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Researchers discover why tackling particle pollution leads to photochemica
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 10 (ANI): The answer for why reducing particle pollution is actually increasing surface ozone pollution in some emerging economies, hence, negatively impacting health, ecosystems and agriculture, has been found by the University of York researchers.
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Research links childhood trauma to elderly persons' poor physical and ment
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Toronto [Canada], July 10 (ANI): Researchers from the University of Toronto recently conducted a study that found that elderly people who had been physically abused as children had a considerably higher likelihood of developing chronic pain and other physical ailments as they age.
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Researchers discover brain circuit that explains how light affects mood
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 10 (ANI): A better knowledge of the neurological network that connects light-sensitive cells in the retina to cortical brain regions involved in mood and cognition has implications for the development of mood-disorder treatments, according to a new study.
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Scientists find new way to reduce inflammation and prevent repigmentation
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Washington D.C. [USA], July 10 (ANI): A team of researchers from the University of California, Irvine have discovered that in people with vitiligo illness, cell-to-cell communication networks could aid in preventing repigmentation and reduce inflammation, in a recent study.
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Scientists discover cancer triggers that could spur targeted drug therapie
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Washington [US], July 10 (ANI): Researchers definitively linked the function of a specific domain of proteins important in plant-microbe biology to a cancer trigger in humans, the knowledge that had eluded scientists for decades.
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Research: Brain ripples may help bind information across human cortex
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Washington [US], July 10 (ANI): Researchers provide some of the first empirical evidence that brain ripples exist. These electrical waves have long been hypothesized as a way for the brain to integrate and encode memories.
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Study shows how society thinks about risk
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Basel [Switzerland], July 9 (ANI): Many of our daily activities involve some level of risk, be it to our work, our finances or our health. But how is risk perceived in society and how do individuals think about risk? Dr. Dirk Wulff and Professor Rui Mata, researchers at the Faculty of Psycho
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Study finds universal influenza B vaccine that induces broad and lasting p
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Atlanta [US], July 9 (ANI): According to a new study by researchers at Georgia State University's Institute of Biomedical Sciences, a new universal flu vaccine has been found to protect against influenza B viruses that offer broad defenses against different strains and improve immune protect
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Growing up changes our brain's reaction to understanding stories
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Washington [US], July 9 (ANI): Researchers have demonstrated the reaction of our brain alters from childhood to adulthood after it gets exposed to social or emotional stimuli shown in a particular film.
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Earth's oldest groundwaters have life's power generators, find researcher
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Toronto [Canada], July 9 (ANI): As per new research, scientists have now discovered 1.2 billion-year-old deep groundwater in a gold and uranium mine in South Africa, throwing more light on how life is sustained below the Earth's surface and how it may survive on other worlds.
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Cases of medicine-related harm leading to hospital admission rising: Study
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Washington [US], July 9 (ANI): Researchers have identified an increasing trend in medicine-related harm leading to hospital admission.
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Study find that copper leads to protein aggregation, may cause Parkinson's
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Washington [US], July 9 (ANI): Copper exposure in the environment and the protein alpha-synuclein in the human brain could play an important role in the pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease. Researchers were able to show how the protein takes on an unusual shape when exposed to large amounts
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