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A study of 459 older adults in India has found that the health of the brain's superficial white matter wiring may help soften the cognitive impact of gray matter loss. The research,…
More than 86% of participants in genome-wide association studies since 2005 have been of European ancestry, while South Asians account for less than 1%, according to the NHGRI-EBI GWAS Catalogue. This data…
Bengaluru's HealthCare Global Enterprises (HCG) has started treating patients with Karnataka's first Elekta Unity MR-Linac, a machine that combines a 1.5-tesla MRI scanner with a linear accelerator. The system lets doctors image…
Researchers from the Institute of Advanced Study in Science and Technology (IASST) and IIT Guwahati have developed RK-251, a smart cancer drug candidate that activates selectively inside cancer cells, potentially offering a…
Ravi Teja's latest Telugu film 'Irumudi', directed by Shiva Nirvana, released on August 21, 2026 to positive reviews and strong audience response. The movie, which also stars Priya Bhavani Shankar and Baby…
An 8-year-old girl weighing only 8.4 kg and measuring 81 cm in height has been diagnosed with India's first reported case of a MADD-related genetic disorder at Bengaluru's Indira Gandhi Institute of…
India is one of the world's most genetically diverse regions, with over 1.4 billion people across thousands of communities. The Hindu reports that ancient migrations, mixing, and long-standing practices of endogamy and…
Researchers at Delhi's Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology (IIIT) have developed MutAIverse, a generative AI platform that can trace the environmental exposure likely to have caused a patient's cancer. Described as the…
On August 20, 1897, British medical officer Ronald Ross, working in a laboratory in Secunderabad, discovered that malaria parasites develop inside mosquitoes. By dissecting mosquitoes that had fed on malaria patients, Ross…
Shigellosis has resurfaced in Kerala, with a three-year-old child from Kottukal in Thiruvananthapuram admitted to SAT Hospital with the infection. The child had travelled with her family to Nagercoil on August 12…
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