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Study finds key regulators of urinary concentration in the kidney
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 13 (ANI): The kidney carries out important functions via microscopic functional units called nephrons. Researchers are investigating which factors control the formation and function of specific segments of the nephron, called the distal nephron. Their findings could h
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Researchers reveal evidence of continents created by giant meteorite impac
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 13 (ANI): Research suggests the continents of Earth were formed by massive meteorite impacts that were particularly common during the first billion years of our planet's four-and-a-half billion-year history.
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Researchers find ways of reducing fear of needle in children
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Adelaide [Australia], August 13 (ANI): Many youngsters experience fear when it comes to needles, resulting in tears, tantrums, and distress. However, as vaccination becomes more common, finding techniques to lessen needle-related fear and pain is a top priority.
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Researchers find what happens inside artery plaque to trigger strokes
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 12 (ANI): For the first time, researchers at Tulane University and Ochsner Health were able to genetically sequence carotid plaque tissue collected from patients within days after a stroke.
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Vitamin D supplementation alleviate depressive symptoms in adults
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Kuopio [Finland], August 12 (ANI): According to a meta-analysis conducted by an international team of researchers suggests that vitamin D supplementation may alleviate depressive symptoms in adults with depression.
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Researchers develop contact lens that helps in cancer diagnosis and screen
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 12 (ANI): Researchers have developed a contact lens that can catch and identify exosomes, nanometer-sized vesicles prevalent in human fluids that have the potential to be diagnostic cancer biomarkers.
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Study explores why thinking hard makes you feel tired
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 11 (ANI): Researchers have found new evidence to explain the reason why people feel mentally exhausted, as opposed to drowsy, from intense thinking.
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Nanoparticle treatment may benefit individuals hospitalized with severe CO
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 11 (ANI): According to researchers at Johns Hopkins Medicine, an experimental dendrimer nanoparticle medication called OP-101 significantly lowered the risk of death and the need for a ventilator in a study of 24 seriously ill patients hospitalized with COVID-19.
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Researchers find new molecule that inhibits drug-resistant bacteria
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 10 (ANI): Urinary tract infections are common, but they are becoming increasingly difficult to treat as the bacteria that cause them to become resistant to many antibiotics. Researchers found a new molecule that inhibits drug-resistant bacteria in lab experiments as w
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Bats communicate and work together for more efficient foraging
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 10 (ANI): Social hunting strategies are already well documented in many animal species when prey is distributed in an unpredictable way across the landscape. Researchers have now demonstrated for the first time that animals in this case the common noctule bat join tog
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Pathway to curb spread of brain cancer identified by researchers
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 10 (ANI): A molecular pathway responsible for the spread of glioblastoma to surrounding tissue in the brain, as well as an existing drug that curbed tumour growth in animal models, has been identified by UT Southwestern.
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Universal vaccination is required to stop future COVID-19 waves: Research
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 9 (ANI): Researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health who analysed the transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 variants have discovered shared traits linked to transmissibility and immune evasion.
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