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Researchers have found that a specific subtype of a microbe commonly found in the mouth is able to travel to the gut and grow within colorectal cancer tumours. This microbe is also a culprit for driving cancer progression and leads to poorer patient outcomes after cancer treatment. The findings could help improve therapeutic approaches and…
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The AI-based approach makes analytical equipment like high-performance liquid chromatography redundant. Researchers at the School of Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi have developed an Artificial Intelligence-based tool to predict the level of metabolite content in neem fruits as either low or high based on images of neem leaves and fruits. The AI-based approach makes…
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The AI-based approach makes analytical equipment like high-performance liquid chromatography redundant. Researchers at the School of Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi have developed an Artificial Intelligence-based tool to predict the level of metabolite content in neem fruits as either low or high based on images of neem leaves and fruits. The AI-based approach makes…
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A study across eight States in India involving 4,613 participants that included adolescents (647 girls and 674 boys), adults (931 women and 927 men) and elderly (714 women and 720 men) has found that the prevalence of anaemia has been overestimated by previous surveys. While the NFHS surveys measured haemoglobin using finger prick-based capillary blood,…
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Chatbots are prone to hallucination, or a phenomenon where they present illogical or nonsensical answers as facts [File] | Photo Credit: REUTERS Social media users and academics are warning that more scientific papers show signs of being partially generated with the help of AI chatbots. For example, a paper published on ScienceDirect, titled ‘The three-dimensional…
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Professor Jayant Murthy, former acting director of Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), Bengaluru. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement International Astronomical Union (IAU) has named an asteroid after Prof. Jayant Murthy who was acting director of the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA) before his retirement in 2021. The asteroid 2005 EX296 has been designated as (215884)…
Pushpak making an autonomous landing on the ATR runway at Chitradurga. | Photo Credit: ISRO The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has successfully conducted the Pushpak Reusable Landing Vehicle (RLV) LEX 02 landing experiment at the Aeronautical Test Range in Chitradurga on Friday, March 22, 2024. The RLV LEX 02 landing experiment is the second…
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Sci-Five | The Hindu Science Quiz: On Colours 1 / 5 | The colour white comprises how many colours? In physics, there is no such colour as white. Rather it is a mixture of all the seven colours namely violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, and red. Next 2 / 5 | How many colours…
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), in Bengaluru. | Photo Credit: File photo Scientists at Jawaharlal Nehru Centre For Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR) have developed a new silk-based hydrogel system that mimics the pancreas, offering a potential breakthrough in insulin delivery for diabetes treatment. The innovative approach is expected to provide a more…
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It sounds like a crime show episode at sea: In late January 2024, federal regulators learned that a dead female North Atlantic right whale had been sighted near Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. The whale was towed to shore, where more than 20 U.S. and Canadian scientists converged to perform a necropsy, or animal autopsy. On Feb….
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