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IIT Delhi Researchers create AI-Agent 'AILA' that can conduct real scienti
Updated : 2 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Researchers from IIT Delhi, along with collaborators from Denmark and Germany, have turned it into reality, as detailed in their recent Nature Communications publication titled 'Evaluating large language model agents for automation of atomic force microscopy'
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India's First Nature Conference on Nanomaterials in Biomedical Application
Updated : 2 years ago IST
Manipal (Karnataka) [India], February 29: India's first Nature Conference on "Nanomaterials in biomedical applications "in collaboration with Nature Portfolio's leading journals - Nature Communications and Nature Nanotechnology was successfully concluded at Manipal on 27th February 2024. Hos
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Light exercise can be key to reducing childhood obesity linked to inactivi
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
The study, published in Nature Communications, was conducted in collaboration with the Universities of Exeter, Eastern Finland, Bristol, and Colorado, and is the largest and longest follow-up to objectively measure physical activity and fat mass using data from the University of Bristol's Ch
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Researchers find new uses of artificial DNA
Updated : 2 years, 2 months ago IST
The results, which were published in Nature Communications, may make it easier for researchers to design unique proteins and produce new medications.
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Warming, deep-sea mining cause stress in midwater animals
Updated : 2 years, 3 months ago IST
In the scientific journal Nature Communications, a recent study headed by scientists at the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel offers the first insights into the stress response of a deep pelagic jellyfish to ocean warming and sediment plumes caused by deep-sea mining.
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AI algorithm helps to monitor muscle development; produces a growth chart
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
Researchers have devised a growth chart for tracking muscle mass in growing youngsters using artificial intelligence and the largest paediatric brain MRI dataset to date. The new study, led by Brigham and Women's Hospital, a founding member of the Mass General Brigham healthcare system, dis
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Basal melting of ice shelves in Greenland may lead to a 2-meter rise in se
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
Published in 'Nature Communications' on Tuesday, a study into Greenland's huge northern glaciers found that melting of ice shelves may lift the sea levels by 2.1 meters, nearly 7 feet if the glaciers were to break down completely.
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Specific gut bacteria raise risk of severe malaria: Research
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
Researchers at Indiana University School of Medicine have found many types of bacteria that, when present in the stomach, are associated with an elevated risk of getting severe malaria in humans and mice. Their findings, which were recently published in Nature Communications, could pave the
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Identification of brain signals for improved memory
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
Memory performance varies widely between people. Now, scientists at the University of Basel have found that specific brain signals are connected to these variations. While it is well known that certain brain regions play a crucial role in memory processes, so far it has not been clear wheth
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Plant-based food alternatives might help in shift to global sustainability
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
According to the study just published in Nature Communications, additional climate and biodiversity benefits could accrue from reforesting land spared from livestock production when meat and milk products are substituted by plant-based alternatives, more than doubling the climate benefits an
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Specific gene mutations accelerate growth of pancreatic tumours: Study
Updated : 5 months, 1 week ago IST
The new study, which was released in Nature Communications, explains how specific gene mutations cause pancreatic cancer to proliferate uncontrollably by turning on a "super-enhancer" that activates other genes.
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Heatwaves are getting more deadly and frequent
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
The old, the ill, and the poor are especially vulnerable to the devastating effects of heatwaves like the one we are presently experiencing. One of the deadliest natural disasters in recent memory, the 2003 heatwave that saw temperatures in Europe exceed 47.5 degrees Celsius claimed between
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