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Exposure to chemical mixtures during pregnancy affects brain development:
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Karlstad [Sweden], February 21 (ANI): Does exposure to chemicals during pregnancy affect a child? Researchers provided evidence that complex mixtures of endocrine-disrupting chemicals, impact children's brain development and language acquisition, by linking human population studies with expe
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New study explores plants under anaesthesia
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Wurzburg [Germany], February 21 (ANI): Anesthesia is a state of controlled, temporary loss of sensation or awareness that is induced for medical purposes in humans. But can plants also be given anaesthesia? A recent study has explored this possibility.
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India, France to enhance cooperation on marine science, technology
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New Delhi [India], February 21 (ANI): India and France will enhance scientific cooperation in marine science and technology and also exchanges of students and researchers with aims to monitor, protect and sustainably use marine living and non-living resources and the biodervisity of the seas
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Fat cells in skin help fight acne: Study
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California [US], February 20 (ANI): It has been known that hair follicles assist in the development of a pimple, but new research suggested the skin cells outside of these hair follicles play a larger role.
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Mumbai: Two Research Centres inaugurated by Health Minister Mandaviya, wil
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Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], February 20 (ANI): Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Mansukh Mandaviya and Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare Bharati Pawar inaugurated two new Departments and two new Research Centres at International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS)
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How does Venus fly trap snap shut? Scientists reveal the secret!
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California [US], February 20 (ANI): Venus flytrap is a carnivorous plant that catches its prey (chiefly insects and arachnids) with a trapping structure formed by the terminal portion of each of the plant's leaves. How this happens is a question that has often plagued people. Now, scientists
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Does mental speed hardly change over a lifespan? Study suggests so!
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Heidelberg [Germany], February 20 (ANI): Psychologists at Heidelberg University have come to the conclusion that mental speed, that is, the speed at which issues requiring rapid decision-making are dealt with, does not change substantially over decades. Under the leadership of Dr Mischa von
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Researchers identify sudden evolutionary change in flowers
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California [US], February 20 (ANI): Evolution is defined as the change in the characteristics of a species over several generations and relies on the process of natural selection. A recent study by researchers has identified an unexpected evolutionary change.
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First evidence indicating respiratory infection in dinosaurs discovered
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Washington [US], February 19 (ANI): Scientists have discovered the first evidence of a unique respiratory infection in the fossilized remains of a dinosaur that lived nearly 150 million years ago.
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Scientists develop model for better diagnosis, treatment of osteoarthritis
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Rochester (New York) [US], February 19 (ANI): Osteoarthritis is the most common form of arthritis, affecting millions of people worldwide. Scientists from Rochester Institute of Technology and Cornell University teamed up to explore cartilage tissue's unique properties with the hopes of impr
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Transient blood pressure rise linked to learning in brain: Study
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Gothenburg [Sweden], February 19 (ANI): A new study has revealed that minor rises in blood pressure due to short-term stressors can be linked to a brain area that controls conscious and learned motor skills.
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Samajwadi Party leader Ahmed Hasan passes away, UP Assembly speaker expres
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Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], February 19 (ANI): Samajwadi Party senior leader Ahmed Hasan passed away on Saturday in Lucknow's Dr Ram Manohar Lohia Institute of Medical Sciences.
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