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Study reveals how composition of joint lubricant potential cause behind os
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Almost 35 million adults in the U.S. suffer from osteoarthritis, a degenerative joint condition caused on by cartilage breakdown. Although the precise cause of cartilage destruction in osteoarthritis is uncertain, mechanical stress damage with insufficient self-repair is thought to be the ma
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Study reveals how odor molecule activates human odorant receptor
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Scientists at UC San Francisco (UCSF) have created the first molecular-level, 3D picture of how an odour molecule activates a human odorant receptor, breaking a long-standing impasse in our understanding of olfaction.
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Study gives insight into mechanism that fuels antibiotic resistance
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
A concern to global health is antibiotic resistance. Antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections were blamed for an estimated 1.3 million deaths globally in 2019 alone. Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have been examining the mechanism that fuels antibiotic resistance at the molecular
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Odisha govt to provide free Molecular tests for cancer treatment
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
"The samples will be collected from selected state-run hospitals, tested in the InDNA laboratory at Bhubaneswar, and reports would be submitted back to the Institutions," Odisha government said in a statement.
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Researchers reveal effectiveness of vaccination against specific types of
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Many vaccines contain compounds known as adjuvants in addition to an antigen that stimulates the immune system. A Chinese research team has now created two novel broad-spectrum adjuvants that can dramatically boost the immune response to vaccines using computer-aided molecular design and ma
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Molecular mechanism involved in development of type 2 diabetes: Study
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
The study has described --in patients and animal model samples of type 2 diabetes-- a decrease in mitochondrial proteins that synthesize complex subunits of the respiratory chain. This decrease in proteins is associated with an increase in intracellular nitric oxide which, according to the r
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Excess calories during development of brain-altering reduce cravings for u
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
In Molecular Metabolism, a Rutgers study found that early overnutrition rewires developing brains to seek unhealthy food in children whose mothers are overweight during pregnancy and nursing.
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Research identifies molecular mechanism involved in type 2 diabetes
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Research has identified a molecular mechanism involved in the development of development of type-2 diabetes.
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Muscle health depends on lipid synthesis: Research
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Researchers at the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences characterize how the enzyme PCYT2 affects muscle health in disease and aging in laboratory mouse models. The findings are published on in Nature Metabolism.
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Excess calories during development alter brain, spurs adult overeating: St
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
According to a Rutgers study published in Molecular Metabolism, people whose moms are overweight during pregnancy and nursing might become obese as adults because early overnutrition rewires developing brains to crave unhealthy food
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Study suggests how combination of drugs help to reduce lung tumors
Updated : 2 years, 12 months ago IST
Personalization of cancer treatments has long been a goal--finding the right drugs that work for a patient's specific tumour based on specific genetic and molecular patterns. Many of these targeted therapies are highly effective, but they are not available for all cancers, including NSCLCs w
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Group of neurons responsible for behavioural problems caused by chronic st
Updated : 3 years ago IST
When these POMC neurons become super active, these sort of behavioural problems result and when scientists reduce their activity, it reduces the behaviours. The report was published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry.
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