ISRO launches Mission MITRA for safety of human spaceflight mission crewISRO conducted mission MITRA in Leh from April 2 to 9. This team behavioural study is a first for human spaceflight missions like Gaganyaan...
03 Apr, 2026, 10.57 PM IST
How High-Altitude Populations Show Genetic AdaptationsMillions thrive at high altitudes due to remarkable genetic adaptations. Tibetans, for instance, possess a gene variant allowing efficient ...
19 Feb, 2026, 06.28 PM IST
Louisiana Nitrogen Gas Execution: Everything you may want to knowLouisiana plans to execute Jessie Hoffman Jr. using nitrogen gas, marking its first execution since 2010. Hoffman's lawyers sought to halt ...
19 Mar, 2025, 02.58 AM IST
How oxytocin, the "Love Hormone," may connect sleep apnea with increasing blood pressure. Know hereThe "love hormone" oxytocin and other brain chemicals known as CRH, as well as the correlation between high blood pressure and sleep apnea,...
05 Aug, 2024, 11.09 PM IST
Death penalty in US: Alabama Governor announces America's first nitrogen hypoxia execution. Details of method hereAmid the death penalty debate, Alabama Governor has announced the US' first nitrogen hypoxia execution. We have details regarding the execu...
10 Nov, 2023, 02.27 AM IST
US state Alabama to implement pure nitrogen execution method. Check history, methods of capital punishment in AmericaAlabama is on the verge of making history as the first state in the United States to employ a novel execution approach—administering death ...
30 Aug, 2023, 06.41 PM IST
Singer KK complained of pain in arms, severe fatigue before concert; final autopsy report says hypoxia led to heart failureHypoxia is a state in which oxygen is not sufficiently available in the tissue level to maintain homeostasis.
08 Jun, 2022, 02.51 PM IST
‘Young people with no comorbidities at risk in second COVID-19 wave’Experts feel three major factors are at play. First is happy hypoxia. The young feel uneasy after oxygen saturation is seriously low — the ...
22 May, 2021, 10.15 AM IST
DRDO develops supplemental oxygen delivery system for soldiers, COVID-19 patients"This automatic system delivers supplemental oxygen based on the SpO2 (blood oxygen saturation) levels and prevents the person from sinking...
19 Apr, 2021, 08.14 PM IST
Decoding silent hypoxia in Covid patients: Blue lips, changing skin colour, sweating for no reasonThe sudden deaths were noticed in patients due to silent hypoxia that went unnoticed.
29 Dec, 2020, 08.19 PM IST
Mental confusion with fever could be an early sign of coronavirus in elderly patientsDelirium is a state of confusion in which the person feels out of touch with reality.
05 Nov, 2020, 05.45 PM IST
All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) turns its focus on silent hypoxia nowThe doctors have advised that patients prone to develop severe Covid-19 or those with prior conditions such as coronary artery disease or c...
03 Sep, 2020, 12.18 AM IST
Lack of oxygen at a tumour's core may develop cancer cellsThe cancer stem cells that specialise in generating new malignant cells represent only a small proportion of the total cells in a tumour.
14 Sep, 2016, 05.15 PM IST
- Tumour hardness may develop cancer cells
New York, Sep 14 (IANS) Tumour hardness and hypoxia -- lack of oxygen at the tumour's core -- trigger a biological switch that causes cance...
14 Sep, 2016, 02.52 PM IST
Abrupt warming behind ocean 'dead zones'?Abrupt ocean warming at the end of the last ice age may have caused the sudden onset of low-oxygen conditions that led to vast marine dead ...
22 Nov, 2015, 02.05 PM IST
Five ways how heat can killWith the temperature rising by the hour, here are five way in which the heat can harm our health. Take precaution and stay healthy.
01 Jun, 2015, 01.15 PM IST
Low-oxygen conditions help breast cancer cells spread: StudyLow oxygen conditions, which often persist inside tumours, initiate a molecular chain of events that give breast cancer cells their ability...
27 Dec, 2013, 03.26 PM IST