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Smell impact mouse metabolism, ageing: Study
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Female odours and pheromones enable mice to lose weight and live longer lives, which may have implications for people, according to researchers at the University of Otago.
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Study reveals certain substances in urine, blood may predict kidney diseas
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine discovered that higher levels of certain biomarkers in urine and blood can predict a patient's risk of developing chronic kidney disease in a new study that looked at the long-term effects of hospitalised patients who had acute kidney injury (AKI), a sud
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Study reveals how microbiome might affect pancreatic cancer outcomes
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Despite advances in pancreatic cancer treatment, only around 9% of patients live beyond five years. Researchers have failed to identify genetic distinctions that explain why some patients live for a long time and others do not, so they have moved their focus to the gut microbiome.
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Study gives insight into mechanism that fuels antibiotic resistance
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
A concern to global health is antibiotic resistance. Antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections were blamed for an estimated 1.3 million deaths globally in 2019 alone. Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have been examining the mechanism that fuels antibiotic resistance at the molecular
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Brain function changes during dieting: Study
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research and Harvard Medical School have now shown in mice that communication in the brain changes during a diet.
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Researchers discover how different skin features causes psoriasis, atopic
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
According to two recent UC Davis Health research, psoriasis and atopic dermatitis may be caused by changes in skin makeup.
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Social rank influences stress response: Research
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
In a study published in Current Biology, Tulane psychology professor Jonathan Fadok, PhD, and postdoctoral researcher Lydia Smith-Osborne looked at two forms of psychosocial stress -- social isolation and social instability -- and how they manifest themselves based on social rank.
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New medicine found for treatment of heart failure, sleep apnea: Study
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
The drug, known as AF-130, was tested in an animal model at Waipapa Taumata Rau, the University of Auckland where researchers found it improved the heart's ability to pump, but, equally important, prevented sleep apnoea, which itself reduces lifespan (see Nature Communications).
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Study may help find patients who need liver transplants
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
The findings of researchers at Rutgers, the University of Michigan, the University of Texas Southwestern, and the Medical University of South Carolina could save lives by allowing for the faster and more accurate identification of hospitalised patients who require liver transplants or are li
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Researchers reveal how different skin characteristics causes psoriasis, at
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Psoriasis and atopic dermatitis may be caused by differences in skin composition, according to two recent UC Davis Health studies.
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Study investigates how social status influences stress response
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Does a person's social position influence their degree of stress? Tulane University researchers investigated this topic and discovered that social rank, particularly in females, did alter stress response.
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Researchers find ways to help plants grow with low phosphorus levels
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
A new discovery by researchers at Michigan State University and the Carnegie Institution for Science claimed that their understanding of iron toxicity in plants caused by low phosphorus levels has changed.
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