Health-Lifestyle

New York, April 9 (IANS) A team of researchers has helped develop a Covid-19 testing device that can detect coronavirus infection in as little as 30 seconds as sensitively and accurately as the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test, the gold…
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New York, April 9 (IANS) A team of researchers has used CRISPR gene editing, a type of 'molecular scissors,' to understand how deletions in one area of the genome can affect the expression of nearby genes. The study, published in the…
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<br>'Ret Samadhi' (Rajkamal Prakashan) has been translated by American writer-translator Daisy Rockwell into 'Tomb of Sand' (Penguin Random House India) which centres around a north Indian 80-year-old woman who slips into a deep…
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Chennai, April 8 (IANS) Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras have launched India's first indigenously developed polycentric prosthetic knee, which aims to improve the quality of life for thousands of above-knee…
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Toronto, April 8 (IANS) Regular use of viagra, used to treat erectile dysfunction, can harm your vision leaving you blind, a study has claimed. Researchers from the University of British Columbia in Canada have found that people regularly…
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London, April 8 (IANS) People who have taken a booster dose are likely to recover from Omicron three days earlier than in the case of a Delta infection, claims a study published in The Lancet journal. The study led by a team at King's…
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New Delhi, April 7 (IANS) Critically acclaimed author Geetanjali Shrees novel "Tomb of Sand", translated from the Hindi by Daisy Rockwell, has been shortlisted for this years International Booker Prize - the first time the translation of a…
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London, April 7 (IANS) An international team of researchers has created a series of brain charts spanning our entire lifespan -- from a 15-week-old foetus to a 100-year-old adult -- that show how our brains expand rapidly in early life and…
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