New cell therapy shows promise to treat frailty among elderly

Representative image. A new international study suggests that this long-neglected condition may finally be biologically treatable. | Photo Credit: Yue Wu/Unsplash In many Indian homes, ageing unfolds quietly. A grandfather who once walked to the local market now pauses every few steps. A grandmother takes days to recover from a minor fall. Such changes are […]

Amazon launches AI research tool to speed early-stage drug discovery

Researchers can send shortlisted candidates to integrated lab partners for synthesis and testing, with results routed back into the system to guide the ​next round of design [File] | Photo Credit: REUTERS Amazon’s cloud unit on Tuesday launched ​Amazon Bio Discovery, an artificial intelligence application designed to speed early-stage ‌drug discovery by allowing scientists to […]

What is the Hubble tension?

The Hubble eXtreme Deep Field image taken in 2012. | Photo Credit: NASA A: There is a major disagreement among physicists about how fast the universe is expanding. Astronomers use a value called the Hubble constant to measure it. However, the two main ways to calculate this number have produced different results. In the first […]