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Exercise reduces calories burned at rest in obese individuals
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 27 (ANI): According to a new study by researchers, exercise reduces the number of calories burned at rest in people with obesity.
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Researchers protect crops from insects using 'smell of fear'
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Washington [US], August 26 (ANI): Researchers have developed a way to bottle the "smell of fear" produced by predators to repel and disrupt destructive insects naturally without the need for harsh substances.
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Men and women differ in fear, risk perception during COVID
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Washington [US], August 25 (ANI): During a new study, researchers from Virginia Tech found that men and women worry about the impact of COVID-19 in far different ways.
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Researchers identify potentially safer approach to opioid drug development
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Washington [US], August 25 (ANI): Opioids are powerful painkillers but their use is hindered because patients become tolerant to them, requiring higher and higher doses, and overdoses can cause respiratory depression and death.
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High-intensity focused ultrasound used for cancer treatment during study
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Ontario [Canada], August 24 (ANI): During a new study, researchers developed a treatment for cancer by using acoustic waves to target and destroy cancerous tumours.
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Preclinical study defines spleen-heart connection in cardiac repair
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Washington [US], August 24 (ANI): A preclinical study led by researchers at the University of South Florida (USF Health) has analyzed the interactions of the lipid mediator sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) in the spleen and heart during the transition from acute to chronic heart failure.
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Researchers study processes of protein quality control in healthy, disease
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Munich [Germany], August 23 (ANI): A new research has been able to make the state of protein balance visible in the mammalian brain for the first time. In this way, the processes of protein quality control can now be studied in healthy and diseased neurons in more detail.
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Distress signal from fat cells prompts heart to shore up defences against
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Washington [US], August 23 (ANI): A stress signal received by the heart from fat could help protect against cardiac damage induced by obesity, a new study led by the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center researchers suggests.
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Researchers explain depletion in mesospheric ozone layer
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Tokyo [Japan], August 23 (ANI): The same phenomenon that causes aurorae -- the magical curtains of green light often visible from the polar regions of the Earth -- causes mesospheric ozone layer depletion. This depletion could have significance for global climate change and therefore, unders
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Study suggests cats prefer free food rather than working for it
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Washington [US], August 22 (ANI): During a new study, researchers at the University of California, Davis, School of Veterinary Medicine found that cats would rather eat from a tray of easily available food rather than work out a simple puzzle to get their meal. This showed that most domestic
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Novel AI blood testing technology can identify lung cancers with high accu
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Maryland [US], August 22 (ANI): A novel artificial intelligence blood-testing technology developed by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center was found to detect over 90 per cent of lung cancers in samples from nearly 800 individuals with and without cancer.
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Research explores importance of reading medical appointment notes for olde
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Washington [US], August 22 (ANI): A recent clinic study led by an international team of researchers has found that older patients with chronic conditions benefit from reading medical appointment notes.
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