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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Marvel's Deadpool and Wolverine: A Cinematic Showdown on Disney+ Hotstar

Marvel Studios' highly anticipated film, Deadpool and Wolverine, is finally making its streaming debut on Disney+ Hotstar in India on November 12. The film, which became the highest-grossing rated-R film of all time, will be available in English, Hindi, Tamil and Telugu. The streaming giant shared a promo video on Instagram, generating excitement among fans.

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2 months, 1 week ago

MicroRNA − new Nobel laureate describes scientific process of finding these tiny molecules

Raw Story

The 2024 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine goes to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for their discovery of microRNA, tiny biological molecules that tell the cells in your body what kind of cell to be by turning on and off certain genes. The Conversation Weekly podcast caught up with Victor Ambros from his lab at the UMass Chan Medical …

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7 months, 1 week ago

Gene editing improves soybean yield

China Daily

Chinese researchers have developed new soybean breeding lines using gene editing, potentially boosting the yield and protein content of the critical crop. Scientists used gene editing to create soybean mutants with improved "nodulation ability", a key factor in nitrogen fixation from the air. Field trials over three years showed that ric1a/2a lines produced 10 to 20 percent higher yields and …

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9 months ago

X-Men ‘97 director Jake Castorena on how franchise is as socio-politically relevant today as it was in '90s

Hindustan Times

Ever since Marvel acquired 21st Century Fox in 2019, the IP is slowly and surely making a grand return to the screens. From Patrick Stewart reviving Charles Xavier for a cameo in Sam Raimi's Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness to Hugh Jackman striking back in Shawn Levy's upcoming Deadpool & Wolverine, it's X-Men galore on the big screen. …

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1 year, 3 months ago

I Am Legend 2: Will Smith and Michael B. Jordan to star in post-apocalyptic film?

India TV News

Will Smith will reprise his role as post-apocalyptic survivor Dr. Robert Neville in a sequel to 2007's I Am Legend. The film saw Smith play the sole survivor of an apocalypse that turns humans into seemingly mindless vampire mutants called Darkseekers. Black Panther and Creed star Michael B.Jordan is also set to star in and produced the sequel and he's …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Ninja Turtles back in fighting form

China Daily

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem was released in China on Aug 11, 2023. The domestic movie audiences are relishing iconic Ninja Turtle siblings, four mutant creatures who are skilled martial artists, being "raised" and "trained" by action hero Jackie Chan in their new animated offering, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem. A scene in the movie features Splinter, a …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Ninja Turtles back in fighting form

China Daily

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem was released in China on Aug 11, 2023. The domestic movie audiences are relishing iconic Ninja Turtle siblings, four mutant creatures who are skilled martial artists, being "raised" and "trained" by action hero Jackie Chan in their new animated offering, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem. A scene in the movie features Splinter, a …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Deadpool 3 to bring X-Men characters into the MCU? Here's what we know

Hindustan Times

If multiple reports are to be believed, Wade Wilson will not be the only centre of attraction in Deadpool 3 but will be accompanied by Hugh Jackman's Wolverine and several other X-Men characters making their way into the Marvel Cinematic Universe . Deadpool 3 is expected to bring X-Men characters into the MCU. According to a tweet from a scooper …

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1 year, 11 months ago

No need for fourth dose of COVID-19 vaccine given current evidence, says Dr Raman Gangakhedkar

Firstpost

Pune: Dr Raman Gangakhedkar, former head of epidemiology and communicable diseases at the Indian Council of Medical Research, on Tuesday, discounted the need to take the fourth dose of COVID-19 vaccine given the current evidence regarding the coronavirus and variants. “Looking at the current evidence, it is not that big that there is any need for the fourth dose of …

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2 years, 2 months ago

PFI ban: Ministry of Home Affairs cites murders of four Hindutva activists in Karnataka to make a case

The Hindu

The Ministry of Home Affairs notification that has declared Popular Front of India and its nine affiliate organisations “unlawful association” under Unlawful Activities Act, 1967, mentions four murder cases of Hindutva activists in which members of PFI and its affiliate organisations are accused, to make a case for their ban. The ban comes in the wake of nationwide raids on …

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2 years, 3 months ago

U.S. authorizes updated COVID-19 boosters targeting newest variants

LA Times

The U.S. on Wednesday authorized its first update to COVID-19 vaccines, booster doses that target today’s most common Omicron strains. “Give a clear, forward-looking set of expectations.” Here’s the rub: The original vaccines still offer strong protection against severe disease and death from COVID-19 for most generally healthy people, especially if they got that important first booster dose. First, FDA …

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2 years, 3 months ago

US approves updated COVID boosters targeting Omicron variants

Al Jazeera

Drugmaker Pfizer said it has doses ready to ship and can deliver up to 15 million shots by the end of next week. The United States has authorised booster doses of the COVID-19 vaccines that target the most common Omicron strain, and shots could be available within days. “You’ll see me at the front of the line,” FDA vaccine chief …

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2 years, 4 months ago

IIT and AIIMS study sheds light on factors behind bacteria responsible for hospital-acquired infection

Firstpost

The bacteria called Klebsiella pneumoniae is one of the pathogens on the World Health Organization’s priority list and is a significant cause of hospital-acquired diseases such as pneumonia, bloodstream infections, and infections among ICU patients and newborns world over New Delhi: Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur and All India Institute of Medical Sciences have been studying a …

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2 years, 6 months ago

Now, new treatments for melanoma skin cancer

Live Mint

According to a recent study, a group of researchers found important molecular information that could support scientists to develop more effective treatment and strategies to prevent difficult to treat form of melanoma skin cancer. In this new report, The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute researchers identify and …

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2 years, 6 months ago

Bored Ape Yacht Club thefts: Here’s how many NFTs have been stolen.

