
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Antihypertension drug may help patients with noncancerous brain tumors aff
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 16 (ANI): A new study indicated that the blood pressure drug losartan may benefit patients with neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2), a hereditary condition associated with vestibular schwannomas, or noncancerous tumors along the nerves in the brain that are involved with hea
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Researchers identify gene that causes canine hereditary deafness in puppie
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Helsinki [Finland], May 21 (ANI): Researchers at the University of Helsinki have been the first to determine the cause for the nonsyndromic early-onset hereditary canine hearing loss in Rottweilers. The gene defect was identified in a gene relevant to the sense of hearing. The study can also
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Remembering Mirwaiz Farooq on his 21st death anniversary
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 21 (ANI): Mirwaiz Maulvi Mohammad Farooq Shah, the Mirwaiz (a hereditary position of religious authority) of Kashmir and Chairman of the All Jammu and Kashmir Awami Action Committee, was assassinated on May 21, 1990, at his residence at Nageen, Srinagar, by terroris
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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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Genome study of Capuchin monkey uncovers hints on its large brain, long li
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Washington [US], February 20 (ANI): A study led by a team of scientists from the University of Calgary in Canada and the University of Liverpool in the UK sequenced the genome of a Capuchin monkey to uncover new hereditary hints about the evolution of the breed's long life expectancy and eno
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Study sheds light on link between gene readouts, mental disorders
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Washington [US], February 13 (ANI): A new study suggested that the distinctions in the expression of gene transcripts that construct the cells of the human body might prove helpful in understanding how mental issues with shared hereditary danger factors bring about various examples of onset,
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