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Study reveals COVID-19 during pregnancy is associated with preterm birth
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
California [US], August 10 (ANI): According to a large study led by researchers at UC San Francisco, pregnant individuals who contract COVID-19 face a higher risk of having a very preterm birth, as well as any preterm birth.
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Study reveals gender-disposed personality traits can explain salary gap
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Texas [US], August 10 (ANI): According to a recent study by a University of Houston psychology researcher, the salary gap between men and women may be due to certain gender-disposed personality traits.
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Study identifies molecule that stimulates muscle-building in humans
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 9 (ANI): In a randomized control study of 10 healthy young men, a team of researchers compared how consuming the single amino acid leucine or its two-molecule equivalent, dileucine, influenced muscle-building and breakdown.
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Nearly all primary touch-sensitive neurons respond to most information ava
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 9 (ANI): Researchers used to believe that individual primary touch-sensitive neatly responded to specific types of touch. Now a Northwestern University study finds that touch-sensitive neurons communicate touch in a much messier and jumbled manner.
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Starving pneumonia-causing bacteria of manganese holds promise for new ant
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Melbourne [Australia], August 9 (ANI): A new study by Australian researchers has revealed how the bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococcus) obtains the essential nutrient manganese from our bodies, which could lead to better therapies to target the life-threatening, antibiotic-resist
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Need for opioids in palliative cancer can be reduced by Vitamin D suppleme
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 9 (ANI): A randomized and placebo-controlled study by researchers at Karolinska Institutet showed that patients with vitamin D deficiency who received vitamin D supplements had a reduced need for pain relief and lower levels of fatigue in palliative cancer treatment.
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Study highlights how consumer behaviour is influenced by social norms
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 9 (ANI): A meta-analysis of extant research on social norms, to establish several new empirical generalisations, was recently performed by researchers from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, HEC Montreal, and University of New South Wales, UNSW Sydney.
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Common weight-loss drug may help maintain heart health: Study
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 8 (ANI): A recent clinical study led by researchers at the UT Southwestern Medical Centre, found that a commonly-prescribed weight-loss drug called liraglutide successfully targets fat that can help maintain heart health.
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Study finds effectiveness of plant food diet in lowering heart disease in
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 8 (ANI): A recent study led by an international team of researchers suggests that eating a more nutritious and plant-based diet can lower the risk of heart diseases in young adults and older women.
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Here's how toxin sponges protect poisonous frogs, birds from their own poi
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 8 (ANI): The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), Stanford University, and the California Academy of Sciences (CAS) researchers drove a new study to uncover how poisonous frogs and birds avoid intoxicating themselves.
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Study finds new method for making RNA
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Massachusetts [UK], August 8 (ANI): Researchers recently unveiled their discovery of a new process for making RNA. The resulting RNA is purer, more copious and likely to be more cost-effective than any previous process could manage.
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Study links accelerated ageing to sleep loss in new mothers
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 8 (ANI): According to the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) researchers, when new mothers complain that all those sleepless nights caring for their newborns are taking years off their life, they just might be right.
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