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The Asian strain showed greater ability to trigger immune suppression, which allows the virus to replicate and even possibly sneak into the womb and cause more foetal damage. Clinical studies…
A community-based trial in Odisha finds that administrating synbiotics to newborns can halve sepsis-related deaths. That babies born by caesarean section are at a slightly higher risk of developing obesity, asthma and other…
The membrane with controlled release of copper ion may turn out to be a potential candidate for water purification applications with enhanced antibacterial and antifouling performances. There is an age-old…
A news item published in Deccan Herald newspaper on April 7, 2017 about Indian government all set to increase research and development funding from 1% of GDP to 2% of…
We have seen wine drinkers swirl the glass and decant the bottle to bring out the best flavour before drinking. But is there any merit to these claims? Watch this…
Based on a study carried out in 2015, a team led by Dr. Manoj V. Murhekar, Director of the Chennai-based National Institute of Epidemiology, found scrub typhus to be responsible…
Stopping antibiotics half way through the course, when a patient feels better, may not guarantee cure of the infection. A single analysis piece published on July 26, 2017 in the journal…
In a first, researchers from the Oregon Health and Science University along with colleagues in California, China and South Korea repaired an error in the DNA sequence (mutation) in human…
