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Could groundbreaking CAR-T cancer therapy trigger more cancer?

July 3, 2024 admin

In the last few decades, scientists have finally learned to harness the immune system to successfully treat cancer. Image for Representation. | Photo Credit: Freepik In the last few decades, scientists have finally learned to harness the immune system to successfully treat cancer. Although doctors often use immunotherapy drugs, another type of treatment uses patient’s cells to treat their own cancers….

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Rush to return humans to the moon could threaten opportunities for astronomy

July 3, 2024 admin

This China National Space Administration (CNSA) handout image released by Xinhua News Agency, shows the lander-ascender combination of Chang’e-6 probe taken by a mini rover after it landed on the moon surface, June 4, 2024. China’s Chang’e 6 probe returned on Earth on Tuesday with rock and soil samples from the little-explored far side of…

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Scientists search for a female partner for world’s ‘loneliest’ plant

June 21, 2024 admin

E. woodii is a member of the cycad family, heavy plants with thick trunks and large stiff leaves that form a majestic crown. | Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons “Surely this is the most solitary organism in the world,” wrote palaeontologist Richard Fortey in his book about the evolution of life. He was talking about Encephalartos woodii (E. woodii), a plant…

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The mysterious fate of the Neanderthal Y chromosome

June 21, 2024 admin

Neanderthals, the closest cousins of modern humans, lived in parts of Europe and Asia until their extinction some 30,000 years ago. Genetic studies are revealing ever more about the links between modern humans and these long-gone relatives – most recently that a rush of interbreeding between our species occurred in a relatively short burst of…

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Climate change has made the Hajj pilgrimage more risky

June 21, 2024 admin

Muslim pilgrims gather at the top of the rocky hill known as the Mountain of Mercy, on the Plain of Arafat, during the annual Hajj pilgrimage, near the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Saturday, June 15, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP Each year, millions of Muslims from across the world embark on the Hajj…

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Climate change has made the Hajj pilgrimage more risky

June 21, 2024 admin

Muslim pilgrims gather at the top of the rocky hill known as the Mountain of Mercy, on the Plain of Arafat, during the annual haj pilgrimage, near the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Saturday, June 15, 2024. | Photo Credit: AP Each year, millions of Muslims from across the world embark on the haj…

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Australia’s enigmatic pink sand was born in Antarctic mountains: new research

June 21, 2024 admin

In parts of South Australia, long stretches of beach are often blanketed in large patches of pink sand. Strong swells can dump drifts of reddish grains of garnet along the shore – but the origin of these colourful crystals has until now been a mystery. Garnet is rare in beach sand, as it is destroyed…

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World’s oldest termite mounds found in South Africa, storing carbon for millennia

June 21, 2024 admin

Image for Representation. | Photo Credit: The Hindu The landscape along the Buffels River in South Africa’s Namaqualand region is dotted with thousands of sandy mounds that occupy about 20% of the surface area. These heuweltjies, as the locals call them (the word means “little hills” in Afrikaans), are termite mounds, inhabited by an underground network of…

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Study reveals how new species evolve without geographic barriers

May 30, 2024 admin

A new study conducted by scientists from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay), Mumbai published in NPJ Systems Biology and Applications, has shed light on the process of speciation, meaning the formation of new species, in the absence of geographic barriers. Traditionally, it is believed that speciation largely occurs when populations of a…

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Summer of insect-counting gets underway in Germany

May 29, 2024 admin

A bumblebee flies between poppy flowers near the buildings of the banking district in Frankfurt, Germany, Friday, May 24, 2024. The Nature And Biodiversity Conservation Union, or NABU, invited people to spend an hour counting the insects they see in a 10-meter radius (33-foot) radius and report what they see to NABU. The Citizen-Science-Projekts named…

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