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New Delhi, Oct 17 (PTI) Feeling a sense of relief after a sigh could be related to how lung movements during a deep breath reduce surface tension of the organ's fluid, making it easier to breathe, a study has found. Researchers, including those from Switzerland's ETH Zurich, observed how the lung fluid behaves when it is stretched and compressed through experiments in the laboratory. Lung movements during inhaling and exhaling subject the lung fluid to similar stresses. "The fluid coats the e ...Read More >
New Delhi, Oct 6 (PTI) Conditions such as housing quality, mosquito numbers and response of a community could help in predicting severity of a chikungunya outbreak in a locality, a new analysis of 86 past outbreaks including those in India have found. The findings published in the journal Science Advances also show that climate conditions -- temperature and rainfall -- are not the most important factor when trying to predict the severity of the infectious disease outbreak, caused by spread of t ...Read More >
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