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ISRO chief S. Somnath on April 21 said that the Aditya L1 solar mission of the premier space research agency is continuously sending data about the Sun. | Photo Credit: ANI ISRO chief S. Somnath on April 21 said that the Aditya L1 solar mission of the premier space research agency is continuously sending data…
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Poxviruses have long been a cause of fear as well as curiosity for humankind. One particularly infamous poxvirus, smallpox, alone may have killed more than 500 million people in the last century. Smallpox didn’t discriminate between rich, poor, young, old, and killed a third of the individuals whom it infected. The turning point came with…
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The lifetime risk of atrial fibrillation (a heart condition that causes an irregular and often abnormally fast heart rate) has increased from one in four to one in three over the past two decades, as per a study published in The BMJ. Among those with the condition, two in five are likely to develop heart failure…
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Diets with high glycemic index are associated with major cardiovascular events, including deaths | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto The concept of ‘Glycemic Index’ was first proposed by Prof. David Jenkins of University of Toronto in 1981. Glycemic index (GI) of a food refers to the property of the food to increase the blood glucose level…
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Deaths caused by ingestion of rat poison containing yellow phosphorus is a major problem in a few States. A six-month survey carried out in six districts in Tamil Nadu in 2019 by the Tamil Nadu chapter of Indian Society of Gastroenterology (TN-ISG) found 450 people suffered from liver toxicity caused by ingestion of rat poison….
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The vertebrae of Vasuki indicus found in Kutch. Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee have reported the discovery of fossils of one of the largest snakes that ever existed and likely lived 47 million years ago during a period called the Middle Eocene. The fossils were found in Kutch, Gujarat, and the…
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Daily Quiz | On India’s first satellite ‘Aryabhata’ An employee inspects the Coded information from the first Indian satellite, Aryabhata, being received at the ground telemetry receiving station at Siriharikuta, an island off the Nellore coast. File. START THE QUIZ 1 / 5 | An important reason this mission was possible was the Soviet Union’s…
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Pea plants are damaged by drought, due to the El Nino weather phenomenon in Madrid municipality near Bogota, Colombia, January 17, 2016. | Photo Credit: Reuters Latin American nations must be on high alert as the weather phenomenon known as El Nino rapidly switches over to La Nina, experts said on Thursday, leaving populations and…
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Questions: 1. Cholesterol is a type of sterol, which is a class of organic compounds with the formula C17H28O. Cholesterol is a zoosterol because it’s found in animals. Name the mycosterol that performs a role similar to cholesterol but in fungi. 2. Name the class of drugs that reduce cholesterol levels in the blood, to…
