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Researchers identify two distinct types of obesity
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
A team led by Van Andel Institute scientists identified two distinct types of obesity, each with physiological and molecular differences that might have long-term implications for health, disease, and medication response.
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People sleep least in their early 30s to early 50s: Research
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Researchers from UCL, the University of East Anglia, and the University of Lyon discovered that people sleep less in mid-adulthood than they do in early and late adulthood in a new study.
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IIT Madras researchers devise method to detect petroleum
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras researchers have developed a statistical approach that can characterize subsurface rock structure and detect petroleum and hydrocarbon reserves.
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Research shows the role empathy may play in music
Updated : 2 years, 5 months ago IST
Can people who understand the emotions of others better interpret emotions conveyed through music? A new study by an international team of researchers suggests that abilities are linked.
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Researchers look to licorice for promising cancer treatments
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
A research review into molecular insights of a licorice-derived substance called glycyrrhizin for preventing or treating cancer suggests further research could lead to specific agents for clinical use.
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Researchers find ketamine can increase brain noise
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
An international team of researchers has found that ketamine, being an NMDA receptor inhibitor, increases the brain's background noise, causing higher entropy of incoming sensory signals and disrupting their transmission between the thalamus and the cortex.
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Researchers reveal how cells sense their mechanical environment
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
A research team at the Cluster of Excellence Physics of Life of TU Dresden and the University of California, Santa Barbara, reveals how cells sense their mechanical environment as they build tissues during embryogenesis.
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Triple immunotherapy combination might be possible treatment for pancreati
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have discovered a novel immunotherapy combination, targeting checkpoints in both T cells and myeloid suppressor cells.
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Unveiling the mysteries of senescent cells and their effect on aging and h
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Multiple researchers at the Jackson Laboratory are taking part in an ambitious research program spanning several top research institutions to study senescent cells. Senescent cells stop dividing in response to stressors and seemingly have a role to play in human health and the aging process.
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Researchers use technology to show organoids respond to external sensory s
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
A team of engineers and neuroscientists has demonstrated for the first time that human brain organoids implanted in mice have established functional connectivity to the animals' cortex and responded to external sensory stimuli. The implanted organoids reacted to visual stimuli in the same wa
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Researchers reveal connection between metabolism changes in brain cells, H
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Researchers at the University of California, Irvine have discovered a connection between metabolic abnormalities that affect the growth of the brain's oligodendrocyte cells and the mutation that results in Huntington's disease. They discovered that thiamine and biotin in large amounts can re
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Researchers develop new model to explain how autism arises
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
An explanatory model presented in a thesis from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, might prove to be helpful in understanding the development of autism.
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