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Tissue-specific immunity may be the future: Research
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Recent pressure to maximize vaccine efficacy has stirred up many new discoveries within immunology, revealing numerous paradigms with untapped therapeutic potential.
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Perfectionists are more likely to burn out: Study
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
The study highlights some of the warning signs of burnout and suggests that people who tend to be perfectionists are more likely to veer into burnout due to their own 'unrelenting standards'.
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Delaying antibiotics for neutropenic fever may not affect survival of canc
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Neutropenia--low levels of white blood cells called neutrophils, which fight infection--develops in more than 80 per cent of patients who receive chemotherapy for blood cancer. It occurs because chemotherapy destroys neutrophils along with tumour cells.
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Research: Drying process could be key step in the development of life
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
New research could help explain crucial early steps on the path of life that led from a pool filled with simple amino acids to bacteria, redwood trees and people.
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Restricted abortion access linked to increased suicide risk in young women
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
In findings published in JAMA Psychiatry, Ran Barzilay of the Perelman School of Medicine and CHOP, Jonathan Zandberg of the Wharton School, and Rebecca Waller of Penn's Department of Psychology in the School of Arts & Sciences show that restricting abortion access is linked to increased
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Covid-19 booster increases durability of antibody response: Research
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
New research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine speaks to the benefits of a Covid-19 booster. The new findings shed light on how mRNA boosters - both Pfizer and Moderna - affect the durability of our antibodies to Covid-19. A booster, the researchers report, made for longer-l
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Research: Enzyme that protects against viruses could fuel cancer evolution
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
An enzyme that defends human cells against viruses can help drive cancer evolution towards greater malignancy by causing myriad mutations in cancer cells, according to a study led by investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine. The finding suggests that the enzyme may be a potential target for f
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Textbooks not keeping pace of increasing climate impacts: Research
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
A new study from North Carolina State University finds that biology textbooks have done a poor job of incorporating material related to climate change. For example, the study found that most textbooks published in the 2010s included less information about climate change than they did in the
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Microplastics deposited on seafloor triple in 20 years: Research
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
The total amount of microplastics deposited at the bottom of oceans has tripled in the past two decades with a progression that corresponds to the type and volume of consumption of plastic products by society.
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Scientists unlock cancer's ancestry
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Could knowing where your ancestors came from be the key to better cancer treatments? Maybe, but where would that key fit? How can we trace cancer's ancestral roots to modern-day solutions? For Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Research Professor Alexander Krasnitz, the answers may lie dee
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Study finds purpose behind spontaneous baby movements
Updated : 2 years, 4 months ago IST
According to new research led by the University of Tokyo, spontaneous, random baby movements aid the development of their sensorimotor system.
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Current Antarctic conservation efforts insufficient to avoid biodiversity
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Existing conservation efforts are insufficient to protect Antarctic ecosystems, and population declines are likely for 65 per cent of the continent's plants and wildlife by the year 2100, according to a study
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