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New report: You're wrong if you think era of globalization is over!
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
Reports of globalization's death are premature, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Waterloo, the University of British Columbia and the China Europe International Business School in Shanghai.
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Smart necklace to help you stop smoking: Looks like jewellery, but it's tr
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
A necklace that could help you quit smoking is on the way. Northwestern Medicine researchers created a smart neck-worn gadget that looks like a lapis blue pendant and detects smoking significantly more reliably than prior systems. It accomplishes this by collecting heat signatures from therm
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Fish recognizes itself in photographs: Research
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
A research team led by specially appointed Professor Masanori Kohda of the Graduate School of Science at Osaka Metropolitan University has proved that fish assume "it's me" when they see themselves in a photograph. The researchers discovered that seeing their own face, rather than their own
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Researchers develop AI-based technique to predict RNA modifications
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
A team of researchers from the Agency for Science, Technology, and Research and the National University of Singapore created software that accurately predicts chemical alterations of RNA molecules based on genomic data.
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New study explores challenges of developing mucosal vaccines for respirato
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Vaccines that provide long-lasting protection against influenza, coronaviruses and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) are difficult to develop. In a new review article in Cell Host & Microbe, researchers from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the N
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Study reveals how natural killer immune cells can change tissue inflammati
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Researchers have discovered a previously unidentified function of "natural killer" (NK) immune cells, which has increased our understanding of how the immune system is controlled to prevent disease.
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Researchers reveal therapeutic strategy to kill cancer cell
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Gene mutations are the cause of cancer. Tumor suppressors and oncogenes are the two main groups of these altered genes in cancer. Mutations in oncogenes can drive cell proliferation, pushing the gas pedal all the way to the floor, whereas mutations in tumour suppressor genes can cause tumour
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Study suggests antibody therapy can be used to treat liver disease
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
There is currently no medication available to treat non-alcoholic liver disease, which affects many type 2 diabetes patients and can develop into more serious liver ailments. A therapeutic option for the treatment of fatty liver has been identified in a study led by Karolinska Institute rese
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Pregnant women who deliver large babies are at increased risk of developin
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Researchers will unveil findings that suggest pregnant people who do not have diabetes but deliver a large-for-gestational age baby are at an increased risk of developing prediabetes or Type 2 diabetes 10-14 years later in a new study to be presented at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicin
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New eye-tracking test to quantify toddlers' level of attention to motheres
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
A recent study has created a novel eye-tracking technique to measure toddlers' attention to motherese. Using these metrics, the researchers were able to identify a subset of children with ASD whose low levels of attention to motherese were also related to poorer social and language abilities
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Study explores how microbes in the deep ocean survive without sunlight
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
A new study published in the journal Nature Microbiology by Monash University researchers indicates that chemosynthesis (growth utilising inorganic substances) supports bacteria in the deepest areas of the water without sunshine.
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Pancreatic cancer rates rising faster in females than in males: Study
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Cedars-Sinai Cancer Center researchers confirmed in a large-scale nationwide survey that pancreatic cancer rates are growing and rising faster among younger women, than males of the same age. Their findings were published in the peer-reviewed journal Gastroenterology.
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