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Dementia study shows how harmful proteins spread through brain
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
According to a study, new insights on the spread of harmful proteins that accumulate in the brains of patients with Alzheimer's disease may hold the key to halting the illness's progression.
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Smartphone usage rises in city parks but falls in forests: Study
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
While getting outside is a typical prescription for decreasing screen time, a new study indicates that being outside doesn't always lower smartphone screen time.
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Study reveals placenta plays an important role in genetic risk of schizoph
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
According to a new study led by the Lieber Institute for Brain Development, more than 100 genes linked to the risk of schizophrenia appear to cause sickness due to their activity in the placenta rather than the developing brain.
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Heat-loving marine bacteria may help detoxify asbestos: Study
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Because of its strength, resistance to heat and fire, and low electrical conductivity, asbestos materials were previously widely utilised in homes, buildings, vehicle brakes, and many other construction materials. Unfortunately, asbestos exposure by inhalation of tiny fibre particles has bee
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Amit Shah stresses on skill in legislative drafting
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday emphasized the need to study old and least controversial laws during the process of converting government policies into laws.
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Study reveals how head, neck cancer organoids used for personalized treatm
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Organoids produced from patients with head and neck cancer (HNC) were used to create a biobank by researchers from the Organoid group (Hubrecht Institute) and UMC Utrecht. They used this biobank to validate known HNC indicators, and they discovered that therapy responses in organoids matched
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Study: Fear of childbirth intensified by Covid-19 pandemic
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
According to a new Dartmouth study, the COVID-19 epidemic increased expectant women's anxiety about childbirth.
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Study: Stress hormones during pregnancy can increase early language develo
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
High levels of the stress hormone cortisol during the third trimester of pregnancy may increase speech and language abilities in the first three years of a child's life. The results contribute to our understanding of how cortisol affects foetal and infant development.
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Study: Both metabolically healthy, unhealthy forms of obesity increase ris
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
New studies reveal that both the metabolically healthy and unhealthy 'forms' of obesity are linked to an increased risk of several obesity-related cancers, with the association being more potent in metabolically unhealthy obesity. The studies were published in the Journal of the National Can
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Essence at cente of similarity-attraction effect: Study
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Charles Chu, an assistant professor of management and organisations at the BU Questrom School of Business, studied the factors that influence how attracted or turned off we are by one another in a number of studies. He discovered that self-essentialist thinking, where people believe they hav
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Study reveals how brain interprets sensory information including taste
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Taste is a complicated neurological experience that has the potential to reveal vast, and maybe startling, information on how the brain makes sense of sensations and the organisation of brain networks.
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Gene mutations responsible for rare illness causing heart attack in youngs
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
The findings, published in late April in Circulation, suggest that treatments could be developed to manage the condition rather than requiring a heart transplant, which is the standard treatment for this condition in children.
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