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Research: Pair of key enzymes help regulate genome
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
After an intrepid, decade-long search, Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists say they have found a new role for a pair of enzymes that regulate genome function and, when missing or mutated, are linked to diseases such as brain tumors, blood cancers and Kleefstra syndrome a rare genetic, neurocog
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Study: NASA's Mars rovers found manganese oxides in Gale's rocks
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
When NASA's Mars rovers found manganese oxides in rocks in the Gale and Endeavor craters on Mars in 2014, the discovery sparked some scientists to suggest that the red planet might have once had more oxygen in its atmosphere billions of years ago.
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Study models the transmission of foreshock waves towards Earth
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
An international team of scientists led by Lucile Turc, an Academy Research Fellow at the University of Helsinki and supported by the International Space Science Institute in Bern has studied the propagation of electromagnetic waves in near-Earth space for three years. The team has studied t
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Scientists find key reason why loss of smell occurs in long COVID-19
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
The researchers investigated the concentrations of aerosol particles and droplets emitted with the breath when breathing, speaking, singing and shouting, using measurements on 132 people of all ages.
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Study reveals genetic risk for Dementia among people of African descent
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
According to a research published in the journal 'Molecular Psychiatry', scientists discovered many instances where gene variations may increase the risk of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias among people of African ancestry.
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Research: Network neuroscience theory best predictor of intelligence
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Scientists have labored for decades to understand how brain structure and functional connectivity drive intelligence. A new analysis offers the clearest picture yet of how various brain regions and neural networks contribute to a person's problem-solving ability in a variety of contexts, a t
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Scientists discover primary cause of smell loss in long Covid-19
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
According to a team of scientists led by Duke Health report, the reason some people do not recover their sense of smell after Covid-19 is due to an ongoing immune assault on olfactory nerve cells and an associated decrease in the number of those cells.
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Researchers decode the secret language of photosynthesis
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
For decades, scientists have been stumped by the signals plants send themselves to initiate photosynthesis, the process of turning sunlight into sugars. UC Riverside researchers have now decoded those previously opaque signals.
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Early forests did not significantly change atmospheric CO2: Research
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Scientists have discovered that the atmosphere contained far less CO2 than previously thought when forests emerged on our planet, the new study has important implications for understanding how land plants affect the climate.
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Obesity is neurodevelopmental disorder, propose scientists
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Obesity has increased rapidly in recent decades to affect more than 2 billion people, making it one of the largest contributors to poor health worldwide. Despite decades of research on diet and exercise treatments, many people continue to struggle to lose weight. Researchers at Baylor Colleg
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Changes in Earth's orbit may have triggered ancient warming event
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Changes in Earth's orbit that favored hotter conditions may have helped trigger a rapid global warming event 56 million years ago that is considered an analogue for modern climate change, according to an international team of scientists.
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J-K: Scientists revolutionising saffron cultivation
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Under this aim, the scientists successfully produced indoor saffron for promoting the saffron crop.
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