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New clues why gold standard treatment for bipolar disorder doesn't work fo
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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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Self-controlled children tend to be healthier middle-aged adults, suggests
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Washington [US], January 6 (ANI): The findings of a study suggest that self-control, the ability to contain one's own thoughts, feelings and behaviours, and to work toward goals with a plan, is one of the personality traits that makes a child ready for school. And, it turns out, ready for li
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Uncovering how grasslands changed our climate: Study
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Washington [US], January 5 (ANI): A new study uncovered how grasslands used by humans have changed our climate over the last centuries.
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Scientists discover novel film that evaporates sweat six times faster, hol
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Singapore, January 4 (ANI): A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has created a novel film that is very effective in evaporating sweat from our skin to keep us cool and comfortable when we exercise, and the moisture harvested from human sweat can be used to po
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Researchers find novel way to identify heat-stressed corals
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Washington [US], January 4 (ANI): Researchers have found a novel way to identify heat-stressed corals, which could help scientists pinpoint the coral species that need protection from warming ocean waters linked to climate change, according to a Rutgers-led study.
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Blood vessel damage, inflammation in COVID-19 patients' brains: Study
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Washington [US], January 3 (ANI): A team of researchers from National Institutes of Health, in an in-depth study of how COVID-19 affects a patient's brain, have consistently spotted hallmarks of damage caused by thinning and leaky brain blood vessels in tissue samples. These damage hallmarks
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Researchers discover music-induced emotions can be predicted from brain sc
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Turku [Finland], January 3 (ANI): In a recent study, researchers discovered what type of neural mechanisms are the basis for emotional responses to music.
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Study reveals single gene 'invented' haemoglobin several times
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Washington [US], December 30 (ANI): Thanks to the marine worm Platynereis dumerilii, an animal whose genes have evolved very slowly, a team of scientists have shown that while haemoglobin appeared independently in several species, it actually descends from a single gene transmitted to all by
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Researchers discover new mammal reference genome that helps ID genetic var
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Washington [US], December 28 (ANI): The rhesus macaque is the most widely studied nonhuman primate in biomedical research. A genome sequencing project for this species, led by a team of researchers has created a new framework for the study of this important primate.
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COVID-19 severity is affected by proportion of antibodies targeting crucia
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Washington [US], December 27 (ANI): Coronavirus antibodies wane significantly within several months of infection and preferentially target a different part of the virus in mild cases than in comparison to severe ones, suggest the findings of a new study.
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Resistance to certain cancer therapies may be caused by loss of anti-tumou
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Washington [US], December 26 (ANI): According to Penn State College of Medicine researchers, the absence of a protein that works to prevent tumour formation may explain why some patients are resistant to common cancer therapy.
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Study reveals how our brains track where we and others go
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Washington [US], December 25 (ANI): As COVID cases rise, physically distancing yourself from other people has never been more important. Now a new University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) study reveals how your brain navigates places and monitors someone else in the same location.
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