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Researchers find new effective therapeutic approaches to treat tuberculosi
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 28 (ANI): The leading infectious disease around the world, tuberculosis, which affects around 25% of the world's population, is still caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Drug-resistant strains have made it difficult to treat infections, but professor Helen Zgurskaya
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Researchers validate function of a particular brain region in mind-body co
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 27 (ANI): Researchers have produced definitive evidence that a specific region in the brain, called the subthalamic nucleus, is critical to governing the mind's communication with the body's motor control system. The findings, stemming from innovative experiments with h
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Research reveals working memory depends on cross-brain interactions
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Washington [US], July 27 (ANI): Researchers at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre at UCL examined the reciprocal relationships between two brain areas that encode visual working memory in mice.
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New heart model to aid heart failure patients
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Washington [US], July 26 (ANI): Researchers from RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences have created a new lab-based model of a heart and circulatory system that will aid in the testing of devices to treat one of the most common types of heart failure.
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Children hold stereotypical views that 'brilliance' is a male trait: Study
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Washington [US], July 26 (ANI): Children hold stereotypical views that 'brilliance' is a male trait, and this belief strengthens as they grow up to the age of twelve, researchers have reported.
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Study: Harnessing the fusion power of the sun and stars
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Washington [US], July 26 (ANI): PPPL researchers have found a way to build powerful magnets smaller than before, aiding the design and construction of machines that could help the world harness the power of the sun to create electricity without producing greenhouse gases that contribute to c
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Researchers investigate drug used to treat botulism disease
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Washington [US], July 26 (ANI): Botulism is a rare but deadly disease, and researchers at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM) are looking into a drug that is used to treat neuromuscular weakness as a potential treatment.
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Researchers find variations in brain activity of children with and without
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Chappel Hill (North Carolina) [US], July 26 (ANI): It's not simply a professional skill to multitask. It requires something known as cognitive flexibility, or the capacity to seamlessly switch between different brain processes, and it is essential to functioning as a person. Researchers fro
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Researchers develop new tool to investigate psychological traits of violen
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Washington [US], July 26 (ANI): The Extremist Archetypes Scale is a brand-new assessment tool that researchers have created and verified to help distinguish between various psychological characteristics that are found among people engaged in violent extremism.
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Researchers reveal gene that increases muscular strength during exercise
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Melbourne [Australia], July 25 (ANI): Researchers have discovered a gene that enhances muscular strength when activated by physical activity, opening the door to the creation of therapeutic therapies that mirror some of the advantages of exercise.
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Study finds weak handgrip strength may indicate major health problems
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Austria [Vienna], July 25 (ANI): By testing handgrip strength, one may rapidly and easily determine muscle strength, a significant predictor of death. Researchers created cut-off values for the general population in a recent study, taking into account the relationship between handgrip streng
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Researchers reveal multiple diagnoses are the norm for mental illness in r
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Boulder (Colorado) [US], July 25 (ANI): In their lives, more than half of people with one psychiatric disorder will also develop a second or third. A third or more have four or more.
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