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Other lives: Civil servant with the Ministry of Defence who later joined the Department of Peace Studies at Bradford University

The Guardian - UK

Scientists solve the age-old mystery of why urine is yellow

A topic that has been long debated has finally been put to bed

Evening Standard

Literature inspired my medical career: Why the humanities are needed in health care

While there is a long history of doctor-poets – one giant of mid-20th-century poetry, William Carlos Williams, was famously also a pediatrician – few people seem to know this or understand the power of combining the humanities and medicine.

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How gut bacteria breathe without oxygen

The tiny microbes inside us exist in a fermenting soup and the drugs they produce to survive can alter our bodies

Salon

The connection between sleep and weight

"Regular circadian rhythms (our eating and sleeping times) help to maintain normal body functions"

Salon

India registered 9.3 lakh cancer deaths, second highest in Asia: LANCET study

India registered about 12 lakh new cancer cases and 9.3 lakh deaths in 2019, becoming the second highest contributor to the disease burden in Asia for that year, according to a new study published in The Lancet Regional Health Southeast Asia journal.

The Hindu

Epidemiologist Recommends Doing These 5 Things To Extend Your Lifespan And Increase Your Health

25% of our longevity is determined by our genes; the rest is seemingly determined by what we do. The post Epidemiologist Recommends Doing These 5 Things To Extend Your Lifespan And Increase Your Health first appeared on Bored Panda.

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Study finds how brain cells increases hopes for fertility treatments

A latest research has shown how a specific type of neuron in the brain influences the release of hormones that control ovarian function in females. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Researchers find new uses of artificial DNA

There are just four letters in the genetic alphabet, which stand for the four nucleotides, which are the molecules that make up all DNA. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Human intelligence: how cognitive circuitry, rather than brain size, drove its evolution

Humans have demonstrated that having large brains are key to our evolutionary success, and yet such brains are extremely rare in other animals. Most get by on tiny brains, and don’t seem to miss the extra brain cells

The Hindu

Researchers identify key to epithelial cell growth

Australian scientists have identified a novel way for epithelial cells, which form layers in organs such as the skin and stomach, to adhere to one another and perceive growth signals at these attachments, allowing them to produce tissues of the proper size and shape. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Human tears contain substance that eases aggression, says study

Sniffing emotional tears from women can cut male aggression by more than 40% and cause changes in brain

The Guardian - UK

The 12 Most Mind-Blowing Science Breakthroughs of 2023

These breakthroughs are no-doubt-about-it advances that crucially improved our medical, technological, or astronomical understanding.

Inverse

Lessons from a Dog: Scott Cochrane Employs Innovative Approach to Accelerate Businesses' Growth

Author John Lubbock once said, "Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach of us more than we can ever learn from books." This statement rings true, as proven by the broadening influence of bioinspired design in formulating tangible…

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Scientists are on the verge of a male birth-control pill. Will men take it?

A male contraceptive is almost here – and it’ll be another test of whether heterosexual men are actually willing to share the responsibilities of adult life

The Hindu

mRNA, easy to customise, is the next frontier for personalised medicine

Because it is so easy to change the mRNA recipes, cancer vaccines can be part of a personalized medicine plan where doctors sample a patient’s tumour, sequence key genes and adjust the mRNA treatment to include recipes specific to that patient’s cancer. Clinical trials using this personalized approach for pancreatic…

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Researchers give more insight into how new genes arise from nothing

The DNA of living species encode their complexity, but where do these genes come from? The University of Helsinki researchers answered long-standing problems about the development of small regulatory genes and described a way for generating their DNA palindromes. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Eczema breakthrough as unlikely cure for itch is found

One in five children suffer from eczema and one in 10 adults

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Here is why chemotherapy becomes less effective, finds study

According to two research from UCL and Yale, chemotherapy becomes less effective when healthy">healthy cells encourage cancer cells to grow more slowly. Read further on Dynamite News:

The Hindu

The era of CRISPR therapeutics is here – what can we expect? | Explained

Two geneticists explain the groundbreaking CRISPR-based therapies approved for sickle-cell disease and β-thalassaemia, and other genetic therapeutics in development, including base-editing and prime-editing.

The Guardian - UK

A matter of taste: food preferences may be influenced by our unique ‘tongue prints’

Analysis of 3D images reveals the organ’s bumps and grooves are as personal as fingerprints

The Hindu

IISc scientists develop novel technique to encapsulate liquid droplets used for various applications

IISc scientists have developed a new capillary force-assisted cloaking method to trap droplets within colloidal particles and liquid-infused surfaces. Droplets are used for various applications, such as in microreactors, drug delivery systems, in single crystal growth and cell culture platforms.

The Hindu

Game-changer: On approval for gene therapy to treat sickle cell disease and beta thalassemia

Landmark decisions that mark the beginning of gene therapy using the CRISPR-Cas9 tool to treat diseases that could otherwise be cured only through bone marrow transplantation

The Guardian - UK

Risk of dying from cancer in England varies hugely between regions, say scientists

Researchers say ‘astounding’ inequalities are widest where risk can be cut with lifestyle changes

Zenger

Scientists Unlock Secrets Of Human Limb Development In Unprecedented Study

Insights into intricate processes of limb formation could lead to new treatments for muscle disorders and congenital limb syndromes.

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