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Blood samples can predict kidney disease in type 2 diabetes patients: Stud
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Researchers have developed a conceptual approach to predict whether a person with type 2 diabetes will develop kidney disease.
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Researchers reveal how intestinal bacteria effects growth of fungi
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
The bacteria in the intestine provide information on the amounts of fungi from the possibly pathogenic Candida genus. Surprisingly, among them are lactic acid bacteria, which are known for their ability to guard against fungal diseases. Researchers from the Leibniz Institute for Natural Prod
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Study reveals how head, neck cancer organoids used for personalized treatm
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Organoids produced from patients with head and neck cancer (HNC) were used to create a biobank by researchers from the Organoid group (Hubrecht Institute) and UMC Utrecht. They used this biobank to validate known HNC indicators, and they discovered that therapy responses in organoids matched
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Research: "Bonding hormone" oxytocin is clinically deficient
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Researchers from the University of Basel and the University Hospital of Basel have now successfully shown that individuals with a lack of vasopressin brought on by a condition of the pituitary gland also have a deficiency of oxytocin. This discovery could be important for creating novel trea
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Study: Schizophrenia patients' symptoms grow by disrupted sleep, wakefulne
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and those from Italy described common patterns of sleep disturbances and irregularities in daily rhythms of rest and activity across patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorder, or SSD, in a paper that was just published in Molecular Psychiatry
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DEWA presents five research papers at International Conference on IT Innov
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD & CEO of DEWA, expressed his pride at the role played by Emirati researchers at the R&D Centre to support global efforts for accelerating the transition to a competitive and sustainable economy that is based on knowledge and innovation.
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Researchers reveal how physical activity is critical for post-stroke recov
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Physical exercise following a stroke can be crucial to a successful recovery. According to research conducted by the University of Gothenburg, persons who exercise four hours per week after suffering a stroke recover more functionally in six months than those who do not.
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Study reveals how fatty liver leads to colorectal cancer
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Cedars-Sinai Cancer Centre researchers discovered that fatty liver, a condition commonly associated with obesity, promotes the progression of colon cancer to the liver. Their research, which was published in the peer-reviewed journal Cell Metabolism, delves into the process at the cellular l
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Researchers discover how DNA repair can go wrong and lead to disease
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
"DNA breaks and repair events occur thousands of times per day in each of us," said Freudenreich. "Most of the time, repair works the way it should. But we now have a better understanding of how things can go wrong, and we can apply this knowledge to new therapeutic strategies."
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Researchers reveal how older adults gets easily distracted
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
A University of California, Riverside study found that when older persons are engaged in a physically demanding job, such as driving a car or carrying groceries, they are more prone than younger ones to be distracted by objects unrelated to the task at hand.
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Research discovers new cause of heart failure condition in children
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) have uncovered novel gene mutations responsible for a rare illness that causes heart failure in youngsters. They were subsequently able to discover how the mutation works and apply medication to counteract its effects in ca
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Researchers discover gene silencing DNA enzyme that target single molecule
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
A DNA enzyme, or DNAzyme, has been created by researchers at the University of California, Irvine that can identify between two RNA strands inside a cell and cut the one linked to the sickness while leaving the healthy strand unharmed. This ground-breaking "gene silencing" method may fundame
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