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Across human history, no single animal has had a deeper impact on human societies than the horse. But when and how people domesticated horses has been an ongoing scientific mystery. Half a million years ago or more, early human ancestors hunted horses with wooden spears, the very first weapons, and used their bones for early tools. During…
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Hyderabad-based vaccine maker Bharat Biotech and clinical-stage U.S. biotechnology firm Alopexx Inc. will collaborate to co-develop and commercialise anti-microbial vaccine AV0328 in India and other low income and lower middle-income countries. A proprietary broad-spectrum anti-microbial vaccine candidate of Alopexx, AV0328 is a synthetic vaccine designed to target poly N-acetyl glucosamine (PNAG) found on the surface…
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Have you ever wanted to make a $150,000 gamble? If you’re right, you open a new window to the universe. But if you’re wrong, you’ve just wasted a lot of money and time. That is exactly what my team did when we pointed the Keck telescope at Mauna Kea Observatory in Hawai’i at what looked…
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Note: The information in this article is provided as such and is not intended as medical advice. If you have any concerns, please consult your physician. Ovarian cancer is the most lethal gynecological malignancy. It is often called a “silent killer” because its symptoms are non-specific and mimic less serious conditions that lead to late…
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Note: The information in this article is provided as such and is not intended as medical advice. If you have any concerns, please consult your physician. Ovarian cancer is the most lethal gynecological malignancy. It is often called a “silent killer” because its symptoms are non-specific and mimic less serious conditions that lead to late…
Read More “Understanding ovarian cancer: its causes, symptoms, and screening methods” »
Scientists have cracked the mystery of how some cancer cells that ought not to survive could actually take help from their ‘neighbours’ to succeed and form drug-resistant tumours instead. Drug resistance is one of the world’s major crises of the 21st century. When a pathogen that causes an infection or disease becomes drug-resistant, drugs that…
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The Commission for Scientific and Technical Terminology (CSTT), under the aegis of the Union Education Ministry, has launched a unique website which provides technical terms in all 22 official Indian languages. The web portal ‘shabd.education.gov.in’ aims to be a central repository for all the terminologies prepared for Indian languages. Besides all the glossaries of CSTT,…
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Boeing’s crew transport space capsule, the Starliner, returned to the earth without its two-person crew right after midnight Eastern time on Sept. 7, 2024. Its remotely piloted return marked the end of a fraught test flight to the International Space Station which left two astronauts, Butch Wilmore and Sunita “Suni” Williams, on the station for…
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An attempt to launch last month was postponed hours before liftoff over a small helium leak in ground equipment [File] | Photo Credit: Reuters A daredevil billionaire rocketed back into orbit Tuesday (September 10, 2024), aiming to perform the first private spacewalk and venture farther than anyone since NASA’s Apollo moonshots. Unlike his previous chartered flight, tech…
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A female Australian garden orb weaver (Eriophora transmarina) in her web, January 21, 2016. These spiders only build their webs at night. | Photo Credit: Thennicke (CC BY-SA 4.0) As darkness falls, the nocturnal half of the animal kingdom starts its day. Nocturnal species are perfectly adapted to navigate and survive the dark of night…
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