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Scientists develop better way to block viruses causing respiratory infecti
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Washington [US], May 11 (ANI): Researchers have improved a method in rodent models intended to help keep children healthy by engineering a short chunk of protein, or peptide, that can prevent the attachment of human parainfluenza viruses to cells.
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Researchers map how city people get health boost from nature
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Washington [US], May 11 (ANI): The findings of a recent study by researchers from Stanford University suggest that even your local city park may be improving your health.
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Community circulation of SARS-CoV-2 virions
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Washington [US], May 11 (ANI): Researchers analysed around 72,500 human saliva samples for SARS-CoV-2 at the University of Colorado, Boulder and found that asymptomatic individuals on the college campus carried just as much virus as individuals hospitalised with COVID-19.
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IIT Madras to collaborate with MPFI to boost digital money transactions in
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Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], May 10 (ANI): Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras researchers will collaborate with members of the Mobile Payment Forum of India (MPFI) to develop voice-based solutions in multiple vernacular languages to enable larger adoption of digital money transacti
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European researchers raise alarm over China's attempts to suppress critici
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Brussels [Belgium], May 10 (ANI): Some of Europe's China researchers have raised alarm over the repeated efforts of Chinese organisations to stifle criticism as Beijing seeks to aggressively crackdown on findings that cast the country in an unflattering light.
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Study unveils how proteins control information processing in brain
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Halle [Germany], May 9 (ANI): A complicated interaction between different proteins is needed for information to pass from one nerve cell to the next. A team of researchers now managed to study this process in the synaptic vesicles, which play an important role in this process.
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Study finds how bullying, obesity can affect girls' and boys' mental healt
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Stockholm [Sweden], May 9 (ANI): Depressive symptoms are more common in teenage girls than in their male peers. However, boys' mental health appears to be affected more if they suffer from obesity. Irrespective of gender, bullying is a considerably greater risk factor than overweight for dev
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Researchers discover 18.5 million year old vine fossil as new species
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Washington [US], May 8 (ANI): An 18.5 million-year-old fossil found in Panama researchers at the Cornell University provides evidence of a new species and is the oldest reliable example of a climbing woody vine known as a liana from the soapberry family. The discovery sheds light on the evol
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Study finds evidence points to answer why COVID-19 is so hard to treat
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Dublin [Ireland], May 8 (ANI): Researchers at the Trinity College Dublin showed that a comprehensive review into what we know about COVID-19 and the way it functions suggests the virus has a unique infectious profile, which explains why it can be so hard to treat and why some people experien
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Soybean, linseed oils in cows' diet improve milk quality, researchers affi
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Brasilia [Brazil], May 8 (ANI): Brazilian researchers show that the inclusion of soybean and linseed oils in the diet of dairy cows made the fatty acid content of their milk even healthier for human nutrition. It also increased the proportions of omega-6 and omega-3, which in the right balan
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Study of Chinese parents: Losing an only child is more devastating than lo
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New York [US], May 7 (ANI): A new study led by researchers at NYU Rory Meyers College of Nursing and Fudan University suggests that Chinese parents find the loss of an only child to be approximately 1.3 times as psychologically distressing than the loss of a spouse.
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Systemic inequalities driving exposure to high indoor air pollution in Lon
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Washington [US], May 7 (ANI): According to a report by UCL researchers, systemic inequalities mean that low-income households in London are more likely to be exposed to higher levels of indoor air pollution.
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