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Study shows antibiotic levels measurable in breath samples
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Berlin [Germany], September 22 (ANI): A team of engineers and biotechnologists at the University of Freiburg has for the first time shown in mammals that the levels of antibiotics in the body can be determined using breath samples.
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Prehistoric primates had a sweet tooth: Study
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [UK], September 18 (ANI): Dental fossils belonging to a species of prehistoric primate, Microsyops latidens, which date to the early Eocene, around 54 million years ago, display the earliest known evidence of dental caries in mammals, according to a recent study.
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Researchers find prehistoric primates had sweet tooth
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 13 (ANI): During a recent study, scientists found dental fossils belonging to a species of prehistoric primate, Microsyops latidens, which dates back to the early eocene (around 54 million years ago), display the earliest known evidence of dental caries in mammals.
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Birds, mammals evolve faster where land has risen most: Study
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
London [UK], September 5 (ANI): A new study has found that the rise and fall of Earth's land surface over the last three million years shaped the evolution of birds and mammals, with new species evolving at higher rates where the land has risen most.
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Researchers study processes of protein quality control in healthy, disease
Updated : 4 years, 6 months ago IST
Munich [Germany], August 23 (ANI): A new research has been able to make the state of protein balance visible in the mammalian brain for the first time. In this way, the processes of protein quality control can now be studied in healthy and diseased neurons in more detail.
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Mammals dream about world they are entering
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 24 (ANI): As a newborn mammal opens its eyes for the first time, it can already make visual sense of the world around it. But how does this happen before they have experienced sight?
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Stem cells can use same method as plants, insects to protect against virus
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
London [UK], July 9 (ANI): Researchers at the Francis Crick Institute have found a vital mechanism, previously thought to have disappeared as mammals evolved, that helps protect mammalian stem cells from RNA viruses such as SARS-CoV-2 and Zika virus. The scientists suggest this could one day
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Study uses AI to predict unknown links between viruses, mammals
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Liverpool [UK], June 25 (ANI): The findings of a new University of Liverpool study could help scientists mitigate the future spread of zoonotic and livestock diseases caused by existing viruses.
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Study shows which mammals live most successfully alongside people
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 23 (ANI): A team of researchers led by scientists at the University of California- Santa Cruz analyzed data from 3,212 camera traps to show how human disturbance could be shifting the makeup of mammal communities across North America.
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Mammals can use their intestines to breathe: Study
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 16 (ANI): Rodents and pigs share with certain aquatic organisms the ability to use their intestines for respiration, according to a new study published in the journal Med.
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Social isolation behaviour in ants is similar to that of humans
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Berlin [Germany], April 11 (ANI The findings of a recent study by researchers at Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz has revealed alterations to the social and hygienic behaviour of ants that had been isolated from their group. They react to social isolation in a similar way as do humans a
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Researchers discover key brain molecule that may play role in brain disord
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington [US], April 10 (ANI): A molecule called microRNA-29 as a powerful controller of brain maturation in mammals has been discovered by a team, led by scientists at the University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Medicine. Deleting microRNA-29 in mice caused problems very similar to t
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