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New study provides avenues for diagnosis, treatment of male infertility
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 28 (ANI): During a recent study, scientists from the University of Toledo found a new movement in sperm that provided them with innovative avenues for diagnostics and therapeutic strategies for infertility in men.
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Study finds how immune cells can be trained to fight infections
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 28 (ANI): The body's immune cells naturally fight off viral and bacterial microbes and other invaders, but they can also be reprogrammed or 'trained' to respond even more aggressively and potently to such threats, report University of California- Los Angeles scientists
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Scientists use NASA satellite data to track ocean microplastics from space
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 27 (ANI): Scientists from the University of Michigan have developed an innovative way to use the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) satellite data to track the movement of tiny pieces of plastic in the ocean.
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Apart from Delta, Delta Plus too should be treated as variant of concern:
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 26 (ANI): Although there is no data as of now which shows that the Delta Plus variant of COVID-19 is spreading faster than Delta but the former should also be treated as a "variant of concern", said Dr Raman R Gangakhedkar, former Head Scientist of Epidemiology and Co
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Scientists need to rethink which genes linked to ageing process: Study
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 26 (ANI): Researchers at the National Institutes of Health fed antibiotics to fruit flies to better understand the role of bacteria in health and disease. They monitored the lifetime activity of hundreds of genes that scientists have traditionally thought control ageing
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22nd Esri India User Conference to be held virtually on July 28, 29
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi, (Delhi), [India], June 25 (ANI/NewsVoir): Esri India, country's leading Geographic Information System (GIS) Software & Solutions provider, today announced its flagship annual event Esri India User Conference (UC) to be held virtually on 28 and 29 July, 2021. There is a strong
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Study uses AI to predict unknown links between viruses, mammals
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Liverpool [UK], June 25 (ANI): The findings of a new University of Liverpool study could help scientists mitigate the future spread of zoonotic and livestock diseases caused by existing viruses.
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Study suggests scientists may need to rethink which genes control ageing
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 25 (ANI): To better understand the role of bacteria in health and disease, researchers from the National Institutes of Health fed fruit flies antibiotics and monitored the lifetime activity of hundreds of genes that scientists have traditionally thought control ageing.
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Virus that causes COVID-19 can find alternate route to infect cells: Study
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 25 (ANI): Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists identified how SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, gets inside cells to cause infection. All current COVID-19 vaccines and antibody-based therapeutics were designed to disrupt this route into cells, which requ
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Too early to predict if Delta Plus will contribute to 3rd Covid-wave, depe
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 24 (ANI): It is too early to say whether Delta Plus, the new mutant version of the Delta strain of COVID-19 first detected in India and labelled as a "variant of concern" by the Centre will be responsible for a third wave of Coronavirus, which according to experts
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Need to monitor any vaccine-escaping COVID-19 variants, says ICMR study in
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 24 (ANI): The result of a preliminary study conducted by the Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) scientists on 274 samples of breakthrough infections in Odisha has highlighted the need to monitor the emergence of any vaccine-escaping variants.
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British scientist from WHO team in China's Wuhan recused from UN-backed co
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 24 (ANI): In a move that has thickened the plot surrounding the lab leak theory on COVID-19 origins, Dr Peter Daszak, the British member of the World Health Organization (WHO) mission in China's Wuhan, has been recused from the UN-backed Commission work on the origins o
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