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Study reveals that babies react to taste and smell in the womb
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 27 (ANI): Scientists took 4D ultrasound scans of 100 pregnant women to see how their unborn babies responded to flavours from foods eaten by their mothers. The research team scanned some mothers to see fetal facial reactions to the kale and carrot flavours.
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Study: Avoidable hospitalizations from nursing homes can be reduced by tex
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 25 (ANI): A research team at the University of Missouri has examined how a common form of communication like texting can be used by nursing home staff to speed up decision-making and prevent the decline of residents' health that can lead to costly and traumatic hos
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Improved air quality found to have accelerated global warming in recent de
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 22 (ANI): An international research team has used satellite data to demonstrate that concentrations of pollutant particles have decreased significantly since the year 2000. This is desirable due to their impact on health. But it is also of great significance for an
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Scientists demonstrate how injuries are converted to regeneration signals
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 5 (ANI): The phenomenon of regeneration was discovered over 200 years ago in the freshwater polyp Hydra. Until now, however, it was largely unclear how the orderly regeneration of lost tissues or organs is activated after injury. In its investigations of Hydra, an
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New method of bacterial polysaccharide export in pathogens
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 30 (ANI): In Gram-negative bacteria, which include some of the most devastating human pathogens, just two mechanisms for the export of polysaccharides have been identified so far. Now a research team has identified an entirely novel third mechanism for how polysacchar
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Study suggests newborns of older fathers cry differently
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 27 (ANI): An infant's cry is a kind of communication intended to attract the attention of an adult caregiver, and each baby cries in a similar yet individual manner. An international research team examined the vocal behaviour of young mice known as pups to determine h
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Research identifies new role of immune cells in liver regeneration
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 25 (ANI): A MedUni Vienna research team has discovered the vital role of immune cells that boost the production of liver cells.
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Study finds whether people with spinal injury can walk and run
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Seoul [South Korea], August 20 (ANI): An international research team has successfully recovered muscular mobility in a model of paralysed mice using organic neurons. Prof. Tae-Woo Lee (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Seoul National University, Republic of Korea) and Prof. Zh
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Can people with spinal injuries walk and run, researchers probe in new stu
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Seoul [South Korea], August 15 (ANI): An international research team has succeeded in recovering muscle movement in a model of paralysed mice organic through artificial nerves. The team was led by Prof. Tae-Woo Lee (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Seoul National University,
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AI algorithm that recognizes anomalies in brain may help treat epilepsy
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
London [UK], August 12 (ANI): An multinational research team led by UCL has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) programme that can identify minute brain anomalies that lead to epileptic seizures.
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Ageing neutralizes sex differences in the brain: Study
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Linkoping [Sweden], August 10 (ANI): Fruit flies' brains become desexualized as they get older, both male and female. Both sexes experience age-related changes, but the male brain becomes more feminized to a larger extent than the female brain becomes masculine. A study conducted by a res
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Gestures can improve understanding of language disorders
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 9 (ANI): When words fail, gestures can help to get the message across especially for people who have a language disorder. An international research team has now shown that listeners attend the gestures of people with aphasia more often and for much longer than previousl
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