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High tibial osteotomy may help prevent total knee replacement
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington [US], February 6 (ANI): High tibial osteotomy, which is an underused type of knee surgery in younger patients, has shown considerable success in reducing the need for total knee replacement.
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Large Gene panel helpful in identifying cancer-causing genes
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Washington [US], February 6 (ANI): Researchers during a recent study have found a gene panel that includes all genes known to potentially cause cancer. This can be readily adopted for use in clinical laboratories to diagnose acute myeloid leukemia, or AML.
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Link found between children's time perception, risk for developmental coor
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington [US], February 5 (ANI): Neuroscientists at McMaster University have found a link between children who are at risk for developmental coordination disorder (DCD), a common condition that can cause clumsiness, and difficulties with time perception such as interpreting changes in rhyt
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Study reveals Nehandertals' gut microbiota, bacteria helping our health
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Bologna [Italy], February 5 (ANI): Neanderthals' gut microbiota already included some beneficial micro-organisms that are also found in our own intestine, suggest the findings of a new study.
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A new method to predict individual risk of cognitive decline
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Washington [US], February 5 (ANI): The early prognosis of high-risk older adults for amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI), using non-invasive and sensitive neuro markers, is key for early prevention of Alzheimer's disease, suggested the findings of a new study.
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Deadliest of synthetic opioids can be weakened by experimental vaccine: St
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington [US], February 5 (ANI): During COVID-19, as the opioid epidemic raged on with an even greater force, researchers have been working on new therapeutic interventions that may be helpful in preventing the bulk of deaths due to opioid overdose.
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Genes in some bats change due to deadly white-nose syndrome
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Washington [US], February 4 (ANI): Scientists during a recent study have found genetic variations between bats killed by white-nose syndrome and the bats that survived. This suggests that the surviving individuals rapidly evolved to resist the fungal disease.
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Mortality of cage-free egg-laying hens decline over time: Study
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington [US], February 4 (ANI): A new study based on the largest-to-date analysis of commercial data on egg-laying hen mortality has found that mortality in higher-welfare cage-free housing systems decreases over time as management experience increases and knowledge accrues.
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Study suggests some food contamination starts in the soil
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington [US], February 3 (ANI): When most people hear 'food contamination,' they think of bacteria present on unwashed fruits or vegetables, or undercooked meat. However, there are other ways for harmful contaminants to be present in food products.
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Study reveals brain-related visual problems may affect one in 30 primary s
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Bristol [England], February 3 (ANI): A brain-related visual impairment, which until recently was thought to be rare, may affect one in every 30 children according to new research investigating the prevalence of Cerebral Visual Impairment [CVI].
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Study analyses hormone seasonality in humans
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Tel Aviv [Israel], February 3 (ANI): A recent study has provided researchers with a dataset of millions of hormone tests from medical records that shows seasonality with a winter-spring peak in hormones for reproduction, growth, metabolism, and stress adaptation. The hormone seasonality indi
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Study offers clues on why psychiatric drugs work differently for women
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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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