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Protecting the brain from dementia by inducing abnormal protein aggregates
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 2 (ANI): Neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's are defined by the pathogenic accumulation of toxic proteins in the brain. Now, however, scientists have established that the p62 protein, which is involved in cellular protein degradation, can prevent
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Research: DNA contained in honey reveals honeybee health
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Vari (Athens) [Greece], May 23 (ANI): Researchers from Greece's B.S.R.C. 'Alexander Fleming' have optimized a method for characterizing DNA traces in honey, revealing the species with which honeybees interact.
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COVID-19 Omicron variant lung damage 'milder than Delta in animals': Study
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], January 31 (ANI): Studies conducted by a group of international researchers on Monday said that the COVID-19 variant Omicron causes less severe symptoms in the lungs of hamsters than the Delta variant.
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Omicron less pathogenic than delta, beta variants, quarantining not justif
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), January 10 (ANI): Amid the rising cases of COVID-19 in the country, the top most medical authority in defence forces has come out with a policy on testing and quarantine in services which says that the infection caused Omicron variant of coronavirus is less pathogenic t
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South Korea confirms 6 cases of highly pathogenic bird flu
Updated : 4 years, 3 months ago IST
Seoul [South Korea], November 20 (ANI/Sputnik): The number of cases of highly pathogenic H5N8 avian influenza has grown to six in South Korea, the ministry of agriculture, food and rural affairs said.
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Experts highlight possibility of Chinese espionage in Canada after firing
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Toronto [Canada], June 15 (ANI): After two scientists were fired from Canada's National Microbiology Lab (NML) in Winnipeg in January - a case that has attracted Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) investigation - national security experts believe that the case raises the possibility of Chi
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Japan to cull 77,000 chickens over new bird flu outbreak in Tochigi
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], March 14 (ANI/Sputnik): Some 77,000 chickens will be culled in the Japanese prefecture of Tochigi due to a new outbreak of highly pathogenic bird flu, Japanese media reported on Saturday.
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S Korea culled nearly 19 million poultry animals in 2 months over bird flu
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Seoul [South Korea], January 18 (ANI/Sputnik): A total of 18.8 million chickens and other poultry animals have been culled at farms across South Korea as part of measures to curb the spread of the highly pathogenic H5N8 bird flu, the South Korean Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affai
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France confirms H5N8 avian influenza outbreak on duck farm
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Paris [France], December 9 (ANI/Xinhua): France's Ministry of Agriculture said Tuesday that a highly pathogenic H5N8 avian influenza had been detected on a duck farm in the southwest of the country, confirming the country's first farm outbreak of the virus this year.
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Genetically engineered T cells could lead to therapies for autoimmune dise
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 4 (ANI): A new study has found that a novel T cell genetically engineered by University of Arizona Health Sciences researchers is able to target and attack pathogenic T cells that cause Type 1 diabetes, which could lead to new immunotherapy treatments.
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S. Korea confirms first outbreak of bird flu among poultry in 2020
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Seoul [South Korea], November 29 (ANI/Sputnik): South Korea has confirmed this year's first cases of the highly pathogenic H5N8 bird flu in the southwestern province of Jeonbuk, the country's Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said on Saturday.
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Study reveals COVID-19 may present neurological symptoms before respirator
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Chicago [USA], June 14 (ANI): A Northwestern Medicine study suggests that coronavirus poses a global threat to the entire nervous system, and its neurological symptoms may appear before fever or cough.
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