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Researchers suggest metals may help to fight fungal infections
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Bern [Switzerland], September 25 (ANI): More than one billion people get a fungal infection each year. Although most people are not affected by these infections, over 1.5 million people die as a result of them each year. While more and more fungal strains are being discovered that are resist
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Omicron strains 20-30 pc more infectious: INSACOG to review data of genom
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], August 12 (ANI): Amid rising COVID cases in the national capital and other States, the Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium (INSACOG) will review the data of genomic surveillance of COVID-19 variants on Friday, said sources.
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Study finds how highly resistant strains of fungi emerge
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], August 3 (ANI): Antibiotic resistance is a matter of common knowledge. And the same phenomenon also occurs with drugs against pathogenic fungi. What causes it is still not very well understood.
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Researchers find new effective therapeutic approaches to treat tuberculosi
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 28 (ANI): The leading infectious disease around the world, tuberculosis, which affects around 25% of the world's population, is still caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Drug-resistant strains have made it difficult to treat infections, but professor Helen Zgurskaya
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Covaxin booster dose increases immune response by 40 times, gives long-ter
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], July 20 (ANI): Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech on Wednesday announced that the administration of the third dose of its COVID-19 vaccine Covaxin (BBV152) after six months of two-dose vaccination dramatically increased neutralizing antibody responses against both
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Study finds universal influenza B vaccine that induces broad and lasting p
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
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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ICMR- VCRC develops bacteria-infected mosquitoes to control dengue strains
Updated : 3 years, 10 months ago IST
Pondicherry (Puducherry)[India], July 5 (ANI): With an aim to control dengue strains, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and Vector Control Research Centre (VCRC) developed two mosquito colonies infected with bacteria for dengue control.
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Scientists discover why vaccination against malaria loses its effect in sh
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 21 (ANI): Scientists at the German Cancer Research Center have studied the human immune response after immunization with the malaria pathogen Plasmodium falciparum. Their findings could explain why natural infections, to which people in endemic areas are constantly expo
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Study: Development of PCR test for Okinawa mozuku could boost yields and l
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
Okinawa (Japan), June 9 (ANI): According to scientists from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, a simple PCR test might be used to improve the cultivation of the tasty brown seaweed Okinawa mozuku and even boost efforts to generate heat-tolerant strains. The
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Genetic differences can affect ability to utilize energy of various nutrie
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Helsinki [Finland], April 21 (ANI): According to a new study by the University of Helsinki, minor genetic differences can affect the ability to utilize the energy of various nutrients.
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Different strains of tuberculosis can attack lungs, finds study
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
New Brunswick (New Jersey) [US], April 17 (ANI): According to a new study, two strains of bacteria causing tuberculosis have only minor genetic differences but attack the lungs in a completely different way.
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China creating new COVID strains in Pakistan: Expert
Updated : 4 years, 1 month ago IST
Beijing [China], April 14 (ANI): China is creating COVID-style pathogens in Pakistan that experts say has the potential to wipe out much of humanity.
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