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US Fed signals aggressive rate hike: how will it impact Indian economy?
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 22 (ANI): The Federal Reserve, the central bank of the United States, on Wednesday hiked policy interest rate by 75 basis points. This is the third straight increase in interest rate by the Federal Reserve since June and it has signalled more large increases in t
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Study finds new techniques to detect early signs of breast cancer
Updated : 3 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 18 (ANI): A group of researchers devised a two-pronged technique for measuring breast density in mice, resulting in improved detection of changes in breast tissue, including early symptoms of cancer. The researchers anticipate that this approach from mice will be u
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Researchers discover pyramidal neurons that gauge speed, location
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 15 (ANI): A group of researchers has made an important contribution to scientists' understanding of the brain's navigation system by identifying a subtype of these neurons that can gauge speed with great precision, more than a decade after the role of pyramidal neu
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Researchers discover new approach to detect early signs of breast cancer
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 14 (ANI): Researchers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center developed a two-pronged strategy of assessing breast density in mice that resulted in greater identification of changes in breast tissue, including early indicators of cancer. The researchers
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Rotating spiral waves in live human hearts
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 11 (ANI): Electrical signals cause the heart to beat and can cause severe cardiac events like tachycardia and fibrillation as they spiral outward in spiral waves. The first high-resolution images of steady spiral waves in human ventricles are helping researchers ge
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Researchers map rotating spiral waves in live human hearts
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 8 (ANI): Electrical signals tell the heart to contract, but when the signals form spiral waves, they can lead to dangerous cardiac events like tachycardia and fibrillation. Researchers are bringing a new understanding to these complicated conditions with the first
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Scientists demonstrate how injuries are converted to regeneration signals
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 5 (ANI): The phenomenon of regeneration was discovered over 200 years ago in the freshwater polyp Hydra. Until now, however, it was largely unclear how the orderly regeneration of lost tissues or organs is activated after injury. In its investigations of Hydra, an
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Scientists discover new kind of synapse in neurons' tiny hairs
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 3 (ANI): Scientists have discovered a new kind of synapse in the tiny hairs on the surface of neurons. The commonly overlooked protrusions called primary cilia contain special junctions that act as a shortcut for sending signals quickly and directly to the cell's n
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Deep brain stimulation shows promise against binge eating disorder
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 30 (ANI): A small device that detects food craving-related brain activity in a key brain region, and responds by electrically stimulating that region, has shown promise in a pilot clinical trial in two patients with loss-of-control binge eating disorder (BED), accordi
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Michelle Bachelet signals delay in report on human rights abuses in China'
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], August 26 (ANI): UN rights human chief Michelle Bachelet has signalled that she might not release a long-awaited report on human rights abuses in China's far western region of Xinjiang before she leaves office next week, as she had promised.
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Pakistan: Ruling coalition sends mixed signals on arresting Imran Khan
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], August 23 (ANI): Lambasting at Imran Khan for threatening judiciary and a top cop of Pakistan,Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Marriyum Aurangzeb said that government is least interested in wasting time to put the PTI Chief behind the bars but law will
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Do you know brain gathers threat cues and turns them into fear? Study reve
Updated : 3 years, 6 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 21 (ANI): Salk Institute researchers have found that a biochemical pathway that combines potentially dangerous sights, sounds, and odours into a single message: Be afraid. CGRP is a protein that permits neurons in two distinct sections of the brain to combine dangerou
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