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'App'lying Genetics: A New Gene Data Resource Available In App Store Now
<p style="text-align:justify">In a world swathed in layers of mobile-users, tech savvy surfers and app developers, the synthesis of an application for genetics was only a matter of time. The latest innovation to have struck the bell is an online app for chronicling all your genetic information in order to endow you with a better comprehension and knowledge about your health risks and predispositions.</p> <p style="text-align:justify"><img alt=...
Battling Superbugs With Nanotechnology & Illumination
<p style="text-align:justify"><img alt="" src="data:image/jpeg;base64,/9j/4AAQSkZJRgABAQEAlgCWAAD/2wBDAAIBAQIBAQICAgICAgICAwUDAwMDAwYEBAMFBwYHBwcGBwcICQsJCAgKCAcHCg0KCgsMDAwMBwkODw0MDgsMDAz/2wBDAQICAgMDAwYDAwYMCAcIDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAwMDAz/wAARCALWA/sDASIAAhEBAxEB/8QAHwAAAQUBAQEBAQEAAAAAAAAAAAECAwQFBgcICQoL/8QAtRAAAgEDAwIEAwUFBAQAAAF9AQIDAAQRBRIhMUEGE1FhByJxFDKBkaEII0KxwRVS0fAkM2JyggkKFhcYGRolJicoKSo0NTY3...
Newly Engineered Cas9 Now Allows Isolated Gene-editing
<p style="text-align:justify">Genetic engineers and researchers alike have explicitly shared their affinity towards the gene-editing tool called CRISPR–Cas9. This device alters targeted genes effortlessly, thereby permitting an executable approach to developing treatments and cures. There is, however, a major limitation to Cas9 in terms of rectifying an isolated DNA letter in a gene.</p> <p style="text-align:justify"><img alt="" src="data:...
Microchips Pose As Human Kidney Prototypes To Analyse Pernicity Of Drugs
<p style="text-align:justify">University of Michigan witnessed a breakthrough analytical study by its research team in collaboration with Seoul National University in South Korea which resulted in the contrivance of a microchip which would facilitate the assessment of the effects of diverse drugs on living kidney cells. Although such studies use animals to carry out the testing, they don’t serve the purpose to an optimum level as they are p...
High speed production of new antibiotics that could treat MRSA and drug-resistant TB
<p style="text-align: justify;">Scientists at the University of Bristol have found a faster and cheaper way to produce new antibiotics to tackle drug-resistant superbugs.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">There was a 2,000 per cent increase in production when the genes involved in the <em>pleuromutilin</em> production were expressed in a different type of fungus by the research team.</p> <p style="text-align: justify;">This is considered to b...
First of its kind vaccine to control parasitic infection Leishmaniasis
<p style="text-align:justify">As scientists go through the rigmarole of getting a Zika virus vaccine into human trials, a team of researchers is keen on preventing another insect-borne disease called Leishmaniasis. The researchers are working on a vaccine to control the spread of the disease in the Americas.</p> <p style="text-align:justify">Researchers from Japan, Brazil, Canada and the United States have worked on altering the parasite’s...
Industry Watch: Turnaround from traditional ways of Pharmaceutical Testing
<p style="text-align:justify">Pharmaceutical testing has evolved itself from traditional way of animal testing and towards an economical and more efficient way of testing technology.</p> <p style="text-align:justify">LiverChip Technology is the most sought after pharmaceutical testing available in the market. Nowadays, it’s buzzing everywhere due to various reasons like provision for creating an alternative model for 3D cell culture platfo...
Israeli researchers at Technion find two proteins that can suppress cancer
<p style=\"text-align:justify\">A team of Israeli researchers at the Technion has discovered two proteins that can suppress cancer and control the cells’ growth and development. </p> <p style=\"text-align:justify\">The study was conducted in the laboratory of Prof. Aaron Ciechanover, an Israeli Nobel-prize winner in chemistry, and led by Dr. Yelena Kravtsova-Ivantsiv. The team included research students and physicians from the Rambam,...
British scientists discover major treatment for bladder cancer
<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>A significant breakthrough in 30 years for treating the advanced bladder cancer.</em></p> <p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Scientists from Queen Mary University of London discovered that an antibody allows immune system to gather and eliminate cancer cells before they could spread.</p> <p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A cancer immunotherapy medicine named MPDL3280A being developed by Roche, has been admin...
Asterias’ Novel Immunotherapy Treatment AST-VAC2 Moves into Clinical Trials
<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The charity Cancer Research UK and its commercial arm Cancer Research Technology (CRT) have entered into an agreement with US biotech firm Asterias Biotherapeutics, a subsidiary of BioTime Inc., to conduct clinical trials of Asterias’ novel immunotherapy treatment AST-VAC2 in subjects with non-small cell lung cancer.</p> <p style=\"text-align: justify;\">AST-VAC2 is a non-patient specific (allogeneic) canc...
