- Microbiology
Do you know your Toothpaste can Fight Severe Lung Disease?
Yes, it is true!! A new study done by the researchers of Michigan University have found that a substance called triclosan which is present in toothpaste can fight disease like cystic fibrosis when this substance is combined with already approved FDA drug. Triclosan inhibits the growth of bacteria which when combined with tobramycin, an antibiotic leads to the destruction of…
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Pseudomonas Communicate in Groups to Escape from Antibiotics
A new study led by the team of scientists from the University of Notre Dame and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has found a new defense mechanism used by the bacterium, Pseudomonas aeruginosa to communicate in groups to avoid antibiotics. Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a pathogen causing diseases like pneumonia, sepsis and other infections. On an encounter with antibiotics, pathogen produces a…
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Tracking Cell With SNP’s ‘A Natural Barcode’
A new study led by the researchers of Wyss Institute has developed a new technique for genetic analysis of cell using SNPs which are a’ natural barcode’ identifying cell from any individual. SNPs stands for single nucleotide polymorphism is a variation in single nucleotide occurring at the particular position in the genome. These SNPs are inherited from the parents are…
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Eating Mosses Make Gut Healthy because of This New Polysaccharide
A team of researchers including from the University of Adelaide has discovered a new polysaccharide present in mosses which is similar to beta-glucan and can be subjugated for health or other uses. Polysaccharides are a complex carbohydrate made up of sugar molecules. They found that this new complex carbohydrate is very similar to beta-glucan which is gut-friendly, health-promoting and is also found…
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Your Body’s Fat Cells seem to Memorize Your Unhealthy Diet
A new study done by the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research at the University of Copenhagen shows that it takes only 24 hours for the precursor fat cell to reprogram itself and drop out from the track of becoming a mature fat cell This reprogramming arises when cells come in contact with the fatty acid palmitate or…
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Using Fluorescent Probe, Determining Presence of Cancer within Minutes
To diagnose the patient for cancer as well as for knowing cancer type and its malignancy, it takes up to two weeks to determine. Researchers at Michigan Technological University by means of a new technology i.e. sugar transporting biosensor hopes to reduce this 2 week time period into minutes. A collaborative team of chemist built a tiny fluorescent probe that…
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Molecule Initiating Memory T Cell Development
A new research at The Scripps Research Institute has opened the chapter of the enigma that how memory T cells originate. Memory T cells protect against previously encountered pathogens, but their origins are unclear. Memory T cells are a subset of infection- and cancer-fighting T cells. Memory T cells have become “experienced” by having encountered antigen during a prior infection,…
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Scientists Explain How HIV Tricks The Immune System
HIV is retrovirus which causes HIV infection and had become a major global health problem infecting almost 40 million people all over the world. People with this infection are treated with antiretroviral therapy but this option merely prevents the progression of the disease to AIDS – it doesn’t cure patients of HIV. This new research reveals that HIV virus inhibits…
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Researchers Unfolded the Structure of Enzyme ATP Synthase
The new study led by the team of researchers of Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science has resolved the structure of enzyme which makes ATP i.e. mitochondrial ATP synthase structure. This research lifted the barrier to understanding their function in disease and drug mechanisms. ATP synthase is an enzyme that produces the energy storage molecule adenosine triphosphate (ATP). As…
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Kissing Disease Causing Virus Associated with Seven other Diseases
A new study led by Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center revealed that EBV virus which causes kissing disease also known as Mononucleosis can also develop seven other major diseases in some people.
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