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Research explores how dryland dynamics change due to climate change
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
A hydrologist in the IUPUI School of Science, Professor Lixin Wang, recently reviewed advances in the study of dryland productivity and examined major outstanding debates on dryland responses to environmental changes.
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New research reveals smartphones are reservoirs of allergens
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
A new study showed elevated levels of cat and dog allergens, as well as BDG and endotoxin on simulated phone models.
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Injections for diabetes, cancer could become unnecessary soon
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Some medications for these illnesses dissolve in water, making it impossible to carry them through the intestines, which process food and drink. As a result, these medications can't be taken by mouth. But UCR researchers have developed a chemical "tag" that can be attached to these medicatio
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Scientists say global warming beyond 1.5 degrees likely
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
According to new research led by scientists at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, the University of Maryland, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, nations can reduce the amount of time spent in a warmer world by making more ambitious climate commitment
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Experimental cancer vaccine shows promise in animal trials
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
An experimental therapeutic cancer vaccine induced two distinct and desirable immune system responses that led to significant tumour regression in mice, report investigators.
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Evening people show enhanced fear acquisition which may cause anxiety
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Study shows that the higher vulnerability of evening chronotype individuals (individual with the propensity to be more productive at night or at dawn) to anxiety and related disorders may be mediated by altered emotional learning.
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Research: Role of nutrient may reveal dietary target in fight against micr
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
A nutrient that is common in the human diet has been found to aid the survival of a cancer-causing bacterium, a new Yale study finds. The findings could reveal an important target for new drugs to tackle numerous infectious diseases in humans.
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Research: Evolution of tree roots may have driven mass extinction
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The evolution of tree roots may have triggered a series of mass extinctions that rocked the Earth's oceans during the Devonian Period over 300 million years ago, according to a study led by scientists at IUPUI, along with colleagues in the United Kingdom.
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Research: Fertilisers affect how bees see flowers
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
A new paper in PNAS Nexus, published by Oxford University Press, indicates that chemicals used in agriculture, like fertilizers and pesticides, can change the way bees 'see' a flower, and that this reduces the number of bees visiting a flower.
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Synthetic peptides may suppress formation of harmful amyloid aggregates
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
In Alzheimer's disease, the degeneration of brain cells is linked to formation of toxic protein aggregates and deposits known as amyloid plaques. Similar processes play an important role also in type 2 diabetes. A research team under the lead of the Technical University of Munich has now dev
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New theory explains recovery delays in COVID-19 and cardiac patients
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
COVID-19 patients placed on ventilators can take a long time to regain consciousness. New research from Weill Cornell Medicine, NewYork-Presbyterian, MIT, and Massachusetts General Hospital is now illustrating that these delays may serve a purpose: protecting the brain from oxygen deprivatio
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Spine disease found common in chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis:
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
New research shows that spine disease, once considered a rarity in chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis, affects as many as 10-35 per cent of patients and is asymptomatic in one-third.
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