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Researchers discover new method to create tailored odors and fragrances wi
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], September 6 (ANI): One of the most basic senses of animal species is the sense of smell. It is essential for finding food, recognising attractiveness, and detecting danger. Humans detect odorants using olfactory receptors found in olfactory nerve cells. These odorant sensory
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Tourists being studied by scientists to protect great apes
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Washington [US], September 5 (ANI): Researchers are protecting great apes from diseases by studying the behaviour and expectations of tourists who visit them.
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Researchers find hydroquinine in trees has potential to kill drug-resistan
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 5 (ANI): Researchers discovered that a naturally occurring chemical known as hydroquinine has bacterial killing potential against numerous pathogens in a recent study.
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Researchers find respiratory infections cause extreme stress to cells, org
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 5 (ANI): Many respiratory infections, such as influenza or COVID-19, cause extreme stress to cells and organs, resulting in acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), which can finally lead to death in the elderly or fragile people.
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Study provides better understanding of how OCD develops, may improve treat
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 5 (ANI): To better understand the root of obsessive-compulsive disorder, researchers used a behavioural model. They demonstrated that when learning parameters for reinforcement and punishment are excessively unbalanced, the cycle between obsession and compulsion ca
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Researchers discover robots can be used for diagnosing mental health disor
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Cambridge [UK], September 5 (ANI): A recent study revealed that robots may be more effective than parent-reported or self-reported tests in diagnosing mental health disorders in youngsters.
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Researchers: Potential treatment for binge eating disorder is deep brain s
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 4 (ANI): A small device that detects food craving-related brain activity in a key brain region, and responds by electrically stimulating that region, has shown promise in a pilot clinical trial in two patients with loss-of-control binge eating disorder (BED), accor
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Researchers discover how artificial intelligence can be trained to detect
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Bochum [Germany], September 4 (ANI): Artificial intelligence (AI) can be trained to detect whether or not a tissue picture contains a tumour. However, until recently, it has remained a mystery as to how it makes its judgement. A team from Ruhr-Universitat Bochum's Research Center for Protei
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Researchers discover new method of generating nanodiamonds out of plastic
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 4 (ANI): What happens within planets like Neptune and Uranus? To find out, an international team led by Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), the University of Rostock, and France's Ecole Polytechnique conducted an innovative experiment. They used intense la
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Researchers find motion of DNA helps to repair damage in the human nucleus
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], September 4 (ANI): The movement of chromatin, the substance from which DNA is formed, can aid in the efficient repair of DNA damage in the human nucleus, according to a multidisciplinary team of researchers from Indiana University. This result may improve cancer detect
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Water fluoridation prevents tooth decay: Research
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 3 (ANI): Water fluoridation has a lower environmental impact than other preventive methods for tooth decay, according to researchers. The study's findings also enhance the case for water fluoridation programmes to minimise dental decay, particularly in the most vul
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Nitric oxide 'scavengers' are used to treat triple-negative breast cancer:
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 3 (ANI): A potential novel therapeutic strategy for treating triple-negative breast cancer is being investigated by researchers. In Professor Abhay Pandit's lab, CRAM doctoral candidate Amir Abdo Alsharabasy is developing nitric oxide scavengers as part of a novel
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