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India-specific model to give accurate gestational age of foetus

February 26, 2024 admin

Image for representational purposes only. Researchers have developed an India-specific artificial intelligence model to precisely determine the gestational age of a foetus in the second and third trimester of pregnancy. The model has been designed by researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras and the Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, Faridabad. It…

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Down syndrome, Edwards syndrome found in ancient individuals

February 24, 2024 admin

Researchers have reported chromosomal disorders discovered from prehistoric skeletal remains, dating up to approximately 5,500 years old — including six cases of Down syndrome and one case of Edwards syndrome. According to the authors of a paper published in the journal Nature Communications, the findings may represent the first time Edwards syndrome has been identified from historic…

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76% of TB patients received payment for nutritional support

February 24, 2024 admin

The percentage of TB patients in nine States who received at least one instalment of Rs.500 increased from 57% in 2018 to 76% in 2022 | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto If in 2022 only 1.6 million (66%) of the 2.4 million notified TB cases received at least one month’s payment of ₹500 under the Ni-kshay…

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Did neanderthals use glue to create stone tools?

February 24, 2024 admin

Neanderthals created stone tools held together by a multi-component adhesive, a team of scientists has discovered. The astonishingly well-preserved tools, more than 40,000 years old, showcase a technical solution broadly similar to examples of tools made by early modern humans in Africa. Its findings, which are the earliest evidence of a complex adhesive in Europe,…

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Kerala takes a pioneering step to curb antimicrobial resistance

February 24, 2024 admin

In 2011, the Indian government introduced the H1 rule to prohibit the over-the-counter (OTC) sales of antibiotics without a prescription, responding to the growing concern over antimicrobial resistance (AMR). However, due to the healthcare system’s heterogeneity across the country, the implementation of this rule faced significant challenges. In 2013, following the Chennai Declaration document and…

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Cloud clustering patterns reveal increasing severity of extreme rainfall in tropics in new study

February 24, 2024 admin

Image for representation | Photo Credit: AFP By studying cloud clustering patterns in a warming climate, scientists have shown that with rising temperatures, extreme rainfall events become more severe. Focussing on the area of the tropics around the equator, the scientists from the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) and the Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology…

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U.S. moon lander described as tipped over sideways but ‘alive and well’ on lunar surface

February 24, 2024 admin

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off on the IM-1 mission with the Nova-C moon lander built and owned by Intuitive Machines from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., on February 15, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters The moon lander dubbed Odysseus is “alive and well” but resting on its side a…

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Centre amends surrogacy rules, allows couples with medical conditions to use donor gametes

February 23, 2024 admin

A couple can have a child born through surrogacy but must have at least one gamete from the intending couple. File | Photo Credit: AP The Central government has modified the Surrogacy (Regulation) Rules, 2022 and notified that both gametes need not come from a married couple in case they are certified as suffering from…

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International collaboration of physicists demonstrates laser cooled Positronium

February 23, 2024 admin

A general view of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), near Geneva in Switzerland. The collaboration had performed complex experiments at CERN to achieve their breakthrough. | Photo Credit: File photo An international collaboration of researchers has for the first time successfully demonstrated the laser cooling of Positronium….

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Payload aboard Aditya-L1 mission detects solar wind impact of Coronal Mass Ejections

February 23, 2024 admin

In this Sept. 2, 2023 file photo, ISRO’s PSLV-C57 carrying Aditya-L1, India’s maiden solar mission spacecraft, lifts off from the launch pad at Satish Dhawan Space Centre, in Sriharikota. | Photo Credit: PTI Advanced sensors of a payload on board India’s maiden solar mission Aditya-L1 have successfully detected the impact of coronal mass ejections (CMEs),…

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