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Study: Positively charged nanomaterials treat obesity anywhere you want
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Researchers have long been working on how to treat obesity, a serious condition that can lead to hypertension, diabetes, chronic inflammation, and cardiovascular diseases. Studies have also revealed a strong correlation between obesity and cancer, recent data show that smoking, drinking alco
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Unrecyclable plastic can now be recycled
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
PVC, or polyvinyl chloride, is one of the most produced plastics in the United States and the third highest by volume in the world.
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Scientists link rare genetic phenomenon to neuron function, schizophrenia
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Using state-of-the-art whole-genome sequencing and machine learning techniques, researchers conducted one of the first and the largest investigations of tandem repeats in schizophrenia, elucidating their contribution to the development of this devastating disease.
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Research: Existing drug could reduce side effects of popular cancer treatm
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
A Michigan State University researcher is part of an international team that found an existing drug may help decrease the side effects of cisplatin, a widely used cancer treatment that was discovered at MSU in 1965.
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Silent synapses are abundant in the adult brain: Study
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Neuroscientists discovered that the adult brain contains millions of 'silent synapses' immature connections between neurons that remain inactive until they're recruited to help form new memories.
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Scientists discover new material that helps diabetic wounds heal quickly
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Scientists have discovered a new material that can be applied to diabetic wounds for faster healing with just one application.
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Transcranial magnetic stimulation shows potential to treat psychiatric dis
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
As a noninvasive neuromodulation method, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) shows great potential to treat a range of mental and psychiatric diseases, including major depression.
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DNA sequence helps in understanding origins of jaws: Study
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Researchers at Uppsala University have discovered and characterised a DNA sequence found in jawed vertebrates, such as sharks and humans, but absent in jawless vertebrates, such as lampreys. This DNA is important for the shaping of the joint surfaces during embryo development.
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Research reveals how women can reduce risk of hip fracture
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Increasing their intake of protein and drinking regular cups of tea or coffee is a way women could reduce their risk of suffering a hip fracture, according to new research.
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Gut microbes disturbed by COVID-19 infection, antibiotics: Research
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
In an intensive look at the effects of the virus causing COVID-19 on patients' microbiome - the collection of microorganisms that live in and on the human body - Rutgers scientists found that acute infection disrupts a healthy balance between good and bad microbes in the gut, especially with
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Study: HIV speeds up body's aging processes soon after infection
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
HIV has an "early and substantial" impact on aging in infected people, accelerating biological changes in the body associated with normal aging within just two to three years of infection, according to a study by UCLA researchers and colleagues.
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Study reveals why highly infectious cholera variant mysteriously died out
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
A new study reveals why a highly infectious variant of the cholera bug, which caused large disease outbreaks in the early 1990s, did not cause the eighth cholera pandemic as feared but instead unexpectedly disappeared.
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