WASHINGTON: Scientists have found a new protein target, leveraged by pancreatic cancer cells usually to suppress tumours, but here instead to help them evade therapy and, thus, grow more quickly, according to a new study.Scientists revealed that this is another way in which the most-resistant pancreatic cancer cells defy treatment, the study said.The international team […]
HOUSTON (US): In an effort to treat the rare genetic condition Usher Syndrome Type 2A (USH2A), a University of Houston researcher is developing a gene therapy technique.Usher Syndrome Type 2A, which is brought on by mutations in the USH2A gene, can cause retinitis pigmentosa as well as hearing loss from birth and gradual visual loss […]
WASHINGTON: Antarctica is a tough place to work, for obvious reasons it’s bitterly cold, remote, and wild. However, it’s one of the best places in the world to hunt for meteorites. That’s partly because Antarctica is a desert, and its dry climate limits the degree of weathering the meteorites experience. On top of the dry […]
BENGALURU: The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro), which already has a network of tracking stations, has completed survey and radiation studies at Fiji Islands for a temporary station being designed specifically for India’s first Solar mission (Aditya-L1), while exploration of other sites is ongoing.Fiji Islands is one of the options being explored to support the […]
WASHINGTON: The discovery of more than 250 fossilized eggs reveals intimate details about the lives of titanosaurs in the Indian subcontinent, according to a study published January 18, 2022, in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Harsha Dhiman of the University of Delhi, New Delhi and colleagues.The Lameta Formation, located in the Narmada Valley of […]
NEW DELHI: Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Bhopal, and the University of Queensland have developed a new flexible organic crystal that shows great potential for use in highly sensitive pressure sensors.According to the team, the device fabricated with this material has high sensitivity to pressure when compared to existing […]
LONDON: Scientists have found that ADHD is more predictive of poor mental health outcomes in adults than other neurodevelopmental conditions, like autism.The study, led by psychologists at the University of Bath, UK, is the first to show that adults with high levels of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms are more likely to experience anxiety and […]
WASHINGTON: Doctors at the Queen Mary University of London and Barts Hospital, and Cambridge University Hospital, have led a research using a new type of CT scan to light up tiny nodules in a hormone gland and cure high blood pressure by their removal. The nodules are discovered in one-in-twenty people with high blood pressure.Published […]
WASHINGTON: Why do cells, and by extension humans, age? The answer may have a lot to do with mitochondria, the organelles that supply cells with energy. Though that idea is not new, direct evidence in human cells had been lacking.In a study published Jan. 12 in Communications Biology, a team led by Columbia University researchers […]
COPENHAGEN, DENMARK: Archaeologists in Norway said Tuesday that have found a runestone which they claim is the world’s oldest, saying the inscriptions are up to 2,000 years old and date back to the earliest days of the enigmatic history of runic writing.The flat, square block of brownish sandstone has carved scribbles, which may be the […]
