Thursday, November 11, 2021

Gates Foundation commits $7million for COVID genome research

 GIISER works to ensure scientists have the capacity to rapidly detect if new SARS-CoV-2 variants in their communities show signs of evading immune response.

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Wednesday, November 10, 2021

COVID-related plastic waste highest from Asian countries: Study

 Most of the global plastic waste from the pandemic is entering the ocean from rivers, with Asian rivers accounting for 73 percent of the total discharge of plastics.

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Tuesday, November 9, 2021

Know why your body needs a good 8 hours of sleep every night

An adequate amount of sleep that an adult requires ranges from seven to nine hours.

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Proteins in COVID virus that damage blood vessels found

The team thoroughly examined the effect of each of the 29 proteins expressed by the virus, and were successful in identifying the five specific proteins that cause the greatest damage to endothelial cells and hence to vascular stability and function.  

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Monday, November 8, 2021

Discrimination increases risk for mental health issues in young adults: Study

The effects of discrimination may be cumulative -- that the greater number of incidents of discrimination someone experiences, the more their risk for mental and behavioural problems increases.

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Pregnancy hacks: Foods to help induce labor naturally

Check out food items that can help to induce labour pains.

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Sunday, November 7, 2021

Diabetes drug can improve kidney function: Lancet

A clinical trial of 4,304 participants with CKD revealed that dapagliflozin reduces the rate of kidney function decline in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD).

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Pandemic caused detrimental effect on kids' mental health: Study

Children from poorer backgrounds were approximately twice as likely to report elevated emotional and behavioural difficulties compared to those from the most affluent families. 

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Saturday, November 6, 2021

Chemotherapy enhances breast cancer's spread beyond primary tumour, says study

The research in mice leaves no doubt that the chemo drug caused changes to non-cancer cells that enable this process. Scientists pre-treated healthy mice with the chemotherapy agent and gave them intravenous injections of breast cancer cells four days later. 

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Wednesday, November 3, 2021

Scientist link rare genetic hearing loss condition with infertility

Genes are important in a part of the cell called the mitochondria. Some tissues in our body are very susceptible to when the mitochondria don't work, and that's why it is alluded that hearing and ovarian problems occur.

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Fully vaccinated? You can still spread COVID-19 at home

While COVID vaccines do prevent serious COVID illness and deaths, they are less effective at preventing spread of infections, particularly since the emergence of the more infectious Delta variant.

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New study shows injections control HIV better than daily medication

A UCL-led Lancet study showed eight-weekly HIV injections suppressed the virus far more effectively (99% success) than daily pills (94%) in...