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Cattle skin or tiger skin? Maneka Gandhi intervenes amidst allegations of testing error

In what is being termed a testing error, CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) in Hyderabad has allegedly erroneously certified cow skin as tiger skin, leading to questions about credibility of the tests. The test sample was sent from Chikkamagaluru district by the Karnataka Forest Department (KFD) to verify the genuinity…

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Major study focuses on key lifestyle change that can add whole decade to life expectancy

Findings point to government actions to improve people’s health in UK

The Independent UK

Overweight Teens Face Higher Cancer Risk, Study Shows

Obesity in adolescence linked to up to 17 different cancers, raising concerns about long-term health consequences.

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Major study focuses on key lifestyle change that can add whole decade to life expectancy

Findings point to government actions to improve people’s health in UK

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Major study focuses on key lifestyle change that can add whole decade to life expectancy

Findings point to government actions to improve people’s health in UK

The Independent UK

Bone cows bred in Australia provide base material for dental grafts

Use of cattle from country free of mad cow disease means product is safe, experts say, and patients can still donate blood

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Major study focuses on key lifestyle change that can add whole decade to life expectancy

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National Medical Commission to allow non-biology students to take NEET-UG in 2024

NMC allows non-biology students to take NEET-UG. Candidates who have passed 10+2 with Physics, Chemistry, Biology/Biotech, and English are eligible. Those who have completed 10+2 with Physics, Chemistry, Maths/Computer Science, and other subjects can also take NEET-UG w/o Biology/Biotech. NMC's move criticized by experts, as it will affect quality of…

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Major study focuses on key lifestyle change that can add whole decade to life expectancy

Findings point to government actions to improve people’s health in UK

The Independent UK

Our sense of taste helps us pace our eating: Study

It has been generally held that when you eagerly dig into a long-awaited dinner, signals from your stomach to your brain keep you from eating so much you'll regret it. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Study Links Ultra-Processed Foods To Mouth And Throat Cancers

Consuming ready meals, cookies, soft drinks, and chips increases risk, says University of Bristol research

Zenger

Best creams to treat spider veins on your face and legs, tried and tested

To provide temporary relief

Evening Standard

Nation-first living lab ready to tackle deadly cancer

Researchers from across the nation will analyse specimens from men with metastatic prostate cancer, giving them new tools in the fight against the disease.

AAP

Ultra-Processed Food-Cancer Link: Study Says Higher Risk Not Just Due To Obesity

The study has found that eating 10% more ultra-processed food raises the risk of head and neck cancer by 23% and the risk of esophageal adenocarcinoma by 24%.

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Failing to cancel mass gatherings ‘logically incoherent’ to public, says Whitty

Professor Sir Chris Whitty took ownership of the advice given to the Government in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Evening Standard

What was Eat Out to Help Out? Scientists say they weren't told about the scheme

Top scientists leading the UK response to the pandemic were not consulted over risks of encouraging public dining

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Medication significantly decreases TB growth, find scientists

A promising new cancer treatment looks to be especially successful against tuberculosis (TB), one of the world's most fatal infectious diseases. Read further on Dynamite News:

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The unusual ‘mutations’ that protect humans from viruses | Explained

Paramutations protect humans against viruses and are triggered by piRNA clusters, which are 3% of the fruit fly genome. Paramutations involve a small chemical modification of a chromosomal protein, flipping a nearby gene into a silenced state. William Bateson and Caroline Pellew discovered the first paramutation in the culinary pea…

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NMC reduces NEET 2024 syllabus, cuts 9 chapters from chemistry and six from biology

NEET 2024 syllabus: NTA is the examination agency for the NEET, and had been releasing the syllabus every year. However, this year, NMC has finalised the syllabus.

The Hindu

Mind and skin, there is a link between the two

Kozhikode native Prashanth's death due to hair loss highlights need for awareness of psychodermatology, the treatment of skin disorders involving psychological and psychiatric methods. Dermatologists suggest examining patients for mental health issues, and a joint diagnosis by dermatologist, psychologist and psychiatrist. Kozhikode's Govt. Medical College Hospital has a specialty clinic…

The Independent UK

UK becomes 1st country to approve gene therapy treatment for sickle cell, thalassemia

Britain’s medicines regulator has authorized the world’s first gene therapy treatment for sickle cell disease, in a move that could offer relief to thousands of people with the crippling disease in the U.K. In a statement on Thursday, the Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency said it had approved Casgevy, the…

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Blood disorder breakthrough as world-first gene therapy given green light

The treatment is the first to be licensed using the gene-editing tool known as Crispr, for which its inventors were awarded the Nobel prize in 2020

Evening Standard

Casgevy: World-first gene therapy for sickle cell disease approved in UK

Regulator's approval comes three years after scientists won Nobel Prize for inventing the treatment

The Independent UK

World-first gene therapy for inherited blood disorders approved in UK

The treatment is the first to be licensed using the gene-editing tool known as Crispr, for which its inventors were awarded the Nobel prize in 2020.

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