A baby born with sickle cell disease may look completely healthy in the first few months of life, making the condition easy to miss. A newborn wrapped in a blanket, sleeping peacefully in a mother’s arms, often looks like the picture of perfect health. But appearances can sometimes be misleading.For babies born with sickle cell […]
BENGALURU, July 7, 2026 (Udaipur Kiran) : Strand Life Sciences, a subsidiary of Reliance Industries, has received an Indian patent for a technology that can help detect cancer at an early stage and identify its possible source using only a blood sample. According to the company, the platform analyses cell-free DNA and uses genome sequencing, biological […]
New Delhi, July 4: Alzheimer’s disease is commonly recognized as a memory-related issue. People often associate it with forgetfulness, such as failing to remember names, misplacing items, or struggling to recognize places. However, new research from scientists at Texas A&M Health University has revealed that changes in the brain may begin years before memory loss […]
pc: Discover Magazine (Image Credit: Dr Stephen Chester) A tiny tooth can disappear between your fingertips without much effort. Yet some of the earliest clues to our own evolutionary story come from fossils no larger than that. In collections of ancient mammal remains from western North America, palaeontologists have spent decades piecing together fragments of […]
NEW DELHI: Uttarakhand may not figure high among states ranked by political weight but it warrants enough importance in the BJP’s scheme of things for its president Nitin Nabin to spend three days touching base with booth-level members, MPs and MLAs and brainstorming with them over winning seats that the party lost narrowly in 2022.While […]
Passengers travelling between the UK and several European destinations are facing delays because of the European Union’s Entry Exit System (EES), a new border management scheme that requires non-EU travellers to register biometric data, including fingerprints, when entering participating countries.The information is then verified again when travellers leave, creating additional passport-control checks at airports. Since […]
For a long time, astronomers treated the early universe as a place where galaxies were still finding their footing, small systems forming stars rapidly, while the larger cosmic structures familiar today had not yet settled into existence. Galaxy clusters, the sprawling cities of the cosmos, were thought to become influential much later. Yet fresh observations […]
Image used for representative purposes Israeli lawmakers on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly to advance a bill to dissolve the Knesset, a move that could pave the way for early elections and deepen political uncertainty for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition.In a preliminary reading, 110 out of 120 members of parliament supported the motion, with no votes […]
New Delhi, May 8: Frequent fatigue, weakness, and anemia can often signal serious blood-related illnesses. Ignoring these symptoms can be dangerous. Timely identification and awareness of thalassemia, a genetic blood disorder, are crucial. Every year, May 8 is observed as World Thalassemia Day. On this day, efforts are made to spread awareness about thalassemia, support […]
Due to lower water levels at the Atatürk Dam reservoir in Adıyaman, a monumental Pre-Pottery Neolithic (PPN) archaeological site has surfaced in the area, yielding important new evidence related to the ‘Taş Tepeler’ (Stone Hills) cultural phenomenon. The site has become exposed due to the significant drop in water levels within the reservoir basin and […]
