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New Approach To Stop HIV Transmission Using Vaginal Implant Tool
HIV stands for human immunodeficiency virus which attacks the body’s immune system and destroys certain T cells called CD4+ which is one of the important immune cells of the body. In a University of Waterloo, scientists have developed a new tool which is a vaginal implant to protect women from HIV infection. Unlike other methods of HIV prevention like anti-HIV…
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Painkiller Intake During Pregnancy May Make Babies Infertile In Future
A new study led by the scientist of the University of Edinburgh suggests that during pregnancy taking painkillers could have a negative effect on the fertility of future generation by leaving marks on DNA. The research also supports the previous fact that during pregnancy certain medicine like paracetamol should be avoided as it can show adverse effect during pregnancy. According…
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Blocking A Matrix Forming Protein to Avoid Heart Failure
A new study done by researchers at Cincinnati Children’s Heart Institute reported that blocking a protein which forms matrix might prevent heart failure. In their research, scientist applied experimental molecular therapy to block protein which forms a matrix in the heart cells damaged by heart attacks.
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Chemotherapy and Immunotherapy Combined Together to Fight Bladder Cancer
In a new study published in European Urology, scientists reported that chemotherapy and immunotherapy can be given simultaneously for metastatic bladder cancer patients and this combined therapy is very safe. They also found that in patients whose tumors having certain genetic mutation can more efficiently respond to this combined approach. In the previous studies, the scientist cannot determine whether these…
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Attention All Pregnant Ladies, Maybe You Are At Risk of Heart Failure
A shocking discovery was revealed in a study conducted by the University of Illinois at Chicago that women are at a higher risk of heart failure within six weeks after delivery. The findings of the study were published in the journal Circulation: Heart Failure. Heart failure is one of the major reasons for maternal death in the US. In fact, the…
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New Study Reveals Junk DNA is Not Selfish
A new study done by researchers of the University of Michigan Life sciences Institute & Howard Hughes Medical Institute revealed the important role of junk DNA in holding the genome together. Junk DNA is the non-coding DNA sequences which do not code for any protein. This finding showed that this junk DNA which is also known as satellite DNA have…
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Nightmare Bacteria’s New Strategy to Outsmart the Antibiotics
Antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest threats faced in the field of healthcare nowadays. There is a new survival strategy reported in the recent study done by the scientist using which bacteria survive and recover from exposure to antibiotics. One of the most used antibiotics across the world are beta-lactam antibiotics which also includes penicillin. This class of antibiotics…
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A Link Between Mitochondrial Protein Defect and Severe Inflammation
A new study led by Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) proposed the concept that inflammation can be caused even by the absence of single protein. Severe inflammation is the immune response of body involving a vascular system in which plasma and leucocyte movement get increased from blood to injured tissue. It attacks the healthy normal tissue mistaking for…
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Signaling Pathway In Colon May Induce Inflammatory Bowel Disease
A new research led by Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU) discovered the importance of cell signaling pathway in the growth of dysregulated immune cells which in turn induces inflammation in the colon.
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New Study Shows Friendship Between Obesity and Cancer
The United States has a high problem of cancer. Around one-third of cancer cases are associated with dietary and other modifiable risk factors, especially for obesity-related cancers such as breast, colorectal, ovarian, endometrial, kidney, gallbladder, esophageal, and pancreatic cancers.
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