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Kashmir's leading scientist and gastroenterologist, Prof M Sultran Khuroo writes about the evolution of the Human ...

Gut microbiota-derived phenylacetylglutamine accelerates aging by driving cellular senescence through mitochondrial ...

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Using advanced imaging techniques and precise microfluidics control to stretch out curly DNA into a straight line, new research demonstrates techniques for stretching and immobilizing DNA with minimum ...

A university professor and two students recreated a virus identical to the one that caused the devastating 1918 Spanish Flu ...

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