Slate

This article has been updated because even more apes were stolen. Since April 2021, when the Bored Ape Yacht Club collective auctioned its first NFTs, large corners of Twitter and other spaces have resembled a sillier planet of the apes. — Bored Ape Yacht Club 🍌 April 1, 2022 Fr0zenBuffal0: Near the end of 2021, an NFT trader’s “Capetain” ape …

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2 years, 6 months ago

Dominant coronavirus mutant contains ghost of pandemic past

India Today

The coronavirus mutant that is now dominant in the United States is a member of the omicron family but scientists say it spreads faster than its omicron predecessors, is adept at escaping immunity and might possibly cause more serious disease. A genetic trait that harkens back to the pandemic's past, known as a “delta mutation," appears to allow the virus …

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2 years, 6 months ago

Dominant coronavirus mutant contains ghost of pandemic past

Associated Press

The coronavirus mutant that is now dominant in the United States is a member of the omicron family but scientists say it spreads faster than its omicron predecessors, is adept at escaping immunity and might possibly cause more serious disease. A genetic trait that harkens back to the pandemic’s past, known as a “delta mutation,” appears to allow the virus …

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2 years, 7 months ago

Pandemic Gets Tougher to Track as Covid-19 Testing Plunges

News 18

Testing for Covid-19 has plummeted across the globe, making it much tougher for scientists to track the course of the pandemic and spot new, worrisome viral mutants as they emerge and spread. Were not testing anywhere near where we might need to, said Dr. Krishna Udayakumar, who directs the Duke Global Health Innovation Center at Duke University. Mara Aspinall, managing …

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2 years, 8 months ago

Two new Covid-19 sub-variants found in Bengaluru

Hindustan Times

A day after Karnataka's Health Minister K Sudhakar said that a fourth wave of COVID-19 will not happen in the state, two new variants of the virus have been detected in Bengaluru, while the state's Test Positivity Rate crossed the 1% mark. Karnataka's Test Positivity Rate crossed the 1% mark on Thursday. However, amid a slight rise in nation-wide count …

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2 years, 8 months ago

Covid 4th wave unlikely in India, says IIT Kanpur professor

India Today

IIT Kanpur professor Manindra Agrawal said that a fourth wave of covid is unlikely as there are no new mutants that have come to the notice of the officials. On rising number of cases in Delhi NCR Professor Agrawal said the rising number of cases in Delhi NCR is due to restrictions being lifted in the region. The professor said …

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2 years, 9 months ago

Chinese scientists design cocktail antibody to treat, prevent COVID-19

China Daily

BEIJING -- Chinese scientists designed a cocktail antibody that can deliver a one-two punch to the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. The researchers from Capital Medical University and Chinese Academy of Sciences developed the bispecific human monoclonal antibody against SARS-CoV-2, combining a noncompeting pair of human neutralizing antibodies, namely B38 and H4, to target two antigens, thus blocking the virus from …

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3 years ago

Omicron v. delta: Battle of coronavirus mutants is critical

Associated Press

As the omicron coronavirus variant spreads in southern Africa and pops up in countries all around the world, scientists are anxiously watching a battle play out that could determine the future of the pandemic. “It’s still early days, but increasingly, data is starting to trickle in, suggesting that omicron is likely to outcompete delta in many, if not all, places,” …

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3 years ago

Study suggests past COVID infection may not fend off omicron

Associated Press

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — South African scientists are warning that reinfections among people who’ve already battled COVID-19 appear to be more likely with the new omicron variant than with earlier coronavirus mutants. But the timing of the reinfection spike suggests that omicron “demonstrates substantial population-level evidence for evasion of immunity from prior infection,” they wrote. “Previous infection used to protect …

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3 years, 3 months ago

Explainer: New COVID–19 infections cause mutations and are the main driver of new variants, not vaccines

Firstpost

Nearly all mutations that occur are harmless glitches that don’t change how the virus works – some can harm the virus while a small fraction may make the virus more infectious. But how mutations, random chance and natural selection produce variants is a complicated process, and there has been a lot of confusion about how and why new variants emerge. …

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Marvel's Deadpool and Wolverine: A Cinematic Showdown on Disney+ Hotstar

MicroRNA − new Nobel laureate describes scientific process of finding these tiny molecules

Gene editing improves soybean yield

X-Men ‘97 director Jake Castorena on how franchise is as socio-politically relevant today as it was in '90s

I Am Legend 2: Will Smith and Michael B. Jordan to star in post-apocalyptic film?

Ninja Turtles back in fighting form

Ninja Turtles back in fighting form

Deadpool 3 to bring X-Men characters into the MCU? Here's what we know

No need for fourth dose of COVID-19 vaccine given current evidence, says Dr Raman Gangakhedkar

PFI ban: Ministry of Home Affairs cites murders of four Hindutva activists in Karnataka to make a case

U.S. authorizes updated COVID-19 boosters targeting newest variants

US approves updated COVID boosters targeting Omicron variants

IIT and AIIMS study sheds light on factors behind bacteria responsible for hospital-acquired infection

Now, new treatments for melanoma skin cancer

Bored Ape Yacht Club thefts: Here’s how many NFTs have been stolen.

Dominant coronavirus mutant contains ghost of pandemic past

Dominant coronavirus mutant contains ghost of pandemic past

Pandemic Gets Tougher to Track as Covid-19 Testing Plunges

Two new Covid-19 sub-variants found in Bengaluru

Covid 4th wave unlikely in India, says IIT Kanpur professor

Chinese scientists design cocktail antibody to treat, prevent COVID-19

Omicron v. delta: Battle of coronavirus mutants is critical

Study suggests past COVID infection may not fend off omicron

Explainer: New COVID–19 infections cause mutations and are the main driver of new variants, not vaccines