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Researchers develop antifreeze cream to prevent frostbite injuries
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington [US], January 21 (ANI): A team of researchers has developed a cream that prevents frostbite injuries in mice when applied to the skin 15 minutes before severe cold exposure.
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Study finds that gut can sense the difference between real sugar and artif
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Durham (North Carolina) [US], January 17 (ANI): A new research study, led by Diego Bohorquez, an associate professor of medicine and neurobiology in the Duke University School of Medicine shed light on the cells in one's intestines that could distinguish between two sweet solutions and commu
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Study finds flame-retardants associated with autistic-like behaviour
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
California [US], January 3 (ANI): A team of researchers has found that when female mice exposed to PBDEs pass on these neuroendocrine-disrupting chemicals to their developing offspring, the female offspring show traits relevant to autism spectrum disorders, or ASD.
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Study finds Zika-virus therapy protects the fetal mouse brain
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Washington [US] January 1 (ANI): A study has found a gene-silencing therapy protecting against Zika virus transmission from pregnant mice to mouse fetuses.
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Study finds why some COVID cases are more critical than others
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
New Haven [US], December 20 (ANI): A new study has found that some COVID cases are more critical than others due to the antiviral inflammatory response to the virus, with the help of humanized mice.
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Research explores how brain learns, protects itself
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Gottingen [Germany], December 18 (ANI): It was studied during recent research that what happens when certain enzymes are blocked in mice and depending on whether the brain is healthy or diseased, the inhibition had opposite effects.
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Study finds how the brain adapts learning and protecting itself
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Gottingen [Germany], December 16 (ANI): Researchers at the University of Gottingen studied what happens when certain enzymes are blocked in mice and depending on whether the brain is healthy or diseased, the inhibition had opposite effects.
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Nasal vaccine might help fight new COVID-19 variants: Study
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Connecticut [US], December 11 (ANI): In a new study by Yale's Akiko Iwasaki, the Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor of Immunobiology, it was found that intranasal vaccination provided broad-based protection against heterologous respiratory viruses in mice.
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Study finds damaged telomeres in elders might increase SARS-CoV-2 suscepti
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Heidelberg [Germany], December 4 (ANI): The expression of the cell receptor for the SARS-CoV-2 virus, ACE2 which is essential for mediating cell entry of the virus, increases in the lungs of ageing mice and humans, according to a group of Italian and American researchers led by Fabrizio d'Ad
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Damaged telomeres in elders might increase susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2: S
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Heidelberg [Germany], December 3 (ANI): According to a group of Italian and American researchers led by Fabrizio d'Adda di Fagagna, the expression of the cell receptor for the SARS-CoV-2 virus, ACE2 which is essential for mediating cell entry of the virus, increases in the lungs of ageing mi
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Study: Spread of cancer gets constrained by high cell membrane tension
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], November 14 (ANI): A recent research collaboration has discovered that cancer invasion and migration can be suppressed in mice by manipulating the stiffness of the cell membrane. The membranes of cancer cells are more pliant than the membranes of normal cells.
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Vascular damage in type 2 diabetes patients caused by lack of important mo
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Stockholm [Sweden], November 13 (ANI): Red blood cells' altered function leads to vascular damage in type 2 diabetes. This effect is caused by low levels of an important molecule in the red blood cells, as shown by the results of a new study in cells from patients with type 2 diabetes and mi
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