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Are antibiotics responsible for inflammatory bowel diseases?

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Are antibiotics responsible for inflammatory bowel diseases?

All four antibiotics tested were capable of breaking down the mucus barrier. | Photo Credit: Getty Images Besides causing antimicrobial resistant bacteria, irrational use of antibiotics can also act directly on host cells. A recent study published in the journal Science Advances has found that even a short-course treatment of mice with antibiotics twice a day for three days…

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Commercialisation of health services can be a recipe for disaster, says Sujatha Rao

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Commercialisation of health services can be a recipe for disaster, says Sujatha Rao

A few days ago, Sujatha Rao, former Union Secretary of the Health Ministry, quit the Lancet Citizens’ Commission on Reimagining India’s Health System. In 2020, the Union government intensified its efforts to privatise health care in India when NITI Aayog proposed and Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced in her budget speech that district hospitals will…

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Cutting edge projects avoided due to aversion to risk and intolerance of failure: DRDO chief

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Cutting edge projects avoided due to aversion to risk and intolerance of failure: DRDO chief

Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) Chairman Samir V. Kamat with Defence Minister Rajnath Singh. | Photo Credit: File photo Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) Chairman Dr. Samir V Kamat said that there is an aversion to risk and intolerance of failure in India due to which people end up taking less challenging projects….

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ISRO will take all precautions before manned Gaganyaan mission: Somanath

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ISRO will take all precautions before manned Gaganyaan mission: Somanath

ISRO Chairman S Somanath addresses a press conference on the Chandrayaan-4 mission at the National Media Centre in New Delhi on Wednesday. | Photo Credit: ANI Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman S. Somanath said on Friday (September 20, 2024) that the space agency will take all precautions by carrying out a sufficient number of…

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A new genetic analysis of animals in the Wuhan market in 2019 may help find COVID-19’s origin

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A new genetic analysis of animals in the Wuhan market in 2019 may help find COVID-19’s origin

Photograph used for representational purposes only | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Scientists searching for the origins of COVID-19 have zeroed in on a short list of animals that possibly helped spread it to people, an effort they hope could allow them to trace the outbreak back to its source. Researchers analysed genetic material gathered from…

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Titan submersible’s scientific director says the submarine malfunctioned just prior to the Titanic dive

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Titan submersible’s scientific director says the submarine malfunctioned just prior to the Titanic dive

The scientific director for the company that owned the Titan submersible that imploded last year while on its way to the Titanic wreckage testified Thursday (September 19, 2024) that the sub had malfunctioned just before the fatal dive. Appearing before a U.S. Coast Guard panel, Steven Ross told the board about a platform issue the…

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In a single finger bone, scientists find signs of Britain’s largest flying animal

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In a single finger bone, scientists find signs of Britain’s largest flying animal

A handout illustration shows the newly identified Jurassic Period flying reptile, or pterosaur, called ‘Dearc sgiathanach’, whose fossil was found on a rocky beach at Scotland’s Isle of Skye, flying alongside a large meat-eating dinosaur. | Photo Credit: Reuters Scientists have estimated the size of an extinct flying reptile called a pterosaur, based on fragments of a…

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CERN supercollider discovers heaviest particles can entangle

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CERN supercollider discovers heaviest particles can entangle

One of the most surprising predictions of physics is entanglement, a phenomenon where objects can be some distance apart but still linked together. The best-known examples of entanglement involve tiny chunks of light (photons), and low energies. At the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, the world’s largest particle accelerator, an experiment called ATLAS has just…

